Congreso Female Succession in Late Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy—Contestation, Conflict and Compromise
Buenas tardes a todos: Os hago llegar la información del congreso que se va a la celebrar en la URJC, campus de Aranjuez-Pavía, entre el 24 y el 26 de mayo. Tenéis toda la información en el siguiente enlace . Podéis inscribiros aquí Resumen del congreso: Female successionto a royal throne came in many forms across the span of European history. It could quite literally change the course of history. The most well-known form is direct succession: Mary or Elizabeth of England to the throne of their father Henry VIII; Isabel of Castile succeeding her brother Enrique IV; or Maria Theresa of Austria succeeding her father Charles VI as queen of Hungary and Bohemia. But even these were usually restricted by their elite subjects—by law or by custom—to rule in tandem with a husband or a son. Other women did not rule but were conduits through which a royal succession passed, such as Elizabeth Stuart (the‘Winter Queen’) transmitting the English and Scottish thrones from the house of Stuart to th