Academic Conference Center, Prague, 16–17 October 2025
Medieval women were not isolated figures in society. As part of a complex system of personal, ideological and material relations, they lived and worked within various networks. The terms ‘communication, cooperation and confrontation’ can serve as analytical categories for understanding how women exerted influence and power, gained support to achieve their goals and navigated social, economic and other obstacles. This conference seeks to apply these analytical categories to the investigation of the manifold relations between medieval women and material culture in the broadest sense. The conference organisers invite all members of the academic community to attend.
The conference is open to the public. For the Zoom link, please, register for free at the e-mail addresses below by 12 October 2025.
- Helena Dáňová (danova@udu.cas.cz);
- Klára Mezihoráková (mezihorakova@udu.cas.cz)
- Věra Soukupová (soukupova@ucl.cas.cz)
This international conference will be the third meeting in a row on the topic “Queens, Noblewomen, and Burgher Women in the Middle Ages” organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of the Strategy AV 21 Programme – Anatomy of European Society: History, Tradition, Culture, Identity. The aim of the conference continues to be the development of an international platform for research on the topic of women patrons, their social standing and way they presented themselves in medieval Europe. In connection with the conference, a volume on the topic will be published by the Institute of Art History, Prague.
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