A Successor Is Born: Contested Births and Unexpected Heirs

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Royal Studies Network

Organizer Name

Valerie Schutte

Organizer Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Presider Name

Valerie Schutte

Paper Title 1

An Unexpected Queen: Isabel of Castile

Presenter 1 Name

Charles Beem

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of North Carolina-Pembroke

Paper Title 2

A Bastard and a Changeling? England's Edward of Westminster

Presenter 2 Name

Kristen Geaman

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Toledo

Paper Title 3

The Queen's Body Reimagined: Elizabeth I's Performance of Privacy in Text and Image

Presenter 3 Name

Lauren Petrino

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Miami

Paper Title 4

The Rightful Rulers: The Development of Royal Power in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon

Presenter 4 Name

Alana Lord

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Florida

Start Date

12-5-2016 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I Ackley 105

Description

This session will offer papers on kings and queens who were not expected to become rules in their own right. These papers will re-evaluate these unexpected heirs and how they achieved their kingship and queenship.

Valerie Schutte