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Power and Women in Southeast and Central Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (1300-1600)

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Edited by Melina Rokai

Publication date: February, 2026

Pages: 290

ISBN 978-615-6696-99-1                        Paperback, €49

ISBN 978-615-6696-98-4                         Hardcover, €71

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Introductory Study: The Wreath of Women’s Power

   Melina Rokai


Women at the Hungarian Royal Court in the Thirteenth Century

   Márta Font


Patrician Women and Times of Crisis in Fourteenth-Century Zadar

   Zrinka Nikolić Jakus


Empress Helena in Athos, Mateič, and Serres: from Shared Power to Personal Reign

   Jasmina S. Ćirić and Branislav J. Cvetković


(OPEN ACCESS PAPER) Nuns on the Throne: Queen Jelena and Princess Milica  Download PDF

   Aleksandra Fostikov


The Queen Returns – Isabella Jagiellon, Queen Regent and the Means of Establishing Power in the Eastern Kingdom of Hungary (1556-1559)

   Teréz Oborni


Chapters from Women's Lives in Medieval Kotor: Special Cases

   Lenka Blechová


Women Left Behind – Female Fates After the Battle of Mohács

   Dóra Bachusz


Noblewomen and their manor houses in south-eastern Hungary (15th-16th centuries)

   Zsuzsanna Kopeczny


Enhancing Female Legitimation: Gender and Political Authority in Literary and Visual Representations Patroned by Voivode Neagoe Basarab and Lady Despina

   Elisabeta Negrău


Women of Honor, disgraced man. The siege of Korčula (1571)

   Marco Rampin

Data sheet

Editor(s)
Melina Rokai
Imprint
Trivent Medieval
Book series
History and Art
Volume no.
10
Book series editor(s)
Gerhard Jaritz, Monika Ann Walker Vadillo
ISBN (hardcover)
978-615-6696-98-4
ISBN (paperback)
978-615-6696-99-1
eISBN
978-615-7058-00-2
Publication date
February, 2026
Page numbers
291

Specific References

Melina Rokai, PhD, is currently engaged as a Senior Research Associate at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in Serbia. Dr Melina Rokai obtained her PhD in History at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 2013. She holds postgraduate degree, Master of Studies in Modern British and European History at the University of Oxford in 2010.

So far, Dr Melina Rokai’s research and publication interests have been in the spheres of late medieval and modern history, with the emphasise on women’s history, history of culture, history of religion, imagology – the creation of the ‘other’ within the post-colonial framework.

Power and Women in Southeast and Central Europe in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (1300–1600) offers a nuanced exploration of female authority across a region shaped by dynastic struggles, Ottoman expansion, and shifting political cultures. This volume brings together case studies from royal courts, urban patriciates, monastic milieus, and noble estates, while it also examines how women exercised, negotiated, and represented power in contexts ranging from thirteenth-century Hungary and fourteenth-century Zadar to the aftermath of Mohács and the sixteenth-century Adriatic world. Through analyses of queens, empresses, regents, noblewomen, and urban elites, this collection reveals the diverse forms of agency available to women between 1300 and 1600. Furthermore, it challenges the narratives of female marginality and demonstrates that women were central actors in the making, performance, and preservation of political authority in the late medieval and early modern periods.

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