Petronila of Aragon and Female Succession in the Crown of Aragon

8 MAR

posted by Amber Gumm

The Medieval Studies Research Group invites you to our second talk of Semester B with speaker Dr. Anaïs Waag (University of Lincoln).

This paper is based on research for a forthcoming article which examines the life and reign of Petronila of Aragon (1136-73). Through a close examination of Petronila’s (largely ignored) surviving documents, this paper places her firmly at the centre of a discussion from which she is too often excluded: that of the nature of the transfer of royal power from her father to her husband, and of her intended or expected role within this transfer.

Bio:

Dr. Anaïs Waag is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History and Heritage at the University of Lincoln. She specialises in gender studies and women’s history, with a particular focus on power, rulership, and political communication, which I approach from a comparative perspective.

As an undergraduate, Dr. Waag studied History and Political Science at Fordham University in New York City. She then moved to London, completing an MA in Medieval History at King’s College London, where she went on to undertake doctoral research under the supervision of Professor Alice Taylor (KCL) and Professor John Sabapathy (UCL). She was awarded her PhD in 2020.

Story submitted by Renée Ward
rward@lincoln.ac.uk