Introduction

Abstract

Over 150 objects, images, and spaces are analyzed to answer the central question: what can they tell us about the agency and power of 30 medieval queens in the Árpádian and Angevin dynasties? Seals, coins, crowns, heraldry, clothing, books, palaces, monasteries, illuminated manuscripts, and tombs connected with these queens will all be consulted to tell what has been lost in the fragmentary written record. By using agency theory and object biography in tandem, these items of material culture, images, and spaces will rewrite 400 years of medieval Hungary’s history, one which gives the queens a central role and voice.