NO COUNTRY FOR OLD WOMEN: BURIAL PRACTICES AND PATTERNS OF HUNGARIAN QUEENS OF THE ÁRPÁD DYNASTY (975-1301)

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dc.contributor.advisorWasilewski, Jannaen_US
dc.contributor.authorMielke, Christopher Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-03T05:35:39Z
dc.date.available2010-07-03T05:35:39Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractRecent studies of Árpádian queens of Hungary have shown promise. Unlike previous research however, the goal of this thesis is not to examine the lives of the Hungarian queens, but rather their deaths and their burials. Utilizing what little information is known, the queens will be divided into four groups of individual case study. Considering that the vast majority of Hungarian queens were buried outside Hungary, the central issue to this thesis will be researching the causality for this. Ultimately, all twenty-four women in this study have two main factors in relation to their burial. First, their close familial link with particular branches of the Árpád dynasty could prove problematic upon the death of their husband. Second, the perceived danger of the widowed queen is a testament not only to fears of her as a foreigner and a woman, but also fears of power she exercised in her own right.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10459
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, Medievalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, Europeanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBurialsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDynasticen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHungaryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMedievalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledQueensen_US
dc.titleNO COUNTRY FOR OLD WOMEN: BURIAL PRACTICES AND PATTERNS OF HUNGARIAN QUEENS OF THE ÁRPÁD DYNASTY (975-1301)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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