Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JOSEANE PASSOS FERREIRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JOSEANE PASSOS FERREIRA
DATE: 27/03/2025
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

“Carissima in Cristo filie Johanne Regine Sicilie Illustri”: Relações, autoridade e performatividade da rainha Joana I de Nápoles a partir da epistolografia papal

(1343-1382)

KEY WORDS:

Queenship; Power relations; Gender performativity; Religiosity; Italian Peninsula; Epistolography;

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This research aims to analyze the process of building authority and gender
performativity of Queen Joanna I of Naples (1326-1382) before the Church, discussing
how marriage, motherhood and piety functioned as discursive spaces of power for the
sovereign’s governability. For a period of thirty-eight years, Joanna was on the throne,
becoming the first woman of the Angevin-Neapolitan dynasty to rule. She exercised, as
reigning queen, the political, gender and contractual responsibilities that her position of
power and the Church required - given her subjection to the religious institution as a
vassal and Christian. Despite having the dynastic right to govern, the queen needed to
legitimize herself as sovereign. Crossing, thus, a process of construction of authority
and performativity throughout the four decades of reign, being impacted by the religious
normative matrix, as well as by power disputes and sociability relations through
epistolary communication with the papacy and contemporary mystics. Joanna’s context reveals the strategies, transgressions, and complexities of the exercise of power and

female royal agency in the later middle ages.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1055487 - CAROLINA GUAL DA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - DANIELE GALLINDO GONÇALVES SILVA - UFPel
Externo à Instituição - IGOR SALOMÃO TEIXEIRA - UFRGS