Elisabeth of Luxembourg (1409-1442)

A Hungarian Queen of the 15th Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72254-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

This book is dedicated to an exceptional and almost forgotten figure of European medieval history, Queen Elisabeth of Luxembourg. Through the story of her life, the author of this volume examines one of the most dramatic periods of Hungarian medieval history (1437–1442), when after the death of Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, the kingdom lacked a strong monarch.

Although the primary focus of this book is Queen Elisabeth, much attention is also paid to her husband, the Duke of Austria and the Roman-German King Albert II of Habsburg. The author reconstructs his short reign in the Kingdom of Hungary on the basis of hitherto unpublished sources, as well as Queen Elisabeth’s struggle for the Hungarian crown, which she finally won at the cost of her own life. Through the inclusion of discussions on topics such as the status of women, hygiene, medicine, piety, and travel, the author sheds light not just on the details of Elisabeth’s life, but also on life during this period of medieval history more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Dvoráková, Daniela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations of Libraries, Archives and Their Collections

Introduction: Elisabeth of Luxembourg, a Woman of Great Ambitions

1 Elisabeth, Queen of Hungary

2 The Short Rule of King Albert (1439)

3 The Resolute Queen (November 1439–May 1440)

4 The Queen Comes to Bratislava (1440)

5 For Life and Death (1441)

6 Two Victories, Two Defeats

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniela Dvoráková, Ph.D. D.Sc. (1993), Slovak Academy of Sciences, is a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. She has published several monographs and many articles on medieval history, including Rytier a jeho král [The Knight and his King] (Vydavatelstvo RAK, 2003) and Cierna královná [The Black Queen] (Vydavatelstvo RAK, 2013).