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Panel 1: Medialization of Gendered Rule in the Early Modern Period

The gendering of rulership was and is largely achieved through its (re-)presentation in the media. Early modern visual culture has brought forth a plethora of iconographical traditions, conventions of genre and display, some of which continue to the present, that shaped the discourse on the issue and legitimized political action in highly diverse historical contexts. The three papers in this panel provide focussed analyses of particular images, artistic practices as well as patronage strategies that played a formative role in constructing rulership via gender relations in the early modern period. A special emphasis is put on the (individual and/or collective) body, its rendering as mimetic image or heraldic symbol, its display as violated or elevated, and its political potential as a “body media”.