Queenship team, considering the project’s primary regional focus, consists of members based at Czech universities and scientific institutions. The team consists of early career scientists for whom the project represents a significant impetus for professional growth. The project will establish cooperation with domestic and international researchers and research teams, whose profile will be gradually published.

Zuzana Bolerazká studied history at Charles University, where she defended her doctoral dissertation in 2024 on Elizabeth of Görlitz and the matrimonial politics of the House of Luxembourg. Her research focuses primarily on the relations between Bohemia and the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and on Early Netherlandish painting; she has published on these topics in both domestic and international scholarly journals.

Barbora Herčíková worked at the Europe Direct centre in Hradec Králové and is currently on parental leave. She studied archival science at the University of Hradec Králové, where she defended her dissertation in 2024 on the municipal office in Dvůr Králové in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Her research focuses primarily on urban diplomatics and administration in the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as on social and everyday history.

Anna Jagoš is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg. She studied history and archival sciences at the Masaryk University Brno, where she defended a thesis on the Prolegomena on to the Bohemian and Moravian charter edition in 2015. She published several editorial works and studies on diplomatics, dynastic networks, and marriage policy, women’s history, and digital humanities.

Kateřina Lančová is a research fellow at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, and at the Centre for Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava. She studied history at the University of Ostrava, where she defended her doctoral dissertation in 2025 on the subject towns of the Olomouc bishopric. Her research focuses on the economic and social history of medieval and early modern towns, the history of communication, and the history of women and everyday life in the Middle Ages.

Patrik Paštrnák is an associate professor at the Department of History, Palacký University Olomouc. He studied History, Latin Philology, and Medieval History in Olomouc and Budapest. He received a doctoral degree at the New College, Oxford, in 2022. He has published several studies and a book about royal journeys and weddings, rituals, and literature connected to the princely court.

Věra Soukupová is a researcher at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She studied History and French in Olomouc and received a doctoral degree at the Sorbonne and Charles University in 2017. She published a monograph on Jean Froissart’s Chronicles (Honoré Champion, 2021) and Czech translation of Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies. She devoted several studies to the power of queens in Czech medieval chronicles, gender representations, and religious literature of the late Middle Ages.

Barbora Uchytilová is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc and at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She studied Art History at Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on fourteenth-century mural and panel painting, the visual representation of royal power, and issues related to the medieval portrait and portrait galleries, including the question of so-called Kryptoporträts.