London

LONDON SEMINARS 2003

All seminars meet at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, 16 Bedford Square, London WC1 at 6PM.  Non-members are welcome to attend.

20 Oct'03: Patrick Dickinson, College of Arms, 'Heralds as Courtiers'

17 Nov'03: Rupert Shepherd, Ashmolean Museum, 'Courtly Confidence and Republican Anxiety: The Politics of Magnificence and Fifteenth-Century Italian Architecture"

15 Dec'03: William Purdue, Open University, 'Monarchs of the World 1850-1918: The Invention of Tradition?'

19Jan'03: Jane Ridley, Buckingham University, 'Deconstructing Tum Tum: Becoming King Edward VII'

16 Feb'03: Simon Thurley, English Heritage.  'Title, Function and Symbolism at Hampton Court Palace, 1400-1760'

15 Mar'03: Ian Fenlon, Cambridge University, title to be announced.

17 May'03: John Pollard, Cambridge University, '"A Court in Exile": The Vatican 1870-1929'

14 June'03: Roderick Barman, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 'The Portugese Court in Two Worlds: the Corte e Casa at Lisbon and Rio de Janiero 1640-1834'

 

Chicago

Chicago 2003-04

Seminars are held at the Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.  Please email rbuchol@wpo.it.luc.edu or telephone (312) 255-3514 for further details of how to attend.

20 Sept'03: Stephen Jaeger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne), 'John of Salisbury on Dogs, Courtiers and other Monsters at the court of Henry II of England'
 
22 Nov'03: David Starkey (Cambridge) will present a public lecture on Queen Elizabeth and her court in conjunction with the NEH supported exhibit ELIZABETH I: RULER AND LEGEND (30 September 2003 to 17 January 2004. For more information about the exhibit visit http://www.newberry.org/nl/renaissance/L3rrenaissance.html) 
 
31 Jan'04: Michael Young (Illinois Wesleyan University), 'A Sodomitical Court?: King James and his Favorites' 
 
21 Feb'04: James Murphy (De Paul University)'Mock Court': the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Court of Dublin Castle, 1767-1922'
 
17 Apr'04: Prof. Ellen McClure of the University of Illinois, Chicago will speak on 'Diplomacy and Absolutism in Seventeenth Century France'.

 

Amherst, Massachusetts

2003-4

All seminars meet in the reading room of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 E. Pleasant Street, Amherst at 4PM unless otherwise noted.  All seminars are open to the public.  Please contact malcolm.smuts@umb.edu or telephone (413-577-3600) for further details.

30 Oct'03:  Frank Bronlow, Mt Holyoke College, 'Richard Topcliffe, Esquire for the Body to her Majesty, or, Access, Intimacy and Torture at the court of Elizabeth I'.

19Febb'04: Sasha Roberts, University of Kent, "The difficulty of early modern literary taste: Shakespeare, manuscript culture and bad poetry" (convenes at 4:30)

4March'04 Hélène Visentin and Nicholas Russell, Smith College, "The Royal Entries of Henri II: research methodology and use in undergraduate coursework" (convenes at 5:00)

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