Queens and the Transmission of Dynastic Culture in Early Modern Europe

                                                 Saturday, November 20 2004

                                                                          Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies

                                                                                        650 East Pleasant Street

                                                                                        Amherst, Massachusetts                                                                        

 

Program:

 

Barbara Stephens (Mt Holyoke), “Maintaining the Antiquity of the House: Noble Marriage and Dynastic Culture in Sixteenth-Century France”

 

Sheila Ffolliott (George Mason University),  “What Did She Know and When Did She Know It?  The Italian ‘Training’ of Catherine de Medici”

 

Sara Maddox (University of Massachusetts, emreita), "Catherine de Medici and the Two Lilies." 

 

Melinda Gough (McMaster University), “Marie de Medici’s 1602 Ballet of the Virtues”

 

Nicola Courtright (Amherst College), "Marie de Medici and Building the Bourbon Dynasty." 

 

Malcolm Smuts (University of Massachusetts Boston), “Love, Honor and French Queens in the Outbreak of Britain’s Civil Wars”