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Chicago Smeinars 2004-5

The Seminar on Courts, Households and Lineages is intended to provide an opportunity for scholars of courts, households, families, institutions and organizations from a wide variety of disciplines to come together to share their expertise on a regular basis in a venue ideally suited to their fields of study. Because the seminar defines courts very broadly to include virtually any elite, communal or family interest or activity, it operates in some ways as a general Early-modern seminar with forays into the periods immediately before and after. The Seminar in Courts, Households and Lineages is sponsored by Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Society for Court Studies; and has been organized by Robert Bucholz, Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago since its foundation in 2000.

This year's offerings comprise the following:

Saturday, September 18, 2004 ~ 11:00 a.m.
Hercules's Distaff: Marriage and the Pleasures of Disempowerment in Seventeenth-Century Painting Lisa Rosenthal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Saturday, November 13, 2004 ~ 11:00 a.m.
The Court of Henry IV of France
David Buisseret University of Texas-Arlington

Saturday, March 19, 2005 ~ 11:00 a.m.
The Meanings of the Renaissance Court Dwarf
Sara van Den Berg, St. Louis University

Saturday, April 16, 2005 ~ 11:00 a.m.
The Epic of Courtly Ambition: Philip II and the Spanish Odyssey                                                Elizabeth Wright, University of Georgia


While there is no fee to attend the Seminar in Courts, Households, and Lineages, participants are encouraged to register in advance. To register to attend one of these events, please call the Center for Renaissance studies at 312.255.3514, or send an e-mail to renaissance@newberry.org.

Funds are available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Seminar in Courts, Households and Lineages. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies.
 

Amherst

Thursday April 14, 2005 ~ 4:30 p.m.

'L'ancienne coutume sera observee': Tensions in the Courts of Toulouse in the Reign of François I'

Barbara Stephenson, Mt Holyoke College           

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