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In this section you will find more information on past seminars organised by the Society for Court Studies. Please click on one of the following hyperlinks to see the reports:

 

6 December 2010
David Boswell - The Architectural Setting of the Grand Masters of Malta, 1530-1798
4 October 2010 Hannah Greig (University of York) - Faction and Fashion: The Politics of Court Dress in Eighteenth-Century England
14 June 2010 Malcolm Smuts (University of Massachusetts Boston) - The Queen Elizabeth/Anjou Match and the Politics of Dynastic Libel
10 May 2010 Alasdair Hawkyard - The Tudor Royal Household and Parliament, 1509-1558
19 April 2010 William O'Reilly (University of Cambridge) - The Emperor Who Could Not Be King: the Emperor Charles VI and Spain (1700-1740)
8 March 2010 Laura Moretti (University of Oxford) - Spaces for Musical Performance in the Este and Gonzaga Courts (c. 1440-1540)
1 February 2010 Claire Gapper - The Decorative Plasterwork of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire: A City Plasterer Working in a Courtier's House, 1622-1624
7 December 2009 Elizabeth Goldring (University of Warwick) - The Politics of Translation: Arthur Golding's Account of the Duke of Anjou's Entry into Antwerp, 1582 
5 October 2009 Philip Mansel - The French Court 1770-1870: Grandeur and Catastrophe
22 June 2009 Patrick Little (History of Parliament) - Fashion at the Court of Oliver Cromwell
27 April 2009 Jane Ridley (University of Buckingham) - The Biographical Consequences of Edward VII: Lord Esher's Bonfire
16 March 2009 Aonghus MacKechnie (Historic Scotland) - Architecture and Absent, Intermittent and Satellite Courts: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Scotland
26 January 2009 Marc Morris - Edward I and the Knights of the Round Table
8 December 2008 Maria Hayward (University of Southampton) - Making Magnificence: Dress at the Court of Henry VIII
10 November 2008 Alexander Samson (UCL) - Sovereignty in the Queen's Closet: The Court and Household of Mary Tudor and Philip of Habsburg
6 October 2008 Edward Corp (University of Toulouse) - The Stuart Court in Rome

9 June 2008

Claire Norton (St Mary's University College) - "Uniting Against the ‘Lords of Lewdness’: Forging Alliances and Constructing Shared Identities in the Ottoman Nagykanizsa fethnames [victory missives] Sent to Queen Elizabeth I"

12 May 2008

Manolo Guerci (University of Cambridge) - "An aristocratic palace of monarchical intent: The Interiors of Northumberland House in the Strand, 1605-1874"

14 April 2008

Alexander Courtney (University of Cambridge) - "'By merie company...free from importunitie': The Bedchamber and Jacobean Kingship Revisited"

21 January 2008

Emily Cole (University of Sussex) - "The English Court and the English Country House 1603-1625"

17 December 2007

Jeremy Ashbee (English Heritage) - "The Tower of London as Royal Residence 1066-1399"

19 November 2007

Nicole Reinhardt (University of Lyon) - "The Importance of Being Catholic: Religion and Court Life in Early Modern France and Spain"

22 October 2007

David Reed - "Breakfast in the Afternoon - or One Hundred Years of Royal Garden Parties"

11 June 2007

Mary Hollingsworth - "Electing the Court: Ceremony and Discomfort in Sixteenth-Century Papal Conclaves"

14 May 2007

Glenn Richardson - "Postcards from the Edge: Francis I and Englands's break with Rome"

19 March 2007

Irena Murray (Royal Institute of British Architects) - "Our Slav Acropolis: Architecture and Governance at the Prague Castle, 1918-1939"

19 February 2007

Ian Archer (Keble College, Oxford) - "City and Court Connected: the Material Dimension of Royal Court Ceremonies, 1480-1625"

22 January 2007

Patrick Little (History of Parliament) - "Music at the Court of King Oliver"

18 December 2006

Dries Raeymaekers (University of Antwerp) - "A Princely Court in Brussels: the Court and Household of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella (1598-1621)"

20 November 2006

Nigel Saul (Royal Holloway College) - "Politics and Luxury: The Court of King Richard" II"

23 October 2006

Craig Clunas (SOAS) - "'As a Hedge and a Fence...': Kingly Courts of Ming China (1368-1644)"

15 May 2006

Graham Gendall Norton - "A Caribbean Court: Henri Christophe, King of Haiti"

20 March 2006

Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary, University of London) - "'Who bids most?' The sale of Charles I's Art Collection"   

20 February 2006

Curt Noell - "Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Classical: The Bourbon Court and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Spain"

23 January 2006

Glenn Richardson (University of Surrey) - "Gift Exchange at Renaissance Courts: England and France, 1509-1603"

21 November 2005

Sophie Pickford (University of Cambridge) - "Nobility and Possession: Objects in the French Renaissance Château"

17 October 2005

Robin Eagles (History of Parliament Trust) - "No more to be said? Reactions to the Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales"

13 June 2005

Caroline Finkel (Istanbul) - "Holy Men at the Ottoman Court : A Dynasty in Search of Legitimisation"

23 May 2005

Nigel Aston (University of Leicester) - "Commentary from a Courtier: An Insider’s Perspective on the Last Years of George II, 1756-1760"

25 April 2005

Anna Keay (English Heritage) - "Charles II and the Chapel Royal"

28 February 2005

Maurice Howard (University of Sussex) - "William, Lord Sandys of the Vyne: A Tudor Courtier’s Goods"

24 January 2005

Toby Osborne (Durham University) - "What's in a name? Ceremonial Rivalry between the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Savoy during the Sixteenth Century"

18 October 2004

Robert Lacey - "How enlightened was George III?  The King, the British Museum and the Enlightenment"

14 June 2004

Roderick Barman (University of British Columbia) - "The Portuguese Court in Two Worlds: The corte e casa at Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro 1640-1834"

17 May 2004

John Pollard (Cambridge University) - "A Court in exile: the Vatican 1870-1929"

15 March 2004

Iain Fenlon - "Novellara: music and culture at a ‘minor’ Italian Renaissance court"

19 January 2004

Jane Ridley (Buckingham University) - "Deconstructing Tum Tum: becoming Edward VII"

15 December 2003

William Purdue (Open University) - "Monarchs of the world 1850-1914: the invention of tradition?"

20 October 2003

Patric Dickinson - "Heralds as Courtiers"