The Society’s 2025 conference, “Reconsidering Courtly Environments, c. 1200-1800: Interconnecting European Court Cultures and the Role of Natural Environments and Landscapes”, will take place on 20-21 November 2025. Organised by Households and Environmental Studies (HES), Centre for Research on Courts and Residences (DaR), and the Society for Court Studies, the conference brings together scholars from court studies, environmental history/historical ecology, and other relevant disciplines to not only examine the interconnections between European courts, natural environments and landscapes in the medieval and early modern period (c. 1200-1800), but also explore the development of approaches and methodologies to study the relationship between courts and environments. The conference programme features a keynote by Professor Luc Duerloo, and presentations on gardens, hunting, landscapes, and food consumption connected with European courts.
While most of the speakers will be presenting in-person in Prague, the conference will only be accessible for online participation via Zoom. The conference will be held in English and German.
For more information about the conference, including the conference programme, visit: https://courtstudies.org/events/conferences/. To join the conference for free as an online participant please register via the Eventbrite link on the website. Deadline to register is 17 November 2025.