Privacy at Court? A Reassessment of the Public/Private Divide within European Courts (1400-1800)

10-12 December 2020
Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen/ Society for Court Studies (Digital conference)

Speakers:

Mette Birkedal Bruun (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), Early Modern Notions of Privacy

Professor Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study), Privacy at Court? Reconsidering the Public-Private Dichotomy

Elena (Ellie) Woodacre (University of Winchester), Influence and Interference in the Queen’s Private Sphere: The Case of Joan of Navarre

Barbara Arciszewska (University of Warsaw), Architecture, Gender and the Private Sphere: Women and Early Modern Court Residences around 1700

Britta Kägler (Universität Passau), Institutionalized Privacy? – The Need to Achieve and Defend Privacy in the Frauenzimmer

Fabio Gigone (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), The gilded balustrade: the Architecture of the Ban at the Court of Louis XIV

Karin Schrader (Independent Scholar), Intimate Tokens and Public Emblems – Portrait Miniatures in Eighteenth-Century European Court Culture

Christine Jeanneret (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), Soundscapes of Rosenborg Castle: Hearing Privacy at Court

Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University/Society for Court Studies), Not Always on Display? The Hybrid Public/Private Life of the Court of Lorraine at the Palace of Lunéville, 1698-1736

Oskar Jacek Rojewski (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), Spreading of Court Culture from the Burgundian Court to the Kingdom of Castile: Sovereign’s Privacy and its Relationship with Court Artists

Mirella Marini (Independent Scholar), From the Privacy of Death to the Public Ritual of Mourning: the Testamentary Dispositions of Anne of Croy (1564-1635), duchess of Aarschot and the Reversal of the Burgundian Court Ritual

Cathleen Sarti (University of Oxford), Court, Historiography, Historical Fiction, and Privacy?

Heta Aali (University of Turku), Narrating the Private Sphere in France: Reinterpreting the Early Modern Royal Family through Eighteenth-Century Notions of Privacy

Vasileios Syros (University of Jyväskylä), Venice and the Ottoman Court: Revisiting the Public/Private Divide in 16th-Century Europe 

Dries Raeymaekers (Radboud University), The Monarch Exposed. Privacy in Practice at the Early Modern Court

Lars Cyril Nørgaard and Bastian Felter Vaucanson (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), The Portrait of Louis XIV’s Privacy

Dustin M. Neighbors (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), Maximilian II’s Visit to the Court of Elector August of Saxony: Private Politics or Politics of Privacy?

My Hellsing and Kristine Dyrmann (The Danish Research Centre for Manorial Studies / Stockholm University and Aarhus University), Privacy and Political Sociability in the Suburbs of Stockholm and Copenhagen in the Late Eighteenth Century

Ineke Huysman (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands), Silent Power: Privacy Practices of the Dutch and Frisian Stadholder’s Wives (1605-1725)

Paige Emerick (University of Leicester), Seeking Privacy within the Royal Visits of George III, c. 1760-1805

Michael Brauer (University of Salzburg), Royal Presence and the Framing of Privacy Observations on Charles V “the Wise” of France (1364-1380)

Bram van Leuveren (University of St. Andrews), Negotiating the Public and the Private: Dispatches of European Diplomats at the Late Valois and Early Bourbon Court

Anna Penkała-Jastrzębska (Pedagogical University of Kraków), Noble Matrimonial Policy at the Royal Court in Dresden during the Reign of King August the Strong (1697-1733): Public Affairs, Individual Interests

Søren Frank Jensen (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), Private Devotion in Public? Mapping The Book of Psalms at the Electoral Court of Saxony 1553-86

Marta Wojtkowska-Maksymik (Warsaw University), Where I’m not… About the Lack of Privacy at Court in 16th-Century Anticourt Literature

Anne Gallewicz (Warsaw University), Castiglione and Górnicki – Literary Perspectives of Otium at Court

Jolanta Dygul (Warsaw University), Court Ceremonies and Performative Arts at the Courts of the Last Jagiellonians

Anna Horeczy (Polish Academy of Sciences), Intellectuals at the Court of the Last Jagiellonian Kings – Between Public and Private Spheres

Fabian Persson (Linnæus University/University of Oxford), Public Displays of Affection: Creating Spheres of Royal Intimacy in Public

Jose Eloy Hortal Muñoz (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Regulating Access to the Rulers: the Codification of the Royal Chamber of the Spanish Monarchy at the Seventeenth Century

Sara Ayres (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), The Madness of Christian VII: The Uses of Privacy at the Danish Court, 1766-1772

Agnieszka Pawłowska-Kubik (Medical University of Gdańsk), Be as close to the ruler as possible: The Royal Physician at Court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Michaël Green (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen), Privacy Aspects of the Household Instructions by Henry VIII Concerning the Infant Prince Edward

Bethany Bourn Williams (University of Bristol), Performing and Representing Domesticity at the Protectoral Court of Oliver Cromwell

George IV: First Gentleman of Europe

6 March 2020
Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London

A day symposium, co-organised with the Royal Collection to accompany their recent exhibition, ‘George IV: Art and Spectacle’, 6 March 2020 at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, with speakers including Flora Fraser and Philip Mansel.