Virtual Scholarship Series
The Society for Court Studies launched the ‘Virtual Scholarship Series’ in 2020, which is organised by the European branch. Currently, the scholarship series consists of seminars, workshops, roundtable discussions, and interviews with scholars.
The programme for the Virtual Scholarship Series can be found in the table below, with further details provided through the registration link listed next to the seminar below. It is essential that all those who wish to attend these digital seminars to register in advance.
The virtual series takes place via Zoom on a Thursday each month at 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT), unless otherwise noted below.
| Thursday, 19 September 2024 18:00 CET | Jasmine Habcy (Gonzaga Archives/University of Parma) – “A ‘minor’ Dynastic Archive of the Gonzaga Hinterland: The Case of the Novellara Court (17th Century)” Registration |
| Thursday, 24 October 2024 18:00 CET | Klaudia Kuchno – “Channels of Power: The Medici Court and its Networks for Political News-Gatherine” Registration |
| Thursday, 21 November 2024 18:00 CET | Roundtable – “Medieval and Renaissance Banquets: A Conversation on Luxury and Diplomacy”, with Anthony Musson (Historic Royal Palaces), Julia Roumier (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Sabrina Villani (British Museum), Hanna Sinclair (Oxford University), Soňa Černocká (Lobkowicz Collections, Nelahozeves Castle) Registration |
| Thursday, 19 December 2024 18:00 CET | David Brégaint – “Diplomacy and Exchanges: Norway and the West in the 13th Century” Registration |
Call for Proposals: Virtual Series
The European branch of the Society will announce its call for proposals for the 2025 programme of the Virtual Scholarship Series in November 2024.
If you have questions or are interested in responding and would like to give a seminar presentation, delivering a panel seminar, organising a roundtable, recommending a scholar/exciting project for an interview, or conducting a workshop, please send an email to europe@courtstudies.org. If you are planning to submit a proposal, it should be no more than 300 words max.*
*For paper or panel abstracts, include length and arrangements, names of all participants (if a panel), and recommend a panel chair. For interviews, include a bio of recommended scholar or project, a brief statement of their impact/contribution to court studies, and a person to conduct the interview. For workshop proposals, include workshop lead, length, arrangements, and workshop content.
Past Virtual Scholarship Series seminars
2023
23 February 2023
Yashawini Chandra (SOAS University of London) – “Horses as Status Symbols and Gifts in Indian Courtly Cultures”
23 March 2023
Megan Shaw (University of Auckland), Sarah Bendall (Australia Catholic University) and Susannah Lyon (University of Auckland) – “Women at the Stuart Courts: Households, Management and Finances”
20 April 2023
Steve Sanders (Oxford Brookes University) – “John Trotter: A Case Study of a Royal Upholsterer”
23 November 2023
Dagmar Eichberger (University of Heidelberg) – “Princess Joanna of Castile’s First Encounter with the Culture of the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands: Festive Entries and Court Festivities”
14 December 2024
José Eloy Hortal Muñoz (URJC – Madrid) – “Royal Geographies in Early Modern Europe: Concepts, Evolution and Types”
2022
10 February 2022
Roundtable Part 2: “The History and Historiography of European Courts”, with Mark Hengerer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Janet Dickinson (New York University, London), Charlotte Backerra (University of Göttingen), and Fabian Persson (Linnaeus University)
17 February 2022
Mariana Perez de Arcos (London School of Economics) – “European Royal Humanitarian Networks in World War II”
17 March 2022
Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University) – “The Lady’s Got Potential: Female Succession in Early Modern Europe – A Comparative Approach”
14 April 2022
Mark Hengerer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) – “The ‘Kaiser und Höfe’ Database: Court Studies and Digital Humanities”
26 May 2022
Roundtable: “Cultural Heritage and Academic Research – Perspectives from Court Studies”, with Simon Thurley (National Heritage Lottery Fund UK), António Nunes Pereira (Parques de Sintra), Anna Keay (Landmark Trust), and Elizabeth den Hartog (Leiden University)
15 September 2022
Roundtable: “Money and Monarchy. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Economics and Finances of Monarchial Rule”, with Charlotte Backerra (University of Göttingen), Cathleen Sarti (University of Oxford), Fatima Rhorchi (Moulay Ismail University), Torsten Riotte (University of Frankfurt/Mainz), Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University), and Leonard Thaler (University of Vienna)
20 October 2022
Roundtable: “Archives and Court Studies”, with Sean Cunningham (UK National Archives), Filippo de Vivo (University of Oxford), Alessio Assonitis (Medici Archives Project) and Emily Peppers (University of Warsaw)
17 November 2022
Hannah Greig (University of York) – “Supplying the Court: Trade, Commerce and Royal Warrants in the Eighteenth-Century London, c. 1714-1800”
2021
18 March 2021
Claudia Wittig (Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenburg) – “Communities of Values: Courtly Society in North Western Europe in the High Middle Ages”
13 May 2021
Anu Lahtinen (University of Helsinki) – “The Courts of the Vase Princesses in Sixteenth-Century Scandinavia”
3 September 2021
Ruebén González Cuerva (Spanish National Research Council) – “There and Back Again: The Reintegration of Dowager Empress Maria of Austria in the Spanish Court (1582-1598)”
25 November 2021
(co-organised by Åbo Akademi University)
Roundtable: “The History and Historiography of European Courts”, with Mark Hengerer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Janet Dickinson (New York University, London), Charlotte Backerra (University of Göttingen), Joanna Orzeł (University of Łódź), and Fabian Persson (Linnaeus University)