Past Seminars
“Gender and Marriage Among the Baroque Roman”
Renée Baernstein, Miami University
“Political Discourse in that Cromwellian Courtier Milton’s Poetry”
Todd Butler, Washington State University
“The Court and the Country: Public Celebrations of teh Coronation of Charles II”
Caroline Edie, University of Illinois at Chicago, emerita
“The Duke of Monmouth’s Lodgins as a Reversionary Court?: Hedge-Lane Lords Feast in Exclusion-Crisis London”
Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University
“Anxious Latinity: Gendering Humanism in the Court of Isabel I of Castile”
Barbara Wissberger, University of Minnesota
“Minstrels or courtiers? Chamber Musicians and the Royal Household in Renaissance France”
Jeanice Brooks, University of Southampton
“Princess Elizabeth Travels Across Her Kingdom in Life, in Text, and on Stage”
Carole Levin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“Court Intrigues and Colonial Affairs: The Case of Pennsylvania”
Bill Speck, University of Nottingham, formerly University of Northumbria
“The Epic of Courtly Ambition: Philip II and the Spanish Odyssey”
Elizabeth Wright, University of Georgia
“The Meanings of the Renaissance Court Dwarf”
Sara van den Berg, St. Louis University
The Court of Henry IV of France, 1589-1610: Organization an Material Culture
David Buisseret, University of Texas-Arlington (now emeritus)
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“Hercules’s Distaff: Marriage and the Pleasures of Disempowerment in Seventeenth-Century Painting”
Lisa Rosenthal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Diplomacy and Absolutism in 17th-Century France”
Ellen McClure, University of Illinois at Chicago
“ ‘Mock Court’: the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Court of Dublin Castle, 1767-1922”
James H. Murphy, De Paul University
“John of Salisbury on Dogs, Courtiers and Other Monsters at the Court of Henry II of England”
Stephen Jaeger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emeritus
“Clash of Cultures? Ambassadors and Sultans in Constantinople, 1699-1826”
Phillip Mansel, Society for Court Studies
“Benjamin Disraeli: Renaissance Courtier or Victorian Fop?”
William Kuhn, Carthage College
“Wealth and Power in Late Medieval Castile: The House of Pacheco-Giron”
Nancy Marino, Michigan State University
“Princess, Politician, or Dancer? The Case of Henrietta Anne, Duchesse d’Orléans, 1644-1670”
Julia Marciari Alexander, Yale Center for British Art
“Taking Elias to Court: A Medievalist Confronts The Civilizing Process”
Barbara Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
“Charles II, Louis XIV, and the English Royal Bedchamber”
Simon Thurley, The Museum of London
One Royal Body or Two? The Problem of Sacred Monarchy in Early Modern Western Europe
Paul Monod, Middlebury College
“Habsburg Court Correspondence: The Epistolary Exchanges of the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia”
Anne Cruz, University of Miami, formerly University of Illinois at Chicago
“Power, Pomp, and Politics: Danish-Saxon Court Festivals, 1548-1709”
Mara Wade, University of Illiniois at Urbana Champaign
“La Belle Mère: Marie de Medici and the Study of Royal Women at Court”
Caroline Hibbard, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
“Was There a Nobility of the Sword? Aristocratic Society and Martial Culture in the Three Kingdoms, 1585-1702”
Roger Manning, Cleveland State University Emeritus
“The Body Politic, Civility, and the Clintons: The Contemporary Relevance of Renaissance Concepts”
Melissa Deem, University of New Hampshire, formerly University of Iowa
“ ‘Affaire Caussin’: A Jesuit and a Maid of Honor Take on Richelieu, and Lose”
Robert Bireley, Loyola University Chicago