Seminar in Courts, Households and Lineages

This seminar series is intended to provide an opportunity for scholars of courts and households from a wide variety of disciplines to come together to share their expertise on a regular basis in a venue ideally suited to these fields of study. The Seminar in Courts, Households and Lineages is sponsored by Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Society for Court Studies; and is organized by Robert O. Bucholz, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago.

In the 2005-2006 Series:

• Friday, September 9, 2005 ~ 2:00 pm
  "Princess Elizabeth Travels Across Her Kingdom in Life, in Text, and on Stage"
  Carole Levin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  
  
• Saturday, November 5, 2005 ~ 11:00 am
  "Minstrels or Courtiers? Chamber Musicians and the Royal Household in Renaissance France"
  Jeanice Brooks, University of Southampton
  
  
• Saturday, April 8, 2006 ~ 11:00 am
  "Anxious Latinity: Gendering Humanism in the Court of Isabel I of Castile"
  Barbara Weissberger, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  
  
• Saturday, April 29, 2006 ~ 11:00am
  "The Duke of Monmouth's Lodgings as a Reversionary Court?: Hedge-Lane Lords Feast in Exclusion Crisis London"
  Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University
  

View a list of past Seminars in Courts, Households and Lineages

Registration

While there is no fee to attend the Seminar in Courts, Households, and Lineages, participants should register in advance. To register to attend one of these events, please call the Center for Renaissance studies at 312.255.3514, or send an e-mail to renaissance@newberry.org.

Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Seminar in Courts, Households and Lineages. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies.