This seminar, no longer taking place, was a series 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 was 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.
| April 28, 2007 | Gender and Marriage Among the Baroque Roman | Renée Baernstein, Miami University |
| November 11, 2006 | Political Discourse in that Crormwellian Courtier Milton's Poetry | Todd Butler, Washington State University |
| September 23, 2006 | The Court and the Country: Public Celebrations of the Coronation of Charles II | Caroline Edie, University of Illinois at Chicago, emerita |
| April 29, 2006 | The Duke of Monmouth's Lodgings as a Reversionary Court?: Hedge-Lane Lords Feast in Exclusion Crisis London | Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University |
| April 8, 2006 | Anxious Latinity: Gendering Humanism in the Court of Isabel I of Castile | Barbara Weissberger, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
| November 5, 2005 | Minstrels or Courtiers? Chamber Musicians and the Royal Household in Renaissance France | Jeanice Brooks, University of Southampton |
| September 9, 2005 | Princess Elizabeth Travels Across Her Kingdom in Life, in Text, and on Stage | Carole Levin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
| May 20, 2005 | Court Intrigues and Colonial Affairs: The Case of Pennsylvania | Bill Speck, University of Northumbria |
| April 16, 2005 | The Epic of Courtly Ambition: Philip II and the Spanish Odyssey | Elizabeth Wright, University of Georgia |
| March 19, 2005 | The Meanings of the Renaissance Court Dwarf | Sara van den Berg, St. Louis University |
| November 13, 2004 | The Court of Henry IV of France, 1589-1610: Organization and Material Culture | David Buisseret, University of Texas-Arlington |
| September 18, 2004 | Hercules's Distaff: Marriage and the Pleasures of Disempowerment in Seventeenth-Century Painting | Lisa Rosenthal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| April 17, 2004 | Diplomacy and Absolutism in Seventeenth Century France | Ellen McClure, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| February 21, 2004 | 'Mock Court': the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Court of Dublin Castle, 1767-1922 | James H. Murphy, DePaul University |
| January 31, 2004 | A Sodomitical Court: King James and his Favorites | Michael Young, Illinois Wesleyan University |
| November 22, 2003 | A lecture on Queen Elizabeth and her court, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities supported exhibit ELIZABETH I: RULER AND LEGEND | David Starkey, President of the Society for Court Studies, Cambridge University |
| September 20, 2003 | 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 |