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Oxford Court Studies
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Seminar series focusing on the political and cultural life of courts and courtiers. 4:30pm, Mondays fortnightly in odd weeks of term, Jesus College, Oxford. All welcome. Convenor: @hannasinclair.bsky.social
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Reminder: This Monday (10th) at 4:30pm, @susannah-lw.bsky.social will be presenting her research into the global and natural material culture of the 17C English Queens. Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome!
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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In our first session of the year we will hear from Elizabeth Norton, speaking about Jane Seymour. Monday at 4:30, Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome.
Monday, 13 October: Elizabeth Norton, ‘Constructing a Queen: The Career of Jane Seymour from Gentlewoman, to Queen, to Central Dynastic Figure’.
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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It’s that time of year again! Here is the term card for the upcoming talks. As always, everyone is welcome! Fortnightly, 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, @jesusoxford.bsky.social
Term card for Oxford Court Studies seminars: 13 October Elizabeth Norton (Independent Researcher) ‘Constructing a Queen: The Career of Jane Seymour from Gentlewoman, to Queen, to Central Dynastic Figure’ 27 October Elena Taddei (University of Innsbruck) ‘A Princess of House d’Este at the English Court: Mary of Modena Between Religious-Political Alienation and Cultural Transfer’ 10 November Susannah Lyon-Whaley (University of York) ‘Her Material World: Queens’ Stuff in the Global Seventeenth-Century’ 24 November Liesbeth Geevers (Lund University) ‘Male Marriage Gaps, Dynastic Centralisation and Habsburg Trust Fund Babies: Analysing Early Modern Dynasties from a Long(er)-Term Perspective’ The seminar will take place at 4:30pm at Jesus College. All are welcome, and wine reception to follow.
September 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Multiple past speakers at #KQ14, including this fantastic panel on court employees, featuring three! (And three more in the audience). Future speakers being recruited as well!
June 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Congratulations to @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social who won the @royalstudies.bsky.social article prize! #k&q14
June 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Trinity Term Card! This term featuring talks by brilliant scholars on the Early Modern courts of Tunis, Copenhagen, Sweden, Poland-Lithuania, and the Holy Roman Empire. Alternate Mondays, 4:30pm, Memorial Room at Jesus College (plus Friday 9 June at Ship Street Centre). All are welcome! (edited)
Oxford Court Studies Seminars will take place at Jesus College, Memorial Room, at 4:30pm (except *9 May) 28 April Rubén González Cuerva (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas): ‘The Court of Tunis: Negotiating Kingship in the Sixteenth-Century Maghreb’ FRIDAY 9 May *Ship Street Centre, Jesus. Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen): ‘Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen’. (Co-convened with the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network) 12 May Dustin Neighbors (University of Helsinki): ‘The Queen’s Court: Materiality and Colour at Early Modern Scandinavian Courts’ 26 May Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University): ‘The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century’ 9 June Richard Schlag (Jesus College): ‘Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg’ (Co-convened with the Oxford Early Modern Central European Seminar Series)
April 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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A change in the programme for the final session of the term: Unfortunately Kirsty Wright is unable to attend, but we are lucky to have the President of the Society of Court Studies, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly in her place. 4:30pm, Monday 3 March, Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, all welcome!
February 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Reminder: the first talk of the year is today (20th) at 4:30 in the Ship Street Centre at Jesus College. All are welcome!
January 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I’m pleased to announce the programme for Hilary 2025, with papers on 19C French and Spanish kings, a Savoy wedding that didn’t happen, Habsburg courtiers between Austria and Spain, and the Royal progresses of Katherine of Aragon and Katherine Parr. Alternate Mondays, Jesus College, all welcome!
Programme for Oxford Court Studies seminar series, Hilary 2025. 20 January Munro Price (University of Bradford) ‘Shipwreck and Survival: Louis XVI, Ferdinand VII and Revolution’ 3 February Richard Cooper (Brasenose College) ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral: The Savoy Marriage of July 1559’ 17 February Bianca Lindorfer (University of Vienna) ‘Aristocrats without Borders: The Emergence of a Cosmopolitan Elite in the 17th-Century Habsburg Monarchy' 3 March Kirsty Wright (Historic Royal Palaces) ‘“Kingless Progresses”: Locating Authority in the Regencies of Henry VIII’s Queens’ Jesus College Ship Street Centre, 4:30pm, odd Mondays.
January 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM