Conference Schedule

9.30 Registration

10.00 Introduction

10.05 Panel 1 – Royalty and Remembrance

Chair - Jessica Lutkin

Three Kings: Royal Commemoration at Windsor and Westminster 1471-1515 - Kelcey Lee (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Charity at the Court of Henry VII - Chris Fox (Royal Holloway, University of London)

A Reassessment of the Wall Painting in the Sainte-Chapelle at Châteaudun - Melena Hope (Courtauld Institute)

Abandoning the court. Sovereignty and abdication in early modern European culture - Italo Marconi (University of Naples 'Federico II')

11.45 Tea/coffee

12.05 Panel 2 – Fashion

Chair - Jill Harrison

The fashion of hats in the court of Ferdinando I dei Medici - Chia-hua Yeh (Queen Mary, University of London)

Purple Locks and the Beard of Judas: Towards a history of Tudor Hair - Edward Wilson (Cambridge University)

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Panel 3 – Gifts and exchanges

Chair – Catherine Fletcher

'Artichokes, peas and flowers': food as gifts in the 16th- century Italian court - Sarah Bercusson (Queen Mary, University of London)

A European source for a sixteenth-century Mughal hunting picture in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Adeela Qureshi (Oxford University)

14.50 Panel 4 – Courtiers

Chair – Catherine Fletcher

A 'Florentine Gentleman': the Courtier Bernardo Vecchietti (1514-1590) - Rachel King (Manchester University)

The Artist and the Duke. Barocci's Self-Portrait as a Narrative of Friendship - Chris Bondy (Courtauld Institute)

15.40 Tea/coffee

16.00 Panel 5 – Spectacle

Chair - Jill Harrison

Relationship Between the Performer and the Stage Picture in the Stuart Masque - Agnieszka Kolodziejska (University of Gdansk)

'Terrestrial Thunder': Fireworks and the English Court 1660-1697 - Elaine Tierney (V&A/Sussex University)

16.45 Round-table discussion

17.30 Close and drinks