Medieval Art Research

Fellowships: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 2024, deadline: 31 January 2023

The Herzog August Bibliothek is an independent research centre funded by the State of Lower Saxony. The scope of the library’s holdings constitutes a unique archive of European culture. Manuscripts, incunabula, rare books and special collections such as engravings, maps and 20th-century artists’ books, enable almost unlimited studies of cultures of knowledge in a global perspective. The library conducts its own research projects in the fields of medieval and early modern studies.

Fellowships are open to all researchers who have already received their PhD. The international programme welcomes applications from all historically oriented disciplines. Fellowships have a residence.

There are two categories of fellowships:

Post-doc Fellowships: Early career scholars who are within 6 years of receiving their PhD, may apply for a long-term fellowship of between 6 and 10 months. The library will award from 4 to 6 such fellowships annually. For applications submitted in January 2023, the PhD must have been awarded in 2017 or later.
Short-term Fellowships: The fellowships are addressed to a broad range of scholars of all career stages (from post-doc to emeriti) wishing to make a short visit in order to gather source material. Applications can be made for stays of between one and three months.

Next application deadline: 31 January 2023
Start: 1 January 2024

Post-doc Fellowships
Early career scholars who are within 6 years of receiving their PhD, may apply for a long-term fellowship of between 6 and 10 months. The library will award from 4 to 6 such fellowships annually. The monthly fellowship is € 2.200. The fellowship holder will receive a one-time reimbursement for the cost of travel to and from Wolfenbüttel (max. € 2.000). Fellows who bring their families to Wolfenbüttel may apply for a monthly child supplement (one child: € 300; two children € 400; three or more € 500).
*for applications submitted in January 2023 the PhD must have been awarded in 2017 or later.

Short-term Fellowships
The fellowships are addressed to a broad range of scholars of all career stages (from post-doc to emeriti) wishing to make a short visit in order to gather source material. Applications can be made for stays of between one and three months. The monthly fellowship is € 1.800. A travel subsidy will also be paid (between € 150 and max. € 650, depending on country of origin).

Visit the website for more information and to request an application form.

Fellowship: Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023-2025, The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Deadline: 1 February 2023

The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in public humanities. The fellow will devote the majority of the fellowship time to working closely with the Institute’s staff, especially its director of undergraduate studies and engagement, in the Institute’s outreach and engagement efforts directed at local schools as well as potential donors, alumni, and undergraduate majors and minors. The fellow will also work with the institute’s Assistant Director to prepare public humanities marketing and communications materials. The remainder of the fellow’s time may be devoted to research and/or teaching.

The fellow will be provided with a workspace in the Medieval Institute, enjoy full library and computer privileges, and have access to all the Institute’s research tools.

The position is anticipated to run from August 16, 2023, through August 15, 2025, with a stipend of $49,440 per year plus benefits.

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in some area of the humanistic study of the Middle Ages, or have it in hand by the beginning of the fellowship term. Applicants must have relevant experience in public engagement in the humanities; highly effective people skills; and multimedia digital literacy. Experience with digital humanities is highly desirable.

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit a letter of application that includes reflection on how this postdoctoral position would fit into their broader career goals, a current C.V., and three confidential letters of recommendation.

Digital portfolios and similar supporting materials may also be uploaded for consideration. We recommend you add your URL(s) to the “additional documents” section (the Interfolio application will walk you through these steps; you can also contact customer service for help if needed).

The deadline for applications is 1 February 2023.

For further information and to apply, visit the Interfolio website.

Hybrid workshop: Realism in Hagiography, online / University of Cologne, 12-13 January 2023

Saints lives, martyrdoms, and miracle stories comprise a large and challenging body of primary source material for historians of the First Millennium and Middle Ages. Elements of these texts resemble historiography, but these are blended with subjective experience, mystical truth, and theology. Modern scholars interested in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and particularly scholars who do not come from cultural backgrounds where the veneration of saints is part of their personal lived experience, are faced with difficult questions. Can one confidently differentiate “fact” from “fiction” among the mundane and miraculous details in hagiography? Is it possible to read and interpret these texts as coherent works according to the shared understanding of their pious ancient or medieval writers and readers?

The workshop will bring together a group of pre-circulated papers which focus on the setting of hagiography (broadly defined), viewing its diverse literary components as part of a realistic structure and narrative. By focusing on the thread of realism within hagiographical texts, the papers given in this workshop will provide a collection of perspectives about how to read and interpret such narratives. These contributions will form a collection of conceptual tools which will be helpful for students and historians alike in analyzing hagiography-like sources.

With contributions from:

Stephanos Efthymiadis (Keynote)

Niels De Ridder – Giulia Gollo – Sven Günther – Christian Høgel – Mihail Mitrea – Leif Inge Ree Petersen – Daria Resh – Julie Van Pelt – Marijana Vukovic – Julia Weitbrecht – Douglas Whalin

Programme:

Thursday

Session 1

09.15 Sven Günther – Framing taxes in Theodoret of Cyrrhus’ Religious History

10.00 Douglas Whalin – Realistic miraculous landscapes from Late Antique Syria

Session 2

11.15 Leif Inge Ree Petersen – Warfare and society in hagiography

12.00 Julie Van Pelt – Magic and fiction in Greek hagiography: real and unreal wonders

Session 3

14.30 Christian Høgel – The saint as a young person: pre-conversion portraits in Greek/Byzantine hagiography

15.15 Niels De Ridder – Stereotypes or individuals? Jewish characters in middle Byzantine hagiography

16.00 Julia Weitbrecht – Paradisiacal evidence: materiality and temporality in the legend of the True Cross

Keynote Lecture

17.00 Stephanos Efthymiadis – Realism in middle and late Byzantine hagiography

Friday

Session 4

09.15 Daria Resh – What is in the bath? Space and ritual in the Byzantine legends of St Barbara

10.00 Giulia Gollo – Writers as painters, texts as (colourful) icons: the life of St Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278)

Session 5

11.15 Mihail Mitrea – ‘Glorified from above’: the miraculous as legitimizing device in late Byzantine hagiography

12.00 Marijana Vukovic – The Principle of minimal departure and the ‘realistic’ in hagiography: weather in Byzantine and Old Slavonic saints’ stories

Place & Time: International House, Kringsweg 6, 50931 Köln & virtual | 12./13.01.2023

For further details visit the website.
To join the online workshop, contact abteilungbzkoeln@gmail.com.

Internship: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, New York, 5 June – 11 August 2023. Deadline: 18 January 2023

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is excited to announce a special ten-week internship placement in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters for someone with an interest in Byzantine Art and the histories of medieval communities in northern and eastern Africa. This full-time summer internship (with the possibility of a part-time extension in the fall) is part of the Museum Seminar (MuSe) Internship Program.

The intern gains curatorial skills by working closely with staff on organizing an exhibition about the connection between Africa and the Byzantine World. They will assist with the completion of the exhibition catalogue, help develop didactic materials for the installation, and brainstorm community-centered interpretive strategies. Additionally, the intern will have the opportunity to contribute to the department’s social media platforms. This internship is ideal for someone with an interest in Byzantine art and/or the arts of north and eastern Africa. Also, it will be important for the intern to have a desire to contribute to efforts to diversify the narratives explored in museum collections and their display.

Applicants should select the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters on the application.

The 2023 dates for the Museum Seminar (MuSe) Internship Program are June 5–August 11, 2023.

The position is full time (five days, thirty-five hours per week).

For more information and to apply, go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Image: The Ascension, Illuminated Gospel, late 14th-early 15th century, Amhara peoples, northern Ethiopia, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

CFP: Early Modern Material Culture of War and Emergency (London/Oxford, 19-20 April 2023), Deadline: 15 January 2023

The Material Culture of War and Emergency in the Early Modern World Conference and Graduate Student Workshop.

War was a pervasive part of early modern life. People experienced war as agents of conflict, impotent witnesses of its destructive forces, and as victims of its economic, social, and material consequences. Such events of conflict and emergency have been approached primarily through text, which has tended to focus historical narratives on the physical destruction wrought on the early modern world. But what if we were to see states of war and emergency also as periods of creation, in which new object types, new collections, new modes of commemorating, visualizing, and material thinking were produced? While material culture studies has been recognised elsewhere as an important window into the everyday, emotional and interior lives of historical actors, the absence of object-based studies of early modern war is a notable omission.

This two-part event seeks to bring together scholars from all fields whose research can re-evaluate the way we view the relationships between conflict and the object world in the early modern period and help explore how processes of destruction could establish new spaces in which material production and consumption might take root. As well as thinking about creation, the conference will consider how war reconfigured the trajectories of existing objects as their biographies became entangled with unfolding events. We are particularly interested in research that moves beyond the more traditional objects of crisis and warfare, such as arms and plunder, and expands the notion of what an object of war might be, looking particularly at the everyday artifacts whose meaning came to be shaped by events of conflict.

The overall purpose of discussion is to focus on how the material approach might bring new insight to the experience of early modern warfare: How were individuals’ experiences of conflict shaped by their material interactions? How did they navigate the extremes of warfare, both during and after conflict, through objects? In what ways did objects’ proximity to and intimacy with conflict determine the value placed upon them by contemporaries? How did encounters with destruction shape the afterlife of objects of war? In addition to this focus on martial conflict, consideration of states of emergency more generally—events of destruction by fire, flood, or other natural disaster, or confessional, political, and social upheaval—can also shed light on the broader discussion and we thus encourage their inclusion.

Papers might consider, but do not have to be limited to:
– Soldiers as artists and artisans
– The loss and migration of objects due to warfare and emergency
– The afterlives of objects associated with early modern war and other destructive events
– Ruins and rebuilding
– The material commemoration of conflict and catastrophe
– Preserving, collecting, and displaying objects of war and emergency

The event begins on 19 April with a Graduate Student Workshop at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies. It will be followed by a public lecture by Sigrun Haude (University of Cincinnati), author of Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (2021). The workshop is designed for early-stage doctoral students across disciplines to share research and discuss methodologies relevant to material and visual culture, particularly within contexts of war and emergency. Very welcome are those students who wish to gain greater experience incorporating visual and material culture into their research. Participants will each give very brief (max. 7-minute) presentations, which will be followed by an extended period for feedback and discussion with established historians and art historians.

The full-day conference at Oxford will be held on 20 April. We invite proposals for twenty-minute research talks that respond to the stated prompts. Contributions from scholars coming from History, Art History, Archaeology, Literature, and related disciplines welcome.

Participation at both events is encouraged but not expected.

Proposals for papers should be sent to Róisín Watson (roisin.watson@history.ox.ac.uk) & Allison Stielau (a.stielau@ucl.ac.uk) by 5 pm on 15 January 2023. Applicants to the conference should include paper title and abstract (no more than 250 words). Applicants to the workshop should indicate their interest in the topic and how participating would aid their doctoral research and briefly summarize the presentation they would give (no more than 150 words). Accepted speakers will be informed by 1 February.

A small number of bursaries for graduate students and early career scholars will be available. Please indicate your need in your application.

Organized with the generous support of: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL History of Art Past Imperfect Seminar, University of Oxford Faculty of History, The John Fell Fund at the University of Oxford, The Centre for early modern studies at the University of Oxford.

Image: The Sacking of Magdeburg 1631, Workshop of Matthäus Merlan, 1659, watercolour over engraving on paper

New Publication: ‘Il Breviario-Messale Di Salerno Del Museo Leone Di Vercelli. Una Nuova Fonte Per La Storia Dell’Arte, Della Cultura E Della Liturgia’, edited by Maddalena Vaccaro and Gionata Brusa

The extraordinary discovery of a Breviary-Missal at the Leone Museum in Vercelli has brought to
light the oldest known evidence of Salerno’s liturgy, which dates back to the years of Archbishop
Romualdo II Guarna (1153-1181). The manuscript joins a group of codices kept at the “San
Matteo” Diocesan Museum in Salerno, and provides many hitherto unpublished codicological,
musicological, and art-historical details. From the pages of the manuscript emerges the role of the
Beneventan, Ambrosian, and Norman traditions in relation to the customs of the Church of Salerno,
as well as new questions on the multifaceted medieval cultural context, in which written, spoken
and sung words were associated with the images and liturgical installations of the cathedral.

For a better understanding of the different issues, specialists from various disciplines engage in a
constructive dialogue to investigate the peculiarities of the Breviary-Missal, explore its
complexities, and retrace the multiple routes that connected Salerno to Rome, the Mediterranean
basin, and the heart of medieval Europe.

The volume is published in the series ‘Studi e ricerche di Storia dell’Arte’ by Laveglia & Carlone,
and forms an addition to the collection of Salerno manuscripts published in the same venue by
Giuseppa Z. Zanichelli, I codici miniati del Museo Diocesano “San Matteo” di Salerno, with a
contribution by Maddalena Vaccaro, 2019.

Battipaglia (Sa), Laveglia & Carlone 2022 (Studi e ricerche di Storia dell’Arte, 4) 542 pp., 46 tavole a colori, € 60,00.

For more information, visit the publisher’s website or email info@lavegliacarlone.it.

Conference: ‘New Translations and Indirect Reception of Ancient Greece (Texts and Images 1300-1560), 19-20 January 2023, Lille, France

The ERC AGRELITA team is delighted to present the programme of the workshops “New Translations and indirect Reception of Ancient Greece (Texts and Images, 1300-1560)”

Organization : Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (University of Lille, ALITHILA, ERC AGRELITA)

Location: Sciences Po Lille, France : Amphithéâtre La Boétie, niveau 0

PROGRAMME

Jeudi 19 janvier

-10h Accueil

-10h15 Introduction, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA)

Session 1 : Compilations historiques et géographiques

-10h30-10h55 Nolwenn Kerbastard (Université Paris Nanterre), « L’image de la Grèce antique dans Les hystoires et les croniques de Vincent abregiees (après 1328) »

-10h55-11h20 Valeria Russo (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « La première traduction française de la Genealogia deorum gentilium de Boccace : la réinvention du panthéon dans l’atelier d’Antoine Vérard »

-11h20-11h55 Silvère Menegaldo (Université de Tours), « La première traduction française de Diodore de Sicile dans la Chronique de Jacques de Brézé »

11h55-12h10 Discussion

Session 2 : Humanisme et traduction

-14h30-14h55 Jane Gilbert (University College de Londres), « La musique de l’ars nova : “traduction” de la culture “grecque” ou grécisante en France au xive siècle ? »

-14h55-15h20 Susanna Gambino Longo (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), « Vulgariser les œuvres grecques pour le prince : les traductions du grec en vernaculaire de la bibliothèque des ducs d’Este »

-15h20-15h35 Discussion

-15h35-15h50 Pause

-15h50-16h15 Laurence Boulègue (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), « De Ficin à Simon Silvius, le première translatio du Banquet grec en langue française »

-16h15-16h40 Alexia Dedieu (Université Grenoble Alpes), « Mémoire d’Euripide, mémoire de la Grèce : les premières traductions d’Euripide »

-16h40-17h Discussion

-17h15 Visite à la Bibliothèque Municipale de Lille. Ouverture par Jean-Jacques Vandewalle, Conservateur et Responsable du service Patrimoine, et Nathalie Pfister, Chargée de l’action culturelle et du fonds musical au service Patrimoine. Présentation par l’équipe ERC AGRELITA.

Vendredi 20 janvier

Session 3 : Humanisme et traduction

-9h-9h25 Daisy Delogu (Université de Chicago), « La traduction du livre d’Économiques dit d’Aristote, vers une biopolitique médiévale »

-9h25-9h50 Olivier Delsaux (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles), « Vulgariser la clergie grecque au seuil du xve siècle : Laurent de Premierfait, traducteur d’Aristote, Cicéron et Boccace »

-9h50-10h05 Discussion

-10h05-10h20 Pause

Session 4 : Texte-image

-10h20-10h45 Claudia Daniotti (Université de Warwick), « Murdering the King : Clytemnestra and the Death of Agamemnon in the Illuminated Manuscript Tradition of Laurent de Premierfait »

-10h45-11h10 Ilaria Molteni (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « Guido delle Colonne en France : Les traductions de l’Historia destructionis Troiae »

-11h10-11h35 Clarisse Evrard (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « D’Octovien de Saint-Gelais à Jean Pichore : stratégies de traductions visuelles des Épîtres d’Ovide »

-11h35-11h50 Discussion

Session 5 : Circulation et réception

-14h-14h25 Cléo Rager (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « Les traductions du grec dans la culture des élites municipales du royaume de France du XIVe au XVIe siècle »

-14h25-14h50 Hugo Bizzarri (Université de Fribourg), « Les destins de la fable ésopique “Les loups et les moutons” (ch. 217) dans l’Espagne du xve siècle »

-14h50-15h05 Discussion

-15h05-15h20 Pause

-15h20-15h45 Adele Di Lorenzo (EPHE), « Entre littérature, mythologie et histoire. La description de la Grèce dans les Annales omnium temporum de Pietro Ranzano, humaniste dominicain (1426-1492) »

-15h45-16h10 Alice Lamy (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), « La représentation de la nature dans la Grèce Ancienne de Platon chez Loys le Roy, traducteur du Timée (1551) : une culture riche des apports philosophiques et philologiques antiques, médiévaux et renaissants »

-16h10-16h30 Discussion et clôture

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AGRELITA project :
The Reception of Ancient Greece in Premodern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550) : how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities.

The AGRELITA project was launched on October 1st, 2021. It is a 5-year project (2021-2026), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 101018777).

For more information and to register for this in-person event, go to the AGRELITA website.

Online lecture: The Lonely Mountain: The Emergence of a ‘Hagiorite’ Identity on Medieval Mount Athos; by Zachary Chitwood, 24 January 2023, 12-1.30pm EST

The Mary Jaharis Center is pleased to announce its first lecture of 2023: The Lonely Mountain: The Emergence of a ‘Hagiorite’ Identity on Medieval Mount Athos. In this lecture, Dr. Zachary Chitwood, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, will discuss the emergence of a unique “Athonite” or “Hagiorite” identity on Mount Athos over the course of the Middle Ages.

In Late Antiquity most Byzantine authors identified sacred mountains through the lens of biblical history, especially the mountains associated with the life of Jesus (Mount of Olives, Mount Tabor) or the Prophet Moses (Mount Nebo, Mount Sinai). By the time of the emergence of communal monasticism on Mount Athos in the middle of the tenth century, Athos could be counted as one of several “Holy Mountains” that housed monastic confederations within the Byzantine Empire, most of which were in western Asia Minor. Yet by the end of the medieval period, the term “Holy Mountain” had strong associations with Athos.

The rich documentation of medieval Mount Athos allows the mapping of the development of a “Hagiorite” identity in a variety of different contexts. In this lecture, three strands of Athonite identity will be explored: 1) in a legal sense, with Mount Athos as a circumscribed monastic space with specific rights and privileges; 2) as a literary construct, as a place of longing and desire; 3) as a landmark within the sacred geography of the Orthodox world.

This lecture will take place live on Zoom, followed by a question and answer period. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.

Zachary Chitwood is a Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant MAMEMS “Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic, ca. 850-1550”. He has published on various aspects of Byzantine culture, including law, monasticism and interactions with the wider medieval world.

CFP: ‘Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages’, University of Bamburg, 3-4 May 2023, Deadline: 15 January 2023

The Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR), an international, interdisciplinary network investigating the intersections between medieval arts and rituals, invites proposals for 20-minute papers that address the role of rituals in the staging and performance of medieval gender roles. The conference, which will include scholars of different career stages, will be held at the premises of the University of Bamberg between the 3rd and 4th of May 2023.

The Middle Ages are generally regarded as an era in which symbolic communication played an important and extensive role in almost all areas of life. Medieval rituals are, as Gerhard Althoff has defined them, “longer sequences of actions whose processes are committed to patterns and create a performative impact; they cause what they show” (Rules and Rituals in Medieval Power Games, 2020: 9). Rituals serve the medieval need for producing religious, legal, power-consolidating, and magical acts in symbolic ways. They can be understood, according to Hannah Vollrath, as forms of multi-sensory communication that addresses the senses and feelings of participants. In short, rituals become perceptible through the senses that render them meaningful and powerful.

Medieval ritual research has so far focused on the role of rituals in the contexts of religion and power relations. It is obvious, however, that in the patriarchally organised and male dominated societies of the Middle Ages, rituals also played a significant role in the staging and performance of gender roles. Sharon T. Strocchia comes to the same conclusion when she observes “that ritual and gender offer valuable new ways to study power and systems of social relations,” while at the same time noting that the interactions of gender and ritual have so far remained “largely unexplored” (Funerals and the Politics of Gender, 1991: 155). Taking this into account, a closer examination of ritual as a possible form of solidification and confirmation of gender roles seems worthwhile.

Speakers of all medievalist disciplines are invited to use various textual and/or visual sources to explore the complicated intersections of sex, body and gender through the lens of medieval ritual. Of interest are topics such as the following:

gender-specific initiation rituals
ritualistic consolidations of male and female family roles
rituals of male- and female-dominated professions
male and female power relations
gender-specific burial practices
the role of women in religious and magical rituals
female agency and ritual art
ritual and gender transgression in iconography and beyond
rituals and pregnancy.

The language of the conference is English. Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief biographical note to michaela.poelzl@uni-bamberg.de by no later than 15 January 2023. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 2023.

NetMAR is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 951875. Learn more about the network at https://netmar.cy.

Hybrid Seminar: ‘The Education of a Christian Woman (1523) in the Construction of the Image of Female Power of Queen Mary I of England’, 24-25 January 2023, London & Zoom

Sponsored by Arte, Poder y Género Research Group, BritishSpanish Society, Instituto Cervantes and University College London, this international seminar takes place 24-25 January 2023, and celebrates the 500-year anniversary of the first publication of The Education of a Christian Woman. It will focus on its patron, author, and dedicatee as well as address its impact on the construction of the image of female power in Tudor England.

In 1523, De institutione feminae Christianae, the book’s first title, was published. The author was Spanish Humanist Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540) who at the time was also a Lecturer at Corpus Christi Col- lege in Oxford. The book was commissioned by his ‘only patron’, the Queen of England, Catherine of Spain, commonly known as Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536). It was written in Latin, the language of the New Learning movement it belongs to, and it focused on the three stages in which Vives divided a woman’s life: as a maiden, as a married woman and a matron, and as a widow. It was dedicated to Princess Mary Tudor future Queen Mary I (1516-1558). It was part of a wider curriculum that Queen Catherine designed for her daughter’s formal training as first ‘heiress apparent’ to receive a formal Renaissance education in England.

The book was an instant success throughout Europe with many reprints, and it became the most influential work of its kind in the Modern Age. The Education of a Christian Woman had an impact in the way that Mary I constructed her image of power as the first Queen Regnant in English history. Despite this, Queen Catherine’s role as intellectual and financial patron is often overlooked and the connections between the manual and Mary I’s trailblazing propaganda as the first woman to be educated to rule have yet to be explored.

This international seminar will focus both on visual arts and documentary evidence that deals with this important void in queenship historiography. Leading specialists in several fields will address topics like the Christian education of the daughters of Queen Isabella of Castile and the ties between the Spanish alliance and the construction of the image of female power in Tudor portraiture. Other important subjects will speak to Queen Mary I’s use of female recourses present in Vives’ work in the representations of the monarch as Queen Regnant, as ‘Mother of England’, and as married woman and queen consort of King Philip of Habsburg (1527-1598). Other experts will talk about Mary I’s role as first woman to exercise power and how this was translated after her reign. Another crucial topic that will be discussed is the growing historiographical trend that is bringing into the light Queen Mary I’s outstanding contributions in female rulership in Renaissance Europe.

To register for this free in-person / Zoom seminar, please send an email to artepoderygenero@um.es

Programme

24 January.

Location: Instituto Cervantes. 15-19 Devereux Ct, Temple, London.

5.00 pm – 5.45 pm (GMT)

Las mujeres cristianas en los intercambios de retratos entre la Monarquía Hispánica y la dinastía Tudor. Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. BritishSpanish Society Scholar.

(Presentada por Noelia García Pérez).

5.45 pm – 6.30 pm (GMT)

Mary I & the Art of Queenship.

Peter Stiffell. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Kent.

(Presented by Alexander Samson).

6.30 pm – 7.30 pm (GMT) ROUNDTABLE.

Educating the Eye: Gender, Power, and Representation in the Visual Arts in the Reign of Mary I.

The Pregnant Female Body in Early Modern English Royal and Elite Portraiture.
Karen Hearn.
Honorary Professor at Department of English Language and Literature in the University College London / Previously Curator of 16th & 17th Century British Art at the Tate Galleries.

Happily (N)Ever After: The Posthumous Role of Mary I and Philip II’s Marriage in Visual Remembrances of Mary’s Reign.
Johanna Strong. University of Winchester / Royal Studies Network. Like Mother, Like Daughter? Continuity and Innovation in the Crafting of Image of Mary I.

Aoife Stables. Master of Arts in Art History. Courtauld Institute of Art.

Participants
Patricia Manzano Rodríguez. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Durham / The Maius Workshop.

Irini Picolou. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Durham / Zurbaran Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art.

25 January.

Location: Common Ground, South Wing, University College London.

9.30 am – 10.15 am (GMT)

Before Vives. The Christian Education of the Daughters of Queen Isabella of Castile.
Melania Soler Moratón.
Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Valladolid / University of Murcia / Arte, Poder y Género Research Group / MEFER Project.

10.15 am – 11.00 pm (GMT)

Juan Luis Vives’ ‘Patronae Unicae’: Queen Catherine of Aragon and the Construction of the Image of Female Power in Tudor England.
Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. BritishSpanish Society Scholar / Arte, Poder y Género Research Group / MEFER Project.

11.00 am – 11.45 am (GMT)

Early Modern Women and the Archive.
Alexander Samson.
Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University College London.

11.45 pm – 1.45 pm (GMT) LUNCH

1.45 pm – 2.30 pm (GMT)

The Continued Instruction of Christian Women: Reprints of Vives.
Valerie Schutte.
Independent scholar.

2.30pm – 3.15 pm (GMT)

The Power of Networks and The Networks of Power: The Development and Cultivation of Female Friendship by Mary I, for both Personal Solace, and Political Capital.
Melita Thomas.
Doctoral Candidate at the University College London.

3.15 pm – 3.30 pm (GMT) COFFEE BREAK

3.30 pm – 4.30 pm (GMT) ROUNDTABLE

‘The Education of a Christian Woman’ in the Context of Queenly Education.
Elena (Ellie) Woodacre.
Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester / Royal Studies Network.