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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 5d

Check out the latest 'The Court Observer' blog post titled "Theirs For Ever: Marie Antoinette and The Hand Over Ceremony" by Elizabeth Jane Timms!

Read on to discover how Marie Antoinette officially became the Dauphine of France in May 1770.

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Theirs For Ever: Marie Antoinette and The Hand Over Ceremony

On 7 May 1770, the fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette, already Dauphine by proxy, approached an island near Kehl on the River Rhine in which she would be formally given to France. It represented the c...

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Oxford Court Studies @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 14d

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 14d

On 11 Oct FOUR members of SCS, including our President Prof Glenn Richardson, will be contributing to a study day titled 'Cardinal Wolsey, 1525-2025: Still the King's Cardinal?'at Oxford University Lifelong Learning (Rewley House)!

Register here 👉 lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/card...

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 16d

SCS seminar. A panel discussion on "New Directions in Royal Histories". Lauren Shaw (Celtic Harmony / University of Roehampton) on Tudor ancestral legacies

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 16d

SCS seminar. A panel discussion on "New Directions in Royal Histories". Holly Marsden (Historic Royal Palaces) on communication and desire between women at seventeen century English courts

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 16d

Panel discussion on "New Directions in Royal Histories". Misha Ewen (University of Sussex) on Black Subjects at early modern courts.

Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 16d

First autumn SCS seminar. A panel discussion on "New Directions in Royal Histories" with Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), Holly Marsden (Historic Royal Palaces), and Lauren Shaw (Celtic Harmony / University of Roehampton).

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 18d

Hopefully you have signed up for the panel discussion on Monday on "New Directions in Royal Histories"?

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 19d

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New Directions in Royal Histories (Panel Discussion)

Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), Holly Marsden (Historic Royal Palaces), and Lauren Shaw (Celtic Harmony / University of Roehampton)

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 19d

Holly Marsden (Historic Royal Palaces) – “ ‘I may have my belly full of discours with you’: Communication and Desire Between Women in the Seventeenth-Century English Courts” Lauren Shaw (Celtic Harmony / University of Roehampton) – “Tudor Ancestral Legacies and the 1518 Joust”

Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 19d

The first SCS seminar for the autumn will be a panel. Monday, September 22 · 6:45 - 8:45pm CEST you can rejoice in:

New Directions in Royal Histories (Panel)
Misha Ewen (University of Sussex) – “Black Subjects: Recovering Histories of Enslavement at the Early Modern Palaces”

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · 21d

TOMORROW SCS launches our 2025/26 VSS programme with the talk "Building the Presence of the Prince" by José Eloy Hortal Muñoz and Merlijn Hurx!

This session will explore the significance of royal buildings in the consolidation of a sovereign's power

Register below
courtstudies.org/events/virtu...

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Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social · 28d

If you missed @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social ‘s book launch today, don’t despair—for a limited time her excellent edition of Margaret Tudor’s holograph letters is free to download, such a fantastic resource for queenship/Tudor/Scottish history scholars! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Latest volume | Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series | Cambridge Core

Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Sep 8

👑📢 And check out our 2026 programme too! Come along to hear speakers talk about the truly global nature of court studies! See our website for more details on timings 👉 courtstudies.org/events/virtu...

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCS is excited to launch our Virtual Scholarship Series programme for 2025/26! Come along to hear about royal buildings, patronage, gardens, and more!

Here is a summary of our programme for 2025; stay tuned for 2026! See link below for dates and times - courtstudies.org/events/virtu...

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Aug 28

Across the pond, National Bow Tie Day is celebrated. Naturally the Society for Court Studies feel this should be marked with a royal trendsetter.

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Aug 22

Do you work on the Hispanic Middle Ages? If so, a CFP from the Society for Iberian Global Art on the theme "Women in Action: Women's Artistic Practices in the Hispanic Middle Ages".

A 500 word proposal is due 8 Sept. See the link below for more details!

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · Aug 5

1/📢 CALL FOR PAPERS
🎨👑 Women in Action: Women’s Artistic Practices in the Hispanic Middle Ages
📍 Madrid | 🗓️ Nov 12–14, 2025
🔗https://siga.spainculture.us/news/opportunities/conferences/women-in-action-womens-artistic-practices-in-the-hispanic-middle-ages/
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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Aug 13

1525 saw the Battle of Pavia, the height of the German Peasant's War, and the founding of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's Oxford College, today called Christ Church.

To commemorate this, until 22 Dec they are holding an exhibition "Imagining Wolsey: The Invention of an English Cardinal".

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

In Germany a church renovation has uncovered what appears to be the previously unknown grave of Julie von Voß, morganatic wife of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia. She died only 22 years old in 1789 and the King quickly replaced her in 1790. Quick rebound

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

Chicago in 2024, and is now an Ax:son Johnson Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

within the royal collection of jewels. She highlights interesting trans-national networks between England and the Low Countries, merchants and courts. Dr Hines received her PhD in History from the University of

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

SCS is happy to announce it has awarded the 2025 Early Career essay prize to Dr Elizabeth Hines.

Her essay, “How to Pawn the Crown Jewels” demonstrates how Charles I was able to use his networks with agents in the Dutch Republic to raise badly needed funds by pawning items

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Royal Studies @royalstudies.bsky.social · Jul 30

CfP related to Royal Studies for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026. Get your proposals in before the 25th September!

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Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social · Jul 28

Royal patronage could make an artist, but chasing after this could be a miserable existence hoping to grasp a mirage as elusive as smoke. OTD 1741, Vivaldi died in Vienna. He had moved hoping to capitalise on having met Emperor Charles VI, who then died destroying Vivaldi's hopes

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