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Court Studies Virtual Scholarship Series Online, 26 May – 17 November 2022 The Society for Court Studies is proud to offer an engagement platform with the ‘Virtual Scholarship Series’, which is organised by the European branch. Currently, the online scholarship series consists of seminars, lectures, roundtable discussions, and interviews with scholars. The confirmed events for 2022 are: Thursday 26 May 2022: “Cultural Heritage, Museums and Academic Research – Perspectives from Court Studies” featuring Simon Thurley (National Heritage Lottery Fund, UK), António Nunes Pereira (Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua, S.A., Portugal) and Elizabeth den Hartog, (Leiden University, Netherlands). Through a roundtable discussion format, the seminar will explore the topic of ‘cultural heritage and court studies' by considering numerous points including (but not limited to): obstacles currently facing cultural heritage sites and organisations; issues scholars encounter working with cultural heritage; and opportunities and the future of cultural heritage and court studies. Thursday 15 September 2022: “Monarchy & Money. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Economics and Finances of Monarchical Rule” featuring Charlotte Backerra, Cathleen Sarti, Fatima Rhorchi, Torsten Riotte, Jonathan Spangler, and Lienhard Thaler. This round table will discuss economic, financial, and administrative aspects of monarchical rule. Understanding courts as households has transformed historiographical discussions of monarchical rule, power, and the role of the court within the realm. Scholars of medieval, early modern, and modern monarchies will present new ideas and directions within the field, and discuss with the audience. Thursday 20 October 2022: “Court Studies and the Archives” featuring Sean Cunningham (UK National Archives), Filippo de Vivo (University of Oxford, and other archivist and scholars (TBC). The roundtable will provide an opportunity for participants to share their experience of archives in the pursuit of court studies, as well as an opportunity for archival professionals to introduce the inner workings and organization of collections with the archives they represent, including highlighting material pertaining to specific courts. The aim of the roundtable is threefold: 1) to initiate a dialogue between academic scholars and archival professionals about the relationship between archives and field of court studies as a means of assessing past, present, and future research development; 2) to highlight the collections of specific public and private archives; and 3) to foster knowledge and research exchange between archives and scholars of court studies to support the development of doctoral, postdoctoral, and early career scholars. Thursday 17 November 2022: “Possessions of the Crown: A Material History of the British Court, 1688-1832” A Seminar presentation by Hannah Greig (University of York). All events are free to the public, but registration is essential: http://www.courtstudies.org/virtual-scholarship-series.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Material Culture of Magnificence in Early Modern Cities Session at RSA (San Juan, 9-11 March 2023) This session proposes to study the material culture of magnificence in early modern cities as a specific topic. Magnificentia, by its definition as a virtue, is very much concerned with the individual. By making appropriate expenditures to create grand works, the individual manifests his or her virtuousness, thus making it visible to a broader community. This manifestation occurs on multiple scales; in clothing, coachwork, tombs, city palaces, churches, as well as the design of urban space. Moreover, the virtue of magnificence necessarily requires an audience. This audience is needed to judge whether the expenditure is appropriate to the person, the object, and the circumstance in which it occurs, as well as to show admiration for the great works achieved. The session departs from the hypothesis that the urban environment creates specific opportunities, but also imposes proper conditions and restrictions on the performance of magnificence. The community for which the virtue is externalized in a city is not only diverse in socio-economic position, but also in political affiliation. The performance of magnificence thus inscribes itself in a complex moral, social and political world, and one that is particularly dense and intense in an urban environment. What preconditions does this create for the performance of magnificence? How richly can (or should) one live in an environment where power struggles, economical rivalries, and personal disputes operate on a daily basis? Moreover, the session specifically wishes to study how the material culture of magnificence functions in a daily context. The performance of magnificence in temporary events of social, political or religious importance, such as royal entries or religious ceremonies, has already been extensively studied. The particular nature of celebrations creates a temporal realm in which the virtue can be actualized, performed and recognized. But how does magnificence operate on an everyday basis? How does it function as a modus vivendi? And what traces does it leave in the material culture of the city? We invite proposals that study the material culture of magnificence in early modern cities, and this at multiple scales and from multiple disciplines. Authors can focus on a specific type of object (such as clothing, coachwork, tombs, buildings…) or on the patronage of a specific (type of) patron. We invite proposals that focus on cities in early modern England, the Low Countries and Italy in specific, but are also open for papers that focus on other geographical areas. Proposals can be sent to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 25 June 2022. The proposal should include a title, 150-word abstract, and one-paragraph biographical cv. The Annual Meeting of the RSA 2023 will take place in San Juan from 9-11 March 2023. This session is organized by Anne-Françoise Morel (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Nele De Raedt (UCLouvain, Belgium) and is sponsored by the European Architectural History Network. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MAT-REN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=MAT-REN&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/MAT-REN, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/