‘Renaissance Royal Weddings & Cultural Production’ Conference

26 April 09:30 to 27 April 13:00
The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities and St Anne's College, Oxford.
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The conference ‘Renaissance Royal Weddings & Cultural Production’ seeks to reconsider cultural output for/about royal weddings which took place between c.1400 and c. 1600, as an important source for contemporary thought about monarchy and ruling families/dynasties. It will study the royal wedding as a nexus of ideas, texts, objects and performances about the Crown and will ask how the Renaissance itself affected the culture of royal weddings, with its classicising, Italianate focus.

To register for the conference, please visit the University of Oxford's online store here. 

Conference Programme

 

Thursday 26th April

Seminar Room, The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH), Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG

09.30 Opening Comments, Dr Natalia Nowakowska

Panel 1 Literature - Crossings

09.35 – 09.55 Ágnes Máté (MTA, Budapest) ‘The Royal Weddings of Beatrice of Aragon (1474) & Isabella Jagiellon (1539) compared’

09.55 – 10.15 Tomislav Matic (Catholic University of Croatia) ‘The Roles of Croats & Dalmatians in the Wedding of Vladislaus II and Anne de Foix (1502)’

10.15 – 10.35 Patrik Pastrnak (Olomouc) ‘Bona Sforza’s Bridal Journey to Poland as the Imaginary Travelling’ 

10.35 – 10.50 Discussion

10.50 – 11.20 Coffee

Panel 2 Literature - Epithalamia

11.20 – 11.40 Marion Rutz (Passau) ‘Demonstrations of loyalty? Four epithalamia on the wedding of Zygmunt I and Barbara Zapolya in 1512’

11.40 – 12.00 Ursula Zachara-Związek (Warsaw) ‘Images of the Jagiellonians & Habsburgs in the occasional literature on Sigismund Augustus’ weddings with Habsburg princesses.’

12.00 – 12.20 Jakub Niedźwiedź (Krakow) ‘The Jagiellonian Epithalamia & New Geographical Knowledge’ 

12.20 – 12.45 Discussion

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Panel 3 Objects

14.00 – 14.20 Louise Berglund (Uppsala) ‘The Trousseau of Philippa of England, wife of Eric of Pomerania, 1406’

14.20 – 14.40 Susanna Niiranen (Jyvaskyla) ‘Catherine Jagiellon’s (d.1583) trousseau: the fork as a symbol of Renaissance civilisation in Scandinavia’

14.40 – 15.00 Sylva Dobalova (Prague) ‘Secret and official weddings in the visual memory of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (d.1595): Prague & Innsbruck’

15.00 – 15.15 Discussion

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee/Tea

Panel 4 Performance - Ceremony

15.45 – 16.05 Katarzyna Kosior (Durham) ‘First meetings of early modern royal spouses in France & Poland’

16.05 – 16.25 N. Zeynep Yelçe (Istanbul) ‘A political statement: the wedding festival of Ibrahim Pasha in 1524’

16.25 – 16.45 Discussion

19.00 Conference Dinner

Friday 27th April

St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS

Panel 5 Performance - Music, Festival, Tournament

09.15 – 09.35 Felicia M. Else (Gettysburg College) ‘Water-related imagery in Medici Weddings: Dialogues of Art, Cultural Production & Festivals’

09.35 – 09.55 Alex Robinson (ParisSorbonne) ‘Hebe & Hercules conjoined: music and politics in the French celebrations marking the marriage of Maria de’ Medici and Henri IV (1600)’

09.55 – 10.15 Fabian Persson (Linneaus University) ‘Running rings around dynastic hierarchy: tournaments at early modern Swedish royal weddings’

10.15 – 10.30 Discussion

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee

Panel 6 Non-weddings - Dispute, Disaster, Absence

11.00 – 11.20 Giedrė Mickūnaitė (Vilnius) ‘Cultural denial in practice: Helena of Muscovy & Alexander Jagiellon (1495)’

11.20 – 11.40 Marian Coman (Bucharest) ‘A Royal Wedding and a Wife for Heracles Moldavia, 1560s’

11.40 – 12.00 Pavel Kalina (Prague) ‘An eloquent silence: Bohemian Estates and the Wedding of Ladislaus Jagiellon with Anne de Foix in 1502’ 

12.00 – 12.30 Discussion and closing comments

13.00 Lunch and conference closes

 

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A Renaissance Royal Wedding

2018 marks the 500th anniversary of the wedding of the Milanese-Neapolitan princess Bona Sforza and King Sigismund I of Poland.  It was one of the most celebrated and internationally significant weddings seen in Renaissance Central Europe. The ERC-funded Jagiellonians project, directed by Dr Natalia Nowakowska, is supporting a programme of events to explore new thinking around this key union, its influence and its remembrance.