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Germán Gamero Igea University of Valladolid.Department of Ancient and Medieval History (PhD Student) - Court Studies - Aristocracy and elites - Kingship
MA Ivo Raband Assistant Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland - Joyous Entries in the Spanish Netherlands in the 16th century (especially the Entries of Archduke Ernest of Austria into Brussels and Antwerp in 1594) - The production of Festival Books - Questions about space, performance and representation through such Entries - Discussing methods of how to evaluate those Entries through the printed books (texts and engravings) and other contemp. sources - Festivals and princely entries in general throughout the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in whole Europe
PhD student Francesca Barbieri Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) - XVIIIth century stage design in Milan; - XVIIIth century festivals and ceremonies in Milan (in particular from 1765 to 1796): wedding festivals, royal and civic festivals, state funerals, entries and funerals of bishops, religious events, outdoor magnificences; - XVIIIth century public performances in the streets of Milan.
Arnaud Rusch University of Liège (Be) & University of Grenoble (Fr) - festivals books during the first modern times - ceremonies for Princes of Holy Roman Empire - iconography of rituals PhD Student in History and Art History
Miss Pesala Bandara Previous MA Student at the University of Warwick - the festival culture of the Scottish court of Mary Queen of Scots - festival relationships between Italy and England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries - the court of Prince Henry Stuart
Miss Pesala Bandara Previous MA Student at the University of Warwick - the festival culture of the Scottish court of Mary Queen of Scots - festival relationships between Italy and England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries - the court of Prince Henry Stuart
PhD student Alessandra Mignatti Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano -XVIIIth century stage design in Milan; -Festivals and cerimonies in the eighteenth century Milan (in particular from 1739 to 1765): royal entries, state funerals, entries of archbishops, royal festivals, religious events, outdoor magnificences; -Public performaces in the streets of Milan.
Dr. Charles Burroughs State University of New York at Geneseo 15-18th c. visual culture
PhD candidate Emily Pegues National Gallery of Art and Courtauld 15th/16th c. ommegang in Burgundian Netherlands; crossbow confraternity shooting festivals
Dr. Tamara Morgenstern Independent scholar 16th and 17th century Naples, Sicily, and Venice processions and festivals
Professor David Davies UCL (retd.) 16th and 17th century Spain: Liturgy, Catafalques, Reception of Relics; Spanish Habsburg Portraits; Body Politic; Court Etiquette; Dynastic Propaganda. PLEASE USE POSTAL ADDRESS: 117, Turney Road, London SE21 7JB
Ms. ALFREDO CHAMORRO ESTEBAN Universitat de Barcelona 16th and 17th century catalonian festivals: Royal Entries, Jousts and Tournaments in Barcelona. A comparison between the barcelonian ceremonial and the ceremonial of the others Aragon Crown cities. The catalonian integration in the hispanic monarchy and the clash of their ceremonials in the royal festivities. Cultural History.
Dr. Kelly D. Cook University of Maryland 16th c. France; built environment
Esthy Kravitz-Lurie Lecturer and PhD student 16th c. Italian literature, Italian mythological painting in 16th-17th c.
Mr Giacomo Montanari Independent scholar 16th/17th century libraries and collectorship
Professor Noam Flinker University of Haifa 17th c. English literature; biblical influences
Dr. Abby Zanger Independent scholar 17th c. French imagery of festivals, entries, marriage, Spain-France
Dr. Carol Baxter Trinity College Dublin 17th century French history, history of early modern women
Aline Gallasch Hall University of Evora, Portugal 18th Century theatres, stage set scennaries, Opera Houses, Opera
Laura Fernandez Gonzalaz University of Edinburgh 3d Modelling of Early Modern Festival cities.
Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly University of Oxford All European court and civic festivals during the early modern period, but especially from 1500-1750.
Carol Barbour Independent Allegory, Fortuna, court festival books
Dr Monique Chatenet Centre Andre Chastel, CNRS, Paris Architecture et vie sociale, France, 1450-1650
H Murteira Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art History. Architacture and town planning in Early Modern Europe.
Aga Goda Cemare Open University, Lisbon Art History. History of the city. Dramatic arts, scenography, theatre, architecture.
Dr Silvia Ferreira University of Lisbon Art History. Lisbon before the Earthquake. Jesuit Festivities in Lisbon. Brotherhoods of the Jesuit Church of Saint Roch, Lisbon. Woodcarved retables, Lisbon, 1670-1720.
Dr Sabina de Cavi Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts, Brussels Art and Architecture, Spanish Naples
Dr Emanuela Vai CREMS, University of York - ICE, University of Cambridge Art, Architectural History and Musicology (14th-17th c.) primarily concentrating on the performative, material and aural dimensions of Renaissance.
Stefano Fogelberg Rota University of Stockholm Ballet de cour. Queen Christina of Sweden.
dr Cecilia Paredes Brussels university/ Architectural Heritage of Brussels Brussels Festival & Court ceremonies Renaissance tapestries
MR WILLIAM ALCOCK Independent study - former student at Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon Building on previous work on the ritualised application of Shakespearean scripts in village community theatre, current interest is in the extent of non-perceived liminality to be found in Welsh language eisteddfodau festivals, and the worth of the Welsh language in that setting.
Prof Judi Loach Cardiff University C17th French (mainly SE France) architecture, permanent & ephemeral, & related performances & publications; mainly civic & ecclesiastical, not court, festivals, hence allied research into publishing, Jesuits & (mainly provincial) education, emblems & numismatics.
Ms. Claire HOLDER University of Salford Carnival as a vehicle for social cohesion
Professor Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard Independent Scholar Carnival, the Carnivalesque, Convivial Humanism, Parody, Festivity, Comedy, Early Modern Europe, Art History, Cultural History
Mrs. Andréa Doré Universidade Federal do Paraná Cartography in early modern times; Iberian humanism
Dott.ssa Caterina Pagnini University of Florence Caterina Pagnini is contract professor for the teaching “History of dance and mime” in the three-year degree course in Disciplines of Arts, Music and Spectacle (DAMS) at the University of Florence - Faculty of Arts. From 2007 she is having a research grant at the University of Florence (Department of Medieval and Renaissance Studies) for two projects, first “The dance scene in the theater of the Old Regime” and then “The origins of theatrical dance: from the courtly society to the Florentine intermedio”. In 2002 he obtained his degree in Arts at the University of Florence, with a thesis in “History of the Theater and Spectacle” with the maximum votation 110/110 and Praise. In 2003, he won the admission to the Ph.D. in “History of the Spectacle at the University of Florence (XIX cycle, 2004-2006, tutor Sara Mamone), achieving the title of Doctor in 2007. Her scientific interests first focused on the spectacle in the Ancient Regime, the history of dance and the relationship between England and the Medici court in XVII century. As for her musical studies, in 1999 she obtained the Piano Degree at the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence, under the guide of prof. Marco Guerrini; she obtained a two year master in piano chamber (piano four hands) under M.o Bruno Canino’s guide. In piano duo she is actively involved in concerts and is specialized in live performances for the silent movies.
Sheila ffolliott George Mason University Catherine de' Medici; Women at Court
Dr. Matteo Casini University of Massachussetts, Boston Ceremonies and festivals in Renaissance and Baroque Venice and Florence; Youth companies in Renaissance Italy.
Professor Mia Rodriguez-Salgado LSE Charles V and Philip II: Politics, Arts, Courts etc.
Professor Anne-Françoise Morel KU Leuven Church consecrations
Dr Tracey Hill Bath Spa University Civic pageantry, especially the Lord Mayor's Show
Professor Barbara Wisch SUNY Cortland (Emerita) Confraternities, Spectacle, Rome
Professeur Paulette Choné Université de Bourgogne (Dijon) Cour de Lorraine (1480-1650) Emblématique Théorie politique et art éphémère
Ph.D. Stefano Fogelberg Rota Stockholm university Court Ballet in Sweden during the Swedish 'Stormaktstiden' (Great power era, ca. 1611-1718); courtly milieus and the formation of aristocratic ideals in literary and theatrical spheres
PhD Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen Danish National Art Library Court Culture, Early Modern Art and Architecture, Festivals, Pageants, Entries, Habsburgs, Ottomans, Northern European Prints and Drawings, Portraiture
Dr Annemarie Jordan Gschwend Centro de História de Além-Mar, Lisbon and Switzerland, Research Scholar Court Festivities and Ceremonial at the Renaissance Courts in Portugal, Spain, Austria and the Netherlands
Dr Zeynep Yelce Sabanci University, Istanbul Court Studies, Ritual Studies, Representations, Art and Power, Discourse Ottoman History,Sixteenth Century
Dr Trevisan Sara University of Warwick Court and civic festivals in early modern England, European Renaissance festivals, emblems, iconography, civic culture in London, 1590-1640, print and performance.
Gerrit Berenike Heiter Universities of Vienna and Paris X, Nanterre Court ballet, dance, theatre performance, commedia dell' arte.
Dr. Marie-Claude Canova-Green Goldsmiths, University of London Court ballets, entries and other forms of large-scale public spectacle.
DRa. Consuelo Gómez UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Madrid (Spain) Court culture and artistic relations across the spectacles in Modern Europe The traffic of cultural and artistic models across the spectacles in Modern Europe.
Oumelbanine Zhiri University of California, San Diego Court rituals embassies, gift giving
Dr Fabian Persson Linnaeus University, Sweden Court, ceremony, ritual, coronations, balls, nobility, aristocracy, duelling, patronage, royal power, royal residences
Dr Juliette G. Roding Universiteit Leiden, Faculty of Humaniora Cultural exchange between the Low Countries and the countries in the North Sea and Baltic Sea areas, 1550-1800 Architecture and Town Planning in the Netherlands and Europe, 1550 - present
Rachel Greenblatt Wesleyan University Cultural history-early modern Europe
Dr Ana Isabel Buescu University of Lisbon Cultural history; court culture; festivals; royal entries and funerals; biographical history; books and libraries.
Dr Mary Levkoff National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Professor Sebastiana Nobili Università di Bologna Dante and Boccaccio
Dr. Kristina Olson George Mason University Dante, Boccaccio
Ms Louise Carson University of Nottingham Doctoral thesis: The sugar banquet in early modern England Banqueting, masques and festivals at court and in the homes of the nobility in sixteenth century England Court architecture The uses of festivals and banquets in diplomatic exchange
Dr Razaq Raj Leeds Metropolitan University Dr Razaq Raj is an internationally renowned academic with over thirteen years higher education experience of teaching and research in UK, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany and China and South Korea. He is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and Financial Management and is a Visiting Professor at the Kedge Business School, France and University of Vitez, Bosnia. He has substantial external examining and curriculum development experience of both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in business events and tourism. He has published work on strategic management, economic and financial impacts, cultural festivals and sustainable tourism and religious tourism. He has both organised international conferences and delivered keynote speeches. He has published in a number of peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has published books on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management: An International Perspective (Cabi), Event Management: An integrated and practical approach (Sage) and Event Management and Sustainability (Cabi). He has recently published text on Cultural Tourism and 2nd edition of Event Management. He has substantial experience of developing international partnership in Germany and Middle East and also sits on a voluntary sector management boards. He is often sought out by news media for his views on international Terrorism and has been a guest on BBC and Sky News . He is founding co-editor of the Journal Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (with Dr Kevin Griffin) and on the editorial board of the Journal of Tourism Today, Asian Journal of Development Studies, Revista De Turism (Journal of Tourism) and reviewer on the Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management and Sustainable Tourism.
Julia Kotzur University of Aberdeen Early Modern Drama, Sacramentalism, Galenic Humours
Dr Genevieve Warwick University of Glasgow Early Modern European Art Festivals, Court Theatre and Church Ritual
Mr Jonathan Durham University of Warwick Early Modern French Literature (esp. seventeenth century theatre) Women's Theatre.
Ms Rachel Lynch Ashgate Publishing Ltd Early Modern Literature and History
Dr. John Adrian University of Virginia's College at Wise Early modern (primarily English) local and civic identity; civic pageantry; Renaissance visual culture
Gerit Quealy Independent scholar Early modern England, manuscripts
Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Colorado State University Early modern England-music; music and theology
Dr. Cristina Gonzalez Oklahoma State University Early modern Spain
Professor Gabriela Carrión Regis University Early modern Spain, theater, court politics
Professor Barbara Mujica Georgetown University Early modern Spain, theater, mysticism
Dr Tracey Hill Bath Spa University Early modern civic pageantry, especially the Lord Mayor's Show.
Dr. Anne Goldgar King’s College London Early modern cultural history; ritual
Professor Susan Cerasano Colgate University Early modern drama and theatre history
Ms Iara Dundas Duke University Early modern ephemeral art and architecture, especially as it relates to religious festivals and ceremonies; currently working on a dissertation which studies the ephemeral spectacles and celebrations created by the Jesuits in France, both for the order as well as for the monarchy.
Mr Jacek Zukowski University of Warsaw Early modern iconography of power; Polish court culture; representations of Vladislaus IV Vasa; occasional architecture in seventeenth-century Central Europe; crypto-portraits in religious art; relations between art, music and dance in the 16-18th century; early modern European dress.
Sara Jayne Steen Plymouth State University Early modern women
Ms. Francesca C. Howell The Open University, PhD student Ecology/environmental philosophy, philosophy, Italy, history, Paganism, ritual studies, religious studies, women's studies, world theatre, creative and non-fiction writing, metaphysics
Ms. Rebecca A. Mahmood Indiana University Elizabeth I; Elizabethan Age; Festivals in Renaissance/Early Modern England, France,Italy, and Spain
Rebecca A. Mahmood Independent Scholar Elizabethan England
Ms. Rebecca A. Mahmood Independent Scholar English Renaissance, especially the Elizabethan Age
Dr. Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby Memorial University of Newfoundland English humanism
Dr Antje Fehrmann Freie Universität Berlin English medieval and early modern art and architecture, medieval chantry chapels and tombs, art and performance, England and the continent, Ephemeral architecture and its description
Dr Michael Burden New College, University of Oxford English theatre masques 1660-1800; London Mayoral pageants in the 17th and 18th centuries; staging opera and spectacle in London before 1843.
PhD student Caroline Pirri Rutgers University Entertainments in England (1530-1630), masques, Jacobean and Caroline Lord Mayor's Shows, Catholic ceremony in England, emblem studies, theater of colonial conquest.
Dr. Tamar Cholcman Tel Aviv University Ephemeral Art in the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Dr Jenny Boulboullé Columbia University Ephemeral Arts, Technical Art History
Dr Jose Luis Colomer Centro de Estudios Europa Hispanica Exchange of Diplomatic Gifts between Madrid and other European Courts in the 17th Century.
Dr Aoife Granville University College Cork Festival & Music, Hunting the Wren, Christmas Calendar Customs and their influence in 21st Century, Liminality and Community Identity, Traditional & Popular Music
Dr Rebekka Kill Leeds Metropolitan University Festival Performance Festival environments Industry/Academic partnerships
Dr Rebekka Kill Leeds Metropolitan University Festival Performance Festival environments Industry/Academic partnerships
Mr. Ralph Dekoninck Université catholique de Louvain Festival culture in the early modern Southern Netherlands (Jesuit canonization festivals of 1622)
E Monin Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architcture et de Paysage de Lille Festivals
Dr. Mary Quinn University of New Mexico Festivals and celebrations of Hapsburg Empire, especially Madrid
Gaëlle Lafage Independent researcher Festivals and ceremonies in France (17th and 18th centuries)
Ph D Roberta Carpani Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano Festivals and ceremonies in Northern Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries; theatre and performing arts in Italy XVII- XVIII centuries
Dr. Madeleine Brook University of Oxford Festivals at the Saxon court in the 17th and 18th centuries. Depictions of the ruler in history, literature, art and media from the early modern period to the present.
Dr Alex Samson UCL Festivals in Spain; Lope de Vega
Dr. Mary Quinn University of New Mexico Festivals in the Spanish Hapsburg Empire (especially Spain, Italy, and the New World), theater and music.
Mrs. Inmaculada Rodriguez-Moya Universitat Jaume I Festivals in the Spanish Monarchy, Iconography, Emblematics, Iconography
Jessie Park University of Arizona Festivals of 16th-century Northern Europe; display of art; materials involved in production of festivals; spectatorship
Professor Bernardo J. Garcia Garcia University of Madrid Festivals. PALATIUM research project
Miss Ewa Kociszewska University of Warsaw Festivals; French Renaissance; Valois Kings; Catherine de Medicis; Henri III of France; Polish-French Festivals.
Mr Taylor Aucoin University of Bristol PhD Student Festive culture in medieval and early modern Britain and Europe more broadly; approaching seasonal festivals as multi-media for economic, social, political, and religious expression and communication across all levels of society. My research currently focuses on the history of British Shrovetide (Carnival) and the holiday’s related customs of feasting, drinking, sports, tournaments, dramatic performances, and rioting.
Prof Dr Dagmar Hannelore Eichberger University of Heidelberg, Institut für europäische Kunstgeschichte Festive entries in the Netherlands (15th-16th centruies) Habsburg collections (15th-17th centuries) Women patrons of the arts Margaret of Austria
Mary Young University of Texas, Dallas Florentine Festivals of the early 17th Century.
Dr. Deborah Krohn Bard Graduate Center Food history, book history, prints, art history
Dr. Molly Taylor-Poleskey Middle Tennessee State University Food history, court culture, festival culture, travel, women's history, cultural exchange, digital history
Mr Fabien Montcher CSIC (MADRID) ESR Versailles) Franco-Spanish Relations; History of Historiography; Royal historiographers and the politics of history in the context of Franco-Spanish interaction (1598-1635)
Dr. Melinda Gough McMaster University French court ballet, royal ceremonial, women's court performance
Dr Helen Green Open University German Civic Music of the 15th and 16th centuries. Court and Civic Music in England, 15th and 16th centuries Documentary Biography of G. F. Handel
Sara Smart University of Exeter German Court Culture of Early Modern Period, Brandenburg-Prussia
Dr. Miriam Kirch University of North Alabama German princely/patrician culture
Professor Raffaella Morselli University of Teramo Gonzaga court, XVI-XVII c.
Prof. Dr. Hortal Muñoz José Eloy Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Habsburg Netherlands Royal Households Ceremonial
Dr. Joaneath Spicer Walters Art Museum Habsburg festivals, Florence, Chambers of Wonders
Professeur Chantal Grell Universite de Versailles, St. Quentin Histoire intellectuelle 16th - 18th centuries; Histoire de l'histoire; histoire des cours.
Emily Peppers University of Edinburgh Historic Musical Instruments. Introduction of the viola da gamba into France in the 16th Century. Cultural influence and iconography. Musical instruments in Franch Festivals in the 16th Century.
Ms Melanie Zefferino ICON, AAH Historic techniques in visual and performing arts
Dr. Cecilia Asso Independent scholar History of Reformation
Anne Hilker Parsons The New School for Design History of architecture Early modern spectacle architecture Memory studies
Dr Pieter Martens Leuven University History of architecture, fortifications, siege warfare, in early modern Europe.
Professor Maria Ines Aliverti University of Pisa History of art and scenography. Festivals in Northern Italy and France in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Joe Chick University of Warwick History of ceremony, Medieval urban society, English Reformation
Dr. Lisa Skogh Victoria and Albert Museum History of collecting
Ms. Justine Walden Yale University History of religion, the state, Renaissance Italy, religious orders, popular culture
Professor Géza Pálffy Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Budapest History of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Central European Habsburg Monarchy from the 15th to the Beginning of the 18th Century, with the special regard to the history of the defence system against the Ottomans in Hungary and Croatia (16th-17th centuries), to the Habsburg-Hungarian, the Hungarian-Slovak and the Hungarian-Croatian relations, to the political, military and social history of Central Europe in the early modern age, to the history of Habsburg Court in Vienna/Prague, to the history of the Hungarian aristocracy and Hungarian coronation
Professor Salvatore Bottari University of Messina History of the Mediterranean countries in early modern age
Professor Timothy Kircher Guilford College Humanism
Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez University of Edinburgh Iberian Early Modern Festivals Festivals-House of Habsburg Philip II of Spain Urbanism and Festival Architecture
Alex Bremner University of Edinburgh Imperial ceremonial and pageantry. Art History.
Professor Claude Stuczynski Bar-Ilan University Inquisition; Triumphal entry of Philip III to Lisbon, 1619
Uta Dorothea Sauer Technical University, Dresden Interaction of opera and music at European Courts. Influence of the French court Ballet on the German Court. Culture in the 17th century.
Mr Richard Morris Trinity College, Cambridge Interested in the imagery of science and religion in early modern European festivals.
Tibor Martí Institute of History of the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences International relations of the Kingdom of Hungary in the early modern period, Hungarian-Habsburg relations in the 17th century with special regard to the Spanish Habsburgs. The personal networks of the Spanish ambassadors in Central Europe in the 17th century.
Miss Alejandra Franganillo Alvarez Universidad Complutense de Madrid Isobel of Bourbon's Court (elite power around the Queen's Royal House)
Dr. Valerie Taylor Pasadena City College Italian Courts, Renaissance design, digital humanities, Americas: Mexico and Peru Pre-Columbian-Colonial
Dr Francesca Bortoletti University of Minnesota Italian Renaissance literature, Theater and arts Pastoral poetry and drama Memory and history
Dr. Carl Brandon Strehlke Philadelphia Museum of Art Italian Renaissance; Crown of Aragon
Prof. Lucia Nuti Università di Pisa/Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti Italian urban history and urban transformations; topographical maps and urban imagery; art and cartography; travel literature;cities and festivals.
Dr Trevisan Sara Brunel University Jacobean and Caroline masques; Lord Mayor's Shows; European court festivals; renaissance iconography; renaissance rhetoric; poetry and the visual arts; emblems.
PhD student Rosa De Marco University of Burgundy (Université de Bourgogne) Jesuit Festival culture in France (C 16th-17th); Ephemeral "apparati"; Illusionistic ceiling painting;Emblem tradition; Arts of memory; History of french and italian Art and iconography (mainly 15th-17th century);
Professor Noel Fallows University of Georgia Jousts and Tournaments; Medieval and Renaissance Iberian festivals, especially those with martial arts activities.
PhD.urb. Andreea Popa University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu Bucharest- Faculty of Urban Planning Landscape and environmental issues, Cultural and Natural Heritage, Urban development
Dr Yamit Rachman-Schrire Hebrew University of Jerusalem Late medieval devotional culture, inter-cultural and artistic exchanges across the Mediterranean
Alessandro Arcangeli University of Verona Leisure and recreations, dance, cultural history methods and historiography
Miss Emma Kennedy University of York London Lord Mayors' Shows; Jacobean court masques; civic pageantry in general; seventeenth-century drama.
Lucinda H. S. Clarke University of Stirling Louis XiV Scottish Kings, 14th - early 17th Century -- continuity and change. Funerals, coronations, Parliament openings, Royal entries
Dr. Ken Kurihara Union Theological Seminary Lutheran culture; German court culture (16-17thc.)
Maria Jaoa Pereira Coutinho University of Lisbon Marble inlay in the Baroque. Lisbon before the earthquake. Jesuit Churches of Lisbon and their Festivities. Lisbon in Festival.
Professor James Fitzmaurice Northern Arizona University Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare, early women writers
Dr Alexander Samson UCL Marian England's festival culture, Habsburg festival and Digital Humanities.
Dr. Carla Darista Medici Archive Project Medici festivals
Professor Christian Frost School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University Medieval architecture and festival/processions Florence festivals Architecture, Festival, and the City
Professor Iain Alexander Fenlon King's College, Univ. of Cambridge Music and Spectacle in Italy in the 16th and 17th cneturies.
Professor Iain Fenlon University of Cambridge Music and festival in early modern Italy
Phd candidate Jennifer Halton National University of Ireland, Maynooth Music and space in early 16th century Florence (particularly the music for the wedding of Cosimo I and Eleonora of Toledo in 1539); Performace Iconography; aural architecture of the Palazzo Medici; reconstructing courtly spaces and their ceremonies
Dr Peter Bennett Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Music, liturgy and ceremonial in Early Modern France
Dr Peter Bennett Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Music, liturgy and ceremonial in Early Modern France
Dr. Anna Tedesco Universita`di Palermo Music; Opera; Stage design; Festival; Patronage
Nathan Reeves Northwestern University Musicology; Early modern Naples; Sound and urban space; Festivals as civic ritual; Early modern phenomenologies of listening; Sound studies; Spectacle and ephemerality
PhD Simone Bardazzi Università di Firenze My main field of interest is Theatre and italian actors in the Habsbourg area between XV-XVIII Centuries. I'm interested in festival cycles at the Imperial Court.
Dr Emanuel Buttigieg Dept of History, University of Malta My main, broad area of research is the history of the military-religious Order of St John the Baptist, better known as the Knights of Malta. In studying this particular organisation, I endeavour to always place it in a wider historical context and a broader historiographical framework. Hence, in my first book I approached the subject from three angles, that of nobility, faith and masculinity. I am now interested in understanding the dynamics of a military-religious order running an archipelago as its sovereign territory, and within that formula, I am particularly interested in how rituals formed a key element in the political set-up of the island order state of early modern Malta.
Dr. Jennifer Mara DeSilva Ball State University My research explores the construction of identity -- individual, group, and family -- through ritual, office-holding, and other means. Chiefly my work explores how these issues appear in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy, and especially at the papal court in Rome.
Dr. Dénes HARAI Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour Natural elements, animals, and architecture in the representations of political power in Early Modern Europe
Ida Mauro Universitat de Barcelona Neapolitan festivals in the XVII century, viceroyal courts in the Hispanic Monarchy, festive communication
Dr Macarena Moralejo University of Cordoba, Spain Nuevas noticias aceria del matrimonio entre Bianca Capello and Francesco de Medici (1579)
Dr. Douglas Iain Clark University of Sussex Pageantry, early modern festivity
Professor Diane Cole Ahl Lafayette College Painting in Italy, confraternity studies
Elizabeth McCahill University of Massachusetts Boston Papal ceremonial - 15th and 16th c.
Catalina Vicens Leiden University Performance culture in 16th century Italy
PhD Mårten Snickare Dept of Art History, Stockholm University Performative approaches to early modern festival. Interplay between bodily movement and architectural space. Postcolonial theory, questions of the Other in early modern culture. The concepts of Baroque and Neo-Baroque.
Tania Lévy Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France Ph.D. candidate in art history about painters of Lyons 1460-1530. My work aims to explore artistic production of painters and particularly the royal entries and festivals held in the city. Between 1460 and 1530, there were 22 entries of kings, queens, archbishops, princes, dukes... and many painters, sculptors were involved in pageantries and decoration.
Miss Elisa Garcia Prieto Universidad Complutense de Madrid Philip II's Court: Nobility and Royalty
Dr. Francesca C. Howell The Open University, PhD student Place and religion; sense of place; festivals in Europe, UK and America; Italian studies (PhD fieldwork was in Italy); ancient sacred sites and related festivals; Paganism; indigenous sites and festivals.
Ms. Olenka Horbatsch University of Toronto Printmaking, print culture, Netherlandish history
Lia Markey Metropolitan Museum of Art Prints, drawings, festivals, ephemera
Lia Markey Metropolitan Museum of Art Prints, drawings, festivals, ephemera
Joao Castel-branco Pereira University of Lisbon Processional Coaches and Festivals Curator (1976-87) and Director (from 1998), Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Libon.
Miss Lynda Lockyer Warburg Institute Propaganda and polimics in the early sixteenth century, particularly beetween Charles V, Francis I and Clement VII.
Ms. Jane Lawson Emory University Queen Elizabeth I, New Year's gift exchange, court personnel
Dr. Mirzam Cristina Perez Grinnell College Relacion de fiestas Religion and faith in early modern spanish theater Mapping sacred spaces Virgin Mary and Immaculate Conception
Cecilia Nocilli Universidad de Valladolid Relationships between Spain and the Holy Roman Empire from the 15th to the 17th centuries, music and drama.
Dr. Ivica Zizic Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo Roma Religious feasts and modernity
Professor Nicholas Temple University of Huddersfield, School of Art, Design and Architecture Renaissance Architecture, Topography, Urbanism and Ceremony (esp. Rome), Late Antique and Early Christian Architecture and Ritual, Theories and History of Perspective, Architecture and Linguistics from the Renaissance to the 18th century, The Reception of the Orient in Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Art Nouveau and the 19th century European City, Contemporary Architectural Practice
Professor Sydney Anglo University of Wales (Emeritus) Renaissance Chivalry Court Festivities
Professor Richard Cooper Brasenose College, Oxford Renaissance French and Italian triumphal entries and other court festivals and banquets.
Professor Frederick Kiefer University of Arizona Renaissance drama
Assistant Professor of English J. Caitlin Finlayson University of Michigan-Dearborn Renaissance drama and pageantry; London Lord Mayor's Shows; Thomas Heywood; John Taylor; book history and print culture. I'm currently completing an edition of The Pageants of Thomas Nelson, John Squire and John Taylor for the Malone Society, forthcoming in 2015.
Dr Francesca Bortoletti CEMH University of Minnesota Renaissance festivals Italian Renaissance Theater and literature Performing memory
Dr. Mary Gallucci University of Connecticut Renaissance, Medici, nuptial celebrations, ephemeral architecture
Professor Michael Parker U.S. Naval Academy Rituals of death and dying; English Renaissance literature
Professor Paul Gwynne The American University of Rome Rome 1400-1600
Professor Mirka Beneš University of Texas at Austin Rome 1500-1700; France 1500-1700; history of art, architecture, gardens
Theresa Powell Memorial University of Newfoundland Royal entries, printed pamphlets, media studies, mass communication
Federica Rossi Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa Russian and european theatre in 18th Century.
Ms. Leila Zammar Loyola University of Chicago Scenography of 17th century in Italy and Europe
Dr Sally Rush University of Glasgow Scottish Royal Palaces and the Court of James V.
Assistant Professor John Hunt Utah Valley University Sede vacante, courtly violence, ritual and ceremony, rumor
Dr. Taryn Marie Zarrillo Columbia University Seicento Venice, art history, cultural history