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Roberta Carpani Università Cattolica di Milano Theatre and performing arts in the 17th and 18th centuries; the festival culture in Northern Italy (Milan and Lombardy): wedding festivals, religious events, royal entries
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.
Cox Lindsey University of Kent portrait miniatures; Tudor and Stuart England; early modern material culture; British art history; references to and uses of portrait miniatures within performances.
Rebecca A. Mahmood Independent Scholar Elizabethan England
Jessie Park University of Arizona Festivals of 16th-century Northern Europe; display of art; materials involved in production of festivals; spectatorship
Julia Kotzur University of Aberdeen Early Modern Drama, Sacramentalism, Galenic Humours
Sara Smart University of Exeter German Court Culture of Early Modern Period, Brandenburg-Prussia
Sheila ffolliott George Mason University Catherine de' Medici; Women at Court
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
Catalina Vicens Leiden University Performance culture in 16th century Italy
Gerit Quealy Independent scholar Early modern England, manuscripts
Oumelbanine Zhiri University of California, San Diego Court rituals embassies, gift giving
Rachel Greenblatt Wesleyan University Cultural history-early modern Europe
Theresa Powell Memorial University of Newfoundland Royal entries, printed pamphlets, media studies, mass communication
Lia Markey Metropolitan Museum of Art Prints, drawings, festivals, ephemera
Lia Markey Metropolitan Museum of Art Prints, drawings, festivals, ephemera
Esthy Kravitz-Lurie Lecturer and PhD student 16th c. Italian literature, Italian mythological painting in 16th-17th c.
Elizabeth McCahill University of Massachusetts Boston Papal ceremonial - 15th and 16th c.
Sara Jayne Steen Plymouth State University Early modern women
Alessandro Arcangeli University of Verona Leisure and recreations, dance, cultural history methods and historiography
Carol Barbour Independent Allegory, Fortuna, court festival books
helene otto università degli studi di verona anthropology european triumphans early modern history
helene otto università degli studi di verona antropology european triumphans early modern history
Gaëlle Lafage Independent researcher Festivals and ceremonies in France (17th and 18th centuries)
Joe Chick University of Warwick History of ceremony, Medieval urban society, English Reformation
Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez University of Edinburgh Iberian Early Modern Festivals Festivals-House of Habsburg Philip II of Spain Urbanism and Festival Architecture
E Monin Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architcture et de Paysage de Lille Festivals
Mary Young University of Texas, Dallas Florentine Festivals of the early 17th Century.
Alejandra Osorio Wellesley College, Mass Spanish Habsburg Festivals
Lucinda H. S. Clarke University of Stirling Louis XiV Scottish Kings, 14th - early 17th Century -- continuity and change. Funerals, coronations, Parliament openings, Royal entries
Alice 77 University of Liverpool Spanish Inquisition in 17th-century Sardinia University Archives in Spain and Italy Atlantic history of Iberian worlds (Spain and New Spain)
Linda A. Briggs University of Warwick The Royal Tour of France 1564-66: visual and aural representations of the authority of Charles IX
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.
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.
Joao Castel-branco Pereira University of Lisbon Processional Coaches and Festivals Curator (1976-87) and Director (from 1998), Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Libon.
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.
Laura Fernandez Gonzalaz University of Edinburgh 3d Modelling of Early Modern Festival cities.
Alex Bremner University of Edinburgh Imperial ceremonial and pageantry. Art History.
Stefano Fogelberg Rota University of Stockholm Ballet de cour. Queen Christina of Sweden.
Cecilia Nocilli Universidad de Valladolid Relationships between Spain and the Holy Roman Empire from the 15th to the 17th centuries, music and drama.
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.
Gerrit Berenike Heiter Universities of Vienna and Paris X, Nanterre Court ballet, dance, theatre performance, commedia dell' arte.
John Hoenig Independent Scholar The work of Bernardo Buontalenti (1531-1608) for the Medici in Florence. Renaissance architecture and theatre design. Theatrical and ephemeral event design and production. Website: www.johnhoenig.com
Felicia Else Gettysburg College the impact of water on art, geography, science and politics in the age of Cosimo I de' Medici; public sculpture and fountains in Renaissance and Mannerist Italy; Ammannati's Neptune Fountain in Florence; marble quarrying and transportation in 16th century
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
Federica Rossi Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa Russian and european theatre in 18th Century.
Aline Gallasch Hall University of Evora, Portugal 18th Century theatres, stage set scennaries, Opera Houses, Opera
Steven Thiry University of Antwerp regal heraldry; royal symbolism; political emblematics; elites and court culture
Germán Gamero Igea University of Valladolid.Department of Ancient and Medieval History (PhD Student) - Court Studies - Aristocracy and elites - Kingship
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.
Anne Hilker Parsons The New School for Design History of architecture Early modern spectacle architecture Memory studies
Martina Frank Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy Venetian Art and Architecture of the Baroque The Galli Bibiena Workshop in Vienna Baroque Palaces, Villas and Gardens: Venice in the European Context
Ida Mauro Universitat de Barcelona Neapolitan festivals in the XVII century, viceroyal courts in the Hispanic Monarchy, festive communication
Assistant Professor John Hunt Utah Valley University Sede vacante, courtly violence, ritual and ceremony, rumor
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.
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.
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.
Dr Francesca Bortoletti University of Minnesota Italian Renaissance literature, Theater and arts Pastoral poetry and drama Memory and history
Dr Fabian Persson Linnaeus University, Sweden Court, ceremony, ritual, coronations, balls, nobility, aristocracy, duelling, patronage, royal power, royal residences
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.
Dr Francesca Bortoletti CEMH University of Minnesota Renaissance festivals Italian Renaissance Theater and literature Performing memory
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 Félix Labrador Arroyo Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) court, household, etiquette and royal ceremonials, Portugal, queens
Dr Jenny Boulboullé Columbia University Ephemeral Arts, Technical Art History
Dr Arthur Blumenthal Cornell Fine Arts Museum Theater Art of the Medici, etc.
Dr Yamit Rachman-Schrire Hebrew University of Jerusalem Late medieval devotional culture, inter-cultural and artistic exchanges across the Mediterranean
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 Dagmar Motycka Weston University of Edinburgh The urban public realm the city and theatre contemporary architecture, city and culture Surrealism and architecture
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.
Dr Alexander Samson UCL Marian England's festival culture, Habsburg festival and Digital Humanities.
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.
Dr Pieter Martens Leuven University History of architecture, fortifications, siege warfare, in early modern Europe.
Dr Leon Lock The Low Countries Sculpture Society main interest in Low Countries sculpture and architecture, including temporary structures for festivals
Dr Andrea Lausi festival wunderkammer artistic director of the early music festival Wunderkammer (Trieste, Italy)
Dr Ida Mauro Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona doctoral dissertation: 'Feste e creazione artistica a Napoli attraverso la "notitia" di Andrea Rubino (1648 - 1669)'
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
Dr Gabriel Guarino University of Ulster Spanish Festivals in 17th-century Naples.
Dr Sabina de Cavi Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts, Brussels Art and Architecture, Spanish Naples
Dr Genevieve Warwick University of Glasgow Early Modern European Art Festivals, Court Theatre and Church Ritual
Dr Macarena Moralejo University of Cordoba, Spain Nuevas noticias aceria del matrimonio entre Bianca Capello and Francesco de Medici (1579)
Dr Sally Rush University of Glasgow Scottish Royal Palaces and the Court of James V.
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 Ana Isabel Buescu University of Lisbon Cultural history; court culture; festivals; royal entries and funerals; biographical history; books and libraries.
Dr Alex Samson UCL Festivals in Spain; Lope de Vega
Dr Zeynep Yelce Sabanci University, Istanbul Court Studies, Ritual Studies, Representations, Art and Power, Discourse Ottoman History,Sixteenth Century
Dr Monique Chatenet Centre Andre Chastel, CNRS, Paris Architecture et vie sociale, France, 1450-1650
Dr Jose Luis Colomer Centro de Estudios Europa Hispanica Exchange of Diplomatic Gifts between Madrid and other European Courts in the 17th Century.
Dr Mary Levkoff National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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
Dr Minou Schraven University of Liege early modern funeral apparati early modern papal ceremonies foundation ceremonies
Dr Nadine Akkerman Leiden University masques
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.
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 Tracey Hill Bath Spa University Civic pageantry, especially the Lord Mayor's Show
Dr Tracey Hill Bath Spa University Early modern civic pageantry, especially the Lord Mayor's Show.
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
Dr Elaine Tierney Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum c17th and c18th urban festival, with special reference to activities in London and Paris
Dr Derval Conroy University College Dublin Seventeenth-century French entry books; French queens' royal entries; festival books of Louis XIV's reign.
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 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 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.
Dr. Tamar Cholcman Tel Aviv University Ephemeral Art in the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Dr. Luis X. Morera Baylor University Spanish and Portuguese Royal entries; Civic ceremonies of all sorts; ceremonial devices (canopies and arches); the economic and logistical aspects of organizing ceremonies; jousts and tournaments; bullfights and the running of bulls; music and dance used during; archival sources for researching Iberian festivals.
Dr. Ivica Zizic Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo Roma Religious feasts and modernity
Dr. Guendalina Ajello Mahler UCLA - Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies The Italian festive tradition, especially festive ephemera and banquets
Dr. Mary Quinn University of New Mexico Festivals in the Spanish Hapsburg Empire (especially Spain, Italy, and the New World), theater and music.
Dr. Jean-Dominique Delle Luche Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Shooting contests and shooting societies, lotteries, horse races Holy Roman Empire, Swiss Confederacy, Free and Imperial Cities, Württemberg, Saxony Festival literature 15th and 16th centuries
Dr. Mary Gallucci University of Connecticut Renaissance, Medici, nuptial celebrations, ephemeral architecture
Dr. Nhora Serrano Hamilton College Visual studies; Granada, 1492; Iberian
Dr. Molly Taylor-Poleskey Middle Tennessee State University Food history, court culture, festival culture, travel, women's history, cultural exchange, digital history
Dr. John Adrian University of Virginia's College at Wise Early modern (primarily English) local and civic identity; civic pageantry; Renaissance visual culture
Dr. Valerie Taylor Pasadena City College Italian Courts, Renaissance design, digital humanities, Americas: Mexico and Peru Pre-Columbian-Colonial
Dr. Donald Beecher Carleton University Theatre and production, music
Dr. Carla Darista Medici Archive Project Medici festivals
Dr. Mary Quinn University of New Mexico Festivals and celebrations of Hapsburg Empire, especially Madrid
Dr. Cecilia Asso Independent scholar History of Reformation
Dr. Abby Zanger Independent scholar 17th c. French imagery of festivals, entries, marriage, Spain-France
Dr. Douglas Iain Clark University of Sussex Pageantry, early modern festivity
Dr. Carl Brandon Strehlke Philadelphia Museum of Art Italian Renaissance; Crown of Aragon
Dr. Kristina Olson George Mason University Dante, Boccaccio
Dr. Taryn Marie Zarrillo Columbia University Seicento Venice, art history, cultural history
Dr. Tamara Morgenstern Independent scholar 16th and 17th century Naples, Sicily, and Venice processions and festivals
Dr. Carol Baxter Trinity College Dublin 17th century French history, history of early modern women
Dr. Ken Kurihara Union Theological Seminary Lutheran culture; German court culture (16-17thc.)
Dr. Charles Burroughs State University of New York at Geneseo 15-18th c. visual culture
Dr. Anne Goldgar King’s College London Early modern cultural history; ritual
Dr. Melinda Gough McMaster University French court ballet, royal ceremonial, women's court performance
Dr. Cristina Gonzalez Oklahoma State University Early modern Spain
Dr. Thomas Izbicki Rutgers University The papacy and its ceremonies
Dr. Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby Memorial University of Newfoundland English humanism
Dr. Deborah Krohn Bard Graduate Center Food history, book history, prints, art history
Dr. Joaneath Spicer Walters Art Museum Habsburg festivals, Florence, Chambers of Wonders
Dr. Lisa Skogh Victoria and Albert Museum History of collecting
Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Colorado State University Early modern England-music; music and theology
Dr. Kelly D. Cook University of Maryland 16th c. France; built environment
Dr. Christophe Brouard Independent Venetian Renaissance
Dr. Miriam Kirch University of North Alabama German princely/patrician culture
Dr. Matteo Casini University of Massachussetts, Boston Ceremonies and festivals in Renaissance and Baroque Venice and Florence; Youth companies in Renaissance Italy.
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
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. Mirzam Cristina Perez Grinnell College Relacion de fiestas Religion and faith in early modern spanish theater Mapping sacred spaces Virgin Mary and Immaculate Conception
Dr. Marie-Claude Canova-Green Goldsmiths, University of London Court ballets, entries and other forms of large-scale public spectacle.
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.
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. Anna Tedesco Universita`di Palermo Music; Opera; Stage design; Festival; Patronage
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
MA student Claire Wooldridge University of Warwick The festivals and rituals of early modern Italy, particularly those of Venice and Florence in the early sixteenth century. The communication culture of this period in general, specifically the relationship between festive and print culture. Also the calendar festivals of Reformation England.
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.
Miss Anastazja Maria Grudnicka University College London religious culture of the Habsburg imperial court; Habsburg festival tradition; early modern devotions and religious materiality; aural, visual, and material culture of the early modern court
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
Miss Alejandra Franganillo Alvarez Universidad Complutense de Madrid Isobel of Bourbon's Court (elite power around the Queen's Royal House)
Miss Elisa Garcia Prieto Universidad Complutense de Madrid Philip II's Court: Nobility and Royalty
Miss Ewa Kociszewska University of Warsaw Festivals; French Renaissance; Valois Kings; Catherine de Medicis; Henri III of France; Polish-French Festivals.
Miss Lynda Lockyer Warburg Institute Propaganda and polimics in the early sixteenth century, particularly beetween Charles V, Francis I and Clement VII.
Miss Emma Kennedy University of York London Lord Mayors' Shows; Jacobean court masques; civic pageantry in general; seventeenth-century drama.
Mr Giacomo Montanari Independent scholar 16th/17th century libraries and collectorship
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.
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)
Mr Jonathan Durham University of Warwick Early Modern French Literature (esp. seventeenth century theatre) Women's Theatre.
Mr Richard Morris Trinity College, Cambridge Interested in the imagery of science and religion in early modern European festivals.
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.
Mr. Ralph Dekoninck Université catholique de Louvain Festival culture in the early modern Southern Netherlands (Jesuit canonization festivals of 1622)
Mrs Celine VANDEUREN-DAVID Université catholique de Louvain Social and economic impact of jewellery in Dijon (Burgundy) in the 14th and 15th century
Mrs Celine VANDEUREN-DAVID Université catholique de Louvain Social and economic impact of jewellery in Dijon (Burgundy) in the 14th and 15th century
Mrs. Inmaculada Rodriguez-Moya Universitat Jaume I Festivals in the Spanish Monarchy, Iconography, Emblematics, Iconography
Mrs. Andréa Doré Universidade Federal do Paraná Cartography in early modern times; Iberian humanism
Mrs. Rebecca Feneder Indiana University The Progresses of Elizabeth I
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.
Ms Melanie Zefferino ICON, AAH Historic techniques in visual and performing arts
Ms Rachel Lynch Ashgate Publishing Ltd Early Modern Literature and History
Ms Rio West University of Warwick Student of English Literature and Theatre Studies Final Year Undergraduate dissertation on festivals for Princess Elizabeth Stuart
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
Ms. Claire HOLDER University of Salford Carnival as a vehicle for social cohesion
Ms. Emilie Brinkman graduate student at Miami University, Ohio, USA Tudor-Stuart England; material & court culture; the politics of display & ceremony; dress history
Ms. Rebecca A. Mahmood Independent Scholar English Renaissance, especially the Elizabethan Age
Ms. Olenka Horbatsch University of Toronto Printmaking, print culture, Netherlandish history
Ms. Leila Zammar Loyola University of Chicago Scenography of 17th century in Italy and Europe
Ms. Justine Walden Yale University History of religion, the state, Renaissance Italy, religious orders, popular culture
Ms. Jane Lawson Emory University Queen Elizabeth I, New Year's gift exchange, court personnel
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
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.
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
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; entries; festivals; royal portraiture and representation; ephemeral architecture
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.
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.
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
PhD candidate Margarita-Ana Vázquez-Manassero Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Spanish Golden Age art and culture; Renaissance and Baroque art; cultural history; patrons and artistic collections
PhD candidate Emily Pegues National Gallery of Art and Courtauld 15th/16th c. ommegang in Burgundian Netherlands; crossbow confraternity shooting festivals
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.
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.
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.
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);
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
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