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Kings & Queens 8 “Resilio Ergo Regno” Resilience, Continuity and Recovery at Royal Courts Royal Studies Network University of Catania Departments Educational Science and Humanities (24th -27th June 2019)
Conference Programme
CONFERENCE VENUE Sessions DISFOR /1, DISFOR/2 and DISFOR/3 rooms of the Department of Educational Science, Palazzo Ingrassia, Via Biblioteca 4 DISFOR /1 and DISFOR/ 3 are on the ground floor DISFOR/2 is on the first floor Aula Mazzarino is inside Monastero Benedettini- Department of Humanities, Piazza Dante
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Monday 24th June 2019
14.30 - 18.00 Conference Reception Desk Open Monastero dei Benedettini
16.00 Opening Ceremony Aula Santo Mazzarino
Francesco Basile Rector of the University of Catania Marina Paino Head of the Department of Humanities Loredana Cardullo Head of the Department of Educational Science Elena Woodacre University of Winchester, Founder Royal Studies Network Cinzia Recca University of Catania, Local Conference Organizer
17.00 -18.00 Opening Keynote Lecture Francesco Benigno Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa Alias Rex. The Minister-favourite in Seventeenth Century Europe
Chair Elena Woodacre
18.00 -19.00 Visit to the Monastero dei Benedettini
19.00 -20.00 Announcement of the RSJ book and article prize winners & Wine Reception Giardino dei Novizi
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Tuesday 25th June 2019
8.30 – 9.30 Registration - Main entrance DISFOR
Dynastic Power and Monarchy during European Medieval Queens Resilience of Dynasty and Kingship in Classic period Early Modern Europe Session
1 Chair Ana Maria Rodrigues Chair Charles Beem Chair Jonathan Spangler
DISFOR/3 DISFOR/1 DISFOR/2
Caroline Dunn: The Resilience of Fabian Persson: The Resilience of Immigrant Queens and their Ladies. Desperate Regeneration: Efforts to Keep Dynasties Alive. Eleonora Pappalardo: Resilience in Central Asia. The Birth of the Parthian Diane Ghirardo: Resilient Queens in Tibor Monostori: Heinrich Schlick, the Royalty. Medieval Southern Italy. shadow first minister of Emperor Ferdinand III and the intradynastic resilience of the House of Gaetano Arena: Expelling the pimps Louise Berglund: ‘Margareta Dei gracia Habsburg (1637-1643). 9.30 – 11.00 and sheltering the harlots: Justinian and Waldemari Danorum regis filia.’ Forging Theodora against prostitution. a strong female rulership in the Katarzyna Kosior: A Resilient patrilineal realms of Scandinavia, c. Institution? Henri I of Poland (III of 1363-1412. France) and the Revival of the Polish Court after the Fall of the Jagiellonians.
Anna Jagosova: Elisabeth of Micheal Bregnsbo: “We Alone Will Luxembourg (1409-1442): Rulership of Know”: King Frederick VI of Denmark resilience or resistance? and his Regime Coping With the Impacts of the Defeat of 1814. Tuesday 25th June 2019 4
11.00 – 11.30 BREAK BREAK BREAK
Medieval Monarchy and Strategic Resilient Iberian Queens Disease, Plague and the Bourbon Resilience Dynasties Session
1.2 Chair Beatriz van Zeller Chair Miriam Shadis Chair Vincent Haegele
DISFOR/3 DISFOR/1 DISFOR/2
Francesco Barone: Frederick II and Diana Pelaz: Resilient Women. Cinzia Recca: The terrible calamity of Muslim resilience in western Sicily Legitimacy and aspiration to the throne smallpox at the Neapolitan Bourbon (1221-1246). in the crown of Castile at the end of the Court of Ferdinand IV: the rulers XIV century. between resilient and resistant actions. Elisa Vermiglio: Rebellions, calamities and strategies of resilience during the Theresa Earenfight: Catherine of Giacomo Lorandi: «I want to be Norman Rule of William II. Aragon as the Embodiment of the Power inoculated». The inoculation of the 11.30 -13.00 of Resistance. Infant of Spain Ferdinand of Bourbon- Maria Aurora Garzon Fernandez: In a Parma (1751-1802) by Swiss doctor Royal Key: the shapes of Compostela in Zita Rohr: Tales of fire and Ice: Théodore Tronchin and the European the Kingdom of Leon. Manifestation of Queenly Resilience in catholic dynasties’ point of view about Late Medieval Aragon and France. fighting smallpox.
Gabriella Tigani Sava: A rickety throne: Ferdinand II of Bourbon and the ‘’revolutionary cholera’’. 13.00 -14.30 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
Economics, Dynastical Houses and Resilient Evidences Medieval English Adaptation and Transformation: 18th Resilience in Early Modern Europe Queens century Spanish and Italian Monarchy Session 1.3
Chair Micheal Bregnsbo Chair Carole Levin Chair Cinzia Recca
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Session DISFOR/3 DISFOR/1 DISFOR/2 1.3
Cristina Bienvenida: Political Helder Carvahal: Economy, Monarchy Matthew Firth: The Martyr and the Adaptation of Maria Cristina of Bourbon and Resilience: princely household and Mother: Political Rhetoric in the during the years of her Regency. political stability in early modern Minority Rule of Æthelred II. Portugal. Ainoa Chinchilla: Resilience in front of Micheal Evans: The resistance of two the revolution: the defence of the Charlotte Backerra: Economic medieval queens of England: Eleanor of dynastic interests of Carlos IV and María Relations as Foundation of a Resilient Aquitane and Isabella of France. Luisa of Parma before the changes of the House of Hesse. late 18th century. Elena Woodacre: Resilience in the face 14.30 -16.00 of Intradynastic Conflict: Joan of Natalia Gonzalez: The transformation Navarre and the ‘Crisis Years’ of 1415- of the Spanish Royal House at the end of 1422. eighteenth century.
William Arguelles: A Portrait of A Adriana Luna Fabritius: The Crisis of Queen in Mourning: Reconstructing the the War of the Spanish Succession and text(iles) from Elizabeth of York’s Privy the Search of an Italian Monarch: Victor Purse Expenses. Amadeus II.
16.00 – 16.30 BREAK BREAK BREAK
Family, rank and resilience Queenship and Resilient Attitudes Palaces for sale: the Spanish Royal Session Sites from magnificent royal 1.4 residences to valuable financial resources
Chair Salvatore Bottari Chair Theresa Earenfight Chair Diane Ghirardo
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Session DISFOR/2 DISFOR /1 DISFOR /3 1.4
Beatriz Van Zeller: A Natural Estelle Paranque: Treats to the English Felix Labrador Arroyo: The economic Resilience - Alfonso the "Old Duke". Crown. Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart vision of the Royal Sites in Castile at the as Prisoner beginning of the liberal nation state. Ana Maria Rodrigues: Male Ambition, Family Disaster and Female Resilience: Carole Levin: Heroic Queens in the Age Gijs Versteegen: The value of artistic Isabella of Urgell (1409-1469). of Stuarts King: Elisabeth and Boudicca. and historical heritage in Jovellanos´ Memorias histórico- Aidan Norrie: Elizabeth the Resilient: artísticas de arquitectura". Silvia D’Agata: The situation of Providential favour and Protestant downgrading: The case of Branciforti of polemic in early modern England. Eloy Hortal Munoz: The Royal Sites as 16.30 – 18.00 Mazzarino: the patrimonial struggle an purveyors of the first system of social aristocratic family at the beginning of Pedro Amorim: Same name, same fate? prevision in the history of Spain. 17th century. Catarina de Áustria and Catherine de Médicis – two resilient queens, in power and life. Vincenzo Lagioia: “Among the annoying contingencies:” female wilfulness and resistance of rank. Marguerite Louise d’Orlèans and Anna Maria Franziska von Sachsen-Lauenburg among the writings of the diplomacy.
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Wednesday 26th June 2019
8.30-9.30 Registration- Main Entrance DISFOR Plenary Keynote Lecutre Session: DISUM - Aula Mazzarino Charles Beem (University of North Carolina) 9.30 - 10.30 The Resilience of Bona Sforza of Poland and the Meaning of Queenship
Chair: Zita Rohr (Macquarie University- Sydney) 10.30 - 11.00 BREAK BREAK BREAK
Queenship in Portugal Renée de France and the Resilience Early Modern European Kingship: Resilience and Representation of Royal Session Ceremonies 2 Chair Zita Rohr Chair Diane Ghirardo Chair Charlotte Backerra
DISFOR/1 DISFOR/3 DISFOR/2 Miriam Shadis: Signs of use: ritual and Wilson Chevalier: Renée de France and Filipa Medeiros: Ex vulnere vigor: Queenship in early Portugal. the Resilience of a Female Line. emblematic representations of resilience in the royal festivals in honour of Pedro II (1648-1707), King of Portugal. Manuela Santos Silva: Queenship versus Gabriella Scarlatta: Renée de France’s Kingship: defining the borders of both Legacy of Resilience. Kasper Steenfeldt Tipsmark: Royal powers within the Queens’ dominion and Reputation Christian IV of Denmark and 11.00 –13.00 the Queens’ Household in Medieval the Great Wedding in 1634. Portugal. Nicolas Vivalda: Juan de Mariana's Kelly Peebles: The Death of François de Influence on the young Philip III. Inês Olaia: Two Sisters, Two Kings, Two Guise and the Resilience of His Wife and Praising Prudence and Warning about the Towns: Facing War and Still Ruling. Mother-in-Law (Anne d’Este and Renée Dangers of Absolutism in De rege et regis de France). Institutione.
Wednesday 26th June 2019
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13.00 - 14.30 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
The Medieval Kingdom of Naples The Resilience of Royal Women: The resilience of the Neapolitan Working for the Survival of a Dynasty Bourbon Court on the Margins of a Great Power, the Kingdom of France. Successes and Session Failures 2.2 Chair: Manuela Santos Silva Chair: Elena Woodacre Chair: Cinzia Recca
DISFOR/3 DISFOR/1 DISFOR/2
Tracy Adams: Valois Queen and Dynastic Resilience: The Conflicting Mirella Mafrici: The Neapolitan Court Janis Elliott: “Resilience and Continuity Mandates of Isabeau of Bavaria, Anne of and the earthquake of 1783 at the Angevyn Monarchy of Naples from Brittany and Eleanor of Austria 1266 to 1382”. Alessandro Abbate – Salvatore Bottari: Jonathan Spangler: The Futility of The reconstruction and economic Madame: Marguerite de Lorraine and recovery of Messina after the earthquake Liselotte von der Pfalz in the service of of 1783 in the letters of the Viceroys of Justyna Luczynska-Bystrowska: “Vita their threatened homelands, Lorraine and Sicily, Caracciolo and Caramanico. 14.30 -16.00 activa et conteplativa – the iconography the Palatinate. of the miniatures in the Breviary (1458- Giuseppina D’Antuono: Resilience and 1476) illuminated for the Aragonese Philippa Woodcock: Cousins, daughters, Resistence of Bourbon monarchy in the dynasty in Naples. sisters and wives: the Foix women and the kingdom of Naples (1799-1800). decline of their dynasty. Lavinia Gazzé: The decline of the Carla Pinto: ‘K et B retramées d’or pur: Bourbon Court of Ferdinand IV through Art and the politics of Beatrice of the unpublished accounts of knight. Portugal in Savoy, between France and the Empire’.
Wednesday 26th June 2019
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16.00- 16.30 BREAK BREAK BREAK
Iberian & Italian Connections Strong willed women in early modern Revolutionary past and Napoleonic Europe monarchy
Session Chair Diana Pelaz Flores Chair Louise Berglund Chair Munro Price 2.3
DISFOR/3 DISFOR/2 DISFOR/1
Giuseppe Campagna: Sicilian resistance Maria Barreto Davila: Beatriz of Alison Mc Queen: Emperor Napoleon to the anti-Jewish politics of the Catholic Portugal: A resilient Mother. III: portraits of a complex and resilient Kings. leader. Sergio Costola: Lucrezia Borgia’s use of Court Spectacle as Diplomacy During The Jonathan North: Coaching Resilience: Elena Frasca: A Vicereine of Naples in Years of War (1509-1513). Napoleon’s advice to his brother, Joseph, Phillip II’s court. Dorotea Barresi. King of Naples.
16.30 -18.00 Inga Lena Ångström Grandien: Anna Flavien Bertran de Balanda: Saverio Di Franco: The resilience of Vasa of Sweden- the self - willed sister of Restoration and resilience. The last jurists at the Kingdom of Naples (1618- Sigismund Vasa of Poland. Bourbons face the revolutionary past”. 1648). Vincent Haegele: «He is not king to Camila Kandare: Resilience and obey»: Joachim Murat and the exercise of Regeneration in the post-abdication life of power under the shadow of the Queen Christina of Sweden. Napoleonic supervision.
20.00 - 23.00 Conference dinner at the cloister of Monastery- Monastero dei Benedettini - Chiostro di Levante
Wednesday 26th June 2019
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Thursday 27th June 2019
8.30-9.30 Registration Closing Keynote lecture DISUM- Aula Mazzarino Plenary Munro Price (University of Bradford) Session Shipwreck and survival: Louis XVI, Ferdinand VII, and revolution 9.30-10.30 Chair: Fabian Persson
10.30- 11.00 BREAK BREAK
Political Practices and Players The Modern Italian Monarchy Confronted case studies of Kings &Queens in History, Art and Psychology
Session Chair Munro Price Chair: Andrew Brayely Chair: Sergio Costola 3
DISFOR/2 DISFOR/3 DISFOR/1
Stephen Griffin: Nôtre très cher et bien Frans Willem Lantink: Coping with the Santo Di Nuovo: Kings and Queens aimé le Comte de Carlingford’: Francis Trauma of Revolution: Flight, Resilience between solitude and resilience: Taaffe, 3rd earl of Carlingford and the and Recovery? 1848 and its Aftermath in contributions from art and psychology. House of Lorraine in exile and the Italian Monarchies. 11.00- 12.30 restoration. Sabrina Castellano, Concetta Pirrone Tommaso Zerbi: The Return of the Silvia Platania, Puccio Santisi: Jeremy Filet: Regno ergo Resilio: The King: Resilience, Restoration, and Queen Elisabeth II. A case study on Old Pretender's court in Lorraine and the Revivalism at the Court of Victor Personality, Queenship, trait-perspectives 11 Thursday 27th June 2019
on charisma. 1715 Jacobite rebellion. Emmanuel I of Savoy. Teresa Nunes: Resilience and Rupture Mariana Zinni: The Gold Paved staicase David Bell –Theresa Moran: The Royal after Regicide. Portuguese Monarchy’s to Power.The resilence and Ambition of Menus of Vittorio Emanuele III: The challenges during D.Manuel II’s reign Archbishop Viceroy Morcillo (1642- Growth of Italian National Identity and (1908-1910). 1730). The Preservation of Monarchy. Falko Schnicke: Forming External and Roberto Tufano: A Dynasty for the Internal Relations. Patterns of Twentieth- South of Italy: ideas and political Century British State Visits. practices for a new sovereign.
Emotion, memory and letters in early Early modern Russian monarchy Moroccan Monarchy: an overview modern England between past and present
Session Chair Rocco Giurato Chair Katarzyna Kosior Chair Eleonora Pappalardo 3.2
DISFOR/1 DISFOR/2 DISFOR/3
Manuela D’Amore: “The throne secures Elena Teibenbacher: “Royal Resilience Fatima Rhorchi: Morocco’s Resilience not a woman from the peculiar and cruelty in 17th and 18th century from the Maraboutic Crisis and the disadvantages of her sex” Gender, Crisis Russia”. Advent of Alawi Dynasty. 12.30-13.30 and Resilience in Women’s Memoirs of Tudor Queens (1800-1850). Darin Stephanov: The Decembrist Marwa Dahou: How Morocco has Marius Misztal: “Why may the earth not Revolt of 1825 and Emperor Nicholas I distinguished itself from the movements
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swallow us up?” Letters between Queen of Russia (r. 1825-1855): Royal of the Arab Spring and has kept its Victoria and her eldest daughter after the Strategies for Overcoming a Dual political stability? Prince Consort’s death. (Succession-Constitutional) Crisis. 13.30 -14.30 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
British monarchy in the 17th/18th Russian Heirs and Portraits century Session 3.3 Chair: Elena Woodacre Chair Carla Pinto
DISFOR/1 DISFOR /2
Francesco Tigani: Charles the second Ekaterina Skvortcova: Portraits of and the London's rebuilding after the Peter’s the Great Son Peter in the Guise 1666 great fire. of a Cupid and a problem of the Succession. Rocco Giurato: “Kings shall be thy 15.00 -16.30 nursing Fathers, and Queens thy nursing Ekaterina Kolmogorova: Tragic events Mothers”: How Queen Anne’s failed and family sorrows at the Russian court motherhood shaped her queenship. of the 18-19 century and its visual reflection. Salvatore Vasta: Humean reading on the resilience and recovery of the English monarchies.
16.30 -17.00 Closing Comments from the Scientific Committee - DISFOR/1 Fabian Persson, Elena Woodacre, Zita Rohr, Cinzia Recca.
17.45 City Guided Tour 13 Thursday 27th June 2019
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