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Mary is buried beneath Elizabeth in their shared tomb at Westminster Abbey. Their Jacobean inscription reads, 'Partners both in throne and grave, here we rest two sisters'. This multi-disciplinary colloquium aims to reassess Mary and Elizabeth in relation to one another, and as Tudor monarchs. Recent research in a range of
disciplines has begun to re-examine the reign of Mary, England's
first Queen regnant. However, this scholarship has yet to be shared
across disciplines and its implications for understanding Elizabeth's
reign, and Tudor monarchy in general, to be explored further.
By bringing together disciplines as seemingly diverse as history,
architecture, law, literature, costume and music, this colloquium
seeks to incorporate and move beyond the focus on gender and religion
in order to explore the continuities between all the Tudor monarchs,
both male and female, Catholic and Protestant. To what extent
is it possible to construct a trajectory of Tudor monarchy that
focuses on continuities as well as change? And what might we learn
from placing the Tudor monarchs in the broader context of European
Renaissance monarchy, particularly England's relationship with
Spain? Topics
addressed might include: Confirmed participants include: Karen Hearn (Tate Britain); Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford); Maria Hayward (Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton); Ralph Houlbrooke (University of Reading); Ros King (University of Southampton); Jeri Mcintosh (University of Tennessee); Natalie Mears (University of Durham); Charlotte Merton (Lund University); Anne McLaren (University of Liverpool); Janel Mueller (University of Chicago); Stephen Rice (University of Southampton and University of Oxford); Alexander Samson (UCL); Christopher Skidmore (University of Oxford); Greg Walker (University of Leicester) Also featuring: An evening programme of early modern music by internationally acclaimed soprano Catherine Bott and renowned lutenist Elizabeth Kenny |
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Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies
