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Women at the Burgundian Court (Mechelen, 26-27 Nov 05)
Dagmar Eichberger (KHI)
Women at the Burgundian Court: Presence and Influence Femmes à la Cour de Bourgogne: Présence et Influence Vrouwen aan het Bourgondische Hof: Présence en Invloed 26.11.-27.11.2005
a two-day conference accompanying the exhibition:
Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria (see: www.mechelen2005.be)
Location: Mechelen, former residences of Margaret of York (Keizerstraat 3) and Margaret of Austria (Keizerstraat 20), close to Veemarkt.
Program
Saturday, 26 November 2005 11.00 – 13.00 Registration
13.00 – 13.30 Welcome by the organisers Dagmar Eichberger
(Universität Heidelberg), Anne-Marie Legaré (Université Lille 3) and Wim Hüsken (Stedelijke Musea Mechelen)
13:15 – 13:30 Introduction to the theme of the conference by Bertrand Schnerb (Université Lille 3)
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote lecture (speaker introduced by Dagmar Eichberger)
Thérèse de Hemptinne (Universiteit Gent), La cour princière au bas moyen âge: un laboratoire de gender?
14:30 – 15:00 Session 1 (chaired by Dagmar Eichberger)
Mario Damen (Universiteit Leiden), Margaret of York’s Works of Charity on the Isle of Voorde
15:00 – 15.30 Coffee
15.30 – 16.45 Session 2 (chaired by Hugo van der Velden, Harvard
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University)
Maryan Ainsworth (New York, Metropolitan Museum), Jan Gossaert’s Deesis, A Painting for Brou?
Marie-Françoise Poiret (Versailles, Monuments Français), Le vitrail de sainte Suzanne dans l’église de Brou
16.45 – 17.00 Short break
17.00 – 18.15 Session 3 (chaired by Guy Delmarcel, Mechelen &
Universiteit Leuven)
Catherine Müller (Université de Fribourg), L’oeuvre poétique de Marguerite d’Autriche
Danielle Quéruel (Université de Reims), La place des femmes dans les spectacles bourguignons
18.00 – 19.30 Break
19:30 – 20.00 Pre-dinner drinks – followed by conference dinner Sunday, 27 November 2005
9:00 – 10:30 Session 4 (chaired by Anne-Marie Legaré)
Hugo Van der Velden (Harvard University), The Choice of Names and the Cult of Saints at the Court of Burgundy
Andrea Pearson (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania), Authority and Community in the ‘Hours of Mary of Burgundy’
10.30 – 10:45 Coffee
10.45 – 12:00 Session 5 (chaired by Wim Hüsken)
Monique Sommé (Université d’Artois), La correspondance d’Isabelle de Portugal, reflet du pouvoir d'une duchesse de Bourgogne au XVe siècle Henri Installé (Mechelen, Stadsarchief), Marguerite d’Autriche: l’Idéal de la Femme et de la Princesse pour Henri Corneille Agrippa
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Session 6 (chaired by Barbara Welzel, Universität Dortmund) Anne-Marie Legaré (Université Lille 3), Wim Hüsken (Mechelen, Stedelijke Musea), Joanna of Castile’s Entry into Brussels
Dagmar Eichberger (Universität Heidelberg), Men and Women on the game board
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and game pieces made for Ferdinand I of Austria by Hans Kels the Elder Jacqueline Kerkhoff (Utrecht, Museum Catharijneconvent), Mary of Hungary’s Court in 1531
14:30 – 14:45 Short break
14:45 – 15:45 Session 7 (chaired by Anne-Marie Legaré & Dagmar Eichberger) Werner Paravicini (Paris, Deutsches Historisches Institut), Conclusion
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Contact/ Registration: Dr. Wim Hüsken e-mail: wim.husken@mechelen.be tel.: +32.15.29.49.15
fax: +32.15.29.49.21 Costs:
Full fee Euro 25.-
Student fee Euro15.- (valid student card) Conference dinner Euro 35.-
Reference:
CONF: Women at the Burgundian Court (Mechelen, 26-27 Nov 05). In: ArtHist.net, Sep 27, 2005 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/27478>.
