Conference
Monarchy in Turmoil. Princes, Courts, and Politics in Revolution and Restoration, 1780-1830
- Date
- Wednesday 18 May 2022 - Friday 20 May 2022
- Location
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Gravensteen
Pieterskerkhof 6
2311 SR Leiden - Room
- 1.11
A conference co-organised by Jeroen Duindam, Joost Welten, Quinten Somsen (Leiden University Institute for History) and Joris Oddens (Huygens Institute / NL-Lab). See the Call-for-Papers.
This conference is organised in the framework of the research project Monarchy in Turmoil. Rulers, Courts and Politics in The Netherlands and Germany, C.1780 – C.1820, funded by the Dutch Research Council.
Programme
| Wednesday 18 May | |
| 12.15 - 13.00 | Registration |
| 13.00 - 13.30 | Jeroen Duindam: Opening and Introduction: Monarchy in Turmoil |
| Courtiers and Politics: Setting the Scene Chair: Dries Raeymaekers |
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| 13.30 - 14.15 | Nigel Aston, Managing monarchy in a time of turbulence: Lord Salisbury as Lord Chamberlain at the court of George III (1783-1804) |
| 14.15 - 15.00 | Leonhard Horowski, "Wir haben kein Gouvernement". Ministers, aristocrats and the problem of central government in Prussia (1786-1822) |
| 15.00 - 15.25 | Break: coffee & tea |
| 15.25 - 16.10 | William Godsey, Courtiers and High Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era (1792-1815) |
| 16.10 - 16.55 | Philip Mansel, Powers behind the Throne: French Courtiers and Politics, from Talleyrand to Jules de Polignac (1804-1830) |
| 17.00 - 17.30 | General Discussion Discussant: Maarten Prak |
| 18.00 | Indonesian buffet (Surakarta) in the Leiden History Institute (Doelensteeg 16) |
| Thursday 19 May | |
| The Dawn of a New Era? Chair: Edwina Hagen |
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| 9.30 - 10.15 | Kristine Dyrmann, Political Sociability and Women’s Agency at the Danish Court (1784-1797) |
| 10.15 - 11.00 | Fabian Persson, Personal Power in Personal Rule: Female Courtiers in Sweden 1770 to 1830 |
| 11.00 - 11.25 | Break: coffee & tea |
| 11.25 - 12.10 | Quinten Somsen, ‘When the great and little ones suppress each other in the antechamber’: the Court in a Republican and ‘Monarchical’ setting (c. 1780-1806) |
| 12.15 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 14.15 | Damien Tricoire, An aristocratic fronde?: The “machine d’Orléans” and the origins of the French Revolution (1788-1789) |
| 14.15 - 15.00 | Maria Sofia Mormile, From Turin to Britain: The "sacrée coterie" of the comte d'Artois between personal challenge and political isolation (1789-1807) |
| 15.00 - 15.25 | Break: coffee & tea |
| The Napoleonic Challenge: Revolution from Above or no Revolution at all? Chair: Joris Oddens |
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| 15.25 - 16.10 | Vincent Haegele, Joseph Bonaparte and the royal households of Naples and Spain (1806-1813) |
| 16.10 - 16.40 | General Discussion Discussant: Martijn van der Burg |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner: Het Prentenkabinet |
| Friday 20 May | |
| Quest for Legitimacy in an Age of Parliamentary and Constitutional Reform Chair: Frank Sterkenburgh |
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| 9.15 - 10.00 | Paul Seaward, ‘Levées in the morning, circles in the evening, dinners and what not’: the management of parliament and the soft power of the late Hanoverian monarchy (1820 to 1837) |
| 10.00 - 10.45 | Joost Welten, Access to the King: A prosopographical analysis of participants in audiences and dinners of William I at his court in The Hague and Brussels (1815-1830) |
| 10.45 - 11.10 | Break: coffee & tea |
| 11.10 - 11.55 | Mikołaj Getka-Kenig, The Royal Court and the Politics of Monarchical Image in Romanov Poland (1815-1830) |
| 11.55 - 13.00 | Lunch |
| Chair: Diederik Smit | |
| 13.00 - 13.45 | Thibaut Trétout, 'Entre Chambres et antichambres': the political dimension of the French court during the (second) Restauration (1815-1830) |
| 13.45 - 14.30 | Charles-Éloi Vial, Charles X and his Court: Politics and Fidelity during the July Revolution (1830) |
| 14.30 - 15.15 | Heidi Mehrkens, The Diamond Duke and his Court: Competing for Power in the Duchy of Brunswick (1815-1830) |
| 15.15 - 15.30 | Break: coffee & tea |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | General Discussion Discussiant: Jeroen Koch |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Round table: brief statements by Maarten Prak and Heidi Mehrkens followed by discussion |
| 17.00 | Jeroen Duindam: closing statement, end of conference |