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
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
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.huskenmechelen.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.-