Oaths, gifts and etiquette: How diplomacy was expressed through banquets.

10.00: welcome
opening: Maddalena Bellavitis (EPHE), Loïc Bienassis (Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation IEHCA/Université de Tours), Milan Svoboda (Charles University Prague)

10.15: morning session

Anthony Musson, Historic Royal Palaces
The Diplomacy of Feasting at the Court of King Henry VIII

Johanna Sinclair, University of Oxford
Unity and Disunity in the Marriage Banquets for Henry IV and Maria de’ Medici

11.15: coffee break

Attila Györkös, University of Debrecen
Spectacles pour Forger une Identité Commune

Anne Bloemacher, University of Münster
Formes fluides - Matière ambiguë. La vaisselle et l'eau

13.30: lunch break

15.00: presentation of the Tower by Agnès Lavoye (public and communication manager, Tour Jean sans Peur)

16.00: afternoon session

Marie-Emmanuelle Torres, Aix-Marseille Université
Musiques, sons et diplomatie dans le banquet impérial à Byzance (10e -12e s.)

David Brégaint, NTNU Norway
Royal banquets in medieval Norway: A showcase for diplomatic integration.

Ewelina Sikora, Central European University
According to their honor and humor: reception banquets in Poland- Lithuania’s diplomatic relations in the late seventeenth century

Limor Yungman and Johannes S. Lotze, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Stun them, frighten them, and feed them: Gastrodiplomatic strategies in Samanid and Kitan-Liao courts

17.30: Discussion and conclusions

The entrance is free but the Tower will be closed to the public, please send an e-mail to maddalena.bellavitisgmail.com to be included in the list of participants.