Femmes et Fama: (Re)Writing Women's History in France and Burgundy, c. 1400-1600. A celebration of Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier.

Tuesday, 17 June 2025
13.00 Arrival and Coffee

13.30 Welcome and Opening Presentation
Klaus Oschema (DHIP), Welcome address
Elizabeth L’Estrange (Univ. Birmingham), Sheila ffolliott (George Mason Univ.), "Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier: Medieval & Early Modern Femmes and Fama"

14.00 Panel 1: Women’s Voices, Roles, and Reputations in Manuscript Culture
Chair: Elizabeth L’Estrange (Univ. Birmingham)
Anna Russakoff (The American Univ. of Paris), Visualizing Animals and Motherhood in Illustrated Marie de France Fables Manuscripts
Helen Swift (Univ. Oxford), Jean V de Créquy: Unpacking Burgundian Literary Sponsorship through Christine de Pizan and Martin Le Franc
Rosalind Brown-Grant (Univ. Leeds), Constructing Women’s Reputations in Late Medieval France. Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, in Two Fifteenth-Century Tournament Accounts

15.45 Coffee break

16.15–18.00 Panel 2: Women’s Cultural and Artistic Networks
Chair: Anna Russakoff (The American Univ. of Paris)
Anja Thaller (Univ. Mannheim), Margaret of Savoy (1420–1479). Manuscripts, Arts, and Cultural Networks
Mary Beth Winn (State Univ. of New York, Albany), Vérard’s Grand Vita Christi and its Female Patrons
Cynthia Brown (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), Duchess Renée de Bourbon-Montpensier (1494–1539): Visual and Literary Culture at the Court of Lorraine

Wednesday, 18 June 2025
9.50 Panel 3: Women’s Patronage and its Legacies in Visual and Material Culture
Chair: Keith Luria (North Carolina State Univ.)
Ellie Woodacre (Univ. Winchester), Female Legacies and Traditions of Patronage in the Women of the House of Evreux-Navarre
Sigrid Ruby (Univ. Gießen), Women on Top and at His Side. On the Ordering of the Visual in the Case of Diane de Poitiers

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Panel 4: Claude of France and Her Entourage
Chair: Cynthia Brown (Univ. California, Santa Barbara)
Aubrée David-Chapy (Independent Scholar), Les femmes de la cour de François Ier à la lecture de la correspondance des ambassadeurs italiens
Tracy Adams (Univ. Auckland), Legend of an Effaced Queen. Claude of France from Ambassadors to Modern Historians

12.40 Lunch

13.50 Panel 5: Diplomacy and Devotion. Marriage in the Sixteenth Century
Chair: Tracy Adams (Univ. Auckland)
David Potter (Univ. Kent), The Marriage of Jeanne d‘Albret and Antoine de Bourbon: Some Fresh Ideas
Kelly Digby Peebles (Clemson Univ.), A Young Queen for An Auld Alliance.Grieving Madeleine de France, Briefly Queen of Scotland
15.00 Concluding Remarks

Registration: eventdhi-paris.fr.