Conference

Monarchy in Turmoil. Princes, Courts, and Politics in Revolution and Restoration, 1780-1830

Date

Wednesday 18 May 2022 - Friday 20 May 2022

Address

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
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
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
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
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