The Court of Star Chamber and Its Records – Preliminary Schedule
Institute of Advanced Studies Seminar Room, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green, Durham
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Monday, 8 July
Welcome 9:15
Session 1: 9:30-11:00
The Problem with STAC 5
Helen Good, The Star Chamber Project
Disobedient Archives: Using Star Chamber Records in Researching Historical Geographies of Property, Enclosure, and the Landscape
Briony McDonagh, University of Hull
The Geography of Enclosure Riot in East Anglia, 1509-1625: The Records of Star Chamber
Andy Wood, Durham University
Refreshment Break 11:00-11:30
Session 2: 11:30-1:00
Was Star Chamber ‘Popular’? (And Does it Matter?)
Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University
Corrupt Commissioners and Clerks? The Politics of Compiling Depositions in Early Modern England
Hillary Taylor, University of Cambridge
Contemporary Knowledge of the Star Chamber
Ian Williams, University College London
Lunch 1:15-2:15
Session 3: 2:30-4:00
‘In Maner as hit Wer a Garyson of Women’: Female Defendants and Disorder in Early Tudor Star Chamber
Deborah Youngs, University of Swansea
Keeping ‘That Matter Secrete to Themselves and From the Knowledge of All Other’: Female Violence in the Elizabethan Star Chamber
Chloe Ingersent, University of Oxford
‘By Reason of Her Sex and Widowhood’: A Welsh Gentlewoman in the Court of Star Chamber
Sadie Jarrett, Bangor University
Refreshment Break 4:00-4:15
Session 4: 4:15-5:45
Sir Edward Coke and the Star Chamber: The Prosecution of Rapes at Snargate, 1598-1602
Louis A. Knafla, University of Calgary
The Curious Case of the Cross-Dressing Catholic
Jonathan Healey, University of Oxford
The Preparation of a Star Chamber Brief: Newdigate vs. Lloyd et al (May 1608)
Steve Hindle, The Huntington Library
Wine Reception 6:00-7:00 *Sponsored by the Huntington Library
Optional Dinner
Day 2 Tuesday, July 9
Session 1: 9:00-10:30
The Star Chamber and Welsh Identity
Robin Grove-White & Gwilym Owen, Bangor University
Jacobean Star Chamber Records and the Performance of Provincial Libel
Clare Egan, Lancaster University
Commercial History in the Star Chamber Archives
Emily Kadens, Northwestern University
Refreshment Break 10:30-11:00
Session 2: 11:00-12:00
Schrödinger’s Cat in the Archive: Alternative Realities in the Court of Star Chamber
Lotte Fikkers, Leiden University
Star Chamber, the Bullion Trade, and the Veracity of Judicial Records, 1618-20
Simon Healy, History of Parliament Trust
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We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by Durham University, Durham’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Huntington Library, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
