| 'From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World': This one day colloquium will take place at Birkbeck, University of London, on 24 September 2010. As part of Birkbeck's thriving research culture, this event will bring together scholars to discuss the purpose and reception of ritual and ceremony in the early modern period. Early modern life was shaped by ritual and ceremony. These rites had many functions, such as marking time, denoting power, place and order, and defining the sacred. Ritual could provide a temporary release from the hierarchically ordered world or mark an attempt to assert and confirm social categories which were otherwise potentially unstable. Read on. |
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| Conference Proceedings: The published proceedings of past conferences organised by the Society for Court Studies are still available and can be ordered from the Society or the respective publishers. Click here to see a list of publications. |
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Bibliographical Database on Court History: The Society for Court Studies has created an online bibliographical database of recent publications (since 2003) on court history. The database will be updated frequently, and is free and accessible to all. Search the database!
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The Court Studies Forum: In London in July 2007 a decision was made to establish the Court Studies Forum. Read on.
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Back Copies of The Court Historian: Most past issues of our journal The Court Historian - The International Journal of Court Studies are still available and can be ordered from the Society. Click here for the order form (PDF).
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