The Renaissance and Early Modern Horse
Roehampton University
Provisional Programme
Friday 19 June 2009
10.00-11.0 Registration and Welcome
11.00-12.45 Cultural Horses
Esther Münzberg: Images of horses in the illustrated book of H.R.E. Charles V and the baroque
Viennese book
Sarah Cantor: Caravaggio's horses: conflicting ideals in the two versions of the conversion of St. Paul
Kevin de Ornellas: "Passively overwhelmed": a post-Freudian analysis of Venture's reckless horseracing in James Shirley's Hide Parke
12.45.14.0
Lunch
14.00-15.45 Horsemanship
Elspeth Graham: William Cavendish, Bolsover Castle and a general history of horsemanship
Elisabetta Deriu: Rare early modern documents on horses and horsemanship from the manuscript
collection of the Institut de France in Paris
Donna Landry: Early Ottoman horsemanship and Ottoman difference
15.45-16.15 Tea
16.15-18.0 Training and Treating
Pia Cuneo: Visual aids: equestrian iconography and the training of horse, rider and reader in 17th.
century German books of horsemanship
Lucy Worsley : The material culture of the manège
Louise Curth: The most excellent of animal creatures: health care for horses
18.30-19.30 Reception
20.0Conference Dinner: Munal Restaurant. West Putney
Saturday 20 June 2009
09.30-11.15: Horse-Human Natures
Erica Fudge: The language of horses
Sonja Fielitz: "Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them ...": Representations of horses on the
early modern stage
Gabriel Egan: " 'Ride me as you would be rid': the horse in Brome and Heywood's The Witches of
Lancashire
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-13.30 Breeding
Andrea Tonni: The Renaissance studs of the Gonzagas of Mantua
Sandra Swart: Horse breeding in 17th. century South Africa
Ian MacInnes : Altering a race of jades: horse breeding and geohumoralism in Shakespeare
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.15 Horse-Human Relations
Greg Bankoff : The Caballo in Caballero: horses and social standing in the early modern Philippines
Jennifer Flaherty: Know us by our horses: equine imagery in Shakespeare's Henriad
Bruce Boehrer: Baiardo's Legacy (Ariosto)
16.15-16.45 Tea
16.45-18.30 Horse Racing
Elizabeth Tobey: The palio in Renaissance Italy
Richard Nash: "Breeding rebellion: the curious case of Byerley's charger"
Pete Edwards: Early horse racing at Epsom
19.30-
Buffet supper, Richmond
Sunday 21 June 2009
We are hoping to arrange a trip to visit the Epsom race course and Epsom town as an option for
participants.