Meeting “Authority and resistance in England and the Crown of Aragon (1100-1750)”

Scientific Meeting “Authority and resistance in England and the Crown of Aragon (1100-1750)”, which will be on November 28-29, 2011 in Northumbria University (Newcastle) and organized by Lesley Twomey (Northumbria University) and Flocel Sabaté (Universitat de Lleida).

Monday 28th November

12.30 -2.00 Welcome, registration and lunch, Fusion

2pm: Power and authority in the Crown of Aragon
- Flocel Sabaté, University of Lleida:
Ideological building of sovereignty and authority. Catalonia, twelfth to seventeenth
centuries

3pm: Religious orders and religious life in the Crown of Aragon, England, Ireland and
Scotland
- Jenny Wormald, University of Edinburgh:
How to upset the Scottish godly: James VI and friendship with Spain
- Andrea Knox, University of Northumbria:
‘The Right Kind of Catholics’: Irish settlement in the Crown of Aragon, 1590-1700

4.30 Break, tea, coffee

5pm Kings and states: court and power
- Pol Serrahima, University of Lleida:
‘A Déu no plau supervia contra son senyor’: Interpretations of the Catalan Civil War in
the historiography of the day and in modern reflection’
- Carlos Conde Solares, University of Northumbria:
Hugo de Urries, Ambassador to the English court in the fifteenth century

Evening dinner: Newcastle’s oldest restaurant, Blackfriars restaurant, 7.30 pm

Tuesday 29th November

9.30 am Literary and artistic representations of authority and resistance in the Crown of
Aragon or England
- Yu-Chun Chiang University College, London,
Fashioning Catherine of Aragon’s Queenship in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII
- Isabel Grifoll, University of Lleida:
Veus crítiques contra el rei i la ‘Vita Curialis’ a la literatura catalana tardomedieval

11am coffee and tea

11.30 am Military authority and rebellion in the Crown of Aragon and England
- Pere Benito, University of Lleida
‘Peasant resistance to seigneurial authority in thirteenth and fourteenth century
Catalonia’
- Maria Bonet:
Reorganizar la violencia: paz y guerra en la Cataluña del XII

1pm Lunch

2pm. Memory and power
- Francesc Fité, University of Lleida:
Las residencias reales de una corte itinerante. La Confederación catalanoaragonesa
(s. XII-XIV)
- Raymond Powell, International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania:
‘”The Pope is coming back, the monasteries to be rebuilt:” Religious Houses and the
Catholic Restoration in England (1553-1558)’.

* Talks will be done in the language of the title.