I was alerted by an advertisement in the latest edition of the Birmingham Archdiocesan newspaper Catholic Today to this forthcoming conference at Oscott College. It promises to be a very interesting day:
Nationality, Religion and Music: the Stuarts in exile
Thursday 11th June 2015
Cardinal York - King Henry IX
10.30 Arrivals and coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Lecture: Dr Gabriel Glickman, University of Warwick, author of The English Catholic Community 1688-1745 :
11.00 – 12.30 Lecture: Dr Gabriel Glickman, University of Warwick, author of The English Catholic Community 1688-1745 :
Jacobitism and Catholics in the Three British Kingdoms
12.45 Lunch
Special Exhibition open. College chapel and museum open to visitors.
2.00 – 3.30 Lecture: Dr Edward Corp, University of Toulouse, author of The Stuarts in Italy 1719-66: a Royal Court in permanent exile, and other works on the exiled Stuarts:
Religion, Nationality and Music at the exiled Stuart Courts
3.30 – 4.00 Tea
4.30-5.30 Abbot Geoffrey Scott (Douai Abbey), co-editor of Catholic Gentry in English Society: the Throckmortons of Coughton, and author of Gothic Rage Undone: English Monks in the Age of Enlightenment:
Illustrated Lecture: ‘Stuart images and a Chapel in exile’ (the private chapel of Queen Maria Clementina in Rome)
6.00 Buffet Supper
7.30 Concert by Cappella Fede and Harmonia Sacra directed by Peter Leech:
The Cardinal King: rediscovered music composed for Henry Benedict Stuart in Rome 1740-90
Various booking packages available for the day and/or evening. For all further information and bookings, please contact Mrs Maggie Wilson.
Tel: 0121 321 5026 Email: maggie.wilson@oscott.org
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