The Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Conference 2023
This extra special was held in Edinburgh from Thursday 20th to Friday 21st April 2023 to celebrate the 100th year since Dorothy Dunnett’s birth. The theme of the two-day event was Understanding Diversity in the 15th and 16th Centuries.
Our guest speakers provided papers on the following subjects:
Dr Kit Heyam
What do we talk about when we talk about gender and sexual diversity?
Rebecca Davis Stevenson
Sex and Power, Gender and Transgression: Lessons for Today from LGBT Diversity in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Domagoj Krpan
The relationship between the Ruthenian Uniate Church and other Christian communities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Dr Bess Rhodes
Dangerous Strangers: Changing Attitudes to Outsiders in Reformation Scotland
Dr Jelena Bakić
Reading Diversity in the Italian Renaissance Paratexts
Dr Jill Hind
From Marriage Pawn to Patronage – Women’s Soft Power in the Renaissance
Dr Ally Ziatar
When the Body is ill, the Mind Suffers: Unravelling Women’s Madness and Mental Illness Throughout Historic Europe
Dr Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi
Limpieza de sangre: Blood purity in the Basque territory of Biscay
Dr Antonia Gatward Cevizli
Depicting diversity in Italian painting
Dr Anna Piotrowska
Gypsies or Turks? Beggars or Jugglers? On the reception of the Romani people in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries
Dr Lesley Mickel
‘Our Heilanmen’: assimilating others into early modern Scotland through performance
Dr Kristin Bundesen
The Places We’ve Been: Diversity, Disquisition – and Dunnett
Round Table – All Speakers
Questions, answers and discussion
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