This international seminar, organised by 2022 BritishSpanish Society/Santander Universities scholarship winner Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón, celebrates the 500-year anniversary of the first publication of The Education of a Christian Woman. It will focus on its patron, author, and dedicatee as well as address its impact on the construction of the image of female power in Tudor England.

5:00 pm – 5:45 pm – INAUGURAL ACT  

• Víctor Ugarte – Instituto Cervantes London.  
• José Pascual Marco – Ambassador of Spain to the United Kingdom.  
• Alexander Samson – University College London.  
• Noelia García Pérez – University of Murcia.   

5:45 pm – 6:15pm – Las mujeres cristianas en los intercambios de retratos entre la Monarquía Hispánica y la dinastía Tudor.Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. Independent Scholar. 

6:15 pm – 7:00 pm – Mary I & the Art of Queenship.Peter Stiffell. University of Kent. 

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – ROUNDTABLE 

Educating the Eye: Gender, Power, and Representation in the Visual Arts in the Reign of Mary I.

• The Pregnant Female Body in Early Modern English Royal and Elite Portraiture.Karen Hearn. University College London. 
• Happily (N)Ever After: The Posthumous Role of Mary I and Philip II’s Marriage in Visual Remembrances of Mary’s Reign. Johanna Strong. University of Winchester.  
• Like Mother, Like Daughter? Continuity and Innovation in the Crafting of Image of Mary I. Aoife Stables. Independent Scholar.  
• Patricia Manzano Rodríguez. Durham University.  
• Irini Picolou. Durham University.  

8:00 pm – 8:30 pm. VINO ESPAÑOL