Making Room for Order. Court Ordinances as a Source for Understanding Space at Early Modern Princely Residences

The penultimate specialist gathering of the five-year Palatium project funded by the European Science Foundation (http://www.courtresidences.eu) took place in Kalmar, Sweden, on 2-3 October 2014, organised by the Kalmar Linnéuniversitetet. The theme of this international conference, which was held in Kalmar Castle – one of the most important 16th-century Swedish royal residences – was court ordinances and their relationship to the creation and use of space in early modern residences. During the two-day programme a number of papers were heard that examined specific residences of royal families in the light of individual ordinances. Specific studies considered examples from Hungary, Bohemia and Moravia, England, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Sweden, in the period from the second half of the 15th century to the end of the 17th century. Czech researchers were represented at the conference by Martin Krummholz, who gave a presentation on the princely residences of the Liechtenstein family in the second half of the 17th century.