Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE

Embodied Things (CRASSH)

Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 12:30-14:00, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

‘Knowledge’

Professor Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling)
Professor Gunther Rolf Kress MBE  (UCL)

Poetics before Modernity

Thursday, 24 November, 5.15pm, Old Combination Room, Trinity College.

Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania)

“AN EMOTIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF STYLE”

How did medieval teaching identify the “literary” or “literature” as a particular quality to be achieved and imitated? What was the role of style in defining the realm of the “literary”? I will begin by considering a relatively modest “anthology” from the thirteenth century, MS Glasgow, Hunterian, MS V.8.15. This teaching collection expresses its interests in terms rather different from what we associate with better known and prestigious poetic anthologies of the same period. The anthology reveals its motives in metaliterary terms: it signals a moment at which medieval rhetoric recognizes itself as the instrument for theorizing literary style as the engine of emotion. This anthology exemplifies the kind of teaching that was to enable a writer like Petrarch to invest style with the power to move emotions and even to compel ethical judgments. I conclude with a rhetorical reading of Petrarch’s Seniles 17.3 to explore how the “lesson” of style has been incorporated and naturalized in literary production.

Rita Copeland is Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests range across ancient and medieval literatures, history and theory of rhetoric, literary theory and exegetical traditions, and medieval learning. She has pursued these themes in various publications, especially Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages; Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages; Pedagogy, Intellectuals and Dissent in the Middle Ages; Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 (with Ineke Sluiter); and The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (with Peter T. Struck). Most recently she has edited the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, 800-1558. She is also a founder of the journal New Medieval Literatures. Her newest project is on rhetoric and the emotions in the long Middle Ages.

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 23 November, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Laura Sangha (Exeter)
‘“Take care that nothing be printed”: the public and private lives of supernatural narratives in later Stuart England’

 

IN LONDON

Tudor & Stuart History Seminar (IHR)

Monday, 21 November, 17:15, Room G35, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

Eilish Gregory (UCL)
‘Networks in mid-seventeenth century England: the navigation of the sequestration and compounding process by the Catholic gentry’

 

 

Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE

Embodied Things (CRASSH)
Wednesday, 09 November 2016, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

‘Passageways’

Jacqueline Nichols (Independent Artist), Daniel Jütte (CRASSH, NYU) – at Things

 

Middle English Graduate Seminar

Wednesday, 09 November 2016, 5:15, English Faculty Room SR24

Idolography: Saints and Idols in the Katherine Group vitae And Buried Treasure: In Search of the Old Norse Influence on Middle English Vocabulary

Johannes Wolf (Cambridge) and Richard Dance/ Brittany Schorn (Cambridge)

 

Early Modern British and Irish History

Wednesday, 9 November, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

David Coast (Bath Spa)
‘“The tears of the oppressed people of England”: grievance, complaint and the vox populi in early Stuart political culture’

 

IN LONDON

 

London Shakespeare Seminar

Monday, 7th November, 17.15 to 19.00 in the Senate Room, Senate House

This is a special event to commemorate the life and work of Professor Russ McDonald.
Speakers:

Dr. Hannah Crawforth (KCL) : ‘Shaping the Language: Words, Patterns, and the Traditions of Rhetoric’, in Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 30-46.
Dr. Gillian Woods (Birkbeck) : ‘Planned Obsolescence or Working at the Words’, in Teaching Shakespeare: Passing It On, ed. By G. B. Shand (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 27-42
Dr. Eric Langley (UCL) Shakespeare’s Late Style (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 39-41 and 43-52.

A group discussion about the legacy of Russ’s work will follow the speakers’ presentations. To be added to the LSS distribution list and to receive copies of the extracts in advance contact Gemma Miller at shakespeare@kcl.ac.uk.

Please note that there will be drinks after the papers, and we have a table booked at Busaba Eathai Thai restaurant near Goodge Street station for those wishing to join us for dinner. Everybody is very welcome.

Twitter: @ldn_shakespeare
Email: shakespeare@kcl.ac.uk
Facebook: @londonshakespearecentre

 

London Renaissance Seminar

1:30 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 November 2016, Room 114, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square

Ship and Nation in Early Modern England

Examining the connections between ships, literature and national identity speakers will explore the cultural paths between shipyard, theatre and pageant and the links between London’s maritime history and the city as a site of performance.

Download the programme here.

London Renaissance Seminar Contact: Sue Wiseman

 

Courtauld Early Modern Research Forum

Wednesday 9 November 2016, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Caravaggio: Anatomist?

Prof. Frances Gage (State College at Buffolo, New York)

Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin has been likened to a dissection scene in its presentation of a dead putrefying body, surrounded by onlookers. But could Caravaggio also have taken a genuine interest in anatomy and what knowledge of this field might he have had, if any? Given Caravaggio’s appropriation of the work of Michelangelo, who was acclaimed as an anatomist, to what extent may Caravaggio’s allusions to cutting and severing have served his claim to know the body as well as Michelangelo had?

Frances Gage is associate professor of Renaissance and Baroque art history at the State College at Buffalo, New York. She is a historian of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian art and criticism, collecting, intellectual history and medicine. Her articles and essays have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Intellectual History Review and The Burlington Magazine and in numerous volumes including Display of Art in Roman Palaces, 1550-1750 and Caravaggio: Reflections and Refractions. She is the author of Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art, published by Penn State University Press in 2016.

 

Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 10 November, 17:30, John S Cohen Room N203, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

Tawny Paul (University of Exeter)

Work culture, occupation and masculine identity in eighteenth-century Britain

It is well known that people in early modern Britain undertook multiple jobs in order to make a living. The occupational titles that men claimed in legal and institutional settings did not necessarily reflect the work that they undertook. While this relationship between title and work poses challenges for understanding men’s productive activities, it also opens up a number of questions related to identity. Work is often given a central place in accounts of masculine status. What happened, however, when men undertook multiple jobs? How did men account for their worth and status against plural employments? This paper draws on the diaries of three male artisans in the pre-industrial eighteenth century to investigate how men “accounted” for their work in social and cultural terms. It challenges some of the prevailing associations between occupation and masculinity, and investigates the interrelationship between labour, leisure, skill, income and status.

 

Tudor & Stuart History (IHR)

Monday, 7 November, 17:15, Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

Steven Ellis (NUI Galway)
‘Defending English ground: the crisis of lordship in early Tudor Northumberland’

 

 

Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday, 01/11/16, 5.15pm in G-R06-07
Andy Kesson (Roehampton)
‘Peculiar houses: building public theatres in Elizabethan London’

 

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, November 2, 12-1:15pm
English Faculty, Room GR03

Professor Naomi Standen (University of Birmingham)
Options and Experiments: Defining the ‘Global Middle Ages’

 

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 2 November, 5.15pm
Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Sarah Ward (Oxford)
‘“This rebellion against heaven”: the north-east Welsh gentry, royalism, and the Church of England’

 

Early Modern European History

Thursday, November 3, 1-2pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

Tom Hamilton (Cambridge)
Sharing Beds: Intimacy and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France

 

Writing Women in History

11am-12pm, 1 November, RFB 142

‘Women entering convent life’

Texts available on the website

 

IN LONDON

 

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, November 3, 5:15 PM
Room SH246, 2nd floor, South block, Senate House

Niccolò Fattori (Royal Holloway)
With a little help from my friends – Networks of mutual support in the Greek community of Ancona during the sixteenth century

 

British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, November 3, 5:15 PM

Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

Bethany Marsh (Nottingham)
The experience of charitable aid in the British and Irish Civil Wars: the reception of Irish Refugees in the English localities, 1641 to 1651

 

 

Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE:

Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices, & Theories (CRASSH)

Armour
26 October 2016, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

Victoria Bartels (Cambridge)

 

Middle English Graduate Seminar

Wednesday, October 26, 5:15 PM

English Faculty Room SR24

Sexuality and dishonour: punishing adultery & other crimes in southern France (c.1150-1320) – John Arnold (Cambridge)

 

Poetics Before Modernity

Tuesday 25th October 2016, 5:15, Old Combination Room, Trinity College

Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

“ALLEGORESIS AND ETYMOLOGY”

For many centuries, especially from Late Antiquity until the seventeenth century, European scholars often chose to interpret the foundational texts of their culture—for example, the Bible and the works of Homer and Virgil—by attributing to them more or less systematically coherent meanings that were strikingly at variance with those that uninformed readers would likely have thought they were communicating; and the same scholars often buttressed their interpretations by claiming that some of the words used in those texts had in fact a different, original meaning from the ones that ordinary speakers attached to them in everyday conversation. In so doing, these scholars were applying the procedures of allegoresis to those texts and of etymology to these words. These two scholarly practices also flourished independently of one another in this period; but their complex and intense interaction is one of the features particularly characteristic of the Western Classical tradition. This paper examines their nature, functions, and interrelations during Classical antiquity.

Glenn W. Most is Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He studied Classics and Comparative Literature in Europe and the United States, and has taught at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Siena, Innsbruck, and Heidelberg. He has published books on Classics, on the history and methodology of Classical studies, on comparative literature, cultural studies, and the history of religion, on literary theory and on the history of art, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also on modern philosophy and literature. Among his most recent publications are the edited collection Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach (with Anthony Grafton; Cambridge UP, 2016), and a nine-volume edition of Early Greek Philosophy in the Loeb Classical Library (with André Laks; Harvard UP, 2016).

 

Early Modern British and Irish History

Wednesday, October 26, 5.15pm
Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Stephen Tong (Corpus Christi)
‘John Bale: a Protestant bishop afloat in an Irish see’

 

Economic and Social History

Thursday, 27 October, 5 PM, Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
Dr Judy Stephenson (Oxford)
‘Labouring in early modern London’

 

IN LONDON:

Courtauld Institute of Art

Thursday 27 October 2016, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Caroline Villiers Fellow Lecture

‘Adrian Vanson and Adam de Colone: Technical Study of Two Scoto-Jacobean Stranger-Painters’

Caroline Rae: Caroline Villers fellow 2016-17, The Courtauld Institute of Art

The project will use established methods of technical art history in order to examine the materials and techniques of Adrian Vanson and Adam de Colone, two Netherlandish artists who worked in Jacobean Scotland. Religious persecution and fortuitous trade relationships led many Protestant Netherlanders to emigrate to Britain in the sixteenth century. Vanson and de Colone are notable amongst this group as they were patronised by the highest echelons of society: Vanson was James VI’s court painter and de Colone was the most prominent painter working in Scotland in the 1620s (who also painted the king). Thomson, whose publications remain a seminal source, constructed their core oeuvres in the 1970s. However, little technical examination has been undertaken on their works to date. The project will focus on the technical examination of paintings in the National Galleries of Scotland collection with the aim of clarifying issues of attribution and identity and illuminating their workshop practices.

Caroline recently completed her Ph.D (jointly hosted by the Department of Conservation and Technology at the Courtauld and the National Portrait Gallery, where she was a member of the Making Art in Tudor Britain team) which focused on issues of workshop practice, authorship and cross-cultural dialogues between native and émigré artists working in England at the turn of the seventeenth century. Previously, Caroline graduated with first class honours in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh/ Edinburgh College of Art and from the Conservation of Easel Paintings course at the Courtauld. Caroline contributes to the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon and has published on de Critz and Fuseli.

The event will also include a presentation by the 2016-17 Associate Fellow, Anna Koopstra, on Investigating Saint Jerome in his study by Hendrik van Steenwijck the Younger.

 

Tudor & Stuart History Seminar (IHR)

Monday, 24 October, 17:15

Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

Chris St John-Smith (Oxford)
‘Political management of the law and the implementation of religious policy by the Privy Council during the personal rule of Charles I’

 

 

 

Events This Week

Things are getting busy! Here are some events taking place this coming week in Cambridge and London.

IN CAMBRIDGE:

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday, October 18 at 5.15pm in G-R06-07

Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck)
‘Wheatcroft’s Written World’

History of Material Texts

Wednesday 19th October, 12:30-2, Board Room, Faculty of English

Matthew Symonds (University College London/CELL) will introduce the Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe Project and the new Digital Bookwheel (http://www.bookwheel.org/viewer/)

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 19th October, 12-1:15pm
English Faculty, Room GR03

Dr Jonathan Willis (University of Birmingham)
‘Towards a Cultural History of Theology: The Ten Commandments and Popular Belief in Reformation England’

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 19 October, 5.15pm,
Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Kate Peters (Murray Edwards)
‘Friction in the archives: contested record-keeping in the English Revolution’

Early Modern European History Seminar

Thursday, 20 October 2016, 1-2pm in the Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

Attendees are welcome to bring lunch to this brown-bag seminar. Tea and coffee will be served. All welcome.

Daniel Jütte (Harvard / CRASSH EURIAS Junior Fellow)
Defenestration as Ritual Punishment: Windows, Power, and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe

Writing Women in History Reading Group

Tuesday, October 18, Room 142 (Media Centre) of the Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site from 11.00-12.00.

This term our theme is ‘Women and Religious Communities’, where we will be tracing the experiences of nuns and female missionaries across the Early Modern world, ranging from Florence to Moscow and beyond. Towards the end of term we will also be welcoming a graduate speaker from the University of Warwick who will speak to us about a female convent community in Medieval France.
In our first session, on Tuesday 18th October, we will be looking at convent regulation and the issue of enclosure comparatively in 16th-century Italy and Muscovy (Early Modern Russia). We will be reading an article by Silvia Evangelisti entitled “We do not have it, and we do not want it: Women, Power and Convent Reform in Florence”, in conjunction with some contemporary convent rules, focussing predominantly on a source from a nunnery in Moscow (provided in translation). Email writingwomeninhistory@gmail.com to receive texts in advance of the session, and to be added to the mailing list.

 

IN LONDON:

London Shakespeare Centre (KCL)

Still Shakespeare

Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31)

20/10/2016 (19:00-20:30)

Part of the Arts and Humanities Festival 2016.

Presented by the London Shakespeare Centre as part of Shakespeare400

This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required via eventbrite.

Please direct enquiries to ahri@kcl.ac.uk.

Register at https://stillshakespearescreening.eventbrite.co.uk

‘Still Shakespeare’ – animated shorts screening

Still Shakespeare is a slate of five artists’ short animated films including new works by Shaun Clark, Sharon Liu, Kim Noce and Farouq Suleiman and Jonathan Bairstow. The film aredeveloped in partnership with the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London, animation company Film Club at Th1ng and animation company Sherbet.

The aim of the project was to create contemporary artworks that take iconic Shakespearean imagery as their starting point and respond in a variety of irreverent and original ways, making Shakespeare current and engaging to wide audiences and adding a contemporary element to the Shakespeare400 worldwide celebrations in 2016. The artist filmmakers were given access to the research and expertise of the London Shakespeare Centre.

The key research feeding into the project was the PhD by Sally Barnden, in the Department of English Language & Literature. Sally’s research on the intersection of Shakespeare’s plays, performance and photography is concerned with the way that certain well-known iconic images have been absorbed into a shared cultural memory.

The films will be screened, followed by a discussion of the work with some of the artists and members of the London Shakespeare Centre.

 

London Renaissance Seminar

The London Renaissance Seminar meets at Birkbeck regularly to discuss the literature, culture and history of the English Renaissance. It is free and welcomes all students, academics and people with an interest in the Renaissance or early modern period.

Buried Things in Early Modern Culture: Poetics, Epistemology and Practice

12 – 5 pm, Saturday 22 October 2016

Room 114, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square

What role did the practice and figuration of burial play in producing knowledge in Renaissance England? Drawing connections between literature, natural philosophy, urban history and material culture, speakers explore the significance, uses and problems of the lost and buried in early modern culture.

Featuring Elizabeth Swann (Cambridge): The Consolation of (natural) philosophy: knowing death in early modern England (1:10-1:50)

 

Courtauld Institute of Art

A Graphic Imperative: The impact of print and printed images upon Michelangelo’s design for the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Wednesday 19 October 2016
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Free, open to all.

Dr Charles Robertson: Oxford Brookes University

The Sistine Ceiling stands at a cusp of a development in artistic production. While it preceded the moment when printmaking became a fully integrated, and often determining, part of artistic production, through the interaction of Raphael and his followers with Marcantonio Raimondi and other printmakers, the Ceiling was already created when the visual senses of both the artist and his public were already profoundly affected by printmaking and printed illustrated books.  Michelangelo’s earliest work was a painted version of the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Martin Schöngauer, marking only the beginning of an ingrained fascination with prints apparent in his adaptation of printed images by artists ranging from Andrea Mantegna to Albrecht Dürer.  Michelangelo was also particularly drawn to illustrated books. This went well beyond the illustrated vernacular Bibles, that he certainly used, and  provided both specific instances for the Ceilings ichnographic invention together with formal and design solutions. Furthermore it may be suggested that the viability of the stylistic revolution that the Ceiling represented within the broad context of the High Renaissance depended, in part, on an audience which itself avidly consumed a wide range of printed images.

Charles Robertson is Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, Oxford Brookes University.  His research interests and publications include studies of Milanese art and architecture, particularly the work of Bramantino, the relationship of painting and architecture in the Renaissance, the impact of printmaking, and Michelangelo.   He is currently completing a study of Michelangelo’s Last Judgement as a highly contingent work.

 

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar (IHR)

Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated

Thursday, 20 October, 17.15

New: Research clinic.  Bring a research problem, big or small, for the seminar to discuss (and solve?)

 

British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR)

Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

Thursday, 20 October, 17:15

DeAnn DeLuna (UCL)
The Monmouth plot of 1675

 

 

Welcome Back, and Events This Week

Welcome to a new year at Cambridge! As ever, we will be posting interesting events, series, publications, or whatever else throughout the term. If you have tips or suggestions, please send them to cam.renresearch@gmail.com. Follow us on twitter @Cam_Renaissance. We have an exciting term ahead, so here are some events this coming week to get you started.

IN CAMBRIDGE:

Middle English Graduate Seminar

Wednesday October 12, 5:15, English Faculty Room SR24

“Piers Plowman” and God’s Thought Experiment – Mishtooni Bose (Oxford)

Overview: These advanced research talks, followed by discussion, are aimed at graduate students, senior members and visiting scholars. The seminar begins at 5.15, but do bring a cup of tea along at 4.15 for an informal get-together (biscuits provided!). This term we will experiment with drinks after questions; we are trying out a new room to see if this makes it more possible for people to circulate. Afterwards all are welcome to come to supper with the speaker.

 

IN LONDON:

Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800  (IHR at UCL)

Thursday, October 13, 17:30

Venue:  John S Cohen Room N203, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

Chris Kissane (London School of Economics)

Deciphering Early Modern Food Cultures

 

Tudor & Stuart History (IHR at UCL)

Monday, October 10, 17:15

Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

Steven Gunn (Oxford)
‘Everyday life and accidental death in sixteenth-century England’

 

Warburg Institute, The E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series on the Classical Tradition 2016

Celestial Aspirations: 17th and 18th Century British Poetry and Painting, and the Classical Tradition

Philip Hardie, Honorary Professor of Latin and Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

11 October at 17.30 – Visions of apotheosis and glory on painted ceilings: from Rubens’ Banqueting House, Whitehall to Thornhill’s Painted Hall, Greenwich

12 October 2016 at 17:30 – Poetic ascents and flights of the mind: Neoplatonism to Romanticism

13 October at 17.30 – ‘No middle flight’: Miltonic ascents and their reception

Pre-registration is required for these free lectures. Register here.

Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE

Things-(Re)constructing the Material World Seminar

‘Bronze’

8 June 2016, 12:00 – 14:00

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

Dr Victoria Avery (Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge)
Andrew Lacey (Artist and Independent Scholar)

Bronze was used in Renaissance Italy for numerous types of functional objects (artillery, bells, coins, lamps, inkwells) as well as decorative ones (equestrian monuments, statues, busts, medals). Extremely expensive, meaning-laden and complex to produce, works of art cast in bronze were desirable status symbols for Humanist patrons, and proofs of incredible technical mastery by sculptors and casters. Sculpture historian, Vicky Avery, and sculptor-founder, Andrew Lacey, will discuss ‘bronze in Italy c. 1500’ in terms of its meanings, usage and technology, focussing on the enigmatic Rothschild Bronzes, recently attributed to Michelangelo.

Open to all.  No registration required .

 

IN LONDON

Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture

Thursday 9 June 2016, 19.00
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe

Remembering and forgetting Shakespeare (and Cervantes and Jonson and Beaumont), or, what 1616 (and 1916) did for us.’
Professor Gordon McMullan (KCL) gives the 2016 Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture.
http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/education/events/lectures-talks/fellowship

 

All the World’s a stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas

Friday 10 June 2016, 10.30-17.00
Conference Centre, The British Library
This study day brings together leading specialists to explore Shakespeare’s cultural presence in Europe and the Americas.
http://www.bl.uk/events/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeare-in-europe-and-the-americas

 

British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 9 June, 5.15pm

“His Lands as well as Goods / Sequestered ought to be”: the introduction of sequestration, 1642-3

Charlotte Young (RHUL)

Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

 

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 9 June, 5.15pm

Building Henry VII’s Savoy Hospital, 1505-1520

Charlotte A Stanford (Brigham Young University)

Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

 

Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE:

Early Modern French Seminar

Friday 3 June, 2-4 PM, New Gallery, Whipple Museum, Free School Lane

Alexander Marr, Department of History of Art and Trinity Hall, Cambridge

‘Simon Vouet’s Satyrs, Anamorphosis and an Elephant’

 

IN LONDON:

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar (IHR)

Wednesday, 1 June, 5.15 pm

‘Urinating in early modern England: gender, space and iconoclasm’

Tim Reinke Williams (Northampton)

This paper, part of a broader project on masculinity and the body, explores when and where men urinated in early modern England. Existing scholarship has argued that leaky bodies were configured by early modern people as effeminate and weak, a thesis which this paper will question by arguing that for men, and sometimes women, urinating was a form of empowerment and might be a political action which enabled the desecration of particular objects. By considering places, circumstances and objects, as well as the positive uses to which urine was put, the paper will extend and modify existing understandings of gendered bodies in early modern England.

Venue: Gordon Room G34, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

 

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 5 May, 5.15pm

‘Medieval London almshouses’

Sarah Lennard-Brown (Birkbeck)

‘Meeting the monks: visitors to the London Charterhouse 1405-1537’
David Harrrap (QMUL)

Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

 

 

 

Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE:

 

Things-(Re)constructing the Material World

25 May 2016, 12:30-2 PM

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

‘Slaves’

James Poskett (Cambridge), Stefan Hanß (Berlin)

 

Cambridge Bibliographical Society

Wednesday, 25 May, 5 PM

Milstein Seminar Rooms, Cambridge University Library

Tea from 4:30 pm before the lectures.

Dr Kathryn James (Munby Fellow), ‘Loss and the English imagination: writing the dissolution of the monasteries in the early eighteenth century’

 

Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop

Friday 27 May 2016- 2-4 PM

Milstein Seminar Room, Cambridge University Library

Professor David Ganz: ‘When is a ‘Script’ not Several Scribes?’

 

Early Modern French Seminar at the Whipple Museum

Friday 27 May, 2-4pm

New Gallery, Whipple Museum, Free School Lane.

Katherine Reinhart, CRASSH and King’s College, Cambridge

‘Miscellany and Marginalia: The drawings of the early Académie Royale des Sciences’

 

IN LONDON:

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar (IRC, UCL)

May 25, 5:15 PM

‘In Pewter two dozen great and small: From quantification to affective qualities in material culture’

Antony Buxton

Much analysis of material culture relies on the evidence of individual affective responses to artefacts, as well as the assumed contemporary perception of the properties of the object itself. This paper will discuss the potential of quantitative evidence to reveal qualitative conclusions.  In a study based on the evidence of early modern probate inventories – in conjunction with contemporary texts and images – the capacity of the relational database to tease out nuanced variations in practice indicated by household furnishings makes possible a practice-based reading of the interrelationship between people and objects, and its indication of a changing social dynamic.

Venue: Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

 

British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR, UCL)

Thursday, May 26, 5:15 PM

‘”Lying, flattering addresses?” Allegiance, popularity and status in loyal addresses 1658-1661’

Ted Vallance (Roehampton)

Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

 

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar (IHR, UCL)

Thursday, May 26, 5.15pm

‘The pre-Fire church of St Botolph Billingsgate’

Stephen Freeth

Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

 

Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE:

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday 17 May, at 5.15pm in GR06/7 in the Faculty of English

Michael Schoenfeldt, ‘New pleasures and old pain: Donne and sensation’.

Throughout his rich and varied corpus, John Donne repeatedly seeks
meaning in the sensations of pleasure and pain. His literary career is
marked by robust avowals of the pleasures of lyric intimacy, as well as
by urgent expositions of the conventional pains of religious suffering.
In this paper, I argue that part of what is distinctive and compelling
about Donne is his careful attention to sensation. While Donne may have
only been partly successful in the attempt to find a lexicon of
suffering that could escape an inherited logic of redemptive pain, he
succeeded admirably in the effort to carve out an emergent discourse of
sanctioned erotic pleasure.

Michael Schoenfeldt is the John Knott Professor of English at the
University of Michigan, where he has taught since he received his Ph.D.
from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. He is also a Life
Member of Clare Hall. He is the author of /Prayer and Power: George
Herbert and Renaissance Courtship/ (University of Chicago Press, 1991),
/Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in
Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton/ (Cambridge, 1999) and /The
Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Poetry/ (2010); and editor of
the /Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets/ (2006).He is
currently editing /John Donne in Context/ for Cambridge, working on a
book for Blackwell’s entitled /Reading Seventeenth-Century Poetry/, and
researching a book-length study of pain and pleasure in early modern
England.

 

Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network Annual Lecture

‘The Habsburgs and their Eastern Neighbours: Re-evaluating the Religious Landscape of 16th-century Central Europe’

Tuesday, 17th May 2016, Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall, 5pm-6:30pm

Professor Howard Louthan (Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota)

While relations between the Habsburgs and their Valois, Tudor, and Ottoman rivals have been well studied, their connections with their eastern neighbors, the Jagiellonians, have not been examined with the same degree of scrutiny.  The paper will first offer an overview of the complicated web of relationships that developed between the two families.   I will then argue that a fixation with diplomatic and dynastic history has obscured our vision of a common cultural and intellectual landscape the families shared.  We will pay specific attention to a great scandal that occurred in mid-sixteenth century Poland and unpack that incident to explore some of the distinctive features of a multiconfessional religious culture that developed across Central Europe during the Age of Reform.

 

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 18 May, 12-1:30 PM

Liesbeth Corens (Jesus College, Cambridge):

‘Witnessing, Mission, and English Catholic Counter-Archives’

SR-24, Faculty of English

 

Cambridge Medieval Paleography Workshop

Friday 20 May 2016, Milstein Seminar Room, Cambridge University Library, 2-4 PM.

Dr. Katya Chernakova: Title To Be Announced.

Dr. Eyal Poleg: ‘The Late Medieval Bible’

The Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop is a forum for informal discussion on medieval script and scribal practices, and on the presentation, circulation and reception of texts in their manuscript contexts. Each workshop focuses upon a particular issue, usually explored through one or more informal presentations and general discussion. All are welcome.

 

 

IN LONDON:

Courtauld Institute of Art

Renaissance Work-in-Progress seminars

‘Titian and the Renaissance Model’

Wednesday 18 May 2016 – 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Dr Joost Keizer: University of Groningen
Titian’s models muddle the boundaries between art and life. They lived in two worlds: in the social world and the world of the artwork. The questions assembled in the model were therefore not just aesthetic; they also redefined art’s relationship to life. How much distance should art take from lived experience? And how much does our perception of reality change when art trespasses the territory of the real? These questions are the subject of this talk.

Dr Joost Keizer (PhD Leiden University ’08) is Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. He has written Michelangelo and the Politics of Art (Yale University Press), The Realism of Piero della Francesca: The Life & the Work (Ashgate), and a book on Leonardo da Vinci with illustrations by Christina Christoforou (Laurence King). He has co-edited a volume on The Transformation of the Vernacular in Early Modernity. And he has published articles on Michelangelo, fifteenth-century portraiture, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, and the concept of style.

 

Institute of Historical Research (UCL):

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar

Wednesday, 18 May, 5.15 pm

‘Divers other trifles: the material culture of the sugar banquet in early modern England’

Louise Stewart

In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, sweet banquets consisting of preserved fruits, confections such as comfits and lozenges, and sculptures in sugar paste or marzipan were a significant element of aristocratic and gentry sociability.  Indeed, an elite person in early modern England would expect to be entertained with a sweet banquet at every wedding, christening and funeral as well as at other significant social occasions hosted by their peers.  What meanings did the banquet hold that led it to be so closely associated with these important life events?

This paper invites the audience to tour the spaces in which foods for the banquet were prepared and consumed; the banqueting house, the sweetmeat closet, and the child-bed chamber.  Inventories of these spaces, surviving material culture and contemporary descriptions of banqueting provide new insights as to why the sugar banquet was so pervasive in early modern England.  It provided opportunities for participants to demonstrate their refined manners, excellent education, good connections, virtue and inherent nobility.  As a cultural practice which was associated with femininity, did the sugar banquet also provide opportunities for female empowerment and creative expression?

Venue: Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

 

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar

Thursday, 19 May, 5.15pm

Gogmagog and Corineus: from the West Country to the New Troy 
‘Trojans and giants on the sea-coast of Totnes’
John Clark (Museum of London)

‘Gogmagog come(s) to London’
Alixe Bovey (Courtauld Institute of Art)

 

Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House