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IN CAMBRIDGE

 

History of Material Texts Workshop

Monday 6 March, 12.30-2, Milstein Seminar Room, University Library

‘The Medical Book in the Nineteenth Century: From MS Casebooks to Mass Plagiarism’
A workshop led by Sarah Bull, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, HPS

 

Middle English Graduate Seminar

Wednesday, 08/03/17, 5:15pm, English Faculty Room GR04

Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), Enthymeme and Emotion from Aristotle to Hoccleve

 

Poetics Before Modernity

Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 5.15pm, Old Combination Room at Trinity College

Gavin Alexander (University of Cambridge)

“LYRIC POETICS?”

This paper is about lyric poetry’s place in classical and early modern poetics. That place looks less sure than does that of tragedy or epic—which may be Aristotle’s fault, or due to the nature of lyric; it clearly has something to do with the fact that lyric is hard to define and delimit. I question two common myths about lyric’s place in the system of poetic genres: that there has always been a straightforward and accepted tripartition of poetry into epic, dramatic, and lyric; and, conversely, that this tripartition was only a Romantic discovery. I also resist the direction of the “new lyric studies”, which attempts to challenge the usefulness of the category “lyric” to the understanding of various kinds of short poetry. I trace lyric’s presence in less familiar theoretical settings (grammar, rhetoric) in order to ask if we might consider such treatments as a part of the poetics of lyric. And I aim to show how the interplay between the paradigms and taxonomies of rhetoric and poetics contribute to lyric’s vexed (and rich) status in the history of literary theory. Do Sappho, Pindar, Horace, Petrarch, and Shakespeare actually have something in common that might be captured by the term “lyric”; or should ancient lyric can only be grouped with modern lyric of a strictly neoclassical bent? In considering why it has been difficult to agree about both what a lyric poem is and what features of form, content, mode, or method might characterise lyric, I will suggest how theoretical muddle might be contained by a larger clarity.

Gavin Alexander is Reader in Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ’s College. His publications include Writing after Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640 (Oxford, 2006), editions of Sidney’s “Defence of Poesy” and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (London, 2004) and William Scott’s Model of Poesy (Cambridge, 2013), and the collection Renaissance Figures of Speech (Cambridge, 2007; with Sylvia Adamson and Katrin Ettenhuber).

 

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 8th March, 12-1:15pm, English Faculty, Board Room

In Collaboration with the Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature (CMEMLL)

Dr Maria Mendes (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa) will present the following paper:

Praise with Purpose: Flattery in Early Modern England

Susceptibility to flattery has long been considered a character flaw, which is the reason those who believe it are usually described as being vain, proud, tyrannical or conceited. I will close-read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, so as to question if Caesar’s failure to anticipate the conspirators’ plot is, as is usually thought, an illustration of his proneness to flattery or, as I hope to show, an example of the flatterer’s capacity to mirror one’s own mind. Flatterers might be very able in showing rhetorically what the flattered person’s ideal self would look like, and they might in turn tend to supplement rhetorical suggestion with their own desires and concerns. If this is the case, flattery is central to understanding that Julius Caesar describes a hermeneutic difficulty, and characterises the difficulties of knowing another’s mind.

 

Early Modern French Seminar

Friday, 10 March, 2-4pm, Clare College, Latimer Room

Phillip USHER (New York University)

Exterranean Insurgency in the Humanist Anthropocene

 

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 8 March, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Alice Soulieux-Evans (Wolfson),
‘“Because thou canst not walk in thy minster’s way”: cathedrals, conformity and the Church of England in the Restoration period’

 

 

IN LONDON

British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 9 March, 17:15, Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

‘The Print that Binds: official print and personal record keeping in seventeenth-century England’
Frances Maguire (York)

 

 

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History of Material Texts Workshop

Monday, 6 March, 12.30-2, Milstein Seminar Room, University Library

‘The Medical Book in the Nineteenth Century: From MS Casebooks to Mass Plagiarism’
A workshop led by Sarah Bull, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, HPS

 

Embodied Things (CRASSH)

Thursday, 9 November 2016, 12:30-14:00, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

‘Passageways’

Jacqueline Nicholls
Doors, Gates & Curtains
Traditional Jewish texts utilises imagery of different types of entrances, each evoking particular ideas with regard to the relationship between physical reality and the world of the divine. This visual art presentation will focus on drawings that interpret relevant Talmudic texts about doors, gates and curtains as barriers and entrances.
Daniel Jütte
Living Stones: Architecture and Embodiment in Premodern Europe

Among the arts, architecture is often considered a particularly rational manifestation of human creativity. The desire for the perfect form runs deep in modern architecture, culminating, perhaps, in Le Corbusier’s notion of the “house as machine for living in.” Historically, however, there have also been other, very different ways of conceptualizing architecture. Following the call of this year’s seminar convenors—to “investigate human understanding of the world vis-à-vis objects”—the talk will probe the history of one particular idea: the house as a living being. The focus will be on the late medieval and early modern period when human attributes were explicitly assigned to the house: it had a name and life story, displayed bodily features, and was invested with a specific individuality. I will also address the question of why and when this notion of the house as actor began to decline.


Bios

Jacqueline Nicholls is a London based visual artist and Jewish educator. She uses her art to engage with traditional Jewish ideas in untraditional ways. She co-ordinates the Art Studio and other Arts & Culture events at JW3, and regularly teaches at the London School of Jewish Studies. Jacqueline’s art has been exhibited in solo shows and significant contemporary Jewish Art group shows in the UK, USA and Israel, and she was recently artist-in-resident in Venice with Beit Venezia. Jacqueline is a regular contributor to BBC R2 Pause for Thought.
Dr Daniel Jütte  is a historian of early modern and modern Europe. He is an associate professor (currently on leave) in the Department of History at New York University. His research interests lie in cultural history, urban history and material culture, history of knowledge and science, and Jewish history. He is currently working on a history of transparency from antiquity to modern times. Jütte is the author of two monographs. His award-winning The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800 (Yale University Press, 2015; first German ed. 2011) offers a general history of secrecy in the early modern period, with particular attention to the role of secrecy and secret sciences in Jewish-Christian relations. His second book, The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History (Yale University Press, 2015), explores how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped notions about security, privacy, and shelter.

Before joining NYU, Jütte taught as lecturer in the History Department at Harvard University as well as at the University of Heidelberg, from which he earned his Ph.D. in 2010. He has also held a number of fellowships: Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (2011–2015); Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (2015–16); and Eurias Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2016–2017). In addition, his work has been supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung), and the Daimler Benz Foundation. Jütte has been recognized for excellence in teaching, but he also enjoys engaging non-academic audiences and readerships, e.g., as a regular contributor to major European daily newspapers, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Die Welt.

Open to all.  No registration required

 

Middle English Graduate Seminar

Wednesday, February 8, 5:15pm, English Faculty Room SR24

Jackie Tasioulas (Cambridge), The Point of Remembrance in Chaucer and Henryson

 

Poetics Before Modernity

Tuesday, 7 February 2017, 5.15pm in the Old Combination Room at Trinity College.

Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews)

“INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE MIND: THE GREEK POETICS OF INSPIRATION”

The family of ideas usually grouped together under the heading of ‘inspiration’ forms a remarkably long-lasting component of Western poetics. But such ideas constitute a far from harmonious family; their tangled relationships are too often simplified by historians of poetics. This paper will offer some selective and revisionist thoughts on versions of poetic inspiration found in three different ancient Greek contexts: the treatment of the Muses in the earliest surviving Greek poetry (Homer and Hesiod); the notorious series of challenges to poetic authority voiced in several Platonic dialogues; and the treatise On the Sublime by (pseudo-)Longinus. Three main theses will be advanced: first, that an excessively literalist and primitivist tradition of interpretation has obscured the important sense in which the Muses were never a source external to poetry but a symbolic self-image of poetry’s own powers; second, that the scattered remarks on poetic inspiration in Plato accompany a perception of poetry’s resistance to a philosophical demand (which Nietzsche calls ‘aesthetic Socratism’) for cognitive transparency; third, that On the Sublime makes inspiration internal to the self-perpetuating traditions of literature, but thereby imposes on writers a responsibility which Longinus himself recognises as a potential burden of anxiety. If an adequate history of the concept of inspiration were ever (improbably) to be written, it would need to recognise far more complexity in the ancient roots of this concept than current orthodoxies allow for.

Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely on ancient poetics and aesthetics, especially in relation to the intersection between literary and philosophical traditions of thought. In addition to his monograph Aristotle’s Poetics (1986/1998), he has produced two separate translations of Aristotle’s treatise (one for the Loeb Library, 1995). His other books include Plato Republic Book 10 (1988), The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002), Greek Laughter: a Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008), and Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (2011). He is currently working on a commentary on Longinus, On the Sublime, for the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla series, ‘Scrittori greci e latini’.

 

Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe

February 8-11, Cambridge Arts Theatre, presented by the Marlowe Society

Directed by Caroline Steinbeis

On Thursday evening, there will be a post-show talk with Simon Russell Beale (Edward II, RSC)

Son to an impressive father, husband to a passionate queen, King Edward II struggles to find his own voice amidst the clamour of stronger personalities in the English court. Despite the disapproval of his nobles, he finds consolation in his relationship with the low-born Piers Gaveston, often choosing his pleasures with Gaveston over the responsibilities of his position. When his queen and nobles unite against Gaveston, Edward must decide how far he is willing to go to assert his own will in the face of hostile resistance.

Christopher Marlowe’s gripping drama of deceit and responsibility is brought vividly to life by the Marlowe Society, Cambridge University’s leading drama society. The Marlowe return to Cambridge Arts Theatre after their recent acclaimed productions of Measure for Measure and Dr Faustus; it has been responsible for launching the careers of some of Britain’s greatest actors including Ian McKellen, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston and Derek Jacobi.

Tickets available here.

 

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 8 February, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Peter Marshall (Warwick),
‘Reformation on Scotland’s northern frontier: kirk and community in early modern Orkney’

 

IN LONDON

British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 9 February, 17:15, Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

Finola Finn, Durham University

‘The principle of life, both for naturall and spirituall actions: The heart in nonconformist religious experience, c.1640-1700’

 

 

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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

 

 

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IN CAMBRIDGE

CRASSH: Things That Matter

11 May 2016, 12:00 – 14:00

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

Dr Stella Panayotova (Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge)

History of Material Texts Seminar 

Thursday, 12 May at 5 PM

Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), ‘Errant commas, absent pages, and shifting typos: the strange bibliographical world of Jonathan Swift’s English political works’

Venue: Keynes Room, CUL

Early Modern Economic and Social History

12 May, 5pm in Room 12 of the History Faculty.

Hülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
(with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci)

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

Studies of slavery in the Ottoman Empire focus on slavery among and for the official elite in the capital, with an emphasis on the 15th and 16th centuries, on the trade and its abolition in the 19th century, or more recently, on microhistories of slave lives beyond the harems and military households of the official elite. This study builds on the latter two trends. Using probate inventories from the city of Bursa and its hinterland, it examines long-term patterns in slave ownership and employment among commoners as well as the local elite. Probate evidence indicates that slave-holding steadily declined over the four centuries examined and by the time of its abolition, was already a marginal practice in this important provincial city. Price trends reveal a decline from the 18th century onwards, suggesting that declining ownership was due to causes other than supply and prices. We present statistics of ownership and characteristics of the slave body, and examine prices and supply and demand in connection with wages and purchasing power.

Early Modern French Seminar at the Whipple Museum

Friday 13th of May, 2-4pm in the New Gallery, Whipple Museum, Free School Lane.

Raphaële Garrod, CRASSH and Newnham College, Cambridge ‘L’opinion fantastique et trop gaillarde de Copernicque’: on three argument uses of cosmological novelties (Belleforest, Montaigne, Binet)

IN LONDON

Friday 13 May 2016, 12.15-13.45
Playing the Curtain with Dr Lucy Munro
Mortimer Wheeler House, 46 Eagle Wharf Road, London
From the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson in the 1590s to those of Dekker, Ford and Rowley in the 1620s, the Curtain was one of the most enduring performance places in early modern London. This talk will explore some highlights of this long history, from Jonson’s humours comedy and Shakespeare’s romantic comedies and histories to the topical story of The Witch of Edmonton and lost plays such as Henry the Unable, The Plantation of Virginia and The Man in the Moon Drinks Claret.
http://www.mola.org.uk/events/playing-curtain-dr-lucy-monroe

Leonardo da Vinci Society annual lecture

‘Art and Anatomy in the 15th and 16th Centuries’

Friday 13 May 2016 – 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

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

Prof. Andrew Gregory: University College London

The developments in art in the 15th and 16th centuries brought with them a new interest in proportion, perspective and the accurate depiction of the human body. How did this affect the science of anatomy? This talk discusses the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Vesalius and Fabricius and looks at how the nature of the new art inspired and shaped a new wave of research into the structure of the human body and how such knowledge was transmitted in visual form. This ultimately led to a revolution in our understanding of anatomy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

 

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar

Wednesday, 11 May, 5.15 pm

‘Bloody Matters in Early Modern Drama and Culture: The Blood that is Shed, The Blood That is Said, The Blood That is Read’
Stephen Curtis

In it I will examine the various ways in which blood is used, read and interpreted in early modern tragedy paying particular attention to the material and corporeal aspects of its dramatic power. I will consider the religious and sacrificial origins of spectacular bloodshed, the practicalities of staging such sanguinary spectacle and conclude by exploring shifts in the cultural significance of blood in the light of scientific and medical developments in the early seventeenth century. I will argue that blood demands to be read and that understanding its materiality is key to this process of bloody hermeneutics.

Venue: Bloomsbury Room G35, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

British History in the 17th Century Seminar

Thursday, 12 May, 5.15pm

‘E.H.: printer of Marvell and Hobbes’
Martin Dzelzainis (Leicester)

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

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar

Thursday, 12 May, 5.15pm

‘Henry Yevele and the building of the London Bridge Chapel’

Christopher Wilson (UCL)

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

 

Warburg Institute

Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 5:15 PM

Words and Things: Naming the Limits of Reason in Early Modern Culture

Alberto Frigo (University of Reims)
‘The Invention of Connoiseurship’

Richard Scholar (Oriel College, University of Oxford)
‘The Invention of Utopia’

Classroom 1, at the Warburg Institute

 

Senate House Library

Editing Shakespeare

This talk considers how Shakespeare’s text has evolved over the last 400 years. Theories about the purpose of editing and narratives about the origin of Shakespeare’s text and its transmission into print vary over time and editors take great pains to present their rationales as more fitting to the task of representing Shakespeare to their readers than the methods used by their predecessors. However, the impact of editorial theories on the editing of Shakespeare is not always straightforward and, while change occurs, thus suggesting that the editorial tradition is evolutionary and progressive, some editorial practices tend to endure, revealing a recurrent desire to perfect Shakespeare.

Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English Department at King’s College London. She has published widely on the history of the transmission of Shakespeare on the stage and on the page, focusing specifically on the evolution of Shakespeare’s texts in print before 1709 and on the appropriation of Shakespeare across different languages, media and cultures in the late 20C and early 21C.

WHEN

Tuesday, 10 May 2016 from 18:30 to 19:30 (BST)

WHERE

Senate House Library – Senate House Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-shakespeare-tickets-21452279345?ref=ebtn

 

Shakespeare’s Common Prayers

The Book of Common Prayer was the most popular book in early modern England; it was also a key source for Shakespeare’s plays of the period 1598-1606, in which the playwright repeatedly borrows the phrases and instructions from church rites and transforms them into dense, precise theatrical moments. When Rosalind pretends to merry Orlando, or when Macbeth considers his terrible guilt, each are really re-phrasing the Book of Common Prayer, and this paper will explore how Shakespeare adapted, stole, and metamorphosed this vital source.

Daniel Swift is the author of Shakespeare’s Common Prayers (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Bomber County (Hamish Hamilton, 2010), as well as the editor of the Selected Poems of John Berryman (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2014). He is Senior Lecturer in English at the New College of the Humanities.

WHEN

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00 (BST)

WHERE

Senate House Library – Senate House Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespeares-common-prayers-tickets-21480671266?ref=ebtn

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday 25th January

CMT Inaugural Exhibition Launch Party, 10.15-11.15am, English Faculty first floor landing. Come and help us celebrate the arrival of the CMT’s new exhibition cases with coffee and cake.

Tuesday 26th January

Renaissance Graduate Seminar, 5.15pm, GR06/7
Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
Transvernacular Poetry and the Rise of English Literature in Early Modern Europe

Sandars Lectures, ‘Writing and Reading History in Renaiassance England: Some Cambridge Examples’, 5pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene’t Street                                  Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)                                                         John Caius: history as argument

Clark Lectures ‘The Art of Invention’, 5pm, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms                                    Professor Mary Carruthers (New York University)                                                                 Disquiet, Dislocation, Performance: Augustine’s Conversion

 Wednesday 27th January

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar, 12pm SR24                                                 Jennifer Bishop (Sidney Sussex, Cambridge):                                                            Making a record of the self: some autobiographical traces of London clerks

Sandars Lectures, ‘Writing and Reading History in Renaiassance England: Some Cambridge Examples’, 5pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene’t Street                                  Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)                                                         Matthew Parker: history as archive

Early Modern British and Irish Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall      Greg Salazar (Selwyn),
Ecclesiastical Licensing, Religious Censorship, and the Regulation of Consensus in Early Stuart England

Thursday 28th January

 Sandars Lectures, ‘Writing and Reading History in Renaiassance England: Some Cambridge Examples’, 5pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene’t Street                                  Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)                                                        Adam Winthrop: history as resource

Friday 29th January

 Graduate Lecture Series, 1pm, GR06/07                                                                   Conor Leahy                                                                                                              Gavin Douglas and the History of Landscape Poetry

Saturday 30th January

Renaissance Revenge: In and Out of Time                                                                            2-6pm Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, Room 112

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Monday 18th January

 

Fitzwilliam College Literary Society Talk, 5.30pm, Upper Hall 1, Fitzwilliam College Professor Helen Hackett (UCL)                                                                                       The Elizabethan Imagination                                                                                            All welcome. Drinks will be served after the talk. No booking requirement but please contact Hero Chalmers (hac26@cam.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

 

London Shakespeare Seminar, 5.15pm Senate Room, Senate House Library               Preti Taneja (QMUL)                                                                                         Shakespeare responses to the Syrian conflict: a presentation of research from Jordan and Syria 2015-16                                                                                                 Katherine Hennessey (Warwick)                                                                                      ‘All the Perfumes of Arabia’: Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula

 

Wednesday 20th January

 

Things, (Re)constructing the Material World: Alcohol, 12.30pm, Alison Richard SG1         Dr Richard Stone (History, University of Bristol)                                                             What is Cider?  What was Cider?  Recovering Seventeenth Century Material Culture        Dr Deborah Toner (History, University of Leicester)                                                    Pulque and Pulquerías

 

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Richard Ansell (Leicester)                                                                                     Education, Travel and Family Strategy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1650–1750

 

Bibliographical Society Lecture, 5.30pm, Society of Antiquaries, Piccadilly, London     Scott Mandelbrote                                                                                                        Isaac Newton, his library, and the history of scholarship More information here.

 

Thursday 21st January

 

History of Material Texts Seminar, 5pm, SR24

Friday 22nd January

Crossroads of Knowledge, Reading Group                                                              Contact Tim Stuart-Buttle (ts630) for more information.

 

Graduate Lecture Series, 1pm, GR06/07                                                                Rosalind Lintott                                                                                                    Everything you always wanted to know about Isidore of Seville (but were afraid to ask)

 

Early Modern French Seminar, 2pm, Free Gallery, Whipple Museum                           Simon Schaffer (Downing College, Cambridge)
Optical Philosophy in the Republic of Letters

 

Saturday 23rd January

 

Authorship and Attribution in Early Modern Drama: John Marston and Others             Room 114, 43 Gordon Square, London, more information here.

 

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Monday 9th November

London Shakespeare Seminar, 5.15pm, Senate Room, Senate House Library              Brett Gamboa (Dartmouth College)                                                              Shakespearean Metadrama, 2.0                                                                                   More information here.

Tuesday 10th November

Renaissance Research Workshop, on Lisa Jardine’s work and disciplinary legacy. 1.05-1.55pm, English Faculty GR-03. All welcome.

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar, 5pm, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius Penny Roberts (Warwick)                                                                                                “To my very great regret”: Adversity and Opportunity in the Huguenot Exile Experience  More information here.

Wednesday 11th November

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Jessica Crown (Clare)
Scholarship and Service in the Career of Richard Croke (1489–1558)                           More information here.

Thursday 12th November

Early Modern European History Seminar, 1pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College Aurelia Martín Casares (Granada)                                                                               Female trafficking in the Mediterranean: North African women in early modern Spain  More information here.

History of Material Texts Seminar, 5pm, Milstein Seminar Room, CUL                    Catherine Ansorge (University Library)                                                                             Ink and gold; how the Islamic manuscripts came to Cambridge                                    More information here.

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Wednesday 13 May

Centre for Material Texts: Material-Textual Breakfast
9-10.30 am, Social Space, English Faculty

Please join us in the Social Space on the ground floor of the English Faculty for the first ever CMT material-textual-breakfast. This is an opportunity to meet people, to discuss current projects and to firm up plans for the future. Grab a coffee from the ARB (or wherever) and come over. Freshly baked cakes will be provided.

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar                                                                         12-1.30PM, Green Room, Gonville and Caius: 

Matthew Woodcock (University of East Anglia)
‘Tudor Soldier-Authors and the Art of Military Autobiography’

Faculty of History, Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar                             5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall:

John Walter, ‘Career Reflections’

Thursday 14 May

Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies                                                                  5.30pm in the Junior Parlour, The Blue Boar, Trinity College

Stuart M. McManus (Harvard University/Warburg Institute)                                            ‘Quo validis armis capta Manila fuit: inter-imperial rivalry in Bartolomé Saguinsín’s Epigrammata’

In the wake of the failure of the British Occupation of Manila at the end of the Seven Years’ War, a local Tagalog priest, Bartolomé Saguinsín (c. 1694-1772), composed a set of epigrams dedicated to the Lieutenant Governor of the Philippines that celebrated the triumph of Catholic Spanish and Filipino forces over the Protestant British. These epigrams, which I am currently editing, provide a window onto imperial and confessional rivalries in South East Asia in the context of rising British ambitions in the region. As the only surviving account of the Occupation by a Filipino, the work also speaks to the experience of the indigenous people of the Philippines caught in the midst of a global conflict between the “great powers”. In the paper, I will first address the historical and intellectual context of the Epigrammata, then focus on the text of my edition in progress and issues of intertextuality. (For a pdf of the text under discussion, please email Andrew Taylor: awt24@cam.ac.uk) Directions are here. For other inquiries, please contact Andrew Taylor. Sponsored by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Early Modern Italy Seminar 5.15pm Wolfson Room I, IHR, Basement

John Law (Swansea), ‘The Fall of the da Carrara: Insights’

To be followed by UK launch of the Festschrift for the historian of late medieval Padua and Venice, Ben Kohl (1938-2010).

Friday 15 May

Early Modern French Seminar, Fitzwilliam Museum                                              2pm Graham Robertson Study Room, Fitzwilliam Museum

The final seminar of the series will be given by Jane Munro, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam. In an appropriate conclusion to our examination of objects in the collections of the museum, Munro will discuss ‘Fitzwilliam’s French Connections‘: how the museum’s founder took a special interest in the objects and paintings he acquired from early modern France. Munro will be introduced by Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities. All welcome. For those unable to attend, a short account of the paper will be available on this site following the seminar.

Emmanuel College Library Special Collections Lecture                                               2.15pm Laing Centre Atrium, Emmanuel College Library

Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian and Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library

‘A Tale of Two Libraries (and one that got away) Lambeth Palace Library and Sion College Library in the Seventeenth Century’                                                                        Numbers are limited. Booking is essential and entry will be by free ticket only. Please book early by either e-mailing the College Library at library@emma.cam.ac.uk or telephone (01223) (3)34233. A ticket will be sent to you on receipt of booking.

Institute of Historical Research Seminar                                                                        5.15-7.15pm, Senate House, University of London

Jaap Geraerts (UCL) ‘Contested rights: the Dutch Catholic nobility and the jus patronatus, c. 1580-1720′

Saturday 16 May

Institute of English Studies, University of London, EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Seminar                                                     2 – 4pm, Room 104, Senate House (first floor)

Katherine Hunt (Queen’s College, Oxford) ‘The Art of Variation: Church Bells and Combinations in Seventeenth-Century England’