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IN CAMBRIDGE

History of Material Texts Seminar

Wednesday 30 November, 12.30-2, Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St

A guided tour of the Fitzwilliam exhibition ‘Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts’, in the company of the curator Dr Stella Panayotova.

Places are limited–please email Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003) if you would like to come.

 

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 30th November, 12-1:15pm, English Faculty, Room GR03
Hannah Worthen (University of Leicester and the National Archives)
‘For the hazards of War are equall’: The narratives of Royalist widows in print, petitions and at law during the Civil Wars and Interregnum

 

Early Modern European History Seminar

Thursday, December 1, 3 pm Senior Parlor, Gonville and Caius College

Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Workshop – Galileo’s Laughter: Knowledge and Play in the Renaissance

Copies of a pre-circulated paper will be available from Suzanna Ivanič (sdi20) from November

 

IN LONDON

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar

Thursday, Dec. 1, 17.15, Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

Maria Chiara Succurro (Southampton)
The Visconti and their histories: Writing and shaping memory in the chancery of Gian Galeazzo

 

British History in the 17th Century Seminar  

Thursday, Dec. 1, 17:15, Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

Rachel Foxley (Reading)
Defining democracy in Restoration England: Henry Neville and Algernon Sidney

 

 

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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’

 

 

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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’

 

 

Paradise Regained: A Performance

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‘Till one greater Man … regain the blissful seat’

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This is to give advance notice of a semi-staged performance of Paradise Regained, in which a strong cast will read a shortened version of Milton’s second epic, enhanced by live music and images from the period. This abridgement concentrates on the verbal duel between the Son of Man and his Adversary (fig. 1, Merrian, c. 1670), in which the complex cut and thrust of the argument has something of the dexterity of Real Tennis (fig. 2). The ‘dramatic poem’ will emerge as a worthy twin of Samson Agonistes (published in the same volume in 1671) rather than a lame sequel to Paradise Lost.

Date: Wednesday 23 November

Time: 7.30 pm

Place: St John’s College (Divinity School Theatre)

Admission free

To reserve a place, click here.

For further information, please email the Director, Professor Boyde (pb127@cam.ac.uk)

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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

 

 

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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’

 

 

 

Welcome Back, and Events This Week

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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.