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’
