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Events This Week

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Tuesday 1st December

Renaissance Graduate Seminar, 5.15pm, G-R06/07
Prof Catherine Bates (Warwick)                                                                                        On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World                                  More information here.

Wednesday 2nd December

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar, Glover Room, Memorial Court, Clare, 12pm           Ceri Law (Queen Mary, University of London)
Conservative Oxford and Puritan Cambridge?  The Making and Maintaining of a Reformation Legend                                                                                                     More information here.

Thursday 3rd December

IHR Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar, Montague Room (G26), Senate House Library, London, 5.15pm                                                                                                   Thomas Frank (Pavia)                                                                                           Discussing reform between the 14th and 16th Centuries: the example of Italian hospitals   More information here.

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Renaissance Graduate Seminar

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Tuesday 1 December, 5.15pm, GR06/7.

Catherine Bates (Warwick) will give a paper entitled ’On Not Defending Poetry: the economics of Sidney’s golden world’; a brief abstract follows. All are welcome.

‘On Not Defending Poetry: the economics of Sidney’s golden world’

One of the foundational texts of early modern poetics, Sidney’s Defence of Poesy makes the case that poetry profits both the individual and the state to which he or she belongs by promoting ethical ideals of heroic love and political action. That, at least, is how most critics interpret the text. This talk reconsiders Sidney’s famous image of the poet’s golden world in order to suggest an alternative reading: one in which the Defence is shown to reveal a profound discomfort with the model of profitability and to feel its way toward a radically different – and modern – aesthetic.

Catherine Bates is a Research Professor at the University of Warwick, and is currently in Cambridge for the year as a visiting by-fellow at Churchill College. Her most recent monograph is Masculinity and the Hunt (2013); her previous publications include Masculinity, Gender, and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric (2007), Play in a Godless World (1999), and The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (1992). She has edited Sidney’s poems for Penguin (1994) and the Cambridge Companion to the Epic (2010); she is currently editing A Companion to Renaissance Poetry for Wiley Blackwell, and she is also the author of numerous articles, essays and chapters in edited collections.

Events This Week

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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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Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

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Michaelmas 2015 schedule for the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar, held jointly between the faculties of English and History, in the Glover Room, Memorial Court, Clare College.

21 October, 12-1:30pm                                                                                            Dr Tom Hamilton (Trinity College, Cambridge)                                                Remembering the Wars of Religion: Pierre de L’Estoile and the “Drolleries of the League” from Ephemeral Print to Scrapbook History

4 November,12-1:30pm                                                                                                    Dr Daniel Starza Smith (Lincoln College, Oxford)                                                    Unvolving the Mysteries of the Melbourne Manuscript, or, Editing An Anonymous Stuart Play Fragment

18 November, 12-1:30pm                                                                                                 Dr Lizzie Swann (CRASSH, Cambridge)                                                                   ‘Nothing clearer, nothing darker’: Seeing the Light in Early Modern England

2 December, 12-1:30pm                                                                                                   Dr Ceri Law (Queen Mary, University of London)                                                               Conservative Oxford and Puritan Cambridge?  The Making and Maintaining of a Reformation Legend

All welcome. Any queries please contact ab2126@cam.ac.uk, more information here.

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

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Michaelmas Term 2015 programme

20/10/15
G-R06/07
Poetry, Anatomy, Presence
Dr Katherine Craik (Oxford Brookes)

03/11/15
G-R06/07
Ben Jonson and the Limits of Distributed Cognition
Dr Raphael Lyne (University of Cambridge)

17/11/15
G-R06/07
Shakespeare, Digital Technologies, and the Ethics of Spectatorship
Prof Pascale Aebischer (Exeter)

01/12/15
G-R06/07
On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World
Prof Catherine Bates (Warwick)

More information here

Sandars Lectures 2016: Professor Anthony Grafton

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The Sandars Reader for 2016 is Professor Anthony Grafton (Professor of History, Princeton University) who will lecture on ‘Writing and reading history in Renaissance England: Some Cambridge examples’. The lectures will be given at 5.00pm on Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 January 2016. Venue to be confirmed.

More details of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society’s 2015-16 lectures are available here. 

Richard Baxter Quatercentenary Symposium, Friday 13 November 2015

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Richard Baxter Quatercentenary Symposium

Friday 13 November 2015, Dr Williams’s Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR

2015 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Puritan pastor and writer, Richard Baxter (161501691). A symposium to commemorate this event and to assess the significance of Baxter’s contribution to seventeenth-century religious, political, literary and scientific culture in Britain, Europe and North America will be held at Dr Williams’s Library on Friday 13 November 2015. Confirmed speakers include Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton), Professor Ann Hughes (Keele) and Professor Howard Hotson (Oxford). The event will also profile two major editorial projects designed to make Baxter’s key manuscripts accessible to a contemporary scholarly readership: the AHRC-funded edition of Reliquiae Baxterianae and the nine-volume edition of Baxter’s correspondence. 

Provisional Programme

12:00-12:30   Buffet Lunch

12:30-15:00   Richard Baxter and Seventeenth-Century Britain, Europe and North America 
12:30-13:15   Professor Howard Hotson (Oxford) Title TBC
13:15-14:00   Professor Ann Hughes (Keele) ‘”Doubtless a godly man, though tenacious in his mistakes” (Simeon Ashe on Richard Baxter, 1656): Baxter and English Presbyterians’
14:00-14:45   Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton) ‘Richard Baxter and International Protestantism: by Grammar or by Numbers’
14:45-15:15   Further Discussion

15:15-15:30   Coffee Break

15:30-16:30   The Editing of Richard Baxter
Professor Neil Keeble (Stirling) and Dr Thomas Charlton (DWL) on the Reliquiae Baxterianae (Oxford UP, 5 vols)
Dr Johanna Harris (Exeter) and Dr Alison Searle (Sydney) on the correspondence of Richard Baxter (Oxford UP, 9 vols)

16:00-16:30   Discussion and Questions
16:30 Convene at a nearby venue (TBC) for drinks
Conference fee £10 (£5 students/unwaged), payable on the door. Please register by 31 October 2015 by email to RichardBaxter400@gmail.com. Thanks to the generosity of the Society for Renaissance Studies, the organisers can contribute to the travel and subsistence costs of a small number of unwaged postgraduate or postdoctoral researchers attending the symposium. If you would like to apply for this funding then please contact the organisers prior to the registration deadline.

 

Interdisciplines: Drama, Economics and Law in Early Modern England, 17 October 2015

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beere-bayting_crop2Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College
Conference fee: £25 (full), £10 (students/unwaged) – includes lunch, tea/coffee
Deadline: Monday 12 October 2015

Interdisciplines: Drama, Economics and Law in Early Modern England is a one-day colloquium which seeks to examine intersections between literature, law and economics in early modern England. As part of the broader, European Research Council-funded interdisciplinary project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, our speakers will be attentive to the epistemic intersections between drama and economy, drama and law: how did legal, social and economic practices of the time condition Renaissance drama? how did the early modern theatre respond to, and, in turn, shape the legal and economic life of the period? Our speakers are Maria Fusaro (Exeter); Quentin Skinner (QMUL), Becky Tomlin (Birkbeck), and Andy Wood (Durham). Papers will be followed by responses and Q&A sessions. The colloquium ends with a concluding panel chaired by Craig Muldrew.

Convenors:

Rachel E. Holmes, Subha Mukherji, Tim Stuart-Buttle, Elizabeth L. Swann, Koji Yamamoto

Speakers:

Maria Fusaro (University of Exeter)
Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London)
Rebecca Tomlin (Birkbeck, University of London),
Andy Wood (University of Durham)

Panel Chair:

Craig Muldrew (University of Cambridge).

Panel Members:

Adrian Leonard (University of Cambridge), others TBC

More information, programme and abstracts here.

Wenceslas Hollar, The Long View of London (1642), via Wikimedia Commons