This year’s programme is now available at
https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/seminars/rgs/
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Events This Week
IN CAMBRIDGE
Renaissance Graduate Seminar
Tuesday, 31/01/17, 5.15pm in G-R06-07
John Gillies (Essex)
The conversational turn in Shakespeare
History of Material Texts Workshops
Monday, 30 January, 12.30-2, Milstein Exhibition Centre/Seminar Room, University Library
A guided tour of the Cambridge University Library exhibition ‘Curious Objects’, in the company of lead curator Jill Whitelock, followed by discussion.
Places are limited–please email jes1003 to reserve.
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar
Wednesday, 1st February, 12-1:15pm, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site
Dr Hannah Murphy (University of Oxford)
“No day without a line”: calligraphy, perspective and the craft of writing in early modern Nuremberg
Cambridge Early Modern French Seminar
Friday, 3 February, 2-4pm, Clare College, Latimer Room
Sophie WAHNICH (CNRS)
Émeutes, émotions: la scène de quel conflit?
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar
Wednesday, 1 February, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Carys Brown (St John’s), Julie Kelsoe (Clare), and Fred Smith (Clare), ‘Historiography panel: toleration, coexistence and neighbourliness’
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar
Thursday 2nd February, 5pm in Room 9 of the History Faculty
Christof Jeggle (University of Würzburg)
Divergences or varieties in European economic development?
The debate over divergence in early modern Europe sees the Dutch Republic and Great Britain as the core of progressive economic development, and considers that the rest of the continent lagged behind. Using qualitative indicators I will question the notion of divergence in a continental perspective, offering case studies and proposing some reassessments in respect of comparing economic development.
We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.
Early Modern European History Seminar
Thursday, 2 February 2017, 1-2pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College
Record-keeping as a tool of female self-formation in Early Modern Tuscany
Emma Nicholls (Cambridge)
Attendees are welcome to bring lunch to this brown-bag seminar. Tea and coffee will be served. All welcome.
Tuesday 31 January, 11am-noon, RFB142 (the media centre)
Our first session of the new year and new ‘Women and the Law’ theme for the term will be focused on an angry woman, Calefurnia, and the depiction of female rage in the Sachsenspiegel, a Germanic law code circulated in the 13th-15th centuries. We will be reading and considering the article ‘Calefurnia’s Rage: Emotions and Gender in Late Medieval Law and Literature’ by Sarah Westphal exploring how how gender and emotion are framed in literary and legal sources from medieval Central Europe.
Email writingwomeninhistory@gmail.com for article.
IN LONDON
Tudor & Stuart History Seminar (IHR)
Monday, 30 Jan 2017, 17:15- 19:15, IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
‘Rewriting the figure of the martyr: John Donne and the foundation of Christianity’
Shanyn Altman (Sussex University)
‘Sir Francis Walsingham and Anglo-Scottish politics, c. 1580-90’
Hannah Coates (Leeds University)
European History 1500-1800 (IHR)
Monday, 30 January, 5:15pm, IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
‘A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany’
Bridget Heal (University of St Andrews)
Events This Week
Tuesday 1 March
Renaissance Graduate Seminar, GR06/7, 5.15pm
Hester Lees-Jeffries (Cambridge)
Shakespeare’s Tailors
Wednesday 2 March
CRASSH (Re)Constructing the Material World, 12.30pm AR SG1
Religion
Dr Joanne Sear (History,Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge)
Professor Deborah Howard (Architecture & History of Art, University of Cambridge)
Thursday 3 March
Early Modern European History seminar, 1pm, Gonville and Caius Green Room
Irene Cooper (Cambridge)
‘Cose di casa’: The Materiality of Devotion in the Sixteenth-Century Neapolitan Home
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Events This Week
Tuesday 23rd February
Renaissance Graduate Seminar, 5.15pm, English Faculty GR06/7
Dr Anna-Maria Hartmann (University of Oxford)
Know your Enemy: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and the Art of Protestant Discernment
Wednesday 24th February
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar, 12pm, SG1, English Faculty Board Room
Richard Oosterhoff (CRASSH, Cambridge)
Idiot wit: framing lay knowers in the Northern Renaissance
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
John Gallagher (Gonville and Caius),
Learning Languages in Early Modern England
Friday 26th February
Early Modern French Research Seminar, New Gallery, Whipple Museum, 2pm
Jennifer Oliver (St. John’s College, Oxford):
Congnoistre l’engin de noz ennemys: Machines and Machinations in Rabelais and Beyond
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Renaissance Graduate Seminar
The third Renaissance Graduate Seminar of the term will take place on Tuesday 23 February, at 5.15pm in GR06/7 in the English Faculty:
Anna-Maria Hartmann (Oxford)
Know your enemy: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and the Art of Protestant Discernment
Abstract
The focus of this talk is the first English mythography, Stephen Batman’s Golden Booke of the Leaden Goddes (1577). Like the other English mythographies, this text has been dismissed as an eccentric, yet derivative copy of more successful continental mythographies. I will show that this assumption is false. The Golden Booke of the Leaden Goddes is a creative manipulation of the genre. It appropriates the mythographical form as well as available concepts of myth in order to address religious anxieties rife in the late 1570s. Once this mythography is restored to its original context, it yields important insights. First, it illustrates ways in which myth was conceptualized and used in the wider culture of the English Renaissance; second, it provides us with new approaches to myth in English poetry. I will demonstrate the potential of English mythography as an interpretative tool by discussing analogies between Batman’s use of myth in the Golden Booke and Spenser’s mythological programme in Book 2, Canto 12 of The Faerie Queene (The Bower of Bliss).
Anna-Maria Hartmann is Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow in Greek Mythology at Christ Church, Oxford. She received her Ph.D. in English in 2012 from Trinity College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on the reception of myth in the English Renaissance, and she has published articles on this topic in journals such as The Seventeenth Century, Translation and Literature, and Renaissance Studies. Currently, she is completing her monograph English Mythography in Its European Context 1500-1650, and her talk at the RGS is part of this project.
Events This Week
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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Renaissance Graduate Seminar
Lent Term 2016 programme
26/1/16
G-R06/07
Transvernacular Poetry and the Rise of English Literature in Early Modern Europe
Prof. Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
09/2/16
G-R06/07
Allegorical Poetics in England after 1600: Fishing in the Dead Water
Dr Vladimir Brljak (University of Cambridge)
23/2/16
G-R06/07
Know your Enemy: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and the Art of Protestant Discernment
Dr Anna Hartmann (University of Oxford)
08/3/16
G-R06/07
Shakespeare’s Tailors
Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries (University of Cambridge)
Events This Week
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
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.
Renaissance Graduate Seminar
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)
