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Ong on concepts like ‘orality’ and ‘print culture’. While book history is a firmly established element of early modern studies and the study of ‘material culture’ continues to inform scholarship, Richards’ ... Richards’ Introduction

that these Romano-British origins ‘have been insufficiently attested by scholarship on the early modern period’ (14) is to overlook the recent contributions of Lynn Staley and others to these ... While the study underplays the amount of recent

social role of Herrick’s poetry, and also on “the mechanics of scribal publication and the culture of reading, writing and performing poetry and music in early modern England” (II.5). ... The account of the printing and publishing

A starter for ten: which poet and what text(s) in early-modern British literary history were most influential in the development of narrative religious poetry and Protestant epic? ... support for his opening assertions on the centrality of Du Bartas to

type from her personal experience, rather than actually examining Early Modern print or its records. ... The Making of a Broadside Ballad has introduced enough variables in practice to raise substantial questions that should be addressed by solid

Ultimately, Maus’s book functions best as a provocation rather than a definitive statement about the Early Modern relationship between personhood and property. ... There is certainly an opportunity for cross-pollination between Early Modern and

But twenty years after the initial development of scholarship on the global early modern, this consensus is shattering. ... Or, what evidence do we have of global connections/ circulations in the early modern period?

Humanist scholarship has argued at times that “humanity” in its modern sense is a creation of the early modern period (specifically a creation of Shakespeare’s, if one believes Harold ... As a reading of Malory, however, it seems too modern in its

It would be impossible to exaggerate the contribution of Margaret Hannay to founding and grounding the now burgeoning field of scholarship on Early Modern Women Writers. ... Second, her roles as wife and mother made her sensitive to similar expressions

Brownlee’s first chapter focuses on how ordinary Protestants found personal meaning in the scriptures, quoting current scholarship, early modern admonitions from Thomas Cranmer, William Tyndale, and John Downham (among others). ... Brownlee’s fourth

This is, in short, a formidably learned book that has a claim on the attention of anyone interested in early modern European thought. ... Popper’s topic here is not narrative technique or structure, but Ralegh’s approach to early modern scholarship

costumed by Jennifer Davis to imagine the staging conditions of an early 18th century puppet play. ... Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship.

Chapters 3 and 4 consider major trends in Early Modern monster studies, Spenserian scholarship on monsters, and the gap opening up between them. ... And should we accept that the Early Modern mermaid’s identity is profoundly incoherent (8)?

by William J. Humphries. Gordon, Andrew. Writing Early Modern London: Memory, Text and Community. ... Nevertheless, a comparative reading of these books allows us to evaluate their contributions to early modern urban scholarship with greater clarity.

Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England. by Shannon Miller. Vaught, Jennifer C. ... Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England. Farnham: Ashgate. 2012. xi 195 pp.

John Gallagher (Gonville and Caius College): “The Italian London of John North: cultural contact and conflict in early modern England”. ... Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent

The collection has a dual purpose. Besides re-energising  scholarship on Hakluyt, travel writing and early modern cultural and historical studies more generally, it is also a handsome scout for the ... Peter C. Mancall, Richard Hakluyt and the Visual

In spite of the growing body of scholarship now devoted to early modern racial formation, few scholars have explored Edmund Spenser’s treatment of race outside of his treatment of the ... Scholarship on The View of the Present State of Ireland has

Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship. ... This conference will bring together scholars working in departments of English, modern languages, classics, and art

Sophie Read (University of Cambridge) The Immaterial Object: Incense in Early Modern Poetry. ... Title-pages have received relatively little attention in early modern scholarship – usually considered the domain of bibliographers, their functions are

Before joining the Cambridge Faculty in 2016, I was Lecturer in early modern literature at the University of York. ... The Homeric Question in the Sixteenth Century: Early Modern Scholarship and the Text of Homer’, Renaissance Quarterly, 68 (2015),

Friday 11 November, 12.30-2, Portrait Room, Christ’s College. (in association with the Seminar in Early Modern Scholarship and Religion).

But in spite of the growing body of scholarship now devoted to early modern racial formation, relatively few scholars have explored Edmund Spenser’s treatment of race outside of his treatment ... Scholarship on A vewe of the present state of Ireland

Wednesday, 1 June, 5.15 pm. ‘Urinating in early modern England: gender, space and iconoclasm’. ... Existing scholarship has argued that leaky bodies were configured by early modern people as effeminate and weak, a thesis which this paper will

Vaught, Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England. ... The emphasis on both the rhetorics of disease and health is also refreshing for its departure from the pathological focus of much of the recent scholarship on early

Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship.

The word ‘surface’ has its origins in early modern England, and our pervasive opposition between ‘surface’ and ‘depth’ is evident from these beginnings. ... Title-pages have received relatively little attention in early modern scholarship –

is closer to how the Early Modern period would have grouped the works. ... issue and as a review of the important contemporary texts from the Early Modern period.

This queer cultural exploration of the Early Modern is happening at the same time that academic scholarship continues to use queer theoretical frames as a way of illuminating and interrogating Early ... Or, what do queer reiterations of Early Modern

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

Early Modern French Seminar. Friday 12th May, 2.00, Clare College, Latimer Room. ... This queer cultural exploration of the Early Modern is happening at the same time that academic scholarship continues to use queer theoretical frames as a way of

In this issue, James Kearney shares a few thoughts on “Certain Kinds of Ambition” in early modern literary scholarship. .

Ovid’s poetry in the Early Modern era; although Elizabethan and Jacobean engagements with the Metamorphoses—and, increasingly, the Heroides—routinely command critical attention, the reception of Ovid’s Amores remains ... This is a work of

In this issue, James Kearney shares a few thoughts on “Certain Kinds of Ambition” in early modern literary scholarship. ... Hannah Crawforth, Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature — Catherine Nicholson.

Edmund Spenser and Animal Life. A colloquium at the University of Sussex, Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies Friday 18th June 2021. ... Led by scholars such as Erica Fudge, Laurie Shannon, Bruce Boehrer, and Karen Raber, this is a critical and

We build a model of early modern orthographic change based on letter n-grams extracted from the 60,000 texts in the EEBO-TCP corpus. ... This article proposes three different tenor-vehicle relations for a three-phase metaphorics of the Christian mythos

Early Modern French Seminar. Friday, 10 March, 2-4pm, Clare College, Latimer Room. ... Existing scholarship has argued that leaky bodies were configured by early modern people as effeminate and weak, a thesis which this paper will question by arguing

This queer cultural exploration of the Early Modern is happening at the same time that academic scholarship continues to use queer theoretical frames as a way of illuminating and interrogating Early ... What was being taught in early modern England?

Led by scholars such as Erica Fudge, Laurie Shannon, Bruce Boehrer, and Karen Raber, this is a critical and philosophical approach that has lately gained much traction in early modern scholarship.

Her scholarship contests the materialism of early modern studies, emphasising how ‘early modern artworks push back against empiricist objecthood’ (21). ... If Poetry in an Age of Things is intended as a critique of early modern studies, it also reads

in the process the way embodied memory affected the form and focus of early modern verse. ... Building on the scholarship of writers like Michael Schoenfeldt and Gail Paster, who derive a description of early modern interiority and selfhood from early

scholarship in early modern history and literary studies: the formation and development of transnational cultural and religious connections and identities. ... Chovanec’s introductory chapter makes a persuasive case for his approach, situating it among

In spite of the growing body of scholarship now devoted to early modern racial formation, few scholars have explored Edmund Spenser’s treatment of race outside of his treatment of the ... Scholarship on The View of the Present State of Ireland has

Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship.

It should come as little surprise to scholars working in a field with two names—Renaissance and Early Modern—that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a Janus-faced era, a ... alongside recent literary studies of Early Modern scientific

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship.

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

revaluation of the role of Islam and the “East” in Early Modern literary-political culture. ... and most important exploration of Persia and Persian empire on the early modern stage” (127).