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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. 11 February, 5pm, History Faculty Room 12. ... Our final ‘view’ of the day was ‘The View from Plurabelle Books’, offered by Michael Cahn but read in his absence by Gemma Savage.

century Ireland testify to the still sensitive politics of settlement and plantation, as well as the blind spots of nationalism and the national model of Irish literature. ... The final stanzas of the Cantos (coupled with the example of the Fowre Hymnes)

The moral asymmetry between Henry and Leonard only serves to highlight the economic inequalities between them. ... Another concern about the sustainability of the Empire was awoken in the fall of national birthrates.

Spenser’s final satyr tale, in the Mutabilitie Cantos, provides a culminating account of human limitation, when in the hapless Faunus he mocks his own—or any—human attempt to know ... Such claims forced a radical rethinking of Europe’s cultural

A final reference by E.K. alludes to yet another current in Petrarchan imitation. ... It is a commonplace of recent criticism that a suitably lofty vernacular was considered a prerequisite for national greatness.

Giovanni Botero and English political thought’. Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. ... The project will focus on the technical examination of paintings in the National Galleries of Scotland collection with the aim of clarifying issues of

Spenser’s images of defective and deceptive welcome dramatise what was perceived by his own society as hospitality’s worrying decline: as Felicity Heal has taught us, religious and economic change, ... Restricted to its specific sense of reification

Two main questions underlie the critical debate. Does The Faerie Queene presuppose that Elizabeth and her allies were engaged in the final defeat of the Antichrist? ... about a final, all-encompassing transformation of the world order.

May 22nd, 2011The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket, Suffolk unexpectedly revealed some interesting material texts when I visited recently. ... censorship and book destructionMarch 7th, 2011“With your current economic crisis the simplest way

This will allow speakers to emphasise how the economic, cultural, and physical attributes of certain materials contributed to understanding the value and connotations of objects in their original contexts. ... The final seminar of the series will be