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Her work combines current research into economic and material history with an approach to the history of ideas associated with Quentin Skinner. ... The final section then looks at political and economic ideas of luxury in seventeenth-century culture,

What effect has the recession, falling real and disposable incomes and economic uncertainty about the future had upon people’s book-buying habits? ... Which socio-economic groups buy Kindles the most? How many printed books does the Kindle buyer

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.

With important elections coming up across the region in 2015-16 it is essential to pause and consider how ideas can transform the political, economic, social and cultural landscape across the ... The interaction of social, cultural, economic and

This resurgence extended beyond textual analysis to palaeography and codicology, as well as to socio-economic history.

All are welcome. ‘On Not Defending Poetry: the economics of Sidney’s golden world’. ... 01/12/15. G-R06/07. On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World.

Using literary interventions and imaginative representations as a point of entry, these ‘exchanges’ will probe the dialogue between the period’s economic thinking and practices on the one hand, and the

economy (with Florimell representing older agricultural interests and Marinell the new maritime economic expansion). ... Elizabeth manifested to ‘mix marriage negotiations, religious politics, and economic undertakings in ways that complicated all

Research Interests. My first monograph, currently in preparation, examines the continuities and disjunctions between Tudor and Stuart modes of interpreting the lessons of medieval English history.

All are welcome. ‘On Not Defending Poetry: the economics of Sidney’s golden world’. ... 01/12/15. G-R06/07. On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World.

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

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.

With important elections coming up across the region in 2015-16 it is essential to pause and consider how ideas can transform the political, economic, social and cultural landscape across the ... The interaction of social, cultural, economic and

01/12/15. G-R06/07. On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World. ... between drama and economy, drama and law: how did legal, social and economic practices of the time condition Renaissance drama?

In Chapter 4, Maus details how Merchant’s characters desire affection that cannot be reduced to pure economic exchange. ... More broadly, Maus’s topic feels as informed by contemporary economic realities as by current scholarly debates.

Presenter: ‘Free Thinking: Shakespeare’s Life Lessons’, BBC Radio 3, 21 April 2021.

September 19th, 2014An early reader of a 1570 Euclid — possibly Sir Thomas Tresham — learns the hard lesson that neither number nor magnitude have any materiality.

February 26th, 2013Tuesday morning, 8.10 am, Ben’s cello lesson. He’s only eight so he has to have something to get his knees up to the right height.

First, he develops ways of assessing the contribution of literature to modern British society in economic terms. ... I would have liked to see the economic bit and the psychological bit put together somehow, but since I can’t easily see how that would

Giovanni Botero and English political thought’. Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. ... Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. Thursday, 16th February, 5 PM, Room 9 of the History Faculty.