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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.

War I and the lessons of the past.

army of scriveners and clerks with a tremendous appetite for work—in the wake of social, economic, legal and political changes that made handwritten documents more central to the everyday business ... Its emphasis on political practice and habits of

With Rebecca Tomlin, 'Introduction: Change and Exchange', in Subha Mukherji, Dunstan Roberts, Rebecca Tomlin and George Oppitz-Trotman, eds., Change and Exchange: Literature and Economics in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan,

as undercutting their own status and the economic well-being of London’s guilds and their members. ... This leads to a second important theme in this book, namely the way in which commoners in London responded to the economic and social challenges that

The final section of this chapter examines issues of economic ethics and social satire in authors of the 1540s and 1550s, most importantly Robert Crowley. ... Throughout the book, Jones skillfully balances considerations of literature, politics, economics

There is a growing recognition of the value of looking at provenance evidence in early books — the lessons about the social impact of books which can be learnt by looking at

These endeavours will undoubtedly continue to stimulate new teaching practices, but what new lesson is to be gained by inviting Spenser into the enterprise of making pedagogy more inclusive? ... Just as Redcrosse fails his intended lessons, we continue

Students will be bringing their copy home to enable them to continue reading and enjoying the novel outside of lessons.

2018), an installation imagining living under alternative economic conditions; World Factory, exploring consumer capitalism through the lens of the global textile industry (UK tour; shortlisted for the Berlin Theatertreffen Stückemarkt 2016);

Outside the period, I like to think about German philosophy from Immanuel Kant to Theodor Adorno; Karl Marx, and the writings of Marxist theorists on social, economic, and aesthetic questions; and

Object lessons: digital and material pedagogy. Representations of the intersections of digital and material cultures.

After telling his mother that he was required to be strict with the children in lessons, he wrote to her about the weather and the view: 'It’s not quite raining,

The process of reading a poem in clinical isolation from historical processes also can mean that literature is treated as a sphere of activity which is separate from economic or social

With Rebecca Tomlin, 'Introduction: Change and Exchange', in Subha Mukherji, Dunstan Roberts, Rebecca Tomlin and George Oppitz-Trotman, eds., Change and Exchange: Literature and Economics in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan,

the body, sense and sexuality; literature, numbers and economics; literature and technology; the history of sound, voice and auditory media; the sociopragmatics of collective feeling and fantasy; and the developing, that

Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance.” Popular Culture in Africa: the Episteme of the Everyday.

It aims to explore the social, economic and spatial factors underpinning the changing way ordinary men demonstrated their commitment to God and the church(es) in a period of significant turmoil.

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. 11 February, 5pm, History Faculty Room 12.

They became extremely influential in the field of behavioural economics, for which Kahneman (in effect on behalf of them both) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2002.

The title of her talk is ‘John Clare’s Soundscapes’. http://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/. Dr Robert Macfarlane’s work on land use, language and environmental economics features in a Slate.com

RP is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge English Faculty, the London School of Economics Sociology Department, and University of […]. Amidst global plans for economic recovery, resilience, and prosperity, academics

Speakers will include: Richard Fisher (former Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press), Rupert Gatti (Faculty of Economics/Open Book Publishers), Anne Jarvis (University Librarian, Cambridge University Library), Danny

And these same chevauchées also mark English representations of the city, as both Chaucer and, especially, Langland, reference the city with a nod to the primacy of this form of economic ... the representation of this site as one representing both hope

104-113. 'Laughing to learn: Sarah Fielding's Lessons from Life', in Women's Literary Education, 1690-1850, ed.

Gerald de Malynes, Thomas Milles, Edward Misselden, and Thomas Mun—worked to produce the autonomous discourse of economics as a site proper to financial transactions. ... Ultimately, Landreth’s book stands as an important and timely intervention in

One important lesson about practical criticism emerges from these features of the poem: be content with doubts and uncertainties, since some poems do not reveal exactly what they are about, and

Gentle girl, assist me, And e’en in kind love I do conjure thee, Who art the table wherein all my thoughts Are visibly charactered and engraved, To lesson me, and

The University of Cambridge is committed to ensuring that an applicant’s educational and economic background will form no barrier to them in their application to Cambridge.

Thursday 10 March. Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. 5pm, History Faculty, Room 12. ... Although partly inspired by the plight of foreign Protestants, the conversation focused primarily on economic, demographic and legal issues, a cluster

Advancing Access is a new website for teachers and advisers which provides a variety of resources and online events to help them support students’ progression to leading universities, such as lesson