The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe - Oxford Talks

The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

The following sessions will be held at 2.00pm (ending by 3.30pm) in Hilary Term 2016 in the Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford. Sessions are on Wednesdays except the second, which is on a Monday. There will normally be two papers per session.

All very welcome

Convenor: Neil Kenny [neil.kenny@all-souls.ox.ac.uk]

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Neil Kenny

Wednesday 27 January 2016

14:00 - Translation as Making Common in Sixteenth-Century England AND Being a Country Gentleman in Renaissance France: A Poet’s View
INGRID DE SMET (University of Warwick), NEIL RHODES (University of St Andrews)

Monday 8 February 2016

14:00 - The Power and Perils of Literature at Court: The Cases of Castiglione and Tasso AND Poetry and Social Ambition in Early Modern Portugal: The Case of Diogo Bernardes (1530–1597)
SIMON PARK (Worcester College, Oxford), ITA MAC CARTHY (University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 24 February 2016

14:00 - ‘You see my sister’s yet at my dispose’: Siblings and Servants on the Early Modern Stage AND Crime Writing and Social Hierarchy in Late Renaissance Paris
TOM HAMILTON (Trinity College, Cambridge), EMMA WHIPDAY (King’s College London)

Wednesday 9 March 2016

14:00 - The Limits of Idiot Wit: Framing Lay Knowers in the Northern Renaissance AND Is Your Joiner Famous? The Natural History of Artificers in Late Seventeenth-Century England
CHRISTINE STEVENSON (The Courtauld Institute of Art), RICHARD OOSTERHOFF (University of Cambridge)

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