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

The following seminars will be held in Hilary Term 2023 in All Souls College, Oxford, at the times and in the rooms indicated. There will be two papers in some sessions, one in others.

All very welcome.

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

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Neil Kenny
Timing: Wednesdays 14:00-15:30, Weeks 1, 3, 5 & 7
Organising department: All Souls College

Wednesday 25 January 2017

14:00 - 1. Family Literature and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France / 2. How Early Modern Private Prayer Develops Dramatic Techniques in Empathy, Across Rank and Occupation
Neil Kenny (University of Oxford), Ceri Sullivan (Cardiff University)

Monday 6 February 2017

14:00 - 1. Literature Patronage and Hierarchy / 2. Learning and Theatre in the Italian Academies
Richard McCabe (University of Oxford), Lisa Sampson (UCL)

Wednesday 22 February 2017

14:00 - 1. The [In]dignity of words: Learning to be politique in Sixteenth-Century France / 2. Wheatcroft's Written World: Elite and Non-Elite in Seventeenth-Century English Writting
Emma Claussen (University of Oxford), Sue Wiseman (University of London)

Wednesday 8 March 2017

14:00 - 1. Book Collecting, Social Connections and a Sense of the Past: The Tabourot Family / 2. God, Money and Posterity: The Uses of Writting Among Tradesmen in Early Modern England
John O'Brien (Durham University), Brodie Waddell (University of London)

Wednesday 24 January 2018

14:00 - Puppets, Bibelots, and Ballad-sheets: Literature as Artefact in Early Modern Europe AND Reading, Writing, and Social Practice in Early Modern England
Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), Phil Whitington (University of Sheffield)

Monday 5 February 2018

14:00 - The Building of Knowledge and the Building of Society: Montaigne’s bastiment AND Assessing the Learning of the Early Modern English Middling Sort: Material and Textual Sources
Jenny Oliver (St John’s College, Oxford), Catherine Richardson (University of Kent)

Wednesday 21 February 2018

14:00 - It Takes One to Know One: Erasmian Ingenuity and the (Un)making of Scholarly Communities AND Amazons, Idlers, and the Republic of Letters
Raphaële Garrod (University of Cambridge), Isabelle Moreau (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon)

Wednesday 7 March 2018

14:00 - Literature, Learning, and the Family Function (La Croix du Maine, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe) AND The Social Status of Publishers in Europe (1560–1630) and Their Place in the World of Learning
Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford), Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)

Wednesday 23 January 2019

14:00 - ‘Deaths of eminent persons’: Obituaries and Social Hierarchies in Early Eighteenth-Century England AND A Conversable Knowledge: Language-Learning in Early Modern Educational Travel
REBECCA BULLARD (University of Reading), JOHN GALLAGHER (University of Leeds)

Monday 4 February 2019

14:00 - Ore, Lore, Status: The Curious Case of the Baron and Baronne de Beausoleil AND French à la mode in Restoration England
NEIL KENNY (All Souls College, Oxford), RICHARD SCHOLAR (Oriel College, Oxford)

Wednesday 20 February 2019

14:00 - Urban Literacies: Learning to Write in the London Livery Companies, c.1540–1640 AND The Figure of the Merchant in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes
JENNIFER BISHOP (Peterhouse College, Cambridge), BRIAN BREWER (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 6 March 2019

14:00 - Christopher Beeston: His Plays and Place in the Social Hierarchy of Early Stuart London AND Une petite Venise: The Seventeenth-Century Beaver
EVA GRIFFITH (Independent Scholar), KATHERINE IBBETT (Trinity College, Oxford)

Wednesday 29 January 2020

Monday 10 February 2020

Friday 28 February 2020

14:00 - Quinquina in Favour at the Court of Louis XIV
Please note this talk is in the Old Library not the Hovenden Room
Emma Spary (University of Cambridge)
14:00 - Learning Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Spanish Ethnic Villancicos
Please note this talk is in the Old Library not the Hovenden Room
Diana Berruezo-Sanchez (Balliol College, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 March 2020

14:00 - Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Problem of Publics between Latin and Vernacular
Status: This talk has been cancelled
David Lines (University of Warwick)
14:00 - Erasmus, Citizen of the—or of a—World?
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dorine Rouiller (Swiss National Science Foundation/Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 January 2021

Wednesday 3 February 2021

Wednesday 17 February 2021

Wednesday 3 March 2021

Wednesday 18 January 2023

Tuesday 31 January 2023

Wednesday 8 February 2023

14:00 - Beastly Habitués: Animals and Exiles at the Salon of Hortense Mancini
Please note change of date from 15 February to 8 February
Annalisa Nicholson (The Queen's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 March 2023

14:00 - "learning has brought disobedience": Marginal Literacies and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Early Modern England
Please note change of date from 1 March to 8 March
Adam Bridgen (University of St Andrews)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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