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

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The following seminars will be held online (via Microsoft Teams) at 2.00pm (ending by 3.30pm) in Hilary Term 2021. There will be two papers per session.

 

To receive a link to enable you to join online, please register HERE.

 

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

 

20 January  

SARAH GWYNETH ROSS (Boston College):

(Social) Places, Please! The Commedia dell’Arte and the Problem of ‘Class’

SUSAN WISEMAN (Birkbeck, University of London): Non-Elite Women and ‘the Network’: Compatible Categories?

 

3 February

IMOGEN CHOI (Exeter College, Oxford): Exile, Migration and Hospitality: Visions of a Cosmopolitan Society in the Poetry of the Sephardic Diaspora

NEIL KENNY (All Souls College, Oxford): Peasants and Representation: The Case of Noël Du Fail

 

17 February

DAVID LINES (University of Warwick):

Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Problem of Publics between Latin and Vernacular

JONATHAN PATTERSON (St Edmund Hall, Oxford): ‘Greatness going off’: Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Plays

 

3 March        

WARREN BOUTCHER (Queen Mary, University of London): Learning, Vernacular Cultures, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

DORINE ROUILLER (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): Erasmus, Citizen of the—or of a—World?

 

 

Image from ‘The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database’

 

http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/vpc/VPC_search/record.php?record=1237

 

‘A nobleman’s picture gallery’ by Balthasar van den Bossche (1681-1715)