London Renaissance Seminar: Early Modern Women and Genre

Christine de Pisan, ‘The Book of the City of Ladies


Saturday 1st December, 1-5pm
Keynes Library (Room 114), 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck

Join us for an afternoon of papers on women writers, civil war elegy, modes of translation, female attribution and early modern European epic.

Speakers include:

Hero Chalmers (Cambridge)

Erin McCarthy (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Carla Suthren (York)

Mihoko Suzuki (Miami)


The London Renaissance Seminar (LRS) is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature, and culture. It meets regularly at Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square. Anyone with a serious academic interest in the Renaissance is welcome and no registration is necessary.

For further information about this seminar contact Sue Wiseman or Elizabeth Scott-Baumann .

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