Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts
Speakers: Professor Vanessa Harding, Professor Kate Hodgkin and Professor Ralph Houlbrooke
Programme:
13.00 Arrival and coffee
13.15 Welcome and Introduction. Anna Cusack (Birkbeck)
14.20 Vanessa Harding, ‘ “I bequeath my body to the earth”: wills, willmaking and funeral planning’
14.50 Kate Hodgkin, ‘Death, melancholy and the languages of loss in early modern spiritual autobiography’
15:20 Questions
15.30 Refreshments
15.50 Ralph Houlbrooke, ‘Funerals and commemoration of former Lord Mayors of London, c. 1550- c. 1650
16.20 Questions
16.30. Panel discussion
17:00 Close
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.
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.
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