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London Renaissance Seminar: The Violent Household

Friday 24 May 2-5.30pm /2-7.30pm, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck


1.30-2 Coffee

2.00 Iman Sheeha ‘“My master’s kindness pleads to me for life”: servants in the violent household’

2.25 Emma Whipday, ‘Deadly domesticity: violent homes on the early modern stage’

2.50 Lucy Clarke, ‘“I saw him come into your house an hour ago”: the (in)observable household and the state in Arden of Faversham and A Yorkshire Tragedy’

Discussion

3.30 Tea

4.00 Rachel Holmes, ‘The violation of clandestine marriage’

4.25 Laura Seymour, ‘Non-conformist gestures and violent households’

4.50 Sarah Birt, ‘“I did think her to be a humane good woman”: serving apprenticeships in violent households in early modern London’

Discussion

5.30 Break

6.00 ‘Cry up Liberty!’

Eleanor Warr directs her play re-animating records of Milton’s conflicts with his daughters

Panel and Discussion

7.30 Close

Organisers: Rebecca Tomlin & Sue Wiseman



Contact: Sue Wiseman or Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

London Renaissance Seminar: ‘The very verge of his confine’: Cicero, Shakespeare and Attitudes to Old Age


Mandy Green Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Durham University

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm in IAS Forum, G17, South Wing, Wilkins Building

Abstract:

Marcus Tullius Cicero (‘Tully’) reached the height of his popularity in the reign of Elizabeth I when he rapidly became one of the most frequently published, and one of the most frequently translated classical authors. Cicero’s works played an important role in the reform of the grammar-school curriculum and his reputation for eloquence was unparalleled. Thomas Newton, who translated Cato Maior de senectute (Cato the Elder: ‘On Old Age’), amongst other discourses by Cicero, acclaimed him as ‘that incomparable Phenix of al eloquence among al that ever wrate either before or since his dayes’ (1569). However, Cicero was admired not only for the elegance and rhetorical power of his prose works, but also for their content, since it was felt that his works of moral philosophy could be harmonised with Christian ethics with relative ease. This paper will explore De senectute’s key role in early modern debates about the nature of old age by focusing primarily on the representation of aging in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Since Cato the Elder was Cicero's spokesman, the paper will also draw on Plutarch's Life of Cato the Elder.



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 .

To join the LRS mailing list, please contact Tom Healy.
Twitter: @LondRenaissance

London Renaissance Seminar: Book Talk - Living in a Material World

Friday 23 November 6-8
Room 106 School of Arts, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square

Sara Pennell will introduce A Day at Home in Early Modern England by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson and Andrew Gordon will introduce Material Texts in Early Modern England (CUP, 2017) by Adam Smyth.

Wine will be served. The authors will attend.

London Renaissance Seminar: Thinking Upon Death - Wills and Bereavement Writing in Renaissance London

Saturday 10th November 2018, 13:00-17:00
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.

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

To join the LRS mailing list, please contact Tom Healy. 
Twitter: @LondRenaissance

London Renaissance Seminar: Clothing the Renaissance

1 – 6 p.m., Saturday 20 January 2018
Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury

Join London Renaissance Seminar for an afternoon of new research and inter-disciplinary discussions exploring clothing and accessories in the Renaissance.

Programme Summary:

1.00pm Coffee

1.20-2.00 Eleanor Lowe, ‘ “Scouring faults”: Linen, Cleanliness and Early Modern Drama’

2.00 – 2.40 Hester Lees-Jeffries ,‘Shakespeare’s Tailors’

2.40 – 3.30pm discussion

3.00-3.30 Coffee

3.30 Rebecca Unsworth, ‘Doublets in Early Modern Europe’

4.10-4.50 Natasha Awais-Dean ‘Men and Jewellery in Renaissance Portraiture’

4.50 – 5.10 Discussion

Organisers: Sue Wiseman and Sarah Birt

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 LRS contact Sue Wiseman. To join the LRS mailing list, please contact Tom Healy.

LRS: The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service


Saturday 18th July 2015, 2pm-6pm

Room 538, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX

In early modern England, domestic conduct literature, legal treatises, and state-sanctioned homilies propagated the ideal of the home as a self-contained system of government; the loyalty of domestic servants was therefore of political significance. Performances of domestic service onstage explored early modern anxieties and fantasies concerning the interference, surveillance, and potential insubordination of the early modern servant, and the conflicts of loyalty and illicit knowledge that domestic service entailed. This half-day symposium brings together historians, literary scholars, and actors to explore the relationship between the experience of servants in early modern England, and the representation of servants onstage. Talks will be illustrated by performances of depositions from church court records and scenes from plays.

2pm Welcome

2.05pm Laura Gowing (King’s College London), ‘Performing Service: Stories from the London Church Courts’ (with performances of depositions)

3.10pm Coffee break

3.25pm Catherine Richardson (Kent), ‘Work and Leisure: Domestic Behaviour and the Quotidian Spaces of Service’ (with performances of depositions)

4.30pm Performances of scenes from domestic tragedies

4.45pm Drinks

5pm Roundtable discussion, with all speakers and actors

5.45pm Final remarks

This event is organised by Emma Whipday (Oxford); please email emma.whipday@magd.ox.ac.uk with any queries.

The London Renaissance Seminar meets at Birkbeck, University of London to discuss topics in the culture of the Renaissance. Anyone with an interest in the Renaissance is welcome to attend. London Renaissance Seminar contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk; mailing list contact: t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk

London Renaissance Seminar Summer Programme

London Renaissance Seminar Summer Programme

Summer Lecture given by Professor Jyotsna Singh
Anglican Global Crossings and the Specters of Islam in the Early Modern Period
13 July 2015 5.30pm, Room 112, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1
Wine will be served.

The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service
Organiser: Dr. Emma Whipday
Saturday 18th July 2015, 2pm-6.30pm
Room 538, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX



The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service
(London Renaissance Seminar)

In early modern England, domestic conduct literature, legal treatises, and state-sanctioned homilies propagated the ideal of the home as a self-contained system of government; the loyalty of domestic servants was therefore of political significance. Performances of domestic service onstage explored early modern anxieties and fantasies concerning the interference, surveillance, and potential insubordination of the early modern servant, and the conflicts of loyalty and illicit knowledge that domestic service entailed. This half-day symposium brings together historians, literary scholars, and actors to explore the relationship between the experience of servants in early modern England, and the representation of servants onstage. Talks will be illustrated by performances of depositions from church court records and scenes from plays.

2pm Welcome

2.05pm Laura Gowing (King’s College London), ‘Performing Service: Stories from the London Church Courts’ (with performances of depositions)

3.10pm Coffee break

3.25pm Catherine Richardson (Kent), ‘Work and Leisure: Domestic Behaviour and the Quotidian Spaces of Service’ (with performances of depositions)

4.30pm Performances of scenes from domestic tragedies

4.45pm Drinks

5pm Roundtable discussion, with all speakers and actors

5.45pm Final remarks

This event is organised by Emma Whipday (Oxford); please email emma.whipday@magd.ox.ac.uk with any queries.



The London Renaissance Seminar meets at Birkbeck, University of London to discuss topics in the culture of the Renaissance. Anyone with an interest in the Renaissance is welcome to attend. London Renaissance Seminar contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk; mailing list contact: t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk


All welcome. Any queries please contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk




London Renaissance Seminar: On the Road

21 February, 10.30am-1.30pm NB
Room 114, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1

10.00am Coffee

10.30am Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck) 'Lucy Hutchinson walks in the park: Elegy, Monument, Epitaph'
Becky Tomlin (Birkbeck)' "I trac'd him too and fro"; narratives of neighbourhood on the early modern stage'

11.30 am Coffee

12.00pm-1.15pm Prof James Loxley (Edinburgh) 'Performative Choreography: Ben Jonson Walking'

In this talk, I will discuss the ways in which our understanding of the meaning and implications of Ben Jonson's celebrated walk to Edinburgh in the summer of 1618 has been altered by the account of the journey discovered in Cheshire Archives in 2009. The 'Foot Voyage' narrative has presented us with numerous editorial and interpretative questions. Why did Jonson go? What did it mean for him to walk all the way? What is the status of the surviving account? Who accompanied him? What can we make of his interactions with his hosts? In seeking to answer these questions, it has been possible to build a detailed and, in some respects, surprising picture of this unique event.

1.15pm Coffee and tea

2.00pm close

The London Renaissance Seminar meets at Birkbeck College, University of London to discuss topics in the culture of the Renaissance. Anyone with an interest in the Renaissance is welcome to attend. Seminars are usually held in the School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square.

London Renaissance Seminar contacts.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk
London Renaissance Seminar mailing list: t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk

London Renaissance Seminar: Renaissance Loves II

22 November, 1.30pm-5.00pm, room tbc, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1

1.30pm COFFEE

2.00pm Dr Sarah Carter (Nottingham Trent University), ‘ “With kissing him I should have killed him first”: Death in Ovid and Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis’

Dr Eric Langley (UCL), ‘Try a little extendedness: paying attention to Renaissance tenderness’

TEA

4.00pm Ms Catrin Griffiths (Birkbeck), ‘Brotherly loves: Robert and Roger Boyle and the sanctified romance body’

DRINKS

The organisers for this event are Linda Grant (RHUL), Judith Hudson (Birkbeck), Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck)

It is funded by Royal Holloway & Birkbeck.

Contact: s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk.

The London Renaissance Seminar meets at Birkbeck College, University of London to discuss topics in the culture of the Renaissance. Anyone with an interest in the Renaissance is welcome to attend. Seminars are usually held in the School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square.

London Renaissance Seminar contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk
London Renaissance Seminar mailing list: t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk

Renaissance Seminar Small Prize Bursary/Internship

The London Renaissance Seminar is a long-established forum for discussion of the culture and society of the period 1500-1660. Based at Birkbeck, University of London, the seminar is involved in a range of activities including Saturday seminars, postgraduate conferences, book discussions, and evening lectures. For some of our recent activities seewww.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_seminars/lrs.

The Seminar is offering a small prize bursary or internship open to the following: MA/MRes/MSt students, PhD/MPhil students and early career academics whose doctorates were awarded not earlier than 2012. The application can be for work based in any humanities discipline but applicants need to be working primarily within the period 1500-1660. Applications should be within the following categories:

a. Bursary.
Is there a research archive that you need to consult? A digital project using primary sources that you would like to try out? Send us a proposal telling us about your project or why you want to see the material, and how this work will contribute to your thinking. The Prize Bursary will offer financial assistance towards your visit to the archive/to developing the project. The Prize Bursary will fund travel up to £200 to spend time in an archive.

b. Internship.
Is there an event (e.g. a half-day symposium; a workshop; a guest lecture) that you would like to run with the LRS? Bearing in mind that the budget (to cover speaker fares, refreshments, etc.) is up to £200 send us a description of the planned event including topic, format, and possible speakers, and explaining the importance of the topic. The internship is open to single or co-authored applications.

The successful applicant in either category may be offered an internship with the London Renaissance Seminar 2014-15.

Winners will be expected to write a short report for the LRS website.

The prize will be up to £200 only.

Candidates may be interviewed by Skype or in person if they are in London.

Applications should consist of:

1. Statement/letter of application outlining the project including aims, rationale, and potential interest to other scholars. Up to 350 words.

2. Short CV (not more than 1 side) and name and contact details of one academic referee.

These should be sent to Dr Lucy Munro (lucy.munro@kcl.ac.uk), Dr Daniel Smith (daniel.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk), and Susan Wiseman (s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk) by Friday 26 September.

The London Renaissance Seminar: Religion on the Early Modern Stage

Please join us for an informal discussion of religion on the early modern stage.

Dr. Alison Shell and Dr. Emma Smith will lead discussion starting with

Shakespeare’s Unreformed Fictions (OUP, 2013)
By Dr. Gillian Woods

Friday 29th November 2013 6 -7.30pm
Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square

Birkbeck College, University of London. Contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk

Renaissance Men in the Middle Temple

1st and 2nd February, 2013
To be held at Middle Temple Hall and Birkbeck College, London

To register or for further information go to http://middletemple2013.wordpress.com/ and follow us…

Confirmed speakers:

Dr Sarah Knight (Leicester University)
Dr Subha Mukherji (Cambridge University)
Dr Lucy Munro (Keele University)
Dr Paul Raffield (Warwick University)
Professor Jessica Winston (Idaho State University)


‘Delight in revels and in banqueting
Wanton discourses, musicke and merie songes’

The four Inns of Court were, according to Ben Jonson, ‘the noblest nurseries of humanity’. All highly influential in terms of their members’ legal, political and artistic roles, the Middle Temple proved a particularly fertile context. At the end of Elizabeth’s reign especially, the Middle Temple saw many of its members involved in the creation, reception and development of literature and performance. The Inn was a training ground for men who came to transgress and challenge societal norms, and whose future careers were to influence disparate areas of life, from law and politics to dance and drama. Famous members of Middle Temple included John Marston, John Ford, John Webster, Edward Sharpham, Richard Martin, John Davies, John Hoskins, Henry Wotton, Thomas Overbury, Benjamin Rudyerd, Charles Best and John Manningham.

Traditionally a night of celebration, the second day is Candlemas, and the conference will conclude with our own Revels, including dinner and entertainment in Middle Temple Hall. There will be a medley of music, dance and drama inspired by some of the Renaissance Men of the Middle Temple featured in the conference, with performers in historical costume, including The Nonsuch Dancers. The evening event is also open to those not attending the conference.

See http://middletemple2013.wordpress.com/ or email one of the conference organizers:

Jackie Watson – jwatso05@mail.bbk.ac.uk and
Darren Royston - droyst01@mail.bbk.ac.uk

Conference hosted by the London Renaissance Seminar
The London Renaissance Seminar meets regularly at Birkbeck College, London, holding seminars, events and conferences.


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