Early Modern Reading Group
Dr Roger Mettam, ‘Absolute Monarchy and Provincial Identity in Louis XIV’s France’
Friday, October 16th, 2009Dr Roger Mettam, ‘Absolute Monarchy and Provincial Identity in Louis XIV’s France’, 7 pm, 22 Oct 09, Malet St, room 633. You are warmly invited to our first event of the new academic year. Dr Roger Mettam is a distinguished historian of early modern France, the author of Government and Society in Louis XIV’s France [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group, 15 June
Monday, June 8th, 2009Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group Monday 15th June, 2009 Room 502, the Tillotson Room, 30 Russell Square. 6.00pm to 7.30pm This month the group will be reading Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, cantos 1-4. A verse translation is available online at http://omacl.org/Orlando/. Alternatively, Oxford World Classics publish a good prose translation (tr. Guido Waldman) which is available [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group: Castiglione, 11 May
Monday, April 20th, 2009The Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group will meet on Monday, 11 May, Tillotson Room, 5th Floor, Dept of English and Humanities, 30 Russell Square 6-7.30. The group will be reading an extract from Castiglione’s The Courtier. The Hoby translation is available online at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier1.html. We will be looking at the first half of Book 1 [...]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Two early modern reading groups are meeting in early December. The next Early Modern Reading Group will meet on Thursday 4 December, at 6.30pm, in the Skinners Arms, Judd Street WC1. They’ll look at January, February and March (or more if you like) from Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender (1579). There’s an edition here: http://uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/shepheard.html Contact: [...]
Nero & Aubrey with the Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group
Monday, October 20th, 2008The next meeting of the Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group will be on Monday November 10th 6-7.30pm in the Tillotson Room (502), 30 Russell Square. This month, the group will be exploring biographical writings: first we will look at some chapters of Suetonius’s colourful biography of the Emperor Nero (Suetonius, Nero 26-31), and then John [...]
Early Modern Reading Group, 9 June
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Please the Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group on Monday 9th June 6-7.30pm in the Tillotson Room (Room 503) Department of English and Humanities. They will be discussing medicine and surgery in the Renaissance, with the focus on the work of Pare and Vesalius. Please note, the work of Vesaluis does cover vivisection in a graphic [...]
Early Modern Reading Group, 12 May
Monday, May 5th, 2008Early Modern Reading Group Monday 12th May 2008 6.00-7.30pm Room 503, Department of English and Humanities. 30 Russell Square The readings are: Chapter one of the Malleus Maleficarum which can be printed out from the link below. The home page of this site links to some useful notes, if you would like to read further. [...]
Early Modern Reading Group – 17 March Canceled
Friday, March 7th, 2008The following event has been canceled due to room scheduling problems. This post will stay so that the witch reading links remain. The Early Modern Reading Group will be meeting on 17 March to discuss readings with a witchy theme. The readings are: Chapter one of The Malleus Maleficarum which can be printed out from [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group
Sunday, January 13th, 2008Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group This month’s Early Modern Reading Group will take place on Monday 14th January 2008. At 7.30 to 9 pm. Room 502, The Tillotson Room, Dept of English and Humanities, 30 Russell Square. PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF TIME. This was unavoidable due to room availability. …… Our chosen theme this [...]