Interested in Tudor history? Become a Wikipedia editor for the day The Bodleian Libraries are organising a Wikipedia editathon focusing on the Rediscovering Rycote online resource (http://rycote.bodleian.ox.ac.uk). The Rediscovering Rycote project provides stories and documents about the history of one of England’s most important lost Tudor mansions. Over 300 years, Rycote Manor welcomed all manner of [...]
London Renaissance Seminar 9 November, 2.00pm-6.00pm Room 124 Birkbeck College 43 Gordon Square Ms Linda Grant (Birkbeck), ‘“Loved as no woman shall ever be loved again”: Catullus and the shaping of sixteenth-century English love poetry’ Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (Toronto) , ‘“Militat omnis amans”: Love as War in Renaissance Sonnets’ Professor Will Fisher (NYU), ‘“Seignor Dildo’s [...]
Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Convenors: Laura Gowing (King’s College London), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London) Michael Hunter (Birkbeck), and Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck). Seminars will take place in the Bedford Room, G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1, on the following Thursdays at 5.30 p.m. All are welcome! 10 October Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, [...]
Work in Progress: Bringing Art into Being in the Early Modern Period Fifth Early Modern Symposium 09.30 – 18.00, Saturday 26 October 2013 (with registration from 09.00) The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN Complex narratives spanning months, years or even decades exist behind the single bracketed date attached to artworks [...]
Renaissance Art and Music Seminar, Courtauld Institute Monday 15 April 2013 18.00, Research Forum South Room The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN Counterfeit Renaissance (I): music and image, is the first of two seminars exploring the importance of and problems associated with researching and presenting Renaissance art and music together. [...]