11th Biennial Conference Programme
Panel*: These panels were submitted as a panel or several linked panels by the speakers. The linked panels are indicated.
All other panels have been put together by the organizing committee. We hope interesting connections can be made!
Unless otherwise stated, the locations are in the Humanities Building/Arts Complex. Two of the lecture theatres are in the Priory Road Complex, and these are marked up in the programme.
Registration and the book exhibit will take place in Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Road
Times are in BST. The hashtag for social media engagement is #RenSoc25
Wednesday, 2nd July 2025
Walking Through Difficult Histories: Connecting with Bristol's Slavery Past with Dr. Richard Stone,14:00-15:30 (capacity: 25)
Bristol Common Press Drop-ins with Dr. Jennifer Batt, printing Issue 1, 14:00-16:00
Location: Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road
Welcome, opening words from Evelyn Welch (VC, University of Bristol), and introduction to the conference
Location: Priory Road Lecture Theatre (2F9)
Location: Priory Road Lecture Theatre (2F9)
‘Mediterranean Itineraries: moving between and across worlds’
Chair: Evelyn Welch (VC, University of Bristol)
Early modern itineraries are remarkably diverse phenomena. They are conventional on one side, yet also singular, provisional, and inventive on the other. They describe a route to a destination as a sequence of connected places, abstracting time and space, yet they also detail the fluctuating intensities and experiences of individual and collective journeys. They illuminate well-travelled networks between centres, and also roads less-frequently taken. Highlighting the disorientation of itinerancy, this talk explores some drawings made by Europeans who were moving through Islamic dominions.
The Leiden Sketchbook (1577-85) is a particularly illustrative example of an itinerary’s future oriented character. Turning the pages of the oblong portable volume reactivates the sequence of cities seen along the embassy route between Vienna and Istanbul. Neither the point of departure nor arrival is delineated, which contributes to the anticipatory character of the journey itself, with its evolving horizons, disorienting waterways, bridges, and cityscapes. The Leiden manuscript and other examples attest to experimentation with the potential of the line and the limits of the page. In this way, an itinerary was a technology for early moderns to navigate the horizons of their own experiences.
Thursday, 3rd July 2025
Location: Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road
Location: Art LT2
Chair Jonathan Schiesaro (Trinity College Dublin)
Jason Lawrence (Hull), ‘All the unlawful issue that their lust / Since then hath made between them’: children and absent motherhood in Early Modern English Cleopatra plays
Danica Stojanovic (Graz), ‘Rejecting Motherhood, Resisting Society: Complicating Motherly Figures in Early Modern Women’s Writing’
Judith Haber (Tufts), ‘Ben Jonson and the Fantasy of the Adopted Son’
Aurora Jonathan Goga (Surrey), ‘Genderqueer Parenthood in Paradise Lost and Order and Disorder’
Location: Arts LT3
Chair: Emily Stevenson (Newcastle)
Jessica Reid (Glasgow), ‘“To see oursels as ithers see us”?: Scotland as terra incognita in travel fictions from James VI to Charles II’
Chi-fang Sophia Li (National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan), ‘From Medieval Mappa Mundi to Renaissance Cartography: Ideas of Gold and Home in Eastward Ho (1605)’
Emily Soon (Singapore Management University), ‘Cartographic (dis)connections: England, Spain and the East Indies in Harington’s Orlando Furioso (1591)’
Location: G.H04
Chair: Emily Rowe (KCL)
Harri Hudspith (University of the West of England), ‘Interconnected Souls: Teresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena’s communities of knowing’
James Ee (Cambridge), ‘Bacon and the Beasts: The Virtues of Animals and the Wisdom of Man’
Alison Searle (Leeds), ‘Sitting in the Ruins: Paradise(s) Lost, Soil, and Hope’
Linked to 6.1 and 7.1
Location: 1H021
Chair: Michael Powell-Davies (Birkbeck)
Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck), ‘Authorship revisited again (again); the case of non-elite women’
Helen Hackett (UCL), ‘A Fairy Tale’: Jane Wiseman’s response to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sarah Ross (Victorian University of Wellington), ‘On not complaining’
Chair: Emma Rhatigan (Sheffield)
Romana Brovia (Turin), ‘The poet and the preachers. Petrarchan presences in Early Modern homiletics’
Simona Iaria (Turin), ‘Devotion, inspiration and biblical rewriting in Aenea Silvius Piccolomini’
Paolo Sartori (Turin), ‘The challenge of Biblical textual criticism: strategies and results of Erasmus and the Montaigu theologians’
Location: G.H01
Chair: Peter Dent (Bristol)
Mariaelena Floriani (St Andrews/Genoa), ‘The Secret Priapus. Antiquarian curiosity and erotic imagery in Florentine collections’
Ianthi Assimakopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), ‘Blood and the Sublime in Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and the Medusa’
Location: 1.H029
Chair: Andrew Fleck (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Johanna Vernqvist (Linköping University, Sweden), ‘Epicurean Interconnections in Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogo della infinità di amore and Lyrical Poetry’
Anastasia Ladefoged Larn (University of Southern Denmark), ‘Making Sophonisba Great Again: Préciosité as Politics in Madeleine de Scudéry’s Les femmes illustres’
Matilda Amundsen Bergström (The University of Gothenburg, Sweden), ‘Seneca shall speak for me: Birgitte Thott’s Adaption of Stoic philosophy into Feminist Argument in Weyen till et Lycksalligt Liff’
Location: B.H05
Chair: Rhiannon Daniels (Bristol)
Laurie Atkinson (University of Tübingen), ‘Transnationality, intermediality, and print shop relations in English versions of the Ship of Fools (1509)’
Irina Chernetsky, (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ‘Between People, Times and Places - The Florentine Origins of Literary and Visual Cycles of the Famous Men (uomini famosi)’
Julia Rosemary Smith, ‘Manuscripts, material culture, and a Renaissance master: Hand-coloured Dürer engravings as manuscript illustrations’
Location: G.H03
Chair: Tamsin Badcoe (Bristol).
Emily Naish (Sheffield), ‘The chorographic narrator “digested into a poem”’
Philip Schwyzer (Exeter), ‘John Selden’s Performative Passions’
Andrew McRae (Exeter), ‘William Hole’s Poly-Olbion maps: the limits of iconography’
Linked to 2.9
Location: Banton LT (Priory Road)
Chair: Cristiano Guarneri (Ca’ Foscari University Venice)
Ana Marinković (University of Zagreb), ‘The Connecting Circles of Ragusan Observant Dominicans: Giovanni Dominici, Matthias Corvinus, Giorgio Benigno Salviati’
Jasenka Gudelj (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), ‘Family Ties and Business Triangulations of Quattrocento Adriatico: the case of Juraj Dalmatinac/Giorgio Dalmata’
Laris Borić (University of Zadar), ‘An Early Trans-Adriatic Renaissance Classicist Constellation: Ancona – Dubrovnik – Zadar’
Petah Strunje (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), ‘Charting Dalmatia: Giuseppe Juster’s itinerant atlas of the Eastern Adriatic’
Location: Priory Road LT (2F9)
Chair: Lucy Munro (KCL)
Emily Derbyshire (Bristol), ‘The early modern mother witch: Katharina Kepler, rediscovered’
Tvisha Pankaj, ‘“A witch! Who is not”: The witch as a Negative Excess of the Witch-like’
Charlotte-Rose Millar (Melbourne), ‘Ghostly Connections: Community and Neighbourhood in early modern London’
Linked to 2.1 and 6.12
Location: G20
Chair: Jack Avery (Oxford)
Niall Allsopp (Exeter), ‘Office-Holding and Parish Politics in Non-Elite Poetry: Leonard Wheatcroft of Derbyshire’
Clare Egan (Lancaster), ‘A Lancashire Libel and the Star Chamber: Connecting Centre and Locality in Early Modern England’
Location: 1.H021
Chair: Mareile Pfannebecker
Chloe Preedy (Exeter), ‘Costly Weather: Shakespeare in the Wind and Rain’
Avi Mendelson (Brandeis University), ‘The Joy of Homeless Madness in Brome’s The Antipodes’
Anthony Zhang (Durham), ‘Cuckoldry, Emasculation, and the Problem Plays: The Inverted Gender Politics in the Marital Resolution of All’s Well That Ends Well’
Location: LT3
Chair: Sally J. Cornelison (Syracuse)
Ashley Brown (Glasgow), Connections within the academic bubble: masculine relations present at post-Reformation Scottish universities’
Faith Acker (Signum University), ‘A Butler, a Manciple, and a Dean Walk into a Poetical Miscellany: Interconnections between the Dean and Servants at Christ Church, Oxford’
Gillian Jack (Open University), ‘Doubtful Virtue: Sex Workers’ Daughters at the Monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite in Late Sixteenth Century Florence’
Emilie Murphy (York), ‘Linguistic capital and textual mobility in disputes at the English Benedictine Convent in Brussels, 1620-1652’
Location: LT2
Chair: Amanda Herbert (Durham)
Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer, (Bristol), Exile, Bones and Drunken Parties: Social Rupture in Late-Seventeenth- Century Manila’
Sian Hibbert (York), ‘Social Networks and Women’s Enmities in early modern France, 1680-1720’
Giada Pizzoni (EUI, European University Institute), ‘“I Demand Justice”: Maltese Women and Sexual Violence during the Confession, 1600-1700’
Location: G.H03
Chair: Alison Searle (Leeds)
Charlotte Gauthier (Royal Holloway) Lyndal Roper (Oxford)
Edmund Wareham Wanitzek (Royal Holloway)
Location: 1.H030
Chair: Sebastiaan Verweij (Bristol)
John-Mark Philo (UEA), The Interconnected Library: Travel, Knowledge Exchange, and the early modern Library’
Nailya Shamgunova (UEA), ‘English and Scottish Travellers at the Ottoman Library’
Fariba Alamgir (UEA), Library and Refuge: The Role of Public Libraries in Supporting Forced Migrants to Build Their Lives in the UK’
Location: B.H05
Chair: Simona Iaria (Turin)
Joseph M. Ortiz (University of Texas at El Paso), ‘Transatlantic Virgil: Velasco’s Eneyda and the Uses of Humanism in New Spain’
Tim Wade, (Warwick) ‘William Tait, Christian Hebraism and Humanism between England and Europe’
Matteo Favaretto, (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), ‘Different Versions of the “Tale of Two Lovers”: from Piccolomini to Braccesi’
Location: 1.H029
Chair: John McTague (Bristol)
Matt Ryan (Newcastle), Safety in numbers? Forging factions in Elizabethan prose fiction’
Charles Cathcart (Open University), John Okes’s Plural Entries in the Stationers’ Register’
Location G.H01
Chair: Natalya Din-Kariuiki (Warwick)
Emily Rowe (KCL)
Eli Cumings (Columbia)
Mel Harrison (Exeter)
Grace Murray (Birkbeck)
Linked to 1.10
Location: Banton LT (Priory Road)
Chair: Laris Borić (University of Zadar)
Cristiano Guarneri (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), ‘Mobility patterns of artists in a contact region: Friuli between Venetian Republic and habsburg Carniola’
Margherita Mittone (Ca’ Foscari University Venice). ‘On the Building Site of Udine Cathedral in the Fifteenth Century: A Crossroad of artistic trans-regional transit routes’
Elvis Orbanić (Institute for Historical and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), ‘Relics in Istria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: procurement, rules and abuse’
Linked to 1.12 and 6.12
Location: G.H04
Chair: Clare Egan (Lancaster)
Jack Avery (Oxford), ‘“Ingeniose Virtuosi in severall Counties”: Connecting centre and locality in the correspondence of John Aubrey ‘
Anna Wall (York), ‘Posting Theology: The Correspondence of the Henry Family in Wales’
Christopher Archibald (Queen Mary University of London), ‘Royalists and recusants: Writing Catholic allegiance in the English Civil Wars’
Location: Priory Road LT (2F9)
Chair: Shanti Graheli (Glasgow)
Edward John Stein (Cambridge), ‘Forging Connections: Fraudulent Prophecy, Fake News, and the (Mis-)Uses of History in John Taylor’s ‘The Peace of France’ (1623)’
Edward Taylor (Birmingham), ‘“Nova Turcica, Gallica, Polonica…”: Latin in European Newsbooks, c. 1580-1640’
Alexander Samson (UCL) and Renae Satterley (Middle Temple), ‘Spanish Books in the collection of Robert Ashley (1565-1641)’
Location: B.H05
Chair: Eleanor Rycroft (Bristol)
Lucy Munro (KCL): ‘Macbeth in Southwark’
Thomas Betteridge (Brunel), ‘Smiles and Silences: Weapons of the Weak in Shakespeare’
Ann C. Christensen, (Houston), ‘“Look at me. Listen to Me”: “Honest Talk” and Rewriting Othello’
Iman Sheeha (Brunel), ‘Female Neighbourly Networks in The Merry Wives of Windsor’
Location: 1.H029
Chair: Edward Holberton (Bristol)
Henry Jones (Birmingham), ‘Sir Philip Sidney’s Diplomatic Portrait: The Languet-Sidney Correspondence and Diplomatic Exchange’
Caroline Fish (Purdue University), ‘Women’s Diplomacy in Action: The Exile of Marie de Médicis, 1631’
Marius Sirutavicius (Vytautas Magnus University), ‘Between Public Duty and Social Status: Self-Presentation of Polish–Lithuanian envoys in the Early Seventeenth Century’
Location: 1.H030
Chair: Emilie Murphy (York)
Ida Mauro (University of Barcelona), ‘Isabel Agustín, the management of the Icart estate and the Agustin network in Spain’
Laura Sangha (Exeter), ‘“Her Mother’s Maryage Ringe”: Interconnections in English Wills c.1540-1790
Jonathan Schiesaro (TCD), Genealogy as Historiography: Family Memoirs, Private Archives and Strategies for Celebrating and Preserving Memory in Grand-Ducal Florence (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
Location: 1.H021
Chair: Andrew McRae (Exeter)
Dominic Gilani (Bristol), ‘Bona Terra, Mala Gens’: Borders and Boundaries in Henry VI Part II’
Emily Stevenson (Newcastle), ‘Tractable Conversation: Early Modern Indigenous Language Lists’
Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam), ‘Imagined (dis)connection and indigenous resistance: the case of the Dutch, Spanish and Mapuche’
Location: LT3
Chair: Gina Walter (Bristol)
Anouska Lester (York)
Rosie Poebright (Splash and Ripple)
Candace Scarborough (Roehampton)
Evey Reidy (Roehampton and Shakespeare’s Globe)
Location: LT2
Chair: Jan Machielsen (Cardiff)
Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford), ‘Amateurs vs Specialists: Scholarship, Society, and the Soul in Early Enlightenment England’
Timothy Twining (KU Leuven), ‘Biblical Scholarship in the Vernacular in Late Seventeenth-Century France’
Samuli Kaislaniemi (University of Eastern Finland), ‘Learning to fold like a gentleman: William Cecil’s letters to his father, c. 1600–1608’
Location: G.H04
Chair: Ad Putter (Bristol)
Fiona Feane (Bristol), Elizabeth I as a Lieu de Memoire in Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballad Woodcuts
Orit Klein Vartsky (Tel Aviv University), ‘The Making and Remaking of Myths: Medieval Narrative Verse and Popular Ballads’
Robert King (Bristol), ‘The Lost Medieval “Ballad of Macbeth”’
Location: G.H03
Chair: Clarissa Chenovick (Florida Atlantic University)
Peter Auger (Birmingham), ‘Mobility, Diversity, and Anagrams’
Anna-Nadine Pike (Kent), ‘From words to the wordless: devotional calligrams and Esther Inglis' urn’
Location: G.H01
Chair: Anna Groundwater (National Museums Scotland)
Willem Peek (The Warburg Institute), ‘Musica reservata: Illuminating Music at the Bavarian Court of Albrecht V (1555–1568)’
Sally J. Cornelison (Syracuse), ‘Interconnections in Late Renaissance Arezzo: Vasari’s Pieve Altars and Altarpieces’
Guendalina Serafinelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata), ‘The Nuns of SS. Domenico e Sisto in Rome: Artistic Patronage, Female Agency and Reception’
Arianna Rigamonti (Royal College of Music), The Reception of Exotic Musical Instruments in Early Modern Italy: Collecting, Interpreting and Imagining’
Location: G.20
Chair: Mark Hailwood (Bristol)
Neha Vermani (Azim Premji University, India), ‘Wine, Ethics, and God: Islam and Drinking in Early Modern South Asia’
Sultan Toprak Oker (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA), ‘Ottoman Istanbul: A Vibrant Hub of Early Modern Alcohol Trade’
Lila O’Leary Chambers (Cambridge), ‘Competing Visions of Viticulture: Authority and Alcohol in the Native Southeast’
Location: Banton LT (Priory Road)
Chair: Aidan Norrie (University Campus North Lincolnshire)
David Hasberg Zirak-Schmidt (University of Southern Denmark and Queen Mary University of London), ‘Nuptial Fictions: Writing the Wedding of Anna of Denmark and James VI/I’
Martina Di Tizio (Sapienza University of Rome, University of Silesia in Katowice), ‘Cousin, Sister, Mother: An Analysis of the Epistolary Relationship Between Elizabeth I and James VI’
Johanna Sinclair (Oxford), ‘Culture Clash at the Marriage of Maria de’ Medici and Henry IV’
Location: B.H05
Streamed from English Shared Futures at University of York
'Abortion Poetics in Early Modern England'
Speaker: Kevin Killeen (York)
Chair: Jane Rickard (Leeds)
If scientific enquiry is usually understood as humans taking stock of the natural world, the seventeenth century produced at least one vision of the natural world taking stock of humans. Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Duo (1662), a detailed and deeply strange poetic natural history of Herbs, has on the one hand a resolutely botanical-pharmaceutical gaze, and is ‘a complete body of Physick’ brimming with scientific detail, but it is also voiced almost entirely by the plants themselves, and, in its second book, by a community of learned female plant-ecbolicks (‘such Medicines as bring away dead Children or cause abortion’), who discuss, in gentile if sometimes rancorous fashion, the anatomical detail of gynaecology, menstruation, miscarriage and abortion. That bloodless plants are tasked with explaining menstruation, or the ethics and procedures of cleansing the womb after an abortion is not an accidental impropriety, but the very character of an inquiry, that was, more or less, not fit for prose. Form, and the decorum associated with form, is not incidental, but central to the scientific rhetoric of the poem, and this talk will explore how Cowley inflects the resources of poetry to open up otherwise inaccessible areas of medical-scientific thought.
Location: 1.H029
Chair: Susan Anne Naramore (University of Notre Dame, US)
Dewi Alter (Cardiff), ‘The defence of King Cadwaladr’s journey to Rome and Welsh identity’
Clara Chamberlain (UEA), ‘Knights of the New World: Cortés, “Spanishness” & Late Medieval Iberia’s Chivalric Renaissance’
Owen Adams (University of Bristol), ‘Fear of the Ferric Forest of Dean’
Location: LT3
Chair: Philip Schwyzer (Exeter)
Tamsin Badcoe (Bristol), ‘“Where ye haue left your marke”: Edmund Spenser and the Art of Long-Distance Running’
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar (Zurich), ‘Human and Animal Interconnections in Book II of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene’
Johannes Riquet (Tampere), ‘Entangled Maps: Narrative and Cartographic Unfolding in The Faerie Queene’
Rachel Stenner (Sussex), ‘Incubation and Britomart’s “troublous passion” in Isis Church’
Location: LT2
Chair: Ana Struillou (Institute for Historical Research, London)
Tomos Evans (Princeton), ‘John Milton, Leonard Philaras, and Advocating Greece’s Liberation in the Seventeenth Century’
Judith Bryce (Bristol), ‘Niccolò Ardinghelli, Florentine Merchant-Adventurer, and the Gift to Mehmed II, the Conqueror, of Leonardo Bruni’s Commentarius de primo bello punico’
Kitty Edgerley (Bristol), ‘Writing the Ghazal: Adaptation and Resistance in the poetry of Mihrī Hatun (ca. 1460-1515) and Zeb-Un-Nissa (1638-1702)’
Location: 1.H030
Chair: Christopher Archibald (Queen Mary University of London)
Alison Harpur, ‘“A Covenant of Everlasting Unity”: The Cesarini Cassetta and Church Union at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438–1445)’
Alex Bamji (Leeds), Connective confraternities in post-Tridentine Italy’
Hsing-hao Chao (National Taichung University of Education), The Solemn League and Covenant: National or International Covenant?’
Location: 1.H021
Chair: Anna-Lujz Gilbert (Manchester)
Francesca Galligan (Bodleian Libraries, Oxford), ‘The Library of Sir Christopher Hatton (1540–1591), in the Decades after his Death’
Shanti Graheli (Glasgow), ‘Italian and French Books in Early Modern Scotland after the Auld Alliance’
Jacqueline Glomski (UCL), ‘Seventeenth-Century Disputations on Libraries’
Location: G.H04
Chair: Robert Stagg (Texas A&M University)
Michele Merlicco (Pavia), ‘Writing, Reading and Visualising in the Early French Renaissance’
Leonardo Graciotti (Genoa and Paris 1), ‘Thinking Through Bodies (ut obiecto): Reassessing Human Cognition in Renaissance Thought’
Cecilia Muratori (Pavia), ‘Living in a Renaissance Ideal City: A Digital Humanities Project on Francesco Patrizi’s Happy City‘
Location: Banton LT (Priory Road)
Lindsay Ann Reid (Galway)
Catherine Emerson (Galway)
Melissa Bastian (Vienna)
Sara D’Amico (Alicante)
Brenda Luies (Galway)
Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol)
Ian L.Y. Wong (Galway)
Location: G.H01
Chair: Julia Rosemary Smith
Tiarna Doherty (The Wolfsonian-FIU), ‘Vicente Carducho’s Informal Art Academy in Early Modern Spain’
Roberto Tartaglia (University of Udine),‘The correspondence of Federico Zuccari. An itinerant artist of the sixteenth century’
Peter Dent (Bristol), ‘The Judgement of Art from Crete to Toledo: El Greco’s versions of Christ Cleansing the Temple’
Location: G20
Chair: Clare Egan (Lancaster)
Hanzhi Li (McGill), ‘Painted Façades and German Beholders in Sixteenth-Century Trento’
William David Green (Warwick), ‘A Civil War (on Playing): Stratford-upon-Avon’s Guildhall, Local Politics, and the "Death" of Early Modern Regional Theatre’
Emma-Catherine Wilson (Oxford), ‘“Donné en nostre merveilleuse Manssion du Firmament plain d’estoille”: Early Tudor Pageantry’s Indebtedness to an Older English Tournament Tradition’
Location: G.H03
Chair: Anna Wall (York)
Sierra Carter (York), 'Blank Love Letters in Fleet Street's Bookstalls and Theatres'
Lily Freeman-Jones (Queen Mary), ‘How to Do Early Modern “Dermographics”: Clerkenwell’s Cross-genre Performance Culture of Animal Skin’
Grace Murray (Birkbeck), John Blagrave, Mathematical Performance, and the Accession Day Entertainments’
(with time to visit)
'Renaissance in Reinforced Concrete'
Chair: Samir Savant
Friday, 4th July 2025
Location: G.H03
Chair: Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer (Bristol)
Clare Burgess (Oxford), ‘“As if they were man and wife”: Transactional Relationships as Sexual Labour in Early Modern Seville and Mexico City’
Elizabeth Currie (Central Saint Martins), ‘Policing Appearances on the Streets of Rome, 1550-1650’
Maayan Aner (Oxford), ‘Rumours, scandals and the construction of queerness within local communities in early modern Spain’
Location: Banton LT (Priory Road)
Chair: Michelle O’Callaghan (Reading)
Daniel Starza Smith (KCL), ‘Donne’s peregrinations: a new source for Jonson’s Volpone?’
Jane Rickard (Leeds), ‘Donne’s ‘Metempsychosis’ and Jonson’s Volpone: intertextual dialogue’
Emma Rhatigan (Sheffield), ‘Donne and Jonson at the theatre’
Linked to 6.3 and 7.3
Location: LT2
Chair: Giulia Zanon (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Liudmyla Fedoriaka (Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Ukraine), ‘Jack Wilton’s European Travels: Balancing “Self” and “Otherness”’
Aaron Landau (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), ‘Englishness, Alterity, and Class Conflict in The Booke of Sir Thomas More’
Xin Ying (University of Hull, UK), ‘“This land is my land, this land is your land.” Power, Possession, and Race-making in the Emotional Landscape of Early America’
Location: 1.H029
Chair: Alison Knight (Royal Holloway)
Kenneth Austin (Bristol), ‘Collective Self-Fashioning in the European Reformation? The Early Modern Editions of John Calvin’s Correspondence
Christian Callisen (Uppsala), “I would really like the two of you to reconcile’: Interconnections in Georg Calixtus’ Correspondence Network’
Location: 1.H021
Chair: Lesel Dawson (Bristol)
Veronika Lahodinski (York), ‘Interconnections in Early Modern Excremental Therapy between England and the German countries’
Ellen Werner (Manchester), ‘“All Heat in Fevers”: The Books of an Early Modern Apothecary from Manchester’
Silvia Marchiori (Cambridge), ‘Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Early Modern Circulation of Ancient Medicine in Vernacular Languages’
Location: G20
Chair: Katie Bank (Birmingham)
Johannes Hamre (Cambridge), ‘"I Stand For Sacrifice": Love and Martyrdom in The Merchant of Venice’
Daria Akhapkina (Warwick), ‘Passion of the Unworthy: Humour of the Renaissance Parodic “Passions”’
Fatma Sinem Erilmaz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), ‘A Motley Crew on Canvas: Sixteenth Century Discussions in Colour’
Location: 1.H030
Chair: Matthew Steggle (Bristol)
Nilanjana Goswami (St Andrews), ‘Re-Renaissance: Baroque Poetics in a Bengali Epyllion’
Zeidy Zady Canales Violante (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), ‘Shakespeare Tras las Rejas or Shakespeare Behind Bars: Connection and Subjectivity through Renaissance Thetare in Mexican theatrical spaces related to incarceration’
Pauline Julia Preisler (St Andrews and Bonn), ‘The adaptation of the memory theatre in Thomas De Quincey´s The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspiria de Profundis’
Location: B.H05
Chair: Rachel Willie (LJMU)
Andrew Fleck (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), ‘Interconnections in the Anglo-Dutch Republic of Letters: Bainbridge, Snell, and the 1618 Comets’
Barbara Bienias (Polish Academy of Sciences), ‘“Transplanted” or “metamorphosed”? Astronomical tropes in early modern English theological and literary discourses’
Matteo Leta (Warwick), ‘Interconnections between Theatre and Sciences in the Italian Renaissance’
Location: B10 and B14
Seminar Leaders: John McTague (Bristol) and Rhiannon Daniels (Bristol)
Because of limited space, this will only be open to those who have signed up in advance
This seminar is in effect a workshop exploring practice-based and collaborative research into early modern print cultures, involving practical demonstrations using the historical equipment of Bristol Common Press. The seminar leaders are co-founders of this working historical print shop, and are involved in research projects which featurehands-on letterpress work, using historical equipment and materials to expand, revise, or problematise the research questions and answers of desk-based research in the fields of bibliography and the history of the book. These projects look not only at books, but the interconnected materials, processes and people that made them; by actually /making/ books, or parts thereof, they put investigators in new positions and open up new perspectives. Like early modern print shops themselves, these projects are highly collaborative: one of them aims to investigate (by reconstructing) the practice of ‘shared printing’, where the printing of single books is distributed across a number of printers for speed; another brings practical knowledge of early print shop practice to bear on a digital humanities project seeking to investigate the geometry of the page in early Italian printed books. With a mixture of brief presentation, practical demonstration, examination of printed outputs and other materials (i.e. sheets printed on replica wooden hand presses; locked up formes of moveable type), we hope to introduce participants to the interim findings of these projects, explore and demonstrate our working methods and the facilities of Bristol Common Press, and discuss together the challenges and benefits of conducting practice-based and collaborative research into early modern print cultures.
Location: G.H01
Chair: Derek Dunne (Cardiff)
Robert Crighton (Beyond Shakespeare), ‘The Life and Death of Jack Straw: Planning an Uprising'
Rachel Robinson (Cambridge), ‘Laughter and the body in early modern drama’
Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), ‘Anger: Emotional Interconnections Between Race and Gender in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam’
Location: G.H04
Seminar Leaders Matthew Dimmock (Sussex) and Andrew Hadfield (Sussex)
New geographical and hydrographical thinking in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries began to envisage the world as made up of islands. This vision entailed, according to the navigator John Davis, a recognition that the world’s landmasses were in fact ‘many ylands’ wholly ‘invironed with the seas’. To see a world of islands was to see the world differently; to participate in the perspectival shift that generated early modern European expansionism and to think in new commercial and colonial ways, privileging oceanic superhighways over the ‘impediment’ of land.
Islands had long occupied an important position in the Western cultural imaginary, but Davis’s work reflected a new centrality that emerged from such varied sources as More’s celebrated Utopia and the Venetian isolarii genre, which including Benedetto Bordone’s Isolario (or Book of Islands) of 1528, a cartographic study of all the islands of the world that extended to the ‘New Worlds’ of the West, and later studies that developed the genre further, including islands both real and imagined, in the work of Tomasso Poracchi, Giovanni Francesco Camocio and Donato Bertelli. Islands might become experimental spaces for plantation-style colonialism and the staging of its resistance; spaces for cultural and commercial interaction; or places in which grander competing colonial claims could be contested; but in fiction they could also enable imagined, syncretic, idealised cultures. Often all these different elements were in play, as for instance in Shakespeare’s celebrated island drama, The Tempest. Understanding the world as a sequence of bounded island spaces had profound implications for conceptions of race and indigeneity, of the nation state, and of colonial strategy, all issues that are prominent in that play.
For this seminar we are interested in receiving any submissions that engage with these themes, and in thinking about specific as well as fictional island contexts in this period.
Location: LT3
Chair: Laurence Publicover (Bristol)
The speakers for this event include local secondary school teachers
Linked to 1.4 and 7.1
Location: 1.H021
Chair: Laura Seymour (Swansea)
Michael Powell-Davies (Birkbeck), ‘“5pm: a walcking with my frents”: Community and Mobility in the Diaries of a London Wigmaker’
Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck), ‘Connected Londoners’
Callan Davies (Southampton), Catherine Richardson (UEA) & Tara Hamling (Birmingham), ‘Writing the Here and There: Mobility and the Middling’s Invention of Place’
Location: 1.H030
Chair: Rachel Stenner (Sussex)
Syrithe Pugh (Aberdeen), ‘Chasing Virgil’s Gnat: Translation, Impersonation, Interpretation’
Elisabeth Chaghafi (Tübingen), ’Fine Footing: Tracing Spenserism’
Richard Danson Brown (Open University), Dolefull dreriment renewed: Spenser and the persistence of complaint’
Linked to 5.3 and 7.3
Location: LT2
Chair: Fiona Sit (Leeds)
Eunice Yu (Oxford), ‘Harmonising Paradox in Early Modern Venice: Collecting and Constructing National Identity in Print’
Giulia Zanon (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), ‘Objects, Artworks and Saints: Shaping Devotional Communities in Catholic Settings’
Timm Schmitz (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), ‘(Mis)viewing Titian: Venetian Art Critique in the Conférences de l’Académie Royale and the Role of Discourse in Shaping Collective Artistic Identity’
Pierre Marty (University of Toronto, Canada), ‘Drawing Academies and the Social Reconfiguration of the Professional Communities of Construction and Decorative Arts (eighteenth century, Provincial France)’
Location: 1.H029
Chair: Nandini Das (Oxford)
Niall Oddy (Open University), ‘“Embracing a Pole as a Frenchman”: Perceptions of Poland in Late Sixteenth- Century France’
Matthew Day (Derby), ‘Challenging nationalism: Early Modern readers’ engagement with Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations and its nationalist discourse’
Samuel Diener (Cambridge), ‘Anthology Epic: the many We’s of Richard Hakluyt’
Location: Banton LT (Priory Road)
Chair: Andrew Hadfield (Sussex)
Angus Vine (Stirling), ‘City Libraries: Merchants and their Books in Seventeenth-Century London’
Michelle O’Callaghan (Reading), ‘Communities of Practice: Dover Town Clerks and Literary Culture’
Claire Bartram (Canterbury Christchurch), ‘“I have sett downe my opynione by the way of argument”: Performing civic office in late Tudor Dover’
Location: G.H03
Chair: Thomas Betteridge (Brunel)
Alison Knight (Royal Holloway), ‘From Counterfeits to Certificates: Verifying Religious Confession in Early Modern England’s Migrant Communities’
Tomas Riklius (Vilnius Academy of Arts), ‘Connections and Disconnections in Religious Polemics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’
Abigail Shinn (Goldsmith’s), ‘Playing with the Architecture of Conversion: The Case of Sir Thomas More (c. 1591-3)’
Location: B.H05
Chair: Mary Bateman (Bristol)
Massimiliano Riviera (UCL), ‘Sex and the Cittie: Richard Barnfield’s Trojan poems and the limits of translatio imperii’
Jonathan Sawday (Saint Louis), The Renaissance Search for Homeric Troy’
Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam), ‘“I smell the blood of a British man”: giants in early modern drama’
Location: G.H01
Chair: Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary, University of London)
Ryan Hampton (Oxford), ‘The social life of taverns: the German Peasants’ War, space, and entangled agencies’
Diana Bullen Presciutti (Essex), ‘Roadside Aedicules as Sites of Interconnection in Renaissance Umbria’
Lee Morrissey (Clemson University), ‘Buckland Abbey’s Interconnections’
Location: G.H04
Chair: Catherine Hunt (Bristol)
Molly Ailsa Ingham (University of Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland), ‘From Northern Europe to Aberdeenshire: Communion Beakers and Cultural exchange’
Anna Groundwater ‘National Museums Scotland), ‘Materialising Scottish networks in early modern Europe’
Location: LT3
Chair: Emily Derbyshire (Bristol)
Ceri Sullivan (Cardiff), ‘Shakespeare’s Managers and the Garbage Can Model of Meetings’
Cen Li (KCL), ‘Interconnected Imperial Legacies: Depicting the Romans and the Danes in Early Modern English Drama’
Elisabeth Osing (University of Heidelberg, Germany), ‘Reviving Attila in Renaissance Europe’
Location: Priory Road LT (2F9)
Chair: Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki)
Matthew Coneys (Warburg), ‘Alessandro Zorzi and the travel compilation between manuscript and print’
Michael Partington (Aberdeen), ‘Illustrating the “Treasures of the Kingdom” : John Ogilby’s Africa (1670), the “othering” of Africa and the political grammar of royalty’
Martin Nixon (Zayed University, Dubai), ‘Namban Screens and Viewing the Other. Transoceanic Connections in Seventeenth-Century Japan’
Chair: Niall Allsopp (Exeter)
David Parry (Oxford), ‘Protestant Providentialism in Exeter Dissenting Sermons and Self-Writing, c.1660–1750’
Annie Stephenson (Exeter), ‘Soul-Searching Through Time: Comparing the Self-Examination Questions of Joseph Alleine and John Wesley’
Sam Head (Oxford), ‘Writing for Religious Toleration in the South-West and Beyond: Contextualising Dr Richard Burthogge’s Prudential reasons for repealing the penal laws (1687)’
Bristol Common Press Workshop with Dr. Jennifer Batt, printing Issue 2, 13:30-14:15 (capacity: 8)
Walking Through Difficult Histories: Connecting with Bristol's Slavery Past with Dr. Richard Stone, 13:30-15:00 (capacity: 25)
Visit to Gaunt's Chapel / the Lord Mayor’s Chapel with Music & Rehearsed Reading, 13:15-14:30 (capacity: 140)
Bristol Common Press Workshop with Dr. Jennifer Batt, printing Issue 2, 14:15-15:00 (capacity: 8)
Linked to 1.4 and 6.1
Location: 1.H021
Chair: Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck)
Richard Ansell (Birkbeck), ‘“My French mother, as I then called her”: Language Exchanges across the Early Modern English Channel’
Laura Seymour (Swansea), ‘Disability and Non-Elite Women’s Texts, a Microhistory of Sarah and Mathew Caute’
Melissa Marsh (Birkbeck), ‘Ralph Josselin: a father in grief’
Location: 1.H030
Seminar Leaders: Derek Dunne (Cardiff) and Kim Gilchrist (Cardiff)
‘History from below’ has revolutionised the questions we ask and the stories we tell about historical periods from the early modern to our own – instead of grand narratives of sovereigns and state officials, how was historical change experienced and shaped by those further down the social ladder? This seminar borrows this methodology to explore new facets of Shakespeare and early modern drama, by switching focus from well-established cultural institutions – universities, theatres, arts organisations and publications – to more marginalised groups such as:
- the unhoused
- apprentices
- unlicensed players
- prisoners
- refugees and asylum seekers
- the precariat/gig economy workers
- soldiers and veterans
+ those at the intersection of these and other disenfranchised groups
We invite papers both historicist and presentist that grapple with these neglected (in both senses) aspects of Shakespeare studies, and particularly welcome those that reflect on methodological problems and/or their own positionality in telling such stories.
What is known of early modern dramatists and practitioners’ experiences of marginality, especially less documented groups and individuals beyond London’s professional networks? Did the increase in licensed playing companies in the sixteenth century disenfranchise regional or semi-professional practitioners? How have prisoners repurposed Shakespeare for their own ends? Can Lear’s ‘unaccommodated man’ speak to present homelessness crises? In what ways has the cultural power of ‘Shakespeare’ been weaponised against any of these groups? What ethical questions are raised by the strategies of cultural institutions to make Shakespeare ‘accessible’? While there are no doubt positive stories to tell, we must also acknowledge and explore the damage done by ‘Shakespeare’ across time periods and geographies. Our hope is that addressing Shakespeare in this way can contribute to a more inclusive pedagogy and practice
Linked to 5.3 and 6.3
Location: LT2
Chair: Fiona Sit (Leeds)
Susan Anne Naramore (University of Notre Dame, US), ‘Audacious Perugians: Constructing New Regional Identities in the Wake of the Salt War and Florentine Expansion’
Roberto Sisinni (Texas Tech University, US), ‘Justice, violence, and community: a case in the Venetian countryside during the carnival of 1576’
Fergal Leonard (University of Durham, UK), ‘“The Graymes and there clanne”: Kinship and identity on England’s northern frontier, 1593-1603’
Fabio Gigone (Danish Academy, Denmark), ‘The Architecture of the Conclave: Private Space and Collective Identity in the Early Modern Papal Election’
Location: LT3
Chair: Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam)
Francesco Formigari (University of Bergamo), ‘An intellectual life made of interconnections: Francesco Patrizi da Cherso’s case’
Thomas Matthew Vozar (University of Florida), ‘Oriental Studies and the General Scholar in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of Meric Casaubon’
Mareile Pfannebecker, ‘The Humanist Exception: Renaissance cosmopolitanism and ars apodemica in England’
Oury Goldman (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), ‘A European reception of French political thought at the time of the Wars of Religion: the English and Italian translations of La Primaudaye’s Académie Française’
Location: B.H05
Chair: Gina Walter (Bristol)
Juliana Beykirch (Newcastle)
Anna Hegland (Carthage College Wisconsin)
Lydia Valentine (KCL and Shakespeare’s Globe)
Location: G.H01
Seminar Leaders: Katie Bank (Birmingham) and Rachel Willie (LJMU)
In The Acoustic World of Early Modern England (1999), Bruce Smith illustrated the interconnectedness of sound and place through exploring the distinctive sound signatures of the early modern playhouse and other spaces, and how inhabiting such spaces connected to the embodied experiences of hearing, listening and voicing. Twenty-five years after its publication, Smith’s attention to the aural and oral landscapes continues to influence and provoke a range of debate about the early modern soundscape, how we uncover the sounds of the past, and the myriad ways in which sound acts on the senses.
This seminar aims to interrogate the interconnections between sound and the senses and how these interconnections create a sense of connectedness or disconnect. In examining sound as a multisensory experience, it asks 1) how does environment regulate the experience of sound within particular spaces? 2) what forms of knowledge are created and communicated through sound? 3) how does our attention to the historical phenomenology of sound and hearing enrich our understanding of early modern culture and society? 4) How did early modern people understand sound’s function in creating communities of fellow-feeling 5) How does attention to the ecological, temporal and epistemological factors that inform sensory experience feed into our sense of sound and hearing? 6) Can sound ecologies be exclusionary and break connections instead of being generative?
Location: 1.H029
Chair: Laurence Publicover (Bristol)
Kieron Hoyle (Canterbury Christ Church University), ‘Networks and the Improvements to Dover Harbour in the Reign of Elizabeth I’
Javier Ignacio Poblete Pérez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso), ‘Lodovico Guicciardini description of Antwerp: The port as a convergence of the crossroads of world-commerce in the sixteenth-century Low Countries’
María Grove-Gordillo (Universidad de Sevilla), ‘Connected mercantile areas: Bristol, Seville and Lisbon and the circulation of money and Bristolians (1480-1561)’
Location: Priory Road LT (2F9)
Chair: Nailya Shamgunova (UEA)
Pete Morris (Manchester), ‘Bibliographic Data Science and the Harmonization of Heterogeneous Metadata’
Fred Schurink (Manchester), ‘Continental European Books in Early Modern England, 1500–1640: An Overview of Findings’
Anna-Lujz Gilbert (Manchester), ‘Second-Hand Continental European Books in Early Modern England, 1500–1640’
Location: G.H04
Chair: Jane Grogan (UCD)
William Perry (UCD), ‘The “Citie of a Hundred Gates”: Isfahan in the Early Modern English Mind (1600-1628)’
Chloë Houston (Reading), ‘“[U]tterly ignorant in the Art of Printing”: European travel writing about Persia and the material text, 1601-1698’
Location: G.H03
Chair: Janet Clare (Bristol)
Rebecca Bailey (LJMU), ‘“Revellers of fate”: Thomas Salusbury’s “An Antimasque of Gypsies” performed at Chirk Castle on 30 December 1641’
Kate Shaw, ‘Unmasking the Queens in Jonson's Masque of Queens’
Location: G20
Chair: Martin Nixon (Zayed University, Dubai)
Michael Aidan Pope (UCL), ‘Difference in the Atlantic Before the Americas: Canary Islanders, Black Africans and Changing Iberian Cosmographies’
Carolin Schmitz (KCL), ‘The double nature of un-freedom: Enslaved and persecuted Black women in the Canary Islands’
Location: Banton LT (Priory Road)
Chair: Elizabeth Currie (Central Saint Martins)
Emily Averiss (The Warburg Institute), ‘Catherine de’ Medici’s Sartorial Diplomacy: A Renaissance Jewel Connecting France, the Papacy, and the Medici’
Daria Ünver (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg), ‘A Biblical Love Triangle: Abraham, Sarah and Hagar on the engraving of Georg Pencz’alla
Alla Chernjak (Ben Gurion University), ‘The Artist, Her Maid, and The Chess Game in Light of the Querelle des femmes’
Maria Anastasia Karageorge, ‘Pineapples and Pagodas: Botanical Connections Between China and Spanish America in Embroidered Silk Shawls’
Location: Priory Road Lecture Theatre 2F9
Chair: Natalya Din-Kariuki
'Knowing Encounters: intermedial poetics in early modern culture'
I am exploring varieties of the encounter – especially the face to face encounter – as an interpersonal event, a hermeneutic threshold and a mimetic structure, to both probe the affective, ethical and imaginative remit of certain early modern interconnections, and this culture’s refusal of a model of entanglement that is too fuzzy and comfortable and lacking in edge. The five areas I’m looking at are meetings with the foreigner, interspecies entanglement, mercantile and diplomaticencounters, judicial encounters, and face to face confrontations in theology. This talk will offer glimpses of the last two: encounters in the law-court and in the drama of faith.
Saturday, 5th July 2025
Location: B.H05
'Books in the Antipodes: Rethinking Libraries and Global Knowledge across the Oceans'
Chair: Hannah Murphy (King's College London)
This lecture revisits the place of books and libraries in the production of global knowledge in the early sixteenth century. It explores the intersection of the world’s shifting image in the eyes of its inhabitants, the variety of unfamiliar objects that Europeans encountered around the world and recognised as ‘books’, and the different meanings that non-Europeans attributed to European printed books when they first came across them. Focusing on episodes of Iberian exploration and their broader significance, the lecture is an invitation to adopt a decentred perspective on the history of the book in the Renaissance. It addresses questions concerning materiality, writing, and repositories, as raised by contemporary perceptions and understandings around the world. Ultimately, it offers a reflection on how unstable the definition of a ‘book’ still was in Europe at the time, and what the exclusion of non-European ‘books’ from Renaissance ‘universal’ libraries reveals about the latter’s complex relationship with global knowledge.
Location: LT3
Chair: Kenneth Austin (Bristol)
David Hillman (Cambridge), ‘Ars salutandi: Greetings and Partings in Early Modern Europe’
Naomi Pullin (Warwick), ‘Shaping the Centre from the Margins: The Sociability of the Hermit’
Beatriz Salamanca (Universidad Javeriana Cali), ‘Theatrical Hospitality: Trust, Women and Power in Calderon’s Who Will Find a Strong Woman?’
Linked to 9.2
Location: G.H04
Chair: Diego Sola Garcia (Universitat de Barcelona)
Héloïse Hermant (Université Côte d’Azur), ‘Between the Local and the Global: Chains of Mediators, Knowledge Generation, and Political Decision-Making through the Aragonese Case (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)’
María Sol García González (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain), ‘Reciprocal Knowledge Exchange: Agents of the State of Milan at the Court of Madrid’
José Araneda Riquelme (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), ‘The procurators and their objects: Transoceanic Circulation of Knowledge and Cultural Artifacts from the Viceroyalty of Perú (Seventeenth Century)’
Location: 1.H021
Chair: Faith Acker (Signum University)
Eve Houghton (Cambridge), ‘Voicing Authority: Quotation as Free Indirect Style in John Lyly’s Euphues (1578)’
Robert Stagg (Texas A&M University), ‘Shakespeare’s Worldly Style’
Callum Bowler (Durham), ‘“This may draw life through my reply”; Adversarial Connection in Milton and Salmasius’
Location: 1.H030
Chair: Stephanie Shirilian (Syracuse)
Amanda E. Herbert (Durham University), ‘Household Medicine and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the British Americas’
Leah Astbury (Bristol), ‘Farmyard medical encounters in early modern England and Anglo-American colonies’
Location: B.H05
Chair: Hannah Murphy (King's College London)
Lavinia Gambini (Cambridge), ‘Peddling Supplies and Exchanging Know-How: Cross-Mediterranean Artisanal Encounters in Early Modern Italy’
Ana Struillou (Institute for Historical Research, London), ‘Red Hats, White Wine, and Marmalade: The Materiality of European-Maghribi Interactions (sixteenth-early seventeenth centuries)’
Marissa Smit-Bose (Cambridge), ‘Intermediaries in an Equestrian Sea: Stradiots Cavalrymen at the Interface of Mantuan-Ottoman Diplomacy’
Nynke van Leeuwen (Groningen), ‘From letters to travelogue: the adapted narrative of Oriental scholar Nicholaus Clenardus (1494-1542)’
Location: 1.H029
Chair: Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University)
Francesca Bua (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘“I must nedes die, and will suffer it willingeley”: Prophecy and Self-Determination in Jane Lumley’s Iphigenia at Aulis’
Cat Stiles (Bristol), ‘Fatal Attraction: Lethal Seductresses in Early Modern Literature and Culture’
Anthony Zhang (Durham), ‘Cuckoldry, Emasculation, and the Problem Plays: The Inverted Gender Politics in the Marital Resolution of All’s Well That Ends Well’
Location: LT2
Chair: Tomos Evans (Princeton)
Ian Calvert and Lesel Dawson (Bristol), ‘What’s Electra to him? Hamlet and the House of Atreus’
Lucy Ruddiman (Bristol), ‘“Sharing our glorious Globe stage”: interconnected hauntings in the modern performance of Shakespearean drama and Greek tragedy’
Francesca Bua (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘“I must nedes die, and will suffer it willingeley”: Prophecy and Self-Determination
in Jane Lumley’s Iphigenia at Aulis’
Location: G.H03
Chair: Iman Sheeha (Brunel)
Clarissa Chenovick (Florida Atlantic University), “Married to a single Life”: Richard Crashaw, Celibacy, and Asexual Devotional Erotics
Jean David Eynard (Cambridge), ‘“Eares turned into eyes”: Metamorphoses of Senses in Early Modern Religious Literature’
Linked to 9.8
Location: G.H01
Chair: Richard Ansell (Birkbeck)
John Condrun (Nottingham), ‘Travel narratives as chronicles of experience: two Italo-French examples from the early years of Louis XIV’s personal rule
Sandra Toffolo (Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento), ‘Travellers and government officials: Attempts at regulating the presence of pilgrims in Renaissance Venice’
Andrew Steels (Warwick), ‘English Merchants Navigating Issues of Cross-Cultural Marriage in the Late Seventeenth Century Levant: Three Connected Controversies’
Location: G.H03
Chair: Naomi Pullen (Warwick)
Lanyu Chen (Cambridge), ‘Flatterers or Friends: Uncovering Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Millie Randall (Galway), ‘Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies’
Karin Sprang (Warwick), ‘Friendship on the Road: Transalpine Networks in the Travel Journal and Album Amicorum of Erckenbrecht Koler (1587-1593)’
Linked to 8.2
Location: G.H04
Chair: Ida Mauro (University of Barcelona)
Diego Sola (Universitat de Barcelona), ‘Knowledge and conflict between Asia and Europe: The Spanish Augustinian mission in China and the use of letters in the evangelizing race (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries)’
A. Jorge Aguilera-López (University of Helsinki), ‘Picturing Septentrion to the Spanish King: Agents of Knowledge for the Baltic Ambitions of Philip II’
Luis Conde Blázquez (Universitat de Barcelona), ‘Collecting knowledge from far Sweden: Fernán Núñez’s reports during his Embassy in Stockholm (1670-1674)’
Location: G.H01
Stephanie Shirilan (Syracuse) and Irwin Appel (University of California, Santa Barbara)
CANCELLED
Location: 1.H021
Chair: Edward Holberton (Bristol)
Callum Bowler (Durham), ‘“This may draw life through my reply”; Adversarial Connection in Milton and Salmasius’ - moved to 8.3
Monica Multer (UCSC), ‘De-Forming the Devil: The Impairment of Social Connectivity in John Milton’s Paradise Lost’
Location: B.H05
Chair Leah Astbury (Bristol)
Rachel Hindmarsh (Oxford), ‘Manardi’s Medical Correspondance: Touch, Gender, and Epistolary Form in Early Modern France’
Anita Hoffmann (York), ‘World medicines for England and English medicines for the world: Did early modern interconnections create fledgling global pharmaceutical companies?’
Olivia Formby (Cambridge), ‘“Moving the Same”: Maternal-Foetal Senses and Passions’
Location: 1.H030
Chair: Sebastiaan Verweij
Amy Charity Weng, ‘Indexing and Analyzing Scriptural References in Early English Printed Sermons’
Evan Bourke (Maynooth), ‘Networking Spenser in Munster’
Ana Barroso (CEAUL/ULICES), ‘From Renaissance Literature to Contemporary Visual Art: Confluences of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Bill Viola’s video art’
Location: 1.H029
Chair: Ian Calvert (Bristol).
Gemma Pellissa and Pere Fàbregas (Universitat de Barcelona), ‘The transformation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in printing: the vernacular and the Latin traditions’
Javiera Lorenzini Raty (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), ‘Calliditas, (δεινότης), acumen (δριμύτης), subtilitas (ὀξύτης): Latinity, Greekness, and the birth of the doctrine of ingenuity’'
Linked to 8.9
Location: LT3
Chair: Sandra Toffolo (Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento)
Tamsin Prideaux (Leiden), ‘Regulation and self-regulation in the Armenian merchant community of seventeenth-century Venice’
Andrea Pojer (University of Trento/Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento), ‘The insiders’ mountains? Alpine mobility between state control and local practices in the early modern Dolomites’
Mark Williams (Cardiff), ‘The corporate body: (Im)mobility and embodied experience in the early English East India Company’
Location: G.H01
