SRS 2020 Conference Programme
Monday 6th July, 19.00-20.00
The SRS Public Lecture will be presented at St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, ‘Women, Sex and Power in Sixteenth-Century France: Stories from the Archives’
All SRS delegates are welcome to attend. The event is free but should be booked during the registration process.
Tuesday 7th July
Registration, the book exhibit, the wine reception and conference dinner, and all lectures and panel sessions will take place at the conference facilities at the Norwich City football ground, Carrow Road, Norwich.
Registration will be open from 8am in the Top of the Terrace Lounge
Chair: Mel Evans
Elaine Hobby: Play, Festivity and Music: Aphra Behn and commedia dell’arte
Claire Bowditch: ‘though he were my God as well as King, I would instruct thee how to disobey him’: Patrons, Royal Favour, and Aphra Behn
Gillian Wright: Aphra Behn’s Celebratory Royal Verse
Chair: Emma Rhatigan
Respondent: Rosamund Oates
Julia A. DeLancey: Threading the Needle: The Church, Confraternities, and Disability in Early Modern Venice
Jenni Kuuliala: Infirmity and maleficia: A Religious Explanation for Disability in Renaissance Italy?
Chair: Jane Raisch
Sam Kennerley: Greek Scribes and Scholars in the Correspondence of Marcello Cervi
Nil Palabiyik: Epistolary Culture among Early Modern Greeks
Stefano Saracino: Fighting with the Help of Migrants and Manuscripts: New Insights into the Quarrel about Patriarch Kyrill Loukaris from German Archives
Chair: Susan Wiseman
Michelle O’Callaghan: Poetic Craft: Minstrels, Gravediggers, and Mechanicals
Andrew Gordon: The Art and Craft of Cobbling. Early Modern Cobblers’ Work in Play
Sara Pennell: Living Well for Less: Hannah Wolley and Crafting Thrift in Late Seventeenth-Century London’
Chair: Nandini Das
Jenny Sager: ‘Exchange is no robbery’: Hospitality and Hostility in Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and John of Bordeaux
Chloe Porter: ‘Prophets new inspired’: Prophecy in the Plays of Robert Greene
Tom Rutter: Stage Repentance in Robert Greene
Chair: Jane Everson
Franca Strologo: The Paladins and the Cities of the East: from the Orlando laurenziano to the Morgante
Annalisa Perrotta: Charlemagne's court and Florence. Stories, history and historiography in Pulci’s Morgante
Anna Carocci: Guerre in ottava rima: captains, cities and political propaganda
Chair: Hannah Murphy
Timothy Demetris: Borders, Boundaries, Camels and Chains: Pope Sixtus IV’s Early Anti-Turkish Crusading Policy as a Liminal Enterprise
Lorenzo Comensoli Antonini: The Diet of Speyer of 1544 and Paul III’s Admonitio paterna controversy
Katarzyna Kosior: ‘Powerless to do evil, all-powerful to do good’: Henry Valois’ Elective Kingship and Court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1573-1574
Chair: Helen Newsome
James Brown and Phil Withington: ‘New’ Intoxicants and Public Space in Early Modern Europe
Marta Manzanares Mileo: Sharing Confectionery Recipes in Early Modern Barcelona: Networks, Solidarities and Transference of Knowledge
Rob Wakeman: Naturalizing Carp in English Receipt Books
Chair: Aidan Norrie
Valerie Schutte: Writing Queen Mary I at her Accession
Darcy A. Kern: A Double Life: Mary I as Consort in Spain and Naples
Jessica S. Hower: Half-Decades of the Newe Worlde: Mary I and Empire
Chair: Sandra Toffolo
Thomas M. Vozar: The Library of Isaac Casaubon between France and England
Hanna de Lange: The Diplomat and the Refugee: English Books on the Seventeenth-Century European Continent
Idalia García: Behind the Lists Across the Ocean: Circulation of Books and Readers in New Spain
Chair: Emily Micheson
Elisabeth van Houts and Moreed Arbabzadah: Literary Relations between St Omer and Norfolk around 1200
Nina Lamal: Fake victories? Anglo-Dutch public confrontations in Livorno
Liesbeth Corens: Catholic Minorities? English and Dutch Catholics and their Connections
Coffee will be available at multiple stations throughout the venue. The main coffee stations can be found in the Top of the Terrace (Registration) and the Russell Allison Lounge (Book Exhibit).
Chair: Pablo Maurette
Respondent: Alex Bamji
Alessandro Metlica: Anatomy of a Republican Body: The Eyes of the Patriciate in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Verse
Enrico Zucchi: The Republic’s Illnesses: A Survey of the Medical Metaphors in Genoese Historiography, Political Treatises and Pamphlets
Chair: Alex Marraccini
Richard Meek: ‘The lively touch of sorrow’: Enargeia, Emotion and Mimesis in Early Modern Literature
Alexander Wragge-Morley: Enargeia and Imperceptible Entities in the Sciences of the Seventeenth Century
Christina J. Faraday: ‘Set it up like a picture to look at’: Enargeia as a New Approach to Tudor Visual Culture
Chair: Masuda Qureshi
Liza Blake: Figure and Forms in Cavendish’s Atoms
Katherine Hunt: Margaret Cavendish’s Metals
Helen Smith: Digby’s Matter
Chair: Michelle O’Callaghan
Respondent: Patricia Pender
Susan Wiseman: Written World: Collecting, Writing, Archiving in a Midlands Family
Rosalind Smith: Signature Treatments: Early Modern Women’s Marks of Ownership
Paul Salzman: Editing, Authenticity, and Early Facsimiles
Chair: Oren Margolis
Thomas Roebuck: ‘Note this Honourable Speech of a Woman’: A Sixteenth-Century Woman's Copy of Plutarch's Lives (1579)
Sophie Butler: Unfinished Histories: Early-Modern Readers of John More’s Table from the beginning of the world (1593)
Nicholas Pickwoad: A Renaissance Printer in Norfolk: The Bookbindings on the Aldine collection of Sir Richard Ellys at Blickling Hall
Chair: Lisa Kattenberg
Claire Jowitt: Early Modern Maritime Heroes: Idols of the Sea
Emily Stevenson: Postcards from the Edge: The Role of Letters in Principal Navigations
Matthew Day: Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations and the Art of Navigation
Chair: Rachel Willie
Emily Vine: Devotional texts and care-giving in seventeenth-century London
Alison Searle: Letter Writing and/as Literary Caregiving
Tom Charlton: ‘I valued little more on earth’: Revisiting the Library of Richard Baxter
Chair: Thomas Herron
Dewi Alter: Humphrey Llwyd’s Cronica Walliae and British Cultural Memory
Ruth A. Canning: Petitions, Identity and the Defence of Privilege: A Colonial Perspective
Angela Andreani: The Life of a Clergyman in Early Modern Ireland: Evidence from the Notes of Meredith Hanmer (SP 63/214)
Chair and Respondent: Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower
Michaela Baca: ‘A benign and gracious sovereign lady’: Recovering Mary I’s Queenship
Emilie M. Brinkman: Dressing the ‘Virgin Queen’ and ‘Bloody Mary’: Tudor Queenship and the Politics of Fashion
Aidan Norrie: Elizabeth I and the Exclusion Crisis: Anti-Catholicism and Popular Memory, 1673-1865
Chair: Ad Putter
Alina Heiremans: Englishmen in the Margins
Jack Avery: Prorogations and Perorations: Reading Dutch News about the English Parliament during the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-4)
Catherine Hunt: Portrait of Anna Boudaen Courten: Fashioning an 'Anglo-Dutch' Identity
Chair: Emily Mayne
Andrew King: ‘Man’s Scattered Lust’ in Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent: A Tale of Mixed-Race Origin
Ceri Sullivan: A Reciprocal Relationship between Work and Literature
Mirjam Haas: Speaking to a Different Tune: Playing with Voice in Early Modern Drama
A buffet lunch will be served in the Top of the Terrace Lounge
Chair: Mel Evans
Elaine Hobby: Play, Festivity and Music: Aphra Behn and commedia dell’arte
Claire Bowditch: ‘though he were my God as well as King, I would instruct thee how to disobey him’: Patrons, Royal Favour, and Aphra Behn
Gillian Wright: Aphra Behn’s Celebratory Royal Verse
Chair: Emma Rhatigan
Respondent: Rosamund Oates
Julia A. DeLancey: Threading the Needle: The Church, Confraternities, and Disability in Early Modern Venice
Jenni Kuuliala: Infirmity and maleficia: A Religious Explanation for Disability in Renaissance Italy?
Chair: Jane Raisch
Sam Kennerley: Greek Scribes and Scholars in the Correspondence of Marcello Cervi
Nil Palabiyik: Epistolary Culture among Early Modern Greeks
Stefano Saracino: Fighting with the Help of Migrants and Manuscripts: New Insights into the Quarrel about Patriarch Kyrill Loukaris from German Archives
Chair: Susan Wiseman
Michelle O’Callaghan: Poetic Craft: Minstrels, Gravediggers, and Mechanicals
Andrew Gordon: The Art and Craft of Cobbling. Early Modern Cobblers’ Work in Play
Sara Pennell: Living Well for Less: Hannah Wolley and Crafting Thrift in Late Seventeenth-Century London’
Chair: Nandini Das
Jenny Sager: ‘Exchange is no robbery’: Hospitality and Hostility in Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and John of Bordeaux
Chloe Porter: ‘Prophets new inspired’: Prophecy in the Plays of Robert Greene
Tom Rutter: Stage Repentance in Robert Greene
Chair: Jane Everson
Franca Strologo: The Paladins and the Cities of the East: from the Orlando laurenziano to the Morgante
Annalisa Perrotta: Charlemagne's court and Florence. Stories, history and historiography in Pulci’s Morgante
Anna Carocci: Guerre in ottava rima: captains, cities and political propaganda
Chair: Hannah Murphy
Timothy Demetris: Borders, Boundaries, Camels and Chains: Pope Sixtus IV’s Early Anti-Turkish Crusading Policy as a Liminal Enterprise
Lorenzo Comensoli Antonini: The Diet of Speyer of 1544 and Paul III’s Admonitio paterna controversy
Katarzyna Kosior: ‘Powerless to do evil, all-powerful to do good’: Henry Valois’ Elective Kingship and Court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1573-1574
Chair: Helen Newsome
James Brown and Phil Withington: ‘New’ Intoxicants and Public Space in Early Modern Europe
Marta Manzanares Mileo: Sharing Confectionery Recipes in Early Modern Barcelona: Networks, Solidarities and Transference of Knowledge
Rob Wakeman: Naturalizing Carp in English Receipt Books
Chair: Aidan Norrie
Valerie Schutte: Writing Queen Mary I at her Accession
Darcy A. Kern: A Double Life: Mary I as Consort in Spain and Naples
Jessica S. Hower: Half-Decades of the Newe Worlde: Mary I and Empire
Chair: Sandra Toffolo
Thomas M. Vozar: The Library of Isaac Casaubon between France and England
Hanna de Lange: The Diplomat and the Refugee: English Books on the Seventeenth-Century European Continent
Idalia García: Behind the Lists Across the Ocean: Circulation of Books and Readers in New Spain
Chair: Emily Micheson
Elisabeth van Houts and Moreed Arbabzadah: Literary Relations between St Omer and Norfolk around 1200
Nina Lamal: Fake victories? Anglo-Dutch public confrontations in Livorno
Liesbeth Corens: Catholic Minorities? English and Dutch Catholics and their Connections
Short break. Coffee will be available at multiple stations throughout the venue with two main stations in Top of the Terrace (Registration) and the Russell Allison Lounge (Book Exhibit).
Chair: Matthew Woodcock
David Lawrence: ‘Be of Good Courage and Let Us Play the Men’: The Artillery Company of Norwich in the Early Stuart Period
Christopher Joby: John Cruso of Norwich: Militiaman as Cultural Actor
Ismini Pells: ‘My Lord Mayor's Janizaries’: The Artillery Company and Restoration politics in the City of London
Chair: Helena Sanson
Serena Laiena: Social and Spatial Mobilityin Commedia dell’Arte: Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654) and Virginia Ramponi (1583-1630)
Eric Nicholson: The Italian Commedia Diva Plays the Spanish Court, as ‘Primera Dama,’ ‘Espejo,’ and ‘Maravilla’
Richard Andrews: Arlecchino immigrante: Commedia dell’Arte in Paris
Chair: Elspeth Graham
Suzanne Trill: Meditational Time and the Self in Alice Thornton’s ‘Booke of the Remarkeable Prouidences & passages of my Life’
Cordelia Beattie: Three Wills and a Funeral: Alice Thornton’s books ‘of my Widdowed Condition’
Leah Astbury: Medical Encounters in Alice Thornton’s Writings
Chair: Kristen Abbott Bennett
Derek Dunne: Counterfeit Counterfeits
Rachel Willie: Thomas Nashe’s Ghost
Lena Liapi: Rogue Pamphlets as Popular Texts? Early Modern Print Culture and its Outsiders
Chair: Laurie Maguire
Jamie Cumby: Form, Function, and Funds: Rethinking Typography and Mise-en-Page in Sixteenth Century Printed Law Books
James Mission: Navigating the Page: Speeds and Directions of Early Modern English Typography
Florence Hazrat: Between the Lines: Experiencing the Bracket in Early Modern Romance
Chair: Dannielle Shaw
Jason Powell: “A man of such intelligence”: Henry VIII Reading Francis Bryan’s Lost Poem
Scott Lucas: Printers, Publishers, and the Creation of a “Godly” Clergy in Mid-Tudor England
J. Christopher Warner: A Lost Edition of Consolationes for Mary, Queen of Scots? A Review of the Teasing Circumstantial Evidence
Chair: Thomas Roebuck
Jessica Purdy: Collections of Books and Confessionalisation: The Impact of Parish Libraries on the Popular Religious Experience in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
John-Mark Philo: English and Scottish Scholars at Italian Libraries
José A. Pérez Díez: Gondomar’s books: Diego Sarmiento de Acuña’s London Library and English Professional Theatre
Chair: Alexander Samson
Joseph M. Ortiz: Translating Rome in the New World: Villagrá and the Uses of Humanism
Victor Zorrilla: The Just War Theory in the New Spanish Frontier: The Opinion on the War Against the Indians by Francesco de Rivera
Lisa Kattenberg: The Arauco War, or Flandes Indiano: Reasons of State and Resistance on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire
Chair and Respondent: Hannah Lilley
Jodie Smith: The Transference of Stage Materials from Court to Playhouse
Anna Hegland: Female Bodies as Objects in Early Modern Revenge Drama
Hester Lees-Jeffries: Playing with Play-things: Cushions, Cloaks, and Tragic Shoes
Chair: Andrew Hadfield
Sjoerd Levelt: Jacob van Maerlant’s History of the Kings of Britain
Kirsty Rolfe: A Tongue Combat: Writing and Rewriting Anglo-Dutch Propaganda in the 1620s
Esther van Raamsdonk: Huygens’ Transnational Poetry: How Donne Found his Way into Dutch Literature
Coffee will be available at multiple stations in the venue
‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Mystery of Number’
Norfolk Lounge
Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America
Top of the Terrace Lounge
Sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell,
Wednesday 8th July
Registration will be open from 8.30am in the Top of the Terrace Lounge
Chair: Flavia Bruni
Alex Bamji: Ephemeral Print and Religious Experience in Early Modern Venice
Rebecca Carnevali: Ephemera for the Archbishop: Printed Decrees and Forms for Ecclesiastical Purposes in post-Tridentine Bologna
Frances Maguire: Filled-in, Filed and Forgotten? Print, Governance and Record Keeping in the Church Courts of Early Modern England
Chair: Eloise Davies
Balázs Sudár: Coffee and Tobacco: Delicacies of Ottoman Origins in Ottoman Hungary
Gabor Tomka: Early Modern Clay Pipes as Crossborder Items
Adrienn Papp: Coffee Drinking and Pipe smoking in the Palace of the Beylerbey of Buda
Chair: Brian Cummings
Anthony Ossa-Richardson: The Limits of Allegory
Chris Stamatakis: Casting Beyond the Moon
Elizabeth L. Swann: Shadows in the Water
Chair: Nandini Das
Charmian Mansell: Beyond the Parish: Recovering Non-elite Practices of Travel in Early Modern England
Eva Johanna Holmberg: Nightmarish travels in the journal of Richard Norwood (1590-1670
Mark Williams: Women’s Worlds in the East India Companies: The Travels of Judith Weston and Johanna Maria van Riebeeck
Chair: John Gallagher
Sarah Toulalan: Speaking in Signs: Children’s Bodies and Sexual Abuse in Early Modern England
Nailya Shamgunova: Constructions of Male Sexual Violence Victimhood in Early Modern Anglophone Discourses
Alice O’Driscoll: Documenting Sexual Violence: The Appropriation of Women’s Pain During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Chair: Ruth A. Canning
Chi-fang Sophia Li: Sir Geoffrey Fenton’s Translation of Italy
Barbara Brumbaugh: ‘Prophetic’ Dynastic History in Some Reformation and Counter-Reformation Epics
Peter Auger: Anne Bradstreet’s English Sources
Chair: Matthew Day
Daniel Ellis: Gentry Rhetoric: The Printed Accounts of Elizabeth I’s 1578 Visit to Norwich
Amy Lidster: ‘The Author is inuisible to me’: Negotiating Authorship and Authority in Stationers’ Paratexts
Kerri Allen: Calling all Patrons: The Evolution of Thomas Churchyard’s Dedications
Chair: Anna Wyatt
Lydia Heinrichs: ‘So Neere Nothing’: Francis Bacon, John Donne, and the Epistemology and Aesthetics of Air
Felicity Sheehy: The Sensitive Plant and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England
Rachel White: Print Culture and the Development of Cometary Theory in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chair: Mary Morrissey
Rosamund Oates: ‘He had my fiddle, but not my fiddle stick’: sermons, texts and performance in Early Modern England
Jennifer Clement: Rhetoric as Resistance in Early Modern English Sermons
Javiera Lorenzini Ray: The Hermogenic ‘idea’ of Asperity (τραχύτης), Invective, and Truth in George Herbert’s The Temple
Chair: Ceri Sullivan
Christopher Burlinson: ‘One that’s dead is quick’: Shakespearean Drama and the Creed
Shirley Bell: ‘Let’s have a mad catch then’: Musical Depictions of Male Madness in the Plays of Richard Brome
Claude Fretz: ‘Four nights will quickly dream away the time’: The spatial and temporal experience of dreams in The Shrew and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, via the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Coffee will be available at multiple stations throughout the venue. The main coffee stations can be found in the Top of the Terrace (Registration) and the Russell Allison Lounge (Book Exhibit).
Chair: Kate de Rycker
Fred Schurink: Transnationalising the English Renaissance: The importation of editions of the classics published by the Plantin Press in sixteenth-century England
Carla Suthren: Transcontinental Typography: Printed commonplace marks and the classical tradition
Cathy Shrank: Transporting civile conversazione to sixteenth-century England
Chair: Emily Michelson
Kevin Killeen: ‘People of a Deeper Speech’ - Women, Enthusiasm and Exegesis
Robert W. Daniel: ‘When Hezekiah Judah's King was sicke’: Scriptural Patterns in the Early Modern Sickchamber
Harry Spillane: Reading and Using the Bishops’ Bible in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Chair: Matthew Woodcock
James Cummings: Fifteenth-Century Drama in King’s Lynn: The Christmas Play of 1444
Emily Mayne: Civic Performance and Travelling Players in Early Modern Norwich
James Stokes: Rural Deans and the Sponsorship of Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Suffolk
Chair: Sophie Butler
Ramona Wray: Reading Life-Writing in the Cary/Tanfield Record
Deana Rankin: Ever ready to present you with the best of my travailes’: Elizabeth Cary and the Artful Translation
John McCafferty: ‘Scripturian Cary: reading and writing conversion in the life of Elizabeth Lady Falkland
Chair: Marina Bezzi
Beatriz E. Salamanca: Invisible Walls: Travel Documents and Identities at the Threshold in Early Modern Imperial Spain
Tim Riding: Founding a Colonial Port City: Bombay, 1668-1720
Joseph da Costa: Homogenous and Heterogenous Realities in Portuguese Sciences of Order
Chair: William Rossiter
Jennifer McFarland: ò per devotione, ò per necessità’: Pizzochere and female public Presence in Sixteenth- Century Venice
Eloise Davies: The Idea of Universal Papal Monarchy in Early Seventeenth-Century Political Thought
Tamsin Prideaux: ‘We... the Servants and most humble Subjects of Your Serenity’: Petitioning, Negotiation and Agency in Venice’s Immigrant Mercantile Communities, c1550-1700
Chair: Robert Stearn
Peter Mitchell: Donne’s Parody of Anatomy
Kristen Abbott Bennett: English Satire: Thomas Watson’s Pedagogies for Poets in The Hekatompathia
Faith Acker: ‘Merry and Satirical’ Epitaphs: Genre, Form, and Class in Early Modern Verse Miscellanies
Chair: Helen Newsome
Dorothy Bowles: Patronage and Loyalty: Three Decades of Work
Robert Stagg: Prosody and Patronage
Jane A. Lawson: ‘By my Skimskine for my pantables: one snufkyn of blacke veluet’: Who is ‘My Pantoffe’, Why a Snufkin, and What is a Skimskin?
Chair: Denna Iammarino
Tamsin Badcoe: Edmund Spenser and the Song of the Sea
Jane Grogan: Histories of Travel and the Geography of English Epic
Yuri Enjo: ‘my loue is cruelly pend’: The House of Busirane in Book III of The Faerie Queene and Grammar School Education
Chair: Oren Margolis
Laura Doak: Funeral Festivity: The Solemn and Pompous Funeral of the Duke of Rothes’ 1681 Funeral
Eva Lauenstein: Reading after Death: The Book on the Post-Reformation Funeral Monument, 1603-25
Anna Groundwater: Sounding Early Jacobean Monarchy: Ambient Sound and the James VI and I Exhibition (Scottish National Portrait Gallery 2020)
A buffet lunch will be served in the Top of the Terrace Lounge
Chair: Helen Smith
Jillian Luke: A (Very) Short History of the Early Modern Blush: 1550-1700
Neil Rhodes: Before we Sleep: Macbeth and the Curtain Lecture
Jonathan Gardner: Talking Trees and Traumatic Intertext
Chair: Lucy Nicholas
Brett Mottram: Maffeo Vegio’s Virgils: Sublime and Ridiculous
Sheldon Brammall: J.C. Scaliger's Virgilian Poetics
Anna Wall: John Denham’s Aeneid and Lucy Hutchinson’s Miscellany: Articulations of Nonconformity in Mid- Seventeenth Century England
Chair: Jonathan Healey
Sarah Ward Clavier: ‘More Close Consideration of our British History’: Collectors, Historians, and the Gentry
Sadie Jarrett: ‘A man must read Antiquities...before he is fit to treate with you’: The Early Modern Gentry as a Community of Scholars
Shaun Evans: ‘Collected out of authentick records & ancient evidences and gathered by divers Brittish authors and memorable Bards’: Heraldic Culture and Praise Poetry in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Wales
Chair: Thomas Herron
Brian Lockey: Edmund Spenser on Law and Constitutional Authority: New Political and Theological Contexts
Andrew Zurcher: The Policy and Practice of Containment in Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland
Denna Iammarino: A Pastoral Complaint: Critique and Reform in Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland
Chair: Christopher Joby
Christophe Gillain: The Politics of Distance: French Noble Exile in Europe, c. 1630-167
Silke Muylaert: Moderation and Co-existence: The Stranger Churches in Sixteenth-Century England
Annalisa Nicholson: A Mirror of Exile: Figuring Community and Loss in the Mazarin Salon’s Opera-portrait
Chair: Nandini Das
Roundtable participants: João Vicente Melo, Lauren Working, Emily Stevenson, Haig Smith, Liesbeth Corens, Guido van Meersbergen, Tom Roberts
Chair: Rachel Willie
Benjamin Card: ‘Poison without its Antidote’: Thomas Barlow’s Socinian Directions
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt: ‘Good Devout Religious Daughter’:
The Cura Monialium in Sixteenth-Century England
Michele Osherow: ‘At my petition’: Embroidering Esther in the Seventeenth Centur
Chair: Breeze Barrington
Małgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan: Women and Power at the Polish Court in the Eyes of Italian and British Travellers in the Late 17th Century
Laura Ventura Nieto and Samantha Chang: Sixteenth-Century Female Painter-Musicians and the Arpicordo Problem
Annett C. Richter: The Music Iconography in Self-Portraits by Italian Renaissance Women Artists Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1532-1624) and Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) with Keyboard Instruments
Chair: Robert Stagg
Lindsay Reid: Fama and The Physician’s Tale: The Sounds of Exemplarity and the Rhetoric of Inscription in R.B.’s Apius and Virginia
Chanita Goodblatt: To Play the Fool: The Book of Esther in Early Modern German, English and Yiddish Drama
Katie McErlain: A Heroine for the New World: Sor Juana Unveils Calderón’s Feminist Trait
Chair: John Gallagher
Sarah Birt: A Fashionable Business: Seamstresses and Milliners in Seventeenth-Century London
Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby: Mapping the Intellectual and Social Networks of Early Tudor Schoolmasters
Dana Key: ‘William Hill. His Book’: Reconstructing the Education and Moral Life of a Leicestershire Yeoman Attorney (1574-1658)
Short break. Coffee will be available at multiple stations throughout the venue with two main stations in Top of the Terrace (Registration) and the Russell Allison Lounge (Book Exhibit).
Chair: Jennifer Richards
James Grantham Turner: Aretino’s Urban Gardens
William Rossiter: Aretino’s Secretarial Spaces
Kate de Rycker: Roma putana: Mapping Rome’s Sex-workers in Print
Chair: Emily Mayne
Devani Singh: The Epistle to the Reader and Dramatic Authorship
Jane Rickard: Jonson, Dramatic Paratexts and Early Readers
Chloë Houston: Framing a Persian Play: The Paratextual Materials of Robert Baron’s Mirza (1655)
Chair: Victoria Moul
Lucy Nicholas: Charting Ciceronianism in Cambridge during the Sixteenth Century
William M. Barton: Jeremiah Horrocks’ Latin Poetry on the Transit of Venus 1639
Sharon van Dijk: Recontextualising Cambridge Verse in the 1650s
Chair: Matthew Woodcock
Helen Good: 'A Star Chamber Matter’: Corruption in the Levying of Troops in the 1590s, in Star Chamber and on Stage
Matthew Williamson: Theatre and the Discharged Soldier in Early Modern England
Sonja Kleij: ‘The terrible hardships and misfortunes I have suffered since the Armada set sail’: The Experience of Spanish Soldiers Stranded in Ireland
Chair: Kevin Killeen
Thom Pritchard: Intransigent Nature? Apocalyptic Signifiers in the Paintings of Albrecht Altdorfer
Nathan Hood: Apocalypse Now: Samuel Rutherford’s use of Apocalyptic Imagination to Stir Emotion in the Ritual of the Lord’s Supper
Eleonora Calviello: The Practical Uses of the Apocalypse: Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis and Restoration Belief
Chair: Cathy Shrank
Rachel Stenner: Sheep, Beasts, and Knights: Fugitive Alterity in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Book VI
Anjali Vyas-Brannick: “No; ther’s [an...] answer for you”: Defying Dominion in James Howell’s Therologia
Abigail Shinn: Speaking with the Animal: Spenser’s Mother Hubberd’s Tale
Chair: Tim Shephard
Momoko Uchisaka: Singing Mad People to Seek Cure from the Medici: Pietro Antonio Giramo’s Il pazzo con la pazza
Marianne C.E. Gillion: Meddling with Musical Authority in the Archdiocese of Mechelen: Commissioned Editions and Customized Copies
Thomas Neal: Towards a Chronology of the Masses of Giovanni Pierluigi ‘da Palestrina
Chair: Breeze Barrington
Carlo Scapecchi: Art Patronage, Politics and Diplomacy: The Foundation of the Arazzeria Medicea (Medicean Tapestry Workshop)
Anne-Sophie Laruelle: New Light on the Tapestry Collection of the Electors of Saxony
Sophie Suykens: Innovate Margins: ‘The Four Elements’ in the Tapestry Series of Philip II and the Drawing Collection of Joris Hoefnagel
Chair: Jessica Crown
Leah Veronese: The ‘summons of a reaprobate’: John Appleyard and the Rhetoric of Petition
Kaye McLelland: ‘Cradeled in a cratch or manger’: Reflections of Attitudes to the Eucharist in the Word Choices of Early Modern Preachers
Tilly Zeeman: Repentance and Rhetoric in Lancelot Andrewes’s Court Preaching
Chair: Chanita Goodblatt
Lucy Clarke: ‘We have now manned the walls’: Visualising London’s Sovereignty in Edward IV
Stephen Watkins: Heroic Shakespeare: William Davenant’s Macbeth (1664)
Stephen Guy-Bray: Transition Sweet
Chair: Dannielle Shaw
Katie Forsyth: ‘Expanding Horizons: The Literature of Travel and Exploration in Marian England, 1553-58
Harry Brennan: Scotland, the New World and Transatlantic ‘Tyes of Affection’ (c.1680-90)
Coffee will be available at multiple stations in the venue with two main stations in Top of the Terrace (Registration) and the Russell Allison Lounge (Book Exhibit).
'A Reckoning: The Early Modern Turn in Global History'
Norfolk Lounge
Top of the Terrace Lounge
Thursday 9th July
Registration will be open from 8.30am in the Top of the Terrace Lounge
Chair: Humma Mouzam
Lubaaba Al-Azami: ‘Wise and noble lady’: Fletcher and the Indian Princess in the Early Modern English Imagination
Aisha Hussain: Reframing the Crusading Discourse: Representations of Roxolana in Fulke Greville’s Mustapha (1609) and Roger Boyle’s Mustapha (1665)
Eva Momtaz: The Depths of Cultural Curiosity: Milton and Modern Muslimah
Chair: Rosamund Oates
Emma Rhatigan: A ‘fellowship in sin’: John Donne and Community in the Lincoln’s Inn Pulpit
Francesca Cioni: ‘To procure attention by all possible art’: George Herbert’s Preaching and Poetry
Mary Morrissey: Paying the Preacher and Calling the Tune
Chair: Danny Buck
Lawrence Newport: Show Trial or Negotiation? Predicting Regicide in the Trial of Charles I
Daniel F. Gosling: The Inns of Court Regicides
Charlotte Young: The Second High Court of Justice in 1649: The Trial of the Five
Chair: Anthony Ossa-Richardson
William Stenhouse: Late Antique Manuscripts and the Reception of Roman Space
Jane Raisch: An Original Copy: Printing a Manuscript of Virgil in Early Modern Europe
Jean David Eynard: The Afterlife of John Selden’s Marmora Arundelliana: Early Modern Editorial Practice and the Limits of Print
Chair: Anna Marie Roos
Anna Wyatt: 'Ingenious Company': Intellectual Exchange in the Notebook of Elizabeth Lyttelton
Lucy Gwynn: ‘Low delights’ and a Community in Learning: Thomas Browne’s Museum as a Communal Repository
Alice Wickenden: ‘What I sent you lately’: Sloane’s Correspondence as the Collecting of Knowledge
Chair: Anna Wall
Catherine Evans: Anne Halkett’s Meditative Time
Kate Allan: ‘One rich usefull masse’: Reading Katherine Philips’s Scientific Poetry in the Crouch Notebook (Balliol MS 336)
Masuda Qureshi: Orbital Revolutions: Hester Pulter and the Skies
Chair: Oren Margolis
Lucinda Byatt: Local Reform, International Politics: A Florentine Cardinal’s Sojourn in Vicenza, 1543-1545
Loek Luiten: Beyond the Limits of the State: The Scope for Peninsula-Wide Political Action in the History of the Farnese Dynasty, 1454-1494
Klazina D. Botke: Between Florence and Rome: Politics and Identity in the Decoration of Three Salviati Palazzi
Chair: Brett Mottram
Mary Bateman: Nostalgic Medievalism in Peter Mews’ Ex-Ale-Tation of Ale (1663)
Harriet Phillips: ‘History’ or ‘Remaines’? Writing Folklore in 1700
Joseph Massey: Responding to the Anglo-Scottish Union: New Interpretations of What Motivated Jacobean Historians
Duncan Large: Nietzsche and the Renaissance
Chair: Florence Hazrat
Esther Osorio Whewell: Praying in Brackets
Conor Wilcox-Mahon: Period and Rest in The Faerie Queene
Oliver Morgan: The Poetry of Reply in Early Modern England
Chair: Katie Forsyth
Georgina Wilson: ‘In forme of paper’: John Taylor’s Voyage
Sam Jermy: Thomas Middleton and London’s Waterways
Linda Briggs: Snapshot of a City: Royal Entry Iconography at Valence in the French Wars of Religion
Short break. Coffee will be available at multiple stations throughout the venue. The main coffee stations can be found in the Top of the Terrace (Registration) and the Russell Allison Lounge (Book Exhibit).
Chair: Chloe Preedy
Chloe Preedy: ‘Where we are is hell’: Reformation Demons on the Exeter Stage
Joanne Hill: Reading the Heavens: Prediction, Protestant History, and European Puritanism
Kilian Schindler: Venice – Geneva – Norwich: Nathaniel Woodes’ Conflict of Conscience (1581) in the Context of International Protestantism
Chair: Helen Smith
Will Burgess: De-materialised Knowledge and Antiquarian Mythos in the Cotton Library
Cleo Madeleine: Moments in Time: Polydore Vergil’s Material Encounters with his Sources
Respondent 1: Gill Partington
Respondent 2: Alice Wickenden
Chair: Pasquale Focarile
Pasquale Focarile: Diacinto Maria Marmi: Architect of Sleep and Devotion to the Medici Court
Maria Teresa Guerrini: Academic Networks between Bologna and Tuscany (XVII – XVIII centuries)
Francesca Fantappiè: Not only Muses: Women’s Contribution in the Theatrical Academies in Tuscany between the Late Sixteenth and Early Eighteenth centuries.
Carlotta Paltrinieri: Social structures and Intellectual Networks in the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
Chair: Hannah Murphy
Gillian Jack: Bodies on Trial: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Before the Courts in Florence
Elizabeth Goodwin: The Enslaved Female Body, Nuns and the Male Gaze in Portugal
Erin Maglaque: Reproductive Labour at the Ospedale degli Innocenti, 1550-1605
Chair: Edmond Smith
Peter Good: Coffee and Cooperation:
European coffee buyers in the Arabian Peninsula
Nathaniel Cutter: Exile in Barbary: Making Sense of Protestant Life in the Seventeenth-Century Maghreb
Giada Pizzoni: Mediterranean Lives: Stress, Fear and Abuse in Catholic ports, 1570-1780
Chair: Scott Lucas
Hanan Yoran: The Political Anthropologies of Thomas More and Machiavelli
Jessica Crown: In Defence of Protestantism and Against Mary Queen of Scots: A Rediscovered Treatise Addressed to Elizabeth I
Pablo Maurette: Political Self-Evidence: Thomas Hobbes and the Notion of Perspicuity
Chair: Kevin Killeen
Charlotte McCallum: Machiavelli and Religion
Laura Levine: Wicked Mysteries and Broken Epistemologies Christopher Archibald:
English Catholics Writing the Regicide
Chair: Nil Palabiyik
Julia Smith: The Illumination of Print: Hand-Coloured Printed Book Illustrations in Renaissance Nuremberg
Robert Stearn: Servants, Skill, and Imagining the Future in the Writing of Anne, Lady Halkett (1621/2-99) and Sarah, Lady Cowper (1644-1720)
Olivia Smith: Locke’s White Paper and the Archive
Chair: John Gallagher
Participants from the Anglo-Dutch Relations sessions
Chair: Devani Singh
Duncan Frost: Crossing the Threshold: Travel, Movement and the Path to Maturity in Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads
Katherine Butler: Re-evaluating the Roles of Rounds and Catches in Sixteenth-Century English Society
Felicity Brown: The ‘sollem song’ of the ‘ridiculoos’ minstrel: Robert Langham’s Literary Letter
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Norfolk Lounge
All delegates are welcome to attend
Coach departs for optional trip to Blickling Hall in north Norfolk (additional fee applies)
Optional walking tour of historic sites in Norwich city centre