Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
'My kingdom is not of this world': Hobbes's verse history of the Church, 1659-1722
Wednesday 16 November 2011, 4.30PM
Speaker(s): Professor Justin Champion, Royal Holloway, University of London
CREMS Research Seminar
Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas, Royal Holloway, University of London
Current research interests include the life and thought of the later Hobbes with a focus on his contribution to the early Enlightenment after 1660. An edition of Hobbes on Religion is nearing completion for the Clarendon Press in collaboration with Mark Goldie.
Other interests include the history of scholarship; epidemics and society; eighteenth century republicanism; the history of the printed image in the eighteenth century and the nature and purpose of public history, with a keen interest in issues of public engagement and open access to academic knowledge.
Justin Champion has been involved in making a number of historical programmes for radio and television: radio features on the Glorious Revolution, the Execution of Charles I and Pistols at Dawn on the history of duelling, and series on the history of friendship, the enlightenment and Elizabethan and Stuart subjects (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/elizabethan_echoes/subjects.shtml ); television productions include a Channel 4 production of his monograph of the Great Plague of London 1665 (which won a Royal Television Society Award in 2001). He is also a regular contributor to In our time presented by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4. Forthcoming programmes will explore the history of writing in books and Puritan discipline in the seventeenth century.
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Tea 4.15
Location: Seminar Room BS/008, ground floor, Berrick Saul building