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The Prison Cell as Anchorhold: Vestiges of medieval spirituality in Post-Reformation England Ruth Ahnert (Cambridge/Society for Renaissance Studies)
Foxe's Forebears: The Editors of Henrician Prison Writings Thomas Freeman (Cambridge)
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Staging an Arthurian Empire in Early Modern England Laurence Publicover (Bristol)
Kyd's Soliman and Perseda, Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West and the Persistence of Medieval Romance Motifs Paul Quinn (Chichester/Sussex)
Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda: Re-establishing the medieval in Caroline England Stewart Mottram (Aberystwyth)
Wales and Ruins in William Browne's Britannia's Pastorals (1616)
'What art thou, thou idol Ceremony?': Ritual Performances in Henry IV Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster)
Writing Royal Progress: Textuality and theatricality in the works of Thomas Churchyard Helen Ostovich (McMaster)
Hostages to Fortune in the Queen's Men's True Tragedy of Richard the Third (1590)
Lipsius, the Ghost of Machiavelli, and the Crossing of Confessional Boundaries Marco Versiero (Napoli)
'Li ordini et forma espressa di ogni loy': Leonardo da Vinci, Gerolamo Savonarola and a Note on the State of Florence Maria Elena Severini (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento in Florence)
The Ricordi and the Storia d'Italia in England: the early fortune of Guicciardini's maxims
The Sounds of the City: Everard Guilpin's London in Skialetheia (1598) Helen Green (Open University)
City Life and the Musical Community of Elizabethan London Katherine Butler (Royal Holloway)
A Harmonious Encounter: Music for Court and City on Elizabeth's Civic Entries Timothy Duguid (Edinburgh)
Reconsidering the Demise of Scottish Music
Carol Richardson (Open University), Chair
Clare Robertson (Reading)
Cardinals Alessandro and Odoardo Farnese and their Non-titular Churches
Arnold Witte (Amsterdam)
Investing in New Ideals: Titular cardinals in the San Martino ai Monti (1550-1600) Tom True (Cambridge)
Marchigian Cardinals of Sixtus V and their Tituli
The Renaissance of the Body Peter Mitchell (University of Wales, Lampeter)
Phineas Fletcher's Literary Anatomy: the health and disease of the bodies of souls Christina Welch/Rohan Brown (Winchester)
Rotting Corpses and Renaissance Religiosity: Investigating the links between the spiritual and material in Northern European images of Transi DeathPeter Gulyas (Eötvös Loránd University)
Corporeal Innatism in Descartes' Physiology
What era is it in my text? Allusion, adaptation, periodization Matthew Woodcock (UEA)
Thomas Churchyard and the Medieval Complaint Tradition Harriet Archer (Oxford)
The medieval in John Higgins's Mirrors for Magistrates
Long and Short Time in Dante's Comedy Serena Ferente (KCL)
Passions and Discord from Dante to Bartolus Julian Gardner (Warwick)
Cimabue and Giotto in San Francesco at Pisa
Siege and Sacrifice: Episcopal entries and civic representation in Renaissance Brescia Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez (Edinburgh)
The Chronicler's Tale: Propaganda and celebration in the Union of the Lusitanian-Hispanic Empire, 1580-1583 Emily Peppers (Edinburgh)
‘C'estoit Chose Fort Delectable’: The Representation of music in French Renaissance Triumphal Entries Barbara Grammeniati (Roehampton)
Filippo d'Agliè's ballet La Fenice Rinovata (1644) Power, Spirituality and the Re-birth of the Sun-God
Towards the Devouring and Issuing Aspect of the Dragon Iconography in Eastern Iran, the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia/Jazira: Some preliminary reflections Christiane Esche-Ramshorn (Cambridge)
The Christian Orient and the West (1400-1500): Dilemmas of intolerance and cultural transfer with the Middle East Amy Landau (Walters Art Gallery)
On Armenian painting in New Julfa/Isfahan and its western links [to be read by Prof Theo van Lint]
Helen Ostovich (McMaster), ChairSuzanne Trill (Edinburgh)
Critical Categories: Towards an 'Archaeology' of Anne, Lady Halkett's 'Archive' Helen Hackett (UCL)
A 'Coterie' with International Connections: the Aston-Thimelby Circle Wendy Freeman (Rice)
From Social Intercourse to Cultural Encounters: Marie de Gournay and the (mis)uses of literary power
- Workshop on Getting Published With Prof Andrew Hadfield (Editor, Renaissance Studies) and Sarah Stanton (Literature Editor, CUP) [Huntingdon Rm]
- A Conversation with Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich (editors of the new Cambridge History of 16th Century Music) about the current state of music historiography [K/133]
Bill Sherman (York), Chair Fred Schurink (Newcastle)
Translated for Action? How Harvey read Cope's Livy Blaire Zeiders (Wisconsin)
John Dee: Redeeming 'The Great Conjurer' of English History Andrew Hadfield (Sussex)
Thomas Nashe's Attack on Travel Writing
The Two Noble Kinsmen and Speght's Chaucer Andrew King (University College Cork)
Performing Geoffrey of Monmouth: The value of narrative in King Lear Margaret Kean (Oxford)
'Item i Hell mouth': Preventing the fiend in Shakespeare's King Lear
Between Venice and Rome: Instances of artistic exchange before 1548 Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes)
Marketing State Secrets in Venice during the Plague Rosa Salzberg (SRS)
Street Sellers and Pedlars in Venice and Beyond
Adam Hansen (Northumbria), ChairBrian Schneider (Manchester)
Sit, See and Hear: The visual and the aural in Early Modern prologues and epilogues
Katie Nelson (Warwick)
Printers and Musicians: Music publication and social climbing in Early Modern England Susan Anderson (Leeds Trinity University College)
Music and Magnificence in Thomas Middleton's London Lord Mayors' Shows
'The eyes of the body, the eyes of the soul': Mystic bodies in Carmelite convents Caroline Bowden (Queen Mary)
'The English weare all 8 most bravely appareled and adorned with rich jewelles like brides': material representations of spirituality in the English convents in exile Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Aix-Marseille)
'Procuring the good of souls by all means possible...': Mary Ward (1585-1645) and the adaptation of the material to spiritual ends
Tweaking as Creating: Recipes and knowledge production in Early Modern England Carol Pal (Bennington)
Doctors Like Ourselves: The elusive meaning of 'Us' in 17th Century medical writing Samuel S. Thomas (Alabama, Huntsville)
Private Knowledge, Public Authority and English Midwifery
3:15-4:45 Parallel Sessions F (click titles to expand):
Suicide and Freedom in John Donne Freya Sierhuis (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität)
Selfhood and Liberty in the Work of Fulke Greville Emma Gilby (Cambridge)
Narratives of Determinism in Descartes
English Chroniclers and the Tudor Court Carole Levin (Nebraska)
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent at the Court of James I: The case of the Lake Family and the Countess of Exeter
Kevin Killeen (York), ChairGeorgina Hedesan (Exeter)
The Spirituality of Woman versus the Materiality of Man: The inversion of traditional biblical exegesis in the work of Agrippa and Van Helmont Jenny Sager (Oxford)
'tie the power of heauen to their conceits': Staging scripture in Greene and Lodge's A Looking Glasse for London and England (c. 1590) Graham Williams (Glasgow)
'Gods powerfull workeinge': Spiritual-sounding language and the rhetoric of sincerity as means to material ends in Early Modern letters Borbála Lovas (ELTE, Budapest)
Matrimonial Sermons in Hungary of the 16th Century
Speaking from Beyond the Grave: The commemoration of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales in a portrait of his father, King James I Sandra Hindricks (Bonn)
Jan van Eyck's early fame and the revision of a Netherlandish 'Renaissance': Insights in the painter's 16th-century literary and artistic reception Elizabeth Moore (Birmingham)
Roger van der Weyden: Between Spirituality and Materiality
Psalms as Possessions and Collections: Some uses of the Davison Psalter Tracy Sowerby (Oxford)
Reflections on the Nation: Tudor diplomacy and political writing Nick Moon (York)
"I counsayle thee, lady": Rewriting Elizabeth's Religious Settlement in Early Modern Ballads
Taking Part: Musical Materials and Musical Sociability in the Later Renaissance Kirsten Gibson (Newcastle)
The Order of the Book: Materiality, narrative and meaning in John Dowland's First Booke of Songes of Ayres Magnus Williamson (Newcastle)
Dynastic politics, liturgical renewal and print in early Tudor England: the case of Antiphonale Sarisburiense Allison Deutermann (Amherst)
Ben Jonson's Polyphonic Printing
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