Conference: Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, 30 June-2 July
Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Medieval and Early Modern Authorship 30 June – 2 July 2010, University of Geneva Authorship has come to the forefront of medieval and...
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If it has never occurred to you that Chaucer might have influenced Joyce as much as Homer then you should read more medieval literature – or listen to Helen Cooper (Cambridge). Even though Joyce...
View ArticleGod Save the Queen in Gotha: Early Modern Research in a German Town
The brass band on the market square is playing God Save The Queen. It’s Gotha on a Saturday night, a sleepy little German town in the former East. Overlooking the town, just up the hill from the...
View ArticleContinental Connections: Anglo-European Intellectual Networks, c1500-1800
A Day Workshop at Northumbria University 2 May 2013 Lipman Building, Room 121 Early modern England was more European in outlook than much of the (anglocentric) historiography suggests, and nowhere was...
View ArticleYou can’t buy an education
As university lecturers in the UK remain locked in a dispute with their employers over pay and working conditions in Higher Education, a survey published by private student loan company Future Finance...
View ArticleTranslating Cultures – Workshop at the Duke August Library, 26/27 June
An eighteenth-century German edition of Algernon Sidney’s Discourses Concerning Government (1683) If you are an early modernist interested in translation, print and the book trade in Europe and you can...
View ArticleWorking with Translations in the History of Political Thought
The Europa regina from Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (C16th). As part of my project on ‘English republican ideas and translation networks in early modern Germany’, I look at the ways in which...
View ArticleWS: Edmund Ludlow – The Memoirs of a Regicide in Exile
Date: 2 July 2024, 10.30-17.00h, Newcastle University Armstrong Building ARMB.2.50 This workshop focuses on the English republican Edmund Ludlow (1617-92) as seen through his memoir of the British...
View ArticleToo many book reviews?
I sometimes wonder if I write too many book reviews, especially academic ones. I write about two a year, so that does not seem a lot. But they are a lot of work. After all, you have to read several...
View ArticleWS: Translating Political Thought between Britain and Germany, c. 1618-1848
From the confessional conflicts of the seventeenth century through the constitutional revolutions of the late eighteenth century and the liberal movements culminating in 1848, translation played a...
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