The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Series dates:

Hilary Term 2023

Series venues:

All Souls College*

Series Convenor:

Neil Kenny

The following seminars will be held in Hilary Term 2023 in All Souls College, Oxford, at the times and in the rooms indicated. There will be two papers per session (except for the final one).

All very welcome.

Events in this series

Money Matters in Parnassus: Satirising in Fiction the Poets’ Ways to Achieve (16th and 17th Centuries) | Rabelaisian Hierarchy and its Reception

18th January 2023 2:00pm-3:30pm

Wharton Room   RAPHAËLLE ERRERA (Sorbonne Université):

'Great” or otherwise, we don't use those terms here’: Social Hierarchy in the Dialogue of the Dead? | Between Streets and Salons: The Social Status of Juggling and Conjuring in La Magie du Pont-Neuf (c. 1643–1651)

31st January 2023 4:30pm-6:00pm

Hovenden Room   JESSICA GOODMAN (St Catherine’s College, Oxford):

Beastly Habitués: Animals and Exiles at the Salon of Hortense Mancini

8th February 2023 2:00pm-3:30pm

Bursar's Study   ANNALISA NICHOLSON (The Queen’s College, Oxford):

‘Learning has brought disobedience’: Marginal Literacies and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Early Modern England

8th March 2023 2:00pm-3:00pm

Wharton Room   ADAM BRIDGEN (University of St Andrews):