News

Naomi Barker has recently published a paper exploring how members of an early scientific academy exploited music and especially classical musical theories to their advantage. The paper entitled ‘Music, antiquity and self-fashioning in the Accademia dei Lincei’ was published online in The Seventeenth Century in October 2015 and is available online via ORO. 

On 14 October 2015, Richard Danson Brown appeared on the BBC4 programme The Secret Life of Books to talk about Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene. Currently in its second series, The Secret Life of Books is a BBC/OU co-production. One of the texts featured in the first series was Shakespeare's First Folio.

Angeliki Lymberopoulou was an invited speaker at  the international conference Frontiers of Fifteenth Century Art, organised by Dr Robert Maniura, Birkbeck College. Held on 17-18 September,  the conference aimed to discuss problems of researching art of the 15^th century and ways to promote wider collaborations among scholars and possible funding bids to take this ‘frontiers’ initiative further.

Naomi Barker and Jonathan Gibson both gave papers at the  Voices and Books, 1500-1800 conference at Newcastle on 18 July. Naomi spoke on 'The Orator's Toolkit: Residual Evidence of Oral/Aural Practice in the Seicento Keyboard Toccata' and Jonathan on 'Elizabeth I's Tilbury Speech: Editing an 'Oral' Text'.'

Neil Younger has recently published an article on a previously unknown entertainment of Elizabeth I at New Hall in Essex, and the political and cultural contexts surrounding this event. Drama, politics, and news in the Earl of Sussex's entertainment of Elizabeth I at New Hall, 1579 appears in The Historical Journal, Volume 58, Issue 02, June 2015.

‘Collecting, Exchange, and the Agency of Things in the Renaissance Court’, presented at Agency of Things: New Perspectives on European Art of the Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries, Institute of History of Art, University of Warsaw and National Museum in Warsaw, 11-12 June 2015

18 June 2015, 2.00 pm
The Open University Milton Keynes campus
Meeting Room 11, Wilson A building

You are invited to a talk given by Carolin Schmitz (Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia "López Piñero", University of Valencia). Carolin is our visiting PhD student in history and she  works on health care in early modern Spain. Her talk is entitled ‘Crossing healing spaces:  the sick and their mobility in early modern Spain’. She is using trial records to recover the perceptions and actions taken by sick people seeking help and care.

Jonathan Gibson has co-edited Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, Politics, published by Palgrave in December 2014.

Hannah Lavery's The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration English Literature (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014) is the first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration.

Peg Katritzky’s 2014 articles “A wonderfull monster borne in Germany’: hairy girls in medieval and early modern German book, court and performance culture” (in German Life and Letters) and “Literary anthr