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Imprisoned Words: a Book Talk

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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Please do join the London Renaissance Seminar for this discussion making the publication of Andrea Brady’s Poetry and Bondage (CUP, 2021) and Judith Hudson’s Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law (EUP 2021). Catherine Bates and Jackie Watson will introduce the two books and we will discuss crime, punishment, freedom, poetry, the law and more. We hope that the authors may chip in, too, as we consider the place of these texts in shaping fresh directions in research.

Underlying these important books are some big questions that are more than relevant at this moment:

What is the relationship between legal and poetic language?

What is perjury, and who should judge?

How can punishment 'fit' crime - and dis juries think that way anyway?

Can words be free?

 

 

The London Renaissance Seminar is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature, and culture. It meets regularly at Birkbeck. Anyone with a serious interest in the Renaissance is welcome. Organisers 2022 Eva Lauenstein, Sue Wiseman
For further information about LRS, contact Sue Wiseman (s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk). To be placed on the LRS mailing list, contact Tom Healy (t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk).

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Speakers
  • Andrea Brady -

    Andrea Brady is a poet and academic who has written widely on Renaissance literature and culture.

  • Catherine Bates -

    Catherine Bates has written widely on Renaissance poetry, feeling and states of mind.

  • Jackie Watson -

    Jackie Watson is a scholar of legal London and beyond, mapping influence of the Inns of Court in the swirling cultural factions of early modern England.

  • Judith Hudson -

    Judith Hudson is a writer and thinker on ideas of crime and punishment in Renaissance England. Her work investigates the thinking and feeling behind and following from legal outcomes.