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Thinking Upon Death: Wills and Bereavement Writing in Renaissance London

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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Saturday 10th November 2018, 13:00-17:00

Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, Gordon Square

Speakers: Professor Vanessa Harding, Professor Kate Hodgkin and Professor Ralph Houlbrooke

Programme

• 13.00 – 13.15 Arrival and coffee

• 13:15 – 13:20 Welcome and Introduction. Anna Cusack (Birkbeck)

• 14:20 – 14:50 Professor Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck) I bequeath my body to the earth: wills, willmaking and funeral planning

• 14:50 – 15:20 Professor Kate Hodgkin (UEL) Death, melancholy and the languages of loss in early modern spiritual autobiography

• 15:20 – 15:30 Questions

• 15:30 – 15.50 Refreshments

• 15.50 – 16.20 Professor Ralph Houlbrooke (Reading) Funerals and commemoration of former Lord Mayors of London, c. 1550- c. 1650

• 16.20 – 16.30 Questions

• 16:30 – 16:50 Panel discussion

• 16:50 – 17:00 Close

The London Renaissance Seminar (LRS) is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature, and culture. It meets regularly at Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square. Anyone with a serious academic interest in the Renaissance is welcome and no registration is necessary.

For further information about this seminar contact Sue Wiseman: s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk or Elizabeth Scott-Baumann elizabeth.scott-baumann@kcl.ac.uk . To join the LRS mailing list, please contact Tom Healy: t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk. Twitter: @LondRenaissance

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