London Renaissance Seminar: Buried Things in Early Modern Culture: Poetics, Epistemology and Practice
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
What role did the practice and figuration of burial play in producing knowledge in Renaissance England? Drawing connections between literature, natural philosophy, urban history and material culture, speakers explore the significance, uses and problems of the lost and buried in early modern culture.
12.00 - 12.30 Tea & Coffee
12.30 - 1.10 Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck): The Presence of the dead: the
evolution of burial practice in London, 1550-1750
1.10 - 1.50 Elizabeth Swann (Cambridge): The Consolation of (natural)
philosophy: knowing death in early modern England
1.50 - 2.30 Discussion
2.30 - 3.00 Tea & Coffee
3.00 - 3.20 Eva-Maria Lauenstein (Birkbeck): Comfort through ‘the lively Word
of God’: Katherine Willoughby and the visual language of Spilsby
3.20 - 4.00 Claire Preston (Queen Mary): Scarce or never seen: Thomas
Browne's rhetorical reclamations
4.00 - 5.00 Discussion
Speakers: Claire Preston (QMUL), Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck), Elizabeth Swann (Cambridge), Eva-Maria Lauenstein (Birkbeck).
Organiser: Robert Stearn (rstear01@mail.bbk.ac.uk)
Contact name:
Sue Wiseman