London Renaissance Seminar: Animal Lives in Early Modern Culture
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
How can we understand the intersection of human and animal lives in early modern culture? Examining literary, archaeological and archival evidence of human relationships with wild and domestic animals, our five speakers explore the politics of the hunt, bear-pit, and farmyard.
12-12.30 Tea break
12.30-1.10 Richard Almond, ‘“the most marvellous beast”: the Portrayal of
the Hare in Late Medieval Texts and Art’
1.10-1.30 Jennifer Reid, ‘“We Have Slayne Your Fatte Falowe Deere”:
Animal Geographies and the Hunt in Early Modern Folklore’
1.30-1.50 Nicole Mennell, ‘The Lion King: Beastly Sovereigns in
Shakespeare’
1.50-2.30 Discussion
2.30-3.00 Tea break
3.00-3.40 Erica Fudge, ‘Naming Cows in the Seventeenth Century: of New
Comers, Red-Heads, Rugs and Other Rugs’
3.40-4.20 David Saxby, ‘The Bear Garden and Bankside: the Archaeological
Evidence’
4.20-5.00 Discussion
5.15 Close
Organisers: Nicole Mennell, Jennifer Reid, Susan Wiseman
Contact name:
Sue Wiseman