A one-day workshop at Northumbria University – outline and programme below.
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Continental Connections: Anglo-European Intellectual Networks, c 1500-1800
2 May 2013, LIP121
Early modern England was more European in outlook than much of the (anglocentric) historiography suggests, and nowhere was this more obvious than in the Republic of Letters, which crossed both territorial and linguistic boundaries. However, this community of scholars and literary figures was not the only network available. Grand tourists, political exiles, printers and publishers, and even religious orders contributed to a variety of continental connections that shaped the way early modern men and women interpreted their environment and saw themselves as part of a wider European context. This one-day workshop looks at a range of different, though sometimes overlapping, Anglo-European intellectual networks in the early modern period in an attempt to understand the many ways in which the English connected and shared their ideas with men and women on the Continent.
Provisional Programme
10.00 Arrival & Coffee
10.15 Welcome (Gaby Mahlberg)
10.30-12.00 Panel 1, chair: Monika Smialkowska (Northumbria University)
Glyn Parry (Northumbria University): ‘The Magical Republic of Letters and Its Opponents’
Fred Schurink (Northumbria University): ‘How the classical tradition came to renaissance England: The continental source editions of Tudor translations of Plutarch’
Andrea Knox (Northumbria University): ‘”Her Book-Lined Cell”: Irish Nuns and the Development of Texts, Translation and Literacy in late medieval Spain’
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Panel 2, chair: Claudine van Hensbergen (Northumbria University)
Jane Everson (RHUL): ‘England and the English in the Italian Academies (16th and 17th centuries)’
Alasdair Raffe (Northumbria University): ‘George Sinclair, Petrus van Mastricht and Anti-Cartesianism in late seventeenth-century Scotland’
Thomas Biskup (Hull University): ‘A special relationship? Situating scholarly links between the University of Göttingen and England in the Republic of letters, 1737-1806’
14.30-15.00 Coffee
15.00-16.30 Panel 3, chair: Neil Murphy (Northumbria University)
Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle University), ‘The Huguenot Network, the Enlightenment Republic of Letters and the Transmission of English Republican Ideas’
Delphine Doucet (Sunderland University), tbc
Gaby Mahlberg (Northumbria University), ‘Les Iuges Iugez ses Justifians: Republicanism meets the Republic of Letters’
16.30-17.00 Concluding Discussion (chaired by Gaby Mahlberg & Alasdair Raffe)
If you would like to attend, please contact gaby.mahlberg@northumbria.ac.uk
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