{"id":100,"date":"2013-09-05T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-renaissance-seminar\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2013-11-01T20:07:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:07:34","slug":"events-07-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?page_id=100","title":{"rendered":"Events 2007 to 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love and Death in the Renaissance<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Leeds University, <\/strong>15 May 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keynote Speaker,<\/strong> Elaine Hobby, Loughborough University<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In this one day seminar event we plan to consider the peculiar pairings of love and death that so often animate the Renaissance mind. Medical opinion, theology, historical memoirs, and drama are among the many kinds of discourse where love and death are thought to come into contact with one another as a matter of necessity. How did this happen? What was the origin of the mating of love and death? What was its purpose? What were its consequences? Long before Freud and the contest between Eros and Thanatos there was, of course, the story of Romeo and Juliet and all its analogues. There was the commonplace that passion could kill, or that, as Shakespeare once put it, \u2018desire is death\u2019, and there was another that said that death was to be desired. \u2018After so foul a journey,\u2019 George Herbert wrote about life and its passions, \u2018death is fair\u2019. Death was the ultimate beloved.<\/p>\n

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‘The Idea of Pleasure’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

23 February 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Following up on our seminar on \u2018Everyday Life\u2019, we seek papers discussing how pleasure, and the idea of pleasure, contributed to the organisation and representation of the material world in early modern Europe.\u00a0 What beliefs were held about \u2018pleasure\u2019? What relationships between religion and pleasure are developed (e.g. by\u00a0 Erasmus, More, and Rabelais) and beyond? How was pleasure signified in during the period? What rewards and punishments, or delights and dangers, were associated with it?\u00a0 Was pleasure understood as a single phenomenon, experienced across a spectrum of private and public arenas of life, or were there different kinds of pleasures associated with different kinds of experience?\u00a0 How was pleasure related to penitence, or pain?\u00a0 How was it related to class, gender, and ethnicity?<\/p>\n

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The Country and the City<\/strong><\/h2>\n

8 November 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest in the series of the Northern Renaissance Seminar was held at the School of Arts & Social Sciences, Northumbria University in Newcastle on 8th November 2008. The theme for this session was ‘The Country and the City’. This one-day conference was a collaboration between Lancaster University and Northumbria University. Speakers included Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster University), Jonathan Hope (Strathcylde University) and Alexander Cowan (Northumbria University).<\/p>\n

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‘Everyday Life’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

10 November 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The importance of the everyday for understanding early modern culture and society took its main impetus from the Annales school of historiography in the 1960s and 70s, and it has long since become a main theme of new historicist and related schools of early modern cultural studies since the 1980s.\u00a0 In fact, the everyday has become so common a concern of Renaissance studies that we may well be taking it for granted.\u00a0 What is \u2018the everyday\u2019 in the context of early modern Europe? What is its relation to the exceptional event, the ritual moment, the conduct of political life, or the production of literature and art?\u00a0 How was the everyday vertically and horizontally integrated, or non-integrated, in view of regional affiliations and class and status divisions?\u00a0 How did artists and writers represent it \u2013 or for that matter, fail to represent it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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