{"id":988,"date":"2021-07-12T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?page_id=988"},"modified":"2022-03-12T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T12:03:14","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?page_id=988","title":{"rendered":"News 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_992\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-992\" data-attachment-id=\"992\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?attachment_id=992\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?fit=705%2C834\" data-orig-size=\"705,834\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beth Cortese\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?fit=254%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?fit=676%2C800\" class=\"wp-image-992\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?resize=207%2C244\" alt=\"Photo of Beth Cortese. Beth is smiling to camera, wearing red glasses and there is a bookcase peeking out in the background.\" width=\"207\" height=\"245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-992\" data-attachment-id=\"992\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?attachment_id=992\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?fit=705%2C834\" data-orig-size=\"705,834\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beth Cortese\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?fit=254%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?fit=676%2C800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?w=705 705w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?resize=254%2C300 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Beth-Cortese.jpg?resize=676%2C800 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beth Cortese.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Beth Cortese<\/strong>, whose PhD\u00a0<em>The World of Women\u2019s Wit On Stage<\/em>\u00a0will be published by Pennsylvania University Press, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-century Literature at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. Beth will complete her work as post-doctoral researcher on \u2018Unearned Wealth \u2013 A Literary History of Inheritance, 1600-2015\u2019 at Aarhus University (Denmark) in September, to move further north.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Alison Findlay<\/strong> (Lancaster University) gave the opening plenary lecture at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishgerontology.org\">British Society of Gerontology<\/a> on 7th July 2021.\u00a0Professor Findlay\u2019s talk was entitled \u2018Age, Anxiety and Persecution in the 1612 and 1634 Lancashire Witch Trials\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Alison-Findlay-Age-and-Persecution-Talk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1033\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?attachment_id=1033\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Alison-Findlay-Age-and-Persecution-Talk.png?fit=504%2C406\" data-orig-size=\"504,406\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Alison Findlay Age and Persecution Talk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Alison-Findlay-Age-and-Persecution-Talk.png?fit=300%2C242\" 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data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Alison Findlay Age and Persecution Talk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Alison-Findlay-Age-and-Persecution-Talk.png?fit=300%2C242\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Alison-Findlay-Age-and-Persecution-Talk.png?fit=504%2C406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Alison-Findlay-Age-and-Persecution-Talk.png?w=504 504w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Alison-Findlay-Age-and-Persecution-Talk.png?resize=300%2C242 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1034\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?attachment_id=1034\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?fit=468%2C263\" data-orig-size=\"468,263\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"British Society of Gerontology 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?fit=300%2C169\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?fit=468%2C263\" class=\"wp-image-1034 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?resize=414%2C233\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"233\" data-attachment-id=\"1034\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?attachment_id=1034\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?fit=468%2C263\" data-orig-size=\"468,263\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"British Society of Gerontology 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?fit=300%2C169\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?fit=468%2C263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?w=468 468w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/British-Society-of-Gerontology-2.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLady Mary Wroth<\/strong>\u2018s pastoral tragicomedy<br \/>\n<em>Love\u2019s Victo<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"998\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?attachment_id=998\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?fit=568%2C430\" data-orig-size=\"568,430\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Love&amp;#8217;s Victory\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?fit=300%2C227\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?fit=568%2C430\" class=\"alignright wp-image-998 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?resize=300%2C227\" alt=\"Photo of a natural landscape with a formation of plants in a heart shape. On top of this image is an image of the recent publication, Mary Wroth's 'Love's Victory', edited by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney and Michael G. Brennan. This Revels Plays edition has a yellow band on the left side of the cover, running from top to bottom with the words 'The Revels Plays' repeated on it. The right hand side of the cover is black with white font, displaying the title, author and editors' names. \" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" data-attachment-id=\"998\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/?attachment_id=998\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?fit=568%2C430\" data-orig-size=\"568,430\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Love\u2019s Victory\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?fit=300%2C227\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?fit=568%2C430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?w=568 568w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/files\/2021\/07\/Loves-Victory.jpg?resize=300%2C227 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ry<\/em> (c.1617-21), edited by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney and Michael G. Brennan, was published in March 2021. It is the first play by a woman to be published as part of the Revels Plays Series (Manchester University Press).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781784993207\/\">Manchester University Press \u2013 Love\u2019s Victory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Cortese, whose PhD\u00a0The World of Women\u2019s Wit On Stage\u00a0will be published by Pennsylvania University Press, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-century Literature at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. Beth will complete her work as post-doctoral researcher on \u2018Unearned Wealth \u2013 A Literary History of Inheritance, 1600-2015\u2019 at Aarhus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1417,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-988","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9gfdN-fW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/988\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/northern-premodern-seminar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}