Program
...will include the designation, “Ph.D. in –––––––––––– with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.” For more information on DE policies and procedures, please click here. Contact information...
Erotic Renaissance
...love-treatise in more elevated language, but all manifest the “corporeal turn” away from strict Petrarchanism and Neoplatonism. Authors include Pietro Aretino, Marsilio Ficino, Antonio Vignali, Baldessare Castiglione, Tullia d’Aragona, Veronica...
Authors, Readers and Censors in Early Modern Europe: From the Printing of Books to the Management of Information (1450-1800)
...new strategies to gather, store and appropriate knowledge. Particular attention will be dedicated to examining how information (mundane, political, literary and artistic, scientific, etc.) was produced and circulated, the guises...
Graduate Proseminars: Sixteenth Century: the End of Scholarism
...much frequenting the hot-house hath sweat out the greatest part of their wits.” (Robert Greene, lamenting the explosive debut of rival playwright Christopher Marlowe.) What are the language arts for?...
The Politics of Representational Pleasures: Early Modern Court and City Spectacles of Theater, Music and Dance in Comparative Perspective (1600-1800, and in their modern-day receptions and performances)
...on April 26-28 : http://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/theater/theatre-national-de-bretagne-julius-caesar-by-william-shakespeare.php, which the class will collectively attend in the last week of the semester) ; 3) develop in all participants the necessary skills and confidence to...
Christianity and Capitalism
According to Max Weber the spirit of Protestantism made possible the emergence of capitalism proper. In his recounting, Spain’s imperial/colonial experience could be bracketed as a previous and/or different moment,...
The Circulation Of the Written Word In Early Modern France and Italy (1450-1800)
...working in those archives). One session of the seminar will be devoted to an in-depth discussion of Dr. Filippo de Vivo’s (History, Birkbeck College) current research project on the comparative...
Literature and Scholarship Among the Writing Practices of Early Modern Europe (1500 to 1900)
...studies, European languages and area studies, history, rhetoric, philosophy, theology, art history, musicology, theater, and performance studies, etc.) familiarize themselves with the various contexts in which texts, manuscripts, archives, and...
Insiders and Outsiders in the Age of Pieter Bruegel
...two questions integral to a renaissance conception of social belonging: the normative body and physical othering (deportment, disability, the racially other), and dwelling vs. a state of placelessness (vagrants, beggars,...
Comparative Studies in Romance Literatures and Cultures — The Learned Academies of Early Modern France, Italy and Spain and the Emergence of New Understandings of Language and Literature (1500-1800)
...(i.e. “literary theory”) constituted a central preoccupation. Given these interests, and the fact that many of these institutions received princely protection, learned academies also played an important in the development...