Italy and the Republic of Letters: Cultural Exchange from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
...Fumaroli). More recently, the ong>new ong> interest in social networks and digital humanities has led scholars to call ong>for ong> “a ong>new ong> Republic of Letters” and to investigate the impact of information...
Representing Non-Human Life in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain
We will explore techniques developed by scientists, theologians, and poets to represent other life ong>for ong>ms. Contexts we’ll investigate include encounters with ong>new ong>-world flora and fauna, the invention of the microscope,...
Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art
...with the natural environment. ong>New for ong>ms of thinking such as postcolonial ecophilosophy, actor-network theory, ong>new ong> materialisms, and posthumanism have challenged Enlightenment distinctions between natural and human history. Can art history,...
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)
Please note that this seminar’s ong>new ong> meeting time is Wed 5-8, still in 4125A Dwinelle. This seminar will ong>com ong>paratively investigate the social and political uses of early modern court and...
Literature and Scholarship Among the Writing Practices of Early Modern Europe (1500 to 1900)
...The case studies investigated are taken from across Europe and ong>exam ong>ined ong>com ong>paratively—but special attention is given to the ways in which literary and scholarly writings were created and put into...
The Circulation Of the Written Word In Early Modern France and Italy (1450-1800)
...ong>com ong>es to early modern ong>materials ong> (as this is often a consequence of the early modern circulation and conservation of these very ong>materials ong> and constitutes important practical knowledge to have when...
History of the French Language
...the present day. We will use the relatively ong>new ong> historical sociolinguistic approach to try to capture what Anthony Lodge (2009) has called “une image multidimensionnelle de la langue du passé”....
Shakespeare’s Italy: Books and Readers in the Anglo-Italian Renaissance
...Stuart encounter with Renaissance Italy, ong>exam ong>ining its cultural, religious and political implications. Special attention will be given not only to canonical authors (Shake-speare, Sidney, Bacon, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Ariosto, Bruno, Montaigne...
English Renaissance
...explore how scholarly views about the Renaissance as a cultural project have changed and developed from Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy to ong>New ong> Historicism and beyond....
The Substance of Things Unseen: Matter and Spirit, 1650-1800
Between 1650 and 1800, matter, spirit, and their relationship, became subjects of unprecedented attention in Europe. Mechanism, the development of a science of ong>for ong>ces, ong>new for ong>ms of religious imagination, ong>new ong>...