July 1st-4th 1998 at Wolfson College, Oxford, England
Call For Papers
Legal, political and literary cultures overlap to an extraordinary degree in early modern English society. Recognition of this is beginning to bear fruit in dialogues between legal historians, literary scholars and intellectual and social historians of the period. We believe that this work is opening the way towards timely new paradigms for the study of literary and rhetorical practices; institutions; political affiliations; personal experiences.
Renaissance Law and Literature July 1st-4th 1998 at Wolfson College, Oxford, England, is a conference that aims to provide a forum for discussion of this new work. As a starting point, we have assembled a group of scholars who have already begun to consider these topics - including J.H.Baker, Warren Boutcher, David Colclough, Laura Gowing, Victoria Kahn, Constance Jordan, Joseph Loewenstein, Alan Stewart, John Stone, Luke Wilson.
However, we're aware of the existence of work we don't as yet know about, because the topic is so new. We invite anyone working on law, literature, and related social practices of the early modern period to respond to this call for papers. We want to encourage presentations on work-in-progress which could take the form either of session papers or more provisional contributions to workshops (i.e. thematically arranged discussion groups). This response will be vital to the project of the conference, which is to begin to map out unseen connections between these fields of research, and to consider their implications for early modern studies.
Abstracts (of about 500 words) should be sent to either:
Lorna Hutson ( l.hutson@qmw.ac.uk )
or
Erica Sheen ( e.sheen@sheffield.ac.uk )
by 19th December 1997. Please specify which format you are
interested in.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/D-H/el/
