[Call for Papers -- RSA 2005]
Prince Henry Reviv'd:
New Scholarship on Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612)
Nearly four hundred years after the death of Henry, Prince of Wales
(d.1612), scholarship on the prince and his court culture is
flourishing. Since the publication of Sir Roy Strong's 1986 study,
numerous articles and doctoral theses have studied the prince, his court
and his collections. Henry’s humanist education and collegiate court,
his self-conscious pursuit of Protestant virtue and of an international
reputation, and above all his (and England's) lost potential after 1612,
continue to make him a compelling figure for both literary and
historical study.
We are organizing a panel on Prince Henry, to be presented at the
Renaissance Society of America's annual conference in Cambridge,
England, from 7-9 April 2005. Papers should consider the relationships
between literary and other texts (eg. dedications, elegies, and
biographies) and Prince Henry’s life and afterlife. Topics might
include: Henry's library and education; the sermons, both exhortatory
and memorial, of his chaplains; Henry and/in English drama (masques,
civic entertainments, and Prince Henry's Men); posthumous biographies
and elegiac representations.
E-mail abstracts (150 words *maximum*) and one-paragraph CVs by 1 April
2004, to (both):
Michael Ullyot
Graduate Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies,
University of Toronto
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John Buchtel
Curator of Rare Books, The Sheridan Libraries,
The Johns Hopkins University
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By post or fax, send materials to Michael Ullyot, Re: Prince Henry
Panel, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria
University in the University of Toronto, 71 Queen's Park Crescent East,
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7 Canada; Fax: 416-585-4430
Please note the RSA's rule: all paper-givers and chairs *must* be
members of the Renaissance Society of America by August 2004, or they
will not be included in the program. For further information on the RSA,
see http://www.rsa.org/
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