Thomas Browne Seminar Schedule
The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York will
be hosting the 3rd Thomas Browne Seminar on Wednesday 3rd June. V/120,
Vanbrugh.
All welcome
2.00-3.00 Classical scholarship
Iain McClure (Kings College, London): 'Milton's "cany wagons light", automata
and the vacuity of invention.'
Edward Paleit (Exeter): ‘English classical scholarship and the merces literarum:
the case of Thomas Farnaby’
3.00-4.00 Seventeenth Century Medical History
Simon Howes (Oxford): “By these Means and Helps, the excellent Hippocrates
arriv’d at the top of Physick”: Thomas Sydenham and the politics of the
Observationes Medicae.
Mark Jenner (York): ‘Country Tastes and a Chinese Touch? Sir John Floyer's
Senses’
4.30-5.30 Angus Gowland (University College, London): ‘Burton, Browne, and
Renaissance dream theory’
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