Epistolary Cultures: Letters and Letter-Writing in Early Modern Europe

CREMS - University of York, 18th-19th March. 

Day 1, Friday 18th March
 
9.30-11.00 - Treehouse:
Panel 1: Republic of Letters
Chair:
Dirk van Miert (Utrecht), From Joseph Scaliger to Immanuel Kant: the European Republic of Letters
Paul Botley (Warwick), Correspondence of Casuabon
Jeanine De Landtsheer (Leuven) Justus Lipsius, and correspondence networks

 
9.30-11.00 - BS/008:
Panel 2: Style and women’s political writing
Chair: Helen Smith
Mel Evans (Birmingham), Tudor epistolary style and authority
Jade Scott (Glasgow), Ne Petitionary Correspondence of Lady Anne Percy
Danielle Clarke (UCD) Early Modern Letters and the Performance of Apologies
 
11.00-11.30 Coffee
 
11.30-1.00 - Treehouse:
Panel 3: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Letters
Chair: Marie-Louise Coolahan (RECIRC, Galway)
Evan Bourke (Galway), ‘Women and Samuel Hartlib’s correspondence network’
Felicity Maxwell (Galway), Mary, Queen of Scots’ letter to her former servants
Emilie Murphy (Galway), Circulation practices of Catholic correspondence networks
 
11.30-1.00 - BS/008:
Panel 4: Diplomacies
Chair:
Samuli Kaislaniemi (Helsinki) Learning letterlocking: William Cecil’s letters to his father.
Luciano Piffanelli (Rome). Florentine Commissaries’ Public Letters:

Guillaume Coatalen (Cergy-Pontoise, France) Holograph letters of Queen Elizabeth I
 
1.00-2.00 Lunch
 
2.00-3.30 - Treehouse:
Panel 5: Traffic, Transaction and Knowledge
Chair: Dirk van Miert
Claire Bartram (Canterbury) Letter Writing and Literary Culture in Elizabethan Kent.
Florence Hazrat (St Andrews) Women and Letter Writing in Early Modern Scotland
Giacomo Comiati  (Warwick) A Renaissance Manual for Epistles in Latin and Italian
 
2.00-3.30 - BS/008:
Panel 6: Classical receptions in letters
Chair: Richard Rowland
Dianne Mitchell
(Pennsylvania) “Posting Poems in Early Modern England”
Lindsay Ann Reid
(Galway), Turberville’s Tymetes and Pyndara
Katherine Heavey (Glasgow), Thomas Heywood's Heroides in Early Modern England.
 
3.30- 3.45 Coffee
 
3.45 – 5.15 - Treehouse:
Workshop Panel : Letterlocking
Jana Dambrogio (MIT) and Daniel Starza Smith (Oxford)
 
 
5.30 – 6.30 – Bowland Lecture Theatre
Chair: Kevin Killeen
Plenary Lecture: Andrew Zurcher
 
 
Day 2, Saturday 19th March
 
9.30-11.00 - Treehouse:
Panel 7: Letters as Collectibles: the Bartolomeo Gamba Collection
Chair: Vittoria Feola (Padua/Oxfod)
Andreas Fingernagel (National Library of Austria)
Stefano Pagliantini (Bassano del Grappa)
Miranda Lewis  (Digital Editor at EMLO)
Fabio Zampieri (Padova Museum for the History of Medicine)
Alberto Zanatta (Padova Museum for the History of Medicine)
 
9.30-11.00 - BS/008:
Panel 8: Letters and the Professional Scribe
Chair:
Jackie Watson (Birkbeck) Interception and deception in early modern epistolary culture
Stephanie Childress (Texas), Spenserian Epistolarity
Hélène Miesse (Liège ) Goro Gheri as the “perfect secretary”
 

11.00-11.30 Coffee
 
11.30-1.00 - Treehouse:
Panel 9: Letter Writing and Humanism
Chair:
Brian Cummings (York), on Erasmus and Letter writing practices,
Jan Cizek (Olomouc, Czech Republic), Comenius and education
Luke O’Sullivan (Durham), Speaking with Seneca in Montaigne’s Essais
 
11.30-1.00 - BS/008:
Panel 10: Natural Philosophers and epistolary culture
Chair:
Joe Moshenska (Cambridge), The letters of Sir Kenelm Digby,
Norah Carlin (Edinburgh) Kenelm Digby’s Letters to James Lord Cranfield, 1642-3
Amy Bowles  (Cambridge), Scribal Letter Anthologies: Francis Bacon's Letters
 
1.00-2.00 Lunch
 
2.00-3.30 - Treehouse:
Panel 11: Epistolary Fictions

Kerry Cooke (James Madison University) Epistolary Fiction, Reappraised.
Rachel F Stapleton  (Toronto) Epistolary (Auto)fictions of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
Fatima Essadek (Mazoon University College) The Sultan's Letters in Europe

 
2.00-3.30 - BS/008:
Panel 12: Medical Networks and letter-corpuses
Chair:
Tilmann Walter (Würzburg), Medical Republic of Letters
Peter van den Hooff (Utrecht University), The patient’s story and looted Dutch letters
Eleonora Carinci (Cambridge), Camilla Erculiani’s Lettere di philosophia naturale (1584)
 
3.30- 3.45 Coffee
 
3.45 – 4.45 - Treehouse:
Panel 13: Letters and spirituality
Chair: Emilie Murphy
D.C. Andersson (Oxford) Early Modern Pauline letters
Jaska Kainulainen (Helsinki), Early Jesuit letter writing
 
3.45 – 5.15 - BS/008:
Panel 14: Print, prison and polemic: the letters of the ‘moderate’ godly 1640- 1700
Chair:  Kevin Killeen / Lena Liapi
Tom Charlton (Queen Mary), Letters in the life, and Life, of Richard Baxter.
Johanna Harris (Exeter), ‘Baxter and the repurposing of letters.
Alison Searle (Sydney), Prison Letters: Nonconformist Networks and Fellowship
 
 
5.30 – 6.30 – Bowland Lecture Theatre
Chair: Freya Sierhuis
Plenary Lecture: Henry Woudhuysen

Register at:

https://www.york.ac.uk/crems/events/events/2015-16/epistolarycultures/

Organisers

Dr Freya Sierhuis ([log in to unmask])

Dr Kevin Killeen ([log in to unmask]) 

Location: The Tree House, Berrick Saul Building