Forthcoming Events in the HRI
1st - 2nd December 2012 Conference: The Making of Medieval History
The project intends to examine the modern study of the history of the Middle Ages, on a collaborative and international basis, with particular reference to the study of the Middle Ages in Continentall Europe.
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Thursday 31 March 2011, 5.30pm
Cathy Shrank, Professor of Tudor and Renaissance Literature
Professorial Lecture
Magpies and Metamorphoses: Sixteenth-Century Literary Culture
This lecture explores some of the defining features, and paradoxes, of sixteenth-century English writing. It was an age in which national identity was asserted (often belligerently), and yet in terms that were recurrently inspired by, or borrowed from, other languages and cultures; it was an age in which images of metamorphosis were frequently to express moral failing or degeneracy, and yet in which writers drew creative energy from hybrid forms and moments of arrested transition; and it was an age in which writers both scrutinised ideas of selfhood and propounded a commitment to public service and the commonweal, composing lyric poems that present an egocentric 'I' who cannot be detached from the wider world.
Venue:
Humanities Research Institute Conference Centre
34 Gell St
Sheffield
S3 7QY