The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

The following seminars will be held in Hilary Term 2023 in All Souls College, Oxford, at the times and in the rooms indicated. There will be two papers per session (except for the final one).

All very welcome.                                                                                           

Convenor: Neil Kenny neil.kenny@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

18 January (2.00–3.30pm), Wharton Room

RAPHAËLLE ERRERA (Sorbonne Université): Money Matters in Parnassus: Satirising in Fiction the Poets’ Ways to Achieve (16^th and 17^th Centuries)

NEIL KENNY (All Souls College, Oxford): Rabelaisian Hierarchy and its Reception

31 January (4.30–6.00pm), Hovenden Room

JESSICA GOODMAN (St Catherine’s College, Oxford):‘“Great” or otherwise, we don't use those terms here’: Social Hierarchy in the Dialogue of the Dead? 

THIBAUT MAUS DE ROLLEY (UCL): Between Streets and Salons: The Social Status of Juggling and Conjuring in La Magie du Pont-Neuf (c. 1643–1651)

8 February (2.00–3.30pm), The Bursar’s Study

ANNALISA NICHOLSON (The Queen’s College, Oxford):Beastly Habitués: Animals and Exiles at the Salon of Hortense Mancini

8 March (2.00–3.30pm), Wharton Room

ADAM BRIDGEN (University of St Andrews):‘learning has brought disobedience’: Marginal Literacies and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Early Modern England