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Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, 1500 – 1700- an AHRC funded conference
A conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers, hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton
Chawton House Library, Hampshire, 16-17 February 2010
- Keynote speaker: Dr Peter Beal FBA (Institute of English Studies, University of London)
This two-day conference will bring together postgraduate and early career researchers working on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English manuscript sources. Many of the sources from this period are multi-authored and contain strikingly disparate materials, posing a serious challenge to scholars working within traditionally defined disciplinary boundaries.
The primary aim of the conference is to address this challenge: to provide an opportunity for genuine interdisciplinary discussion, and to create new networks between researchers which will enable them to share both theoretical perspectives and practical approaches to working with early modern manuscript materials.
Our definition of ‘literature’ for this conference is a broad one, including (but not limited to) poetry, prose, drama, (auto)biography, letters, devotional writing and medical/scientific texts.
Conference details
If you have any questions please contact Michael Gale (mdg@soton.ac.uk) or Louise Rayment (L.Rayment@soton.ac.uk)
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the AHRC, the Society for Renaissance Studies, Music and Letters Trust, The Royal Musical Association and the Royal Historical Society.
Images: the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.