Every
year, the CRRS has welcomed a speaker of international standing who gives
one public lecture on a topic related to Erasmus, and in the wider context,
the Reformation in Europe. This year, we are fortunate to have Professor Diarmaid
MacCulloch, the author of the definitive biography of Thomas Cranmer (Thomas
Cranmer: A Life). Professor MacCulloch is Professor of the History of
the Church at the Faculty of Theology, Oxford University. The Erasmus Lecture,
titled “Cranmer and his Biographers”, will be presented in the
Victoria College Chapel on Monday 27 October at 4:00 p.m.
This year, in recognition of Professor MacCulloch’s standing in the
academic community, Trinity College will sponsor a second lecture, titled
“Who Was Thomas Cranmer”, to be given in the Trinity College Chapel
on Tuesday 28 October at 7:30 p.m. A reception will follow. All are welcome.
Ad Fontes, the Toronto Neo-Latin workshop, will be changing its location
this year, to Northrop Frye Hall, room 205. Sessions are held on the last
Friday of each month from 3-5 p.m., starting on September 26. Anyone with
an interest in reading Latin is welcome to attend; a selection of Latin resources
and information about forthcoming sessions is posted on the Ad
Fontes web site.
For information, contact Jess
Paehlke.
CRRS welcomes its community back for the 2003-2004 year on Friday September 19 in the Burwash Hall Senior Common Room from 5-8 p.m. Please join us! All are welcome.
The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium is pleased to announce this year’s slate of events. All lectures are held in the Burwash Hall Senior Common Room; refreshments are served at 4:00 p.m. and the talk begins at 4:15 p.m.
Please see the TRRC home page information on joining the TRRC, and a wonderful opportunity to purchase CRRS publications and journals at a specially discounted price.
For information on other CRRS-sponsored events in 2003-04, please visit our Events Calendar.
I hope you have your calendar in hand when you read this newsletter because
you will need it to take note of the many lectures, workshops, and other activities
scheduled for 2003-04. Additional information (and friendly cheer!) will be
available at our Welcome Reception, 19 September, in the Burwash Hall Senior
Common Room.
To add to the excitement of the year, we will be planning for the celebration
of our 40th anniversary in 2004-05. As you know from previous newsletters,
we are taking this as an opportunity to write our history and set our archives
in order. Let me know if you have ideas for this project or other special
activities.
All are in Northrop Frye Room 205 at 3:30 p.m. (Note slight time change)
1. March 16 at 4:00 p.m. in Old Vic Alumni Hall
“Vives: Philogogus – Pedogogus”
2. March 18, 2004 in the Victoria College Chapel
“The ars combinatoria of Angelo Poliziano”
On 17-19 June 2004, CRRS will host a bilingual conference on the theme "Athletes and Athletics in the Early Modern World" to be held at Victoria College. Registration information will be posted on the conference website.
The central focus of the conference will be the theory and practice of sport
and physical education in Europe between the eleventh and the seventeenth
centuries. Speakers will be examining these subjects from the point of view
of both their internal functioning and their external ramifications. They
will thus address questions such as the way in which athletic activities were
actually performed at that time; the rules and
scoring systems of competitive sports; which exercises were deemed most appropriate
for strength and health, and why; the non athletic purposes that societies
and individuals assigned to games and exercise; the ways in which non athletic
criteria affected the development and understanding of sports; the symbolic
and cultural meanings (both popular and aristocratic) that were imposed on
sport and physical education; the effect that the practice of athletics had
on non athletic forms of behaviour and comportment.
Speakers include Heiner Gillmeister, Paul Grendler, Jean Michel Mehl, Alessandra Rizzi, and Georges Vigarello. Proposals are still acceptable.
For more information, please contact john.mcclelland@utoronto.ca
This fall the CRRS will kick off a series of events to build links between the centre and students in Victoria's undergraduate Renaissance Studies program. The series of workshops will cover such topics as research methods for renaissance studies, early printed books, thinking about graduate school, and will provide a chance for senior students to share their research with others. Run by the graduate students who staff the Centre, the series is designed to make it easier for undergraduates to participate in the activities of the centre and its scholarly community. It will also afford the opportunity for graduate students at the Centre to developing mentoring relationships with undergraduate students.
We are very pleased to welcome Cheryl Pasternak to the CRRS as our new Administrative Assistant, Finance. Cheryl will be working on Mondays at the back desk; she comes to us with extensive experience in accounting and marketing and will be a fine addition to our community.
Mark Crane (Graduate Fellow) is joined in that capacity by Scott Schofield (Graduate Fellow, Bibliography) and Michael Ullyot (Graduate Fellow, New Technology); we are pleased also to welcome Virginia Strain (Iter Fellow, English), who will be working at the front desk on Fridays.
After nearly three years, we bid farewell and send our best wishes to Deb
Smith, who has worked in Publications, Programs and Finance at various times.
Thank you for all of your hard work Deb!
The CRRS will again offer a unique experience for undergraduate students
in Ontario -- the Early Modern Senior Undergraduate Seminar. Inaugurated last
year, this one-day seminar is an opportunity for undergraduate students from
a variety of disciplines to gather to make use of the resources of the CRRS.
The theme of this year's seminar will again be "The Bible in the Renaissance
and Reformation" and will take place in the Pratt Library on Saturday
28 February, 2004. This day-long event will include lectures, a rare-book
display, and group discussion, led by one of the centre's Graduate Fellows
Mark Crane. Application instructions and more details are forthcoming on the
seminar's website. The seminar is open to senior undergraduates from Ontario
universities and is free of charge. Please encourage your students to apply.
The deadline for applications is 16 January 2003.
Deadline: 10-31-2003
Grand Prize: $1,000
First Prize: $750
Second Prize: $500
2 Honorable Mentions: $200
The EEBO In Undergraduate Studies Essay Competition Committee is seeking undergraduate research papers that rely on research conducted via the Early English Books Online collection of primary texts. Essays may reflect the approach of any number of academic disciplines: history, literary studies, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, and more; or they may be interdisciplinary in nature. The chief requirement is that each paper draws substantial evidence from the works included in EEBO.
EEBO will contain page images of 125,000 books listed in the Pollard and Redgrave, Wing, and Thomason Tracts catalogs. With its substantial coverage of printed material found in England between 1473 and 1700, EEBO provides rich research possibilities for students interested in a wide variety of topics in early modern studies.
For more information about the Undergraduate essay contest, please view http://www.lib.umich.edu/eebo/edu/edu_essay.html.
For more information about the project, please visit
the EEBO home page.
You can also contact Shawn Martin, Project Outreach Librarian by e mail at
shawnmar@umich.edu or by phone at
(734) 936 5611
Prize: $1,000 US – Sponsored by South-Central Renaissance Conference
A $1,000 cash award will be made for the best essay (5,000-6,000 words) in any discipline of Renaissance Studies. Only essays which have not been published previously, are not under consideration elsewhere, and have not previously been presented at a conference will be considered.
The recipient of the prize agrees to read the essay at the 53rd annual meeting of the South-Central Renaissance Conference in Austin Texas in April 2004, and to publish the essay in the society’s journal, Explorations in Renaissance Culture.
Deadline: October 31, 2004. Send three copies of the essay to the jury chair:
Professor Raymond Jean Frontain
Department of English
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR 72035 USA
e-mail raymond@mail.uca.edu
(Electronic inquiries are welcome, but no electronic submissions. Authors will be notified of their status before January 15, 2004.)
Early Theatre, the journal that superceded the REED Newsletter in 1998, offers an expanded perspective on historical research into medieval and early modern entertainment and performance conditions and practices. ET:REED gives particular emphasis to articles that work from REED research to arrive at new understandings of early drama, or that incorporate an understanding of historical records with modern performance. Our special volumes (volume 3 on the York Cycle in performance and, currently, volume 6 on the entertainment conditions in Southwest Britain) have focused on specific venues, politics, stagings, and audiences. Other volumes of ET:REED contain essays and notes on a variety of theatrical issues and, since 2001, have also included book reviews. Our "Issues in Review" section explores a wide range of topics and points of view, ranging from medieval saints plays and Elizabethan acting companies to internet websites on early drama.
Early Theatre 7 (2004), 'Issues in Review', will feature the theories and performance of early modern subjectivities, a forum organized by Viviana Comensoli. Articles accepted so far include David Kathman's revisionary look at the actors in the plot of The Seven Deadly Sins; Natalie Crohn Schmitt's note on numerology in the York plays; Joan Fitzpatrick's surprising assessment of food and foreignness in Sir Thomas More; Leanore Lieblien and Chris Frey on self-starvation in The Woman Killed with Kindness; Sarah Scott's survey of the medical and religious implications of the pox in Thomas Dekker's The Whore of Babylon; and Nova Myhill's examination of death as miracle in The Virgin Martyr.
Early Theatre 6 (2003), a two-part collection on 'Performance, Politics, and Culture in the Southwest of Britain, 1350-1642', currently available and guest-edited by Gloria J. Betcher, was inspired by a series of REED conference sessions at the Leeds International Medieval Congress that celebrated the publication of the last of the Southwest REED volumes. Essays included in ET:REED 6.1 and 2 offer exciting reinterpretations of the impact of Reform and puritanism in counties and towns of the Southwest, present new perspectives on how topography and road networks influenced the development of regional community and drama, and identify ways in which studies of the dramatic records of the West Country can enhance our understanding of larger patterns of growth, development, and change throughout medieval and early modern Britain. The broad chronological, topical, and geographical spectrum represented in the articles contributes to the appeal of this collection.
Articles in ET:REED 6.1 (June 2003) include 'Corpus Christi in the West Country' by Alexandra F. Johnston; 'Landscape, Movement, and Civic Mimesis in the West of England' by James D. Stokes; 'Puritans and Performers in Early Modern Dorset' by C.E. McGee; and '"Parish" and "City"-- A Shifting Identity: Salisbury 1440-1600' by Audrey Douglas. Articles in 6.2 (available in December 2003) include 'At the End of the Road: An Overview of South-western Touring Circuits' by Sally-Beth MacLean; 'Minstrels, Morris Dancers, and Players: Tracing the Routes of Traveling Performers in Early Modern Cornwall' by Gloria J. Betcher; 'Crossing County Boundaries: Sixteenth-Century Performance and Celebration in Yeovil, co. Somerset, and Sherborne, co. Dorset' by Rosalind C. Hays; 'Plays and Performing in Early Modern South Wales' by David N. Klausner; and 'An Historian's Response to _Performance, Politics, and Culture in the South-west of Britain' by Peter Fleming.
The approaches to theatre history, performance, and audience response represented
in Early Theatre demonstrate the scope of this journal and explain
why it has found successful funding, not only from McMaster University and
Victoria University at the University of Toronto, but also from the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Such generous financial
support is allowing us to develop our website resources. Soon the site will
provide complete online access to earlier issues of ET:REED. More
detail on these developments will be announced in a future newsletter. At
present, the website publishes tables of contents, abstracts, and short biographies
of the featured scholars in each volume. For information on how you can subscribe
to Early Theatre, simply visit our page at www.earlytheatre.ca/etorder.htm
or contact CRRS Publications at (416) 585-4465.
Cristian Berco
Law and Criminality in Early Modern Spain
Kenneth Borris
Atheism in Early Modern Culture and Spenser’s Faerie Queene
Mawy Bouchard
Decorum et Romant. Le discours sur la composition des romants
(1554) de Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio
Sheila Das
Rhetoric and History: Paolo Sarpi’s Istoria del Concilio Tridentino
Irina Guletsky
Gesture in Sound and in Stone
Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby
Coronation Verses of Anne Boleyn
Walter Lim
Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism in Early Modern England
Davide Panagia
Festive Forms and their Relation to Concepts of Liberty in Renaissance Italy
Margaret Reeves
Writing ‘for Profitable Use’: Political Satire in Women’s
Prose Fiction, 1628-1688
Dylan Reid
Cultural History of 16th Century Rouen
Erika Rummel
The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito
Elizabeth Schoales
Political Prophecy in Wales, 1200-1400
Philippa Sheppard
Fair Counterfeits: The Last Decade of Shakespeare on the Screen
Julie Sutherland (Visiting Fellow Sept-Dec)
Representations of Women in Jacobean and Caroline Drama
Victor Thiessen
Reform by Pen and Sword
Kunstbuch translation
Marpeck Project (see article in this newsletter)
Stephanie Treloar
Text and Musical Relations in the Madrigals of Giaches de Wert.
Laura Willett
Montaigne’s Visual Universe
Pilgram Marpeck (1495-1556) was by birth a member of the urban elite in the Austrian mining town of Rattenberg on the Inn. Marpeck worked as an engineer, and also served in political office, including a term as burgomaster of the town in 1522. In 1525 he was appointed the mining magistrate for the Rattenberg region. He resigned this post in 1527, when ordered King Ferdinand ordered him to reveal the names of Anabaptist sympathizers among the miners, who were to be interrogated and quite possibly executed by Ferdinand’s justices. Shortly thereafter, Marpeck fled the town, and became an Anabaptist himself.
Ordained as an elder, Marpeck began to organize Anabaptist cells wherever he went. His influence spread from Alsace to Switzerland, from South Germany and Austria to Moravia. After his death in 1556, the groups affiliated with him disappeared, but the teachings of his community continued to influence the surviving Anabaptist traditions in Switzerland, Moravia, and South Germany. Unlike many Anabaptists of his day, Marpeck did not advise separation from society, but encouraged critical participation in it. Some scholars see in Marpeck an Anabaptist who also embraced dialogue with other faith traditions and participated in secular society without sacrificing his own perspectives on faith and piety.
William Klassen (University of Waterloo) and Walter Klaassen (University of Saskatchewan) organized the Marpeck Project (funded in large part by SSHRC) in order to write a scholarly biography of Pilgram Marpeck that will appeal to the lay reader. As a secondary benefit, they hope to make available critically edited English translations of several pamphlets and writings produced by Marpeck and his collaborators.
To this end they have called upon several scholars from the Waterloo area to participate in a colloquium on Marpeck and his time. Among the topics under discussion:
1. the social milieu in the mining town of Rattenberg during Marpeck’s early years
2. Archduke Ferdinand’s anti-Reformation and anti-Anabaptist policies
3. Marpeck’s relationship with the Jews
4. the publications and manuscripts of the Marpeck group (authorship, themes, influences).
The project foresees the publication of the Marpeck biography by 2006.
For more information, please contact Victor Thiessen at vic.thiessen@utoronto.ca
Congratulations go to last year’s Corbet Undergraduate Fellows, each
of whom have gone on to excellent graduate programs: Irina Dumitrescu
is now in the Yale MA-PhD program in English, and Maree Martinez
is off to Selwyn College, Cambridge University for an MA in Modern History.
Milton Kooistra (Iter Fellow) is now in Wolfenbuttel, Germany
for a term to carry out research for his thesis on Johannes Capitus, where
he continues to do Iter from afar.
Welcome back to Jamie Smith (Robson Research Assistant 2002-2004),
who has just returned from Genoa, Italy after several months’ research
in the archives. She will again be off to Genoa in January 2004.
Dr. Richard Raiswell (Graduate Fellow, 1999-2002) has
accepted a one-year contract teaching History at St. Francis Xavier University
in Antigonish, NS.; Edwin Bezzina (Iter Fellow, 2001-2002)
has accepted a nine-month contract teaching history at St. Mary’s
University in Halifax, NS.
Dr. Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby (Fellow, 2002-2003) has accepted
a one-year contractually limited term appointment teaching English at York University,
where she joins
Margaret
Reeves (Curator, 2001-2002 and Fellow, 2002-2004), who is on
contract to manage tutorials.
Professor Nick Terpstra (Associate Director) has been elected
a Fellow of Victoria College and will be on leave in 2003-2004.
Professor Lorna Jane Abray (Chair, Programs 2002-2003)
is now the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies for the U of T History
Department.
Professor William Barker has been named President and Vice-Chancellor
of the University of King’s College (Halifax, NS)
Dr Antonio Ricci (Graduate Fellow, 1995-96) has just
been hired in a tenure-stream
Assistant Professor position in Italian at Fordham University, NYC. We wish
him all the best in his new position and look forward to working with him
in the academy.
Professor Robert Buranello has moved from Georgetown University,
where he has been for the past two years after his return from the University
of Cape Town, to a tenure-stream position in Italian at the City University
of New York / College of Staten Island.
(News items for future issues should go to: konrad.eisenbichler@utoronto.ca)
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