The Centre for Reformation and
Renaissance Studies is very pleased to inaugurate a whole new annual series of events this year.
The Renaissance Spring Festival is a gathering of courses, workshops, conferences, demonstrations,
and concerts designed to enrich the experience of students taking summer courses at Victoria College,
and to bring together the members of the many artistic and scholarly communities with which Toronto
is blessed.
At the heart of the Festival are four undergraduate courses on Renaissance topics, which will be taught on the Vic campus. Registration in these courses is open to undergraduate students in the appropriate programs at the University of Toronto. From here, we offer a wide range of activities that are keyed to the course content of these classes and open to the public. With the exception of the paleography workshops and the conferences, it's all free.
Learn a courtly dance; hear Chaucer in genuine Middle English inflection; explore Shakespeare's source materials! The sounds, ideas, and experiences of the European Renaissance are happening during the months of May and June on the Victoria University campus. We hope you'll use the enclosed brochure as an inspiration, and we look forward to seeing you join our students this summer.
We are pleased to present an
eminent scholar of the English Reformation as our 42nd Annual Erasmus Lecturer on Tuesday 19 September
2006. Richard Rex is the author of Henry VIII and the English Reformation (Palgrave, 2nd
edition, 2006), The Lollards (MacMillan, 2003), Elizabeth I (Stroud, 2003) and
The Tudors (Stroud, 2003), among many other publications. He is a Senior Lecturer in Church
History and is Director of Studies in History at Queen's College, University of Cambridge.
Richard Rex
"Rhetoric and Reformation"
Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College
Tuesday 19 September 2006
tea 4 p.m. / lecture 4:15 p.m.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance is an online bibliography of articles and books pertaining to the period 400-1700 in Europe. It is the product of the hard work of numerous graduate students in Toronto and Arizona, and it will surpass the 900,000 records mark in May 2006. We'll be watching in anticipation of the millionth Iter record in the coming year.
Check it out: www.itergateway.org.
A rare opportunity to see
Purcell's Dioclesian will be offered at the Glenn Gould Studio in May. The artistic team
who delighted audiences with their witty staging of Henry Purcell's Fairy Queen last year
will present Dioclesian, a drama of power and intrigue where love conquers ambition, uproots
an empire and throws our hero on the mercies of a humble innkeeper turned impresario. Toronto
Masque Theatre stages Dioclesian with four actors playing the parts of Dioclesian,
Maximian, Drusilla and Delphia, 2 dancers and 10 singers performing Purcell's wonderful score accompanied
by a period orchestra.
Toronto Masque Theatre has embarked on an ambitious five-year program to produce all the major music theatre works of Henry Purcell. Purcell's profound contribution to British theatre combined gorgeous music, witty staging and classic dramatic texts. Watch for Dido and Aeneas, the third production in the cycle, next year, to be followed by 'Purcell in the Theatre,' incidental music for a number of stage works, in 2008 and King Arthur, to mark the 350th anniversary of Purcell's birth in 2009.
Toronto Masque Theatre performs masques created from the Renaissance to the present day, taking as its inspiration the core Baroque repertoire of masques and semi-operas. For more details see www.torontomasquetheatre.ca.
A pre-concert chat will be offered 17 & 18 May 2006 at 7:15 p.m. by Professor Brian Corman, Chair of the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
Tickets: Regular $45 Students/Seniors $38
Call 416-205-5555 or purchase online
A 15% discount is available if you identify yourself with the Renaissance Spring Festival.
Join the students of
Professor John Reibetanz's English 220 class to explore Shakespeare's Venice, his music, and the
source of King Lear.
"Shakespeare's Venice"
Professor Shaul Bassi
25 May 4-6 p.m.
Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall
Professor Bassi (Ca'Foscari University of Venice) will demonstrate how we can fruitfully read actual locations in Venice alongside the texts of Othello and The Merchant of Venice.
"Shakespeare's Music"
Professor Timothy McGee & Musicians in Ordinary
30 May 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College
Professor McGee (Music, University of Toronto) will illustrate a lecture on the song repertory of Elizabethan England with assistance from the Musicians in Ordinary.
"King Lear and King Leir: Playing with Shakespeare and
his Source"
Poculi Ludique Societas
30 June 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Jennifer Roberts-Smith (Project Manager, Shakespeare and the Queen's Men) will direct a workshop that explores Shakespeare's play and its source (a sentimental comedy) by rehearsing and performing scenes from each text. No previous theatrical experience is required, and the workshop is free, but space is limited to a maximum of 20 participants. Please contact Kim Yates at crrs.vic@utoronto.ca or (416) 585-4484 to book a space.
The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies will host a large conference this fall to explore the complexities of medievalism in the Renaissance. There are two threads to this topic.
First, there is the undeniable continuum of existing culture in the Renaissance period. The transference and adaptation of patently "medieval" elements of European civilization contributed to the renewal we call the "Renaissance" - but what was transferred, and how?
Secondly, in its dawning awareness of the medieval period as something else, the Renaissance was newly able to engage in medievalism, the knowledge and study of and taste for, all things medieval as 'other'. How did Renaissance scholars, historians, printers, rulers, artists, poets, and dramatists investigate and depict the Middle Ages and its events, texts, and personalities?
Join us for a stimulating discussion of the continuities and breaks with the past that formed historical consciousness in Western Europe.
May
4-6 Conference: "Écrire des récits de voyage (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles): esquisse
d'une poétique en gestation" 4 May at Emmanuel College 302, 5-6 May at York University, Ross
Building Senate Chamber. On
the web.
8-11 Workshop: "Reading Early Italian Hands" Taught by Konrad Eisenbichler in NF205
from 10-12 each day. Registration is $100 and is limited to 15 students.
12 Ad Fontes Neo-Latin Reading Group 1:30 p.m., Pratt Library, 304
12 Friday Workshop: Jess Paehlke "Vives' Commentary on The City of God" 3:30 p.m.,
NF205.
15, 17, 23, 25 Workshop: "Reading Early English Hands" Taught by Alexandra Johnston,
Abby Young, and Arleane Ralph of the Records of Early English
Drama project in NF8 from 10-12 each day. Registration is $100 and is limited to 15 students.
18-20 Conference: "Spenser's Civilizations" Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College. On
the web.
23 Workshop: Toronto Coranto Renaissance Ensemble "Dances of Love" 7 p.m., Emmanuel
College 119.
25 Lecture: Shaul Bassi "Shakespeare's Venice" 4 p.m. Burwash Hall Senior Common
Room.
26 Lecture: Andreas Motsch "Renaissance Expansion and Encounters with the Other"
2 p.m. Burwash Hall Senior Common Room.
30 Lecture/Recital: Tim McGee & The Musicians in Ordinary "Shakespeare's Music"
3:30 p.m., Old Victoria College, Alumni Hall.
June
1 Lecture/Recital: Tim McGee & The Musicians in Ordinary "Music, Poetry, Art,
and Lorenzo the Magnificent" 7 p.m., VC115.
5 Reading: David Klausner "Fun with Middle English" 4 p.m., Burwash Hall Senior
Common Room.
9 Lecture: Matt Kavaler "Gothic as Renaissance: Architecture in Northern Europe
during the 15th & 16th Centuries" 5 p.m., Burwash Hall Senior Common Room 30.
30 Ad Fontes neo Latin reading group, 3:30 p.m., Pratt Library, 304
30 Workshop: Jennifer Roberts-Smith "King Lear and King Leir:
Playing with Shakespeare and his Source" 10-4, Old Victoria College, Alumni Hall. Free, but space
is limited to 20 and pre-registration required. Call (416) 585-4484 or crrs.vic@utoronto.ca.
Travis DeCook (CRRS Graduate Fellow 2004-2005) has accepted a one year Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, and has also accepted a tenure-track position in the English Department of Carleton University. He will pursue his research for 2006-2007 and commence teaching in the following year.
Scott Schofield (CRRS Graduate Fellow 2004-2006) has won a University of Toronto award for Teaching Excellence in 2006.
The CRRS made a large purchase in this series in 2005, bringing our holdings to the end of Series One. We've added links to a couple of online title lists to our website's list of useful electronic resources. You can consult the supplier's current listing hereat The NYU library has also provided one which is sorted by author and title and easier to search, here.
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For more information
about the CRRS, contact our Assistant to the Director, Dr.
Stephanie Treloar.
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