Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and women: Video / podcast

Thomas Dabbs (a fellow early modernist here in Tokyo!) talks to Tanya Pollard in this 64th installment of the Speaking of Shakespeare series.

Throughlines: Race in the early modern period Podcast

Barbara Bogaev speaks with scholars Ayanna Thompson and Ruben Espinosa about Throughlines, a pedagogical resource developed by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University.

Gobbledygook in Shakespeare scholarship: Blog post

While we were often in disagreement, I have the deepest respect for the late Peter Milward as a scholar, a colleague and - yes - a friend. Here another friend, Paul Adrian Fried, pays tribute to Peter's intolerance of jargon in Shakespeare scholarship.

What's on at the Folger: Events, exhibitions, etc.

If you're quick you can catch the virtual zoom on Romeo and Juliet: Teaching Teenagers Then and Now! There's also an extract (The Roles of the River in Early Modern Times) from Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins's Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain.

Mixed Up Lovers—And Mixed Up Critics: Blog post

John McGee challenges conventional interpretations of Romeo and Juliet.

Supernatural Shakespeare: Halloween event

Darren Freebury-Jones will talk about the sprites, elves, fairies, nymphs, witches, wizards, demons, and ghosts in Shakespeare's plays.

Wherefore Shakespeare? A six-part podcast series

The series covers comedy, gender, horror, race, nationalism and tragedy.

John Calvin podcast

The latest entry covers the trial of Michael Servetus.

Becoming Lutheran: The Community of Brunswick from Evangelical Reform to Lutheran Culture: Monograph

John A. Maxfield "traces the influences and events that shaped one community as its people journeyed from evangelical reform to Lutheran culture".

Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscellanea. Prayers. Meditations. Memoratives (c.1608): Blog post

Joseph Black reviews modern responses to Grymeston's work and focuses on the provenance of a copy owned by Smith College.

Involving Readers: Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522-1546) Open-access publication

Renske A. Hoff "explores how and by whom early modern Dutch Bibles were used".

Reformation Perspectives on Mary Magdalene from Luther to Zwingli and Calvin: Book chapter

Steven W. Tyra "provides an overview of Reformation perspectives on Mary Magdalene from Martin Luther to Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin".

Geneva's Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563: Monograph

Jon Balserak "Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France" with "a new, provocative view of John Calvin and his relationship to the Christian tradition".

Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome: Forthcoming publication

"Maya Maskarinec shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, eventually claiming them as ancestors."

The Wonders of Gastroscience in Rabelais: Online event

Guido Giglioni will be firing "A Few Galenic Salvos from the Renaissance" in illustration of Galen's "science of natural faculties".

John Donne Society annual conference: Call for papers

Proposals welcomed on Donne and other 17th-century metaphysical poets.

Margaret Nelham's will: Blog post

E.M. Vine looks beyond the contents of a will to "some of the features of the will as a physical document – the handwriting, spelling, and type of paper used, and what this can tell us about the circumstances in which it was produced."

Free speech in Tudor England: Smithsonian online article

Elizabeth Tunstall on Peter and Paul Wentworth's appeal to Elizabeth I to name an heir to the throne, wielding Parliament’s free speech privileges to urge the queen to take action.

Hedge warfare in seventeenth-century England: Online magazine article

Amy Louise Smith on Enclosure Acts and land disputes.

Karen Brahe and Female Book Ownership (1609-1736): Web page

"An interactive map featuring the place of publication for the printed works in the Karen Brahe Library."

The Early Modern Period: Graduate student workshop

A workshop on early modern identity organised by the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.

Conversations With People Who Read Montaigne: Online event

On September 30, Phillip John Usher will talk with Nina Mueggler in the first episode of a new season of conversations on Montaigne organised by New York University.

Irish history online

While not exclusively, or even primarily, early modern, the newly updated Irish history online website is an obvious must for early modernists with an interest in Ireland.

Please let me know if there is anything you would like me to include in the next newsletter.