crrs-winter-newsletter-2015-2016 by gregy

CRRS Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Winter Newsletter 2015-2016

Letter from the Director

I am honored to be able to direct the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. It is our charge to strengthen the community of early modern scholars and students at the University of Toronto and at other institutions in the city. I thank Principal Angela Esterhammer for her support and advice, and I wish to express my profound gratitude to Natalie Oeltjen, the Assistant to the Director, who has done so much to fortify the Centre.My thanks also go to Manuela Scarci, our able and inventive coordinator of the undergraduate Renaissance Studies Program, and to Paul Cohen, who has agreed to be Associate Director for the year despite many competing obligations.

I am pleased that the Centre has become ever more a place where interested faculty, fellows, and students can congregate, both for formal events and for casual conversation on early modern topics. The meetings of EMIGF—the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum—have been particularly successful in bringing about fruitful scholarly discussion and welding a sense of community among members of different departments. I am grateful to Tim Harrison, now Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, for initiating this program and to Olenka Horbatsch, a graduate student in the Department of the History of Art, for so capably directing the forum this year. We have a full program of events for 2015-2016. Fernando Marias, noted art historian from Madrid, spoke in October on El Greco’s work for Converso patrons in Toledo as our Erasmus Speaker. Pamela Smith, a well-respected scholar of material culture from Columbia University in New York, will join us in March for a pair of lectures and a seminar as our Distinguished Visiting Scholar. And in April we will hold our annual conference in collaboration with the Northrop Frye Centre: “On Nearness, Order and Things: Collecting and Material Culture, 1400-Today.” I wish you all an enjoyable and productive year and look forward to greeting you at the Centre in the months to come.

Ethan Matt Kavaler Director, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

New Leadership at CRRS

New Graduate Fellows

The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies continues to enjoy the energetic and careful stewardship of Ethan Matt Kavaler, who began his five-year term as Director of the CRRS in July 2015. Professor Kavaler served as Acting Director of the CRRS in 20122013, as Acting Chair of the Department of the History of Art in 2013-2014, and Interim Director of the CRRS in 2014-2015. He specializes in the arts of the Netherlands in the early modern period and in Late Gothic architecture across northern Europe. He is the author of Renaissance Gothic: Architecture and the Arts 1470-1540 and of Pieter Bruegel: Parables of Order and Enterprise. He is now writing a book on Netherlandish Renaissance sculpture.

Our new Robson Graduate Assistant, Lindsay Sidders, is a Ph.D. Candidate in History. Her dissertation is based upon the writings of Alonso de la Mota y Escobar in his role as (creole) Bishop of both Guadalajara and Tlaxcala-Puebla, New Spain (Mexico), which she examines in order to parse out methods, modes, and practices of constructing the self and the Hispanic-Catholic empire from 15901625.

The CRRS community is also happy to welcome our new Associate Director, Paul Cohen, Associate Professor in the department of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of France and the Francophone World. He works on the history of the French language, focusing on the process by which the various dialects of the medieval and early modern period were made into a unified national language during the Enlightenment period.

It is our pleasure to welcome Leslie Wexler as the new Graduate Fellow in Publications and Promotions. Leslie is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and the School for the Environment, where she works on the connections between early modern representations of forests and modern environmental thought. Her interests in social media and podcasting will provide a new direction for the Centre as we look forward to future developments from all our new staff members.

Congratulations Congratulations to our former Publications and Promotions Graduate Fellow, Dr. Vanessa McCarthy, who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on the regulation of prostitutes in early modern Bologna in May 2015, and has moved on from the CRRS after many years of dedicated service to pursue an academic career. She is currently teaching at the downtown and Scarborough campuses. We are deeply grateful for her hard work in maintaining our high-quality publications program and in expanding the Centre’s visibility on campus.

New Undergraduate Fellows

Dr. Jason Peters recently took up his post as an Assistant Professor at Booth University College in Winnipeg. He completed his The CRRS is pleased to welcome two new dissertation in the English department on “Conscience and the Corbet Undergraduate Assistants: Commonwealth: The Literature of Consensus in Reformation England,” in the fall of 2015. Jason was on the CRRS Library Emily Brade is in her third year of committee and worked with our rare book collection. undergraduate studies, specializing in History with a minor in Renaissance Dr. Mauricio Suchowlansky successfully defended his dissertation Studies. Her academic interests include early on Machiavelli in the department of Political Science the Fall of modern social history, especially developing 2015 and is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Political forms of media and communication in the Thought and Leadership, in the School of History, Philosophy northern Reformation. and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Mauricio worked to keep the field of Political Science within the scope of CRRS activities and organized a series of Friday Workshops on Mitchell Gould is a fourth year Machiavelli in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of The undergraduate student, majoring in Prince. History and English. His interests include the English Reformation, specifically Dr. Timothy Harrison received his doctorate in 2014; his during the reigns of Henry VIII and dissertation was recently awarded the Governor General’s Gold Elizabeth I. Medal for outstanding performance in graduate studies at the University of Toronto. Mitch is currently reaching out to undergraduate student groups in various The CRRS also proudly congratulates last year’s Corbet departments to encourage participation in Undergraduate Assistants Jessica Farrell-Jobst, Ariella the Centre’s community and events. Minden, and Angela Zhang who have begun graduate studies at the University of Toronto, the Courtauld Institute and Queen’s University, respectively.

Spotlight on Recent Rare Aquisitions at the Centre

ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS, Enchiridion militis Christiani, Cologne: Soter, 1523.

ABRAHAM ORTELIUS, Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliæ Belgicæ partes, Antwerp: Plantin, 1584.

PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, Main plate of Lapides Capitolini, 1762, Etching.

The Enchiridion militis Christiani was acquired by the Centre in October 2015 for its extraordinary and prolific annotations by a sixteenth-century hand, which will make this copy especially illuminating for those studying the reception of Erasmus.

This imprint of Christophor Plantin, 1584, joined the Centre’s collection in the Spring of 2015. The famous Netherlandish cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527 1598) produced the first modern atlas. However, the Itinerarium represents a lesser-known side of Ortelius: the traveller and scholar of antiquities. It records his journey and describes the classical monuments he visited in Belgium and the Rhineland in 1575, when he noted the Roman imperial monuments uncovered in these provinces of Northern Europe. Sheets from this edition were re-issued by Plantin in 1585 as part of the Descriptio Germaniæ ... auctoribus Bilibaldo Pirckeimero.

Piranesi made a uniquely visual contribution to the study of Roman antiquities, such that his name is cited alongside those of the most important topographers of the city. The Lapides Captiolini is a study of an ancient inscription listing the names of consuls, triumphs, and major games.

value to the collection

Particularly valuable for book history and readership and reception studies.

This text exemplifies humanist interest in the classical monuments not only of Rome but of Northern Europe.

This Pranesi etching was donated by Larry Pfaff in early November 2015.

The Enchiridion was an important devotional text in the sixteenth century and notably at Henry VIII’s court. This edition is an imprint from Johannes Soter in Cologne and includes an elaborate woodcut border on the title-page and woodcut printer’s device on the final leaf, with woodcut initials throughout. The text includes a congratulatory verse by Thomas More and a letter from Erasmus to Paul Volz.

The print is a fold-out plate from a suite of etchings with a detailed text on the history of the stone fragments. It depicts the marble fragments more or less as they are now arranged, but interspersed with a fantastical and unrelated mix of Roman sculptural details. Recognizable among them are the she-wolf, a bust of Homer, and the figure of weeping Dacia, as seen above.

EUNAPIUS, Hadriano Junio HORNANO, translator, De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum: nunc primum graece et latinae editus, Antwerp, Plantin, 1568. This book is a history of ancient philosophers of Greece and Rome, written by the fourth century Greek historian Eunapius. This edition, overseen by the Haarlem Humanist Hadrianus Junius and published by Christopher Plantin, became a reference for scholarly audiences in northern Europe.

VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus and Daniele BARBARO, translator, I Dieci Libri Dell’architettura di M. Vitruvio, Venice: Francesco de’ Franceschi Senese, & Giouanni Chrieger Alemano compagni, 1567. This Venetian imprint was acquired by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in the Spring of 2015. The book contains over one hundred illustrations designed by Andrea Palladio (1508-1575), and possibly Giuseppe Porta Salviati (1520-1575) and Giovanni Antonio Rusconi (1520-1579). The reproductions were among the most popular architechtural illustrations associated with the Vitruvian text. This key treatise is the only work on architecture to survive from antiquity.

POMPONIO, Gaurico, De sculptura seu statuaria: libellus sanè elegantissimus, pictoribus, sculptoribus, statuarijs, architectis &c., Antwerp: Ioannem Grapheum, 1528. This second edition (1st: Florence, 1504) of this important Renaissance text is the first treatise on sculpture to be published in Northern Europe. The Antwerp edition was overseen by Cornelis Grapheus, a learned Netherlandish Humanist and correspondent of Erasmus. In addition to editing the work, Grapheus includes a four-page introduction (dated July 1528) which includes references to the German treatise on proportion by his friend, Albrecht Dürer, which he notes had proved to be extremely useful for sculptors and painters. The techniques and theories on perspective described by Guarico would become popular in the German-speaking countries. Dürer had earlier visited the editor, Grapheus, at Antwerp in June of 1521.

value to the collection

An important Northern European addition to the CRRS collection of humanist editions of the classics.

The collaboration between Palladio and Barbaro, an influential intellectual and classicist, makes this edition particularly interesting.

The first Northern European treatise on sculpture.

Hans Holbein’s Woodcuts HOLBEIN, HANS [the Younger], Icones historiarvm Veteris Testamenti : ad viuum expressae, extremàque diligentia emendatiores factae : Gallicis in expositione homoeoteleutis, ac versuum ordinibus (qui priùs turbati, ac impares) suo numero restitutis, [104] pages: illustrations (woodcuts); 20 cm (4to), Lyon: J. Frellon, 1547. The CRRS recently acquired the first French edition of the Icones, best known for its ninety-four Old Testament woodcuts by Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543). The French translation was provided by the humanist Gilles Corrozet, and published by M. and G. Trechsel for Jehan Frellon in 1547. Frellon printed two editions in this year. According to palaeotypographer Ruth Mortimer, two markers identify the first edition of the 1547 Icones. First, the fifth line of the title (ending in “emenda-“) and, second, the first line of the French text on L1 (ending in “uices”) - the Centre’s edition bears these markers. It is bound in red Morocco binding with blindstamping and gold stamping with the word “Lortic” on the inside front cover. This copy lacks signature leaves A2 and A3 with the Preface by Corrozet and a Poem to the Reader by Nicholas Bourbon. Holbein designed the ninety-four woodcuts for the Old Testament in his third Basel period (1529-1532). The artist had previously designed woodcuts for a popular edition of The Dance of Death that was also published at Lyon and had established a market for his work as an illustrator. The Centre purchased the Icones in the spring of 2015 for its value to historians of religion, publishing, and art. Holbein’s images, like Botticelli’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy (1481), represent one of the all-too-rare conjunctions of a great artist with an important text. The incidents represented form a type of canon of Old Testament acts. Writing on the contemporary reception and afterlife of Holbein’s work, Natalie Zemon Davis has shown that Holbein’s woodcuts rose above sectarian disputes. Neither exclusively Catholic nor Protestant, the illustrations could be framed with differing texts, which tailored them to various political and religious movements. Interesting for this edition: Frellon’s crab and butterfly device appears on title page. The four evangelists in medallions on N3v are by another hand; they are thought to be woodcuts by Hans Lützelburger, a particularly skilled wood-engraver who had also worked on the Dance of Death.

Print Culture: John Davies and the Literary Community of Shakespeare DAVIES JOHN, A DISCOVERIE OF THE STATE OF IRELAND: with the true Causes why that Kingdom was neuer entirely Subdued, nor brought vnder Obedience of the Crowne of ENGLAND, vntill the Be-ginning of his Maiesties most hap-pie Raigne. London: W. Jaggard for J. Jaggard, 1613.

how typical was his output for the time? Finally, what kind of imprints did he co-produce with his siblings, John and Issac Jaggard? This final question leads Schofield to focus, in one section, on those books produced by William for John Jaggard. The Davies work is an example of this collaboration between the two brothers.

John Davies’ Discoverie was first printed in London in 1612 and then reissued in 1613, and is one of a select number of books printed by William Jaggard for his brother John Jaggard.

The treatise itself addressed England’s previous failures to conquer the Irish and proposed a plan for longterm settlement and control of the territory. Davies argued that Irish customs and laws needed to be swept away and replaced by English common law and good governance.

The CRRS is proud to contribute its edition of Davies’ Discoverie to the upcoming exhibition at The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library marking 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare in 1616. The exhibition, “So long lives this: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Life and Works” runs from 25 January to 28 May 2016, and will display an extensive selection of some of the University of Toronto’s finest books and manuscripts. It also boasts a detailed catalogue written by Peter Blayney, Anne Dondertman, Alan Galey, Marjorie Rubright, and former CRRS graduate fellow Scott Schofield. The Davies volume is included in the Fisher exhibit together with other works printed by William Jaggard, famous among early London printers for his important role in the production of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623, although his career as a printer and publisher of books stretches back to 1594. The exhibit showcases works such as that of Davies and Jaggard as part of Shakespeare’s extended intellectual networks. Davies moved in several significant literary circles, and had contacts over a long period with many noble families and London’s literary and publishing world. He published twelve volumes of poetry in addition to the Discoverie and had dealings with more than a dozen printers and stationers. Several of these, including Jaggard, were closely connected with Shakespeare and his company. Interestingly, a poem by Davies was included in a 1609 edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets published by Thomas Thorpe. Schofield devotes significant attention to the work of William Jaggard in the exhibition catalogue, exploring questions such as, what can we learn from looking at his longer history in the London book trade? What kinds and sizes of books did he produce and

The CRRS copy has a rich provenance that dates back to shortly after the printing of the book. On the front fly leaf is an inscription in an italic hand, “Thomas Windsor 1614. virtus vera nobilitas.” This is most likely the signature of Thomas Windsor, Sixth Baron of Windsor (15911642). Two armorial bookplates, both of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century owners respectively, are pasted to the inner front board, and the inscription of David Hoeniger, previous director and founder of the CRRS, is printed prominently on one of the early endpapers too. When taken in their totality, these various ex libris cover four consecutive centuries of ownership. The volume is bound in seventeenth-century vellum. This text originally came to the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies as a donation from David Hoeniger, the first director of the Centre. In addition to having Hoeniger’s signature, it also has a wonderful ca. 1960s price of £5!

Works Consulted: Scott Schofield, Chapter Notes on the Fisher exhibition Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, ‘A Lover’s Complaint’, and John Davies of Hereford, p.40

Recent Acquistions & Publications Select New Aquisitions (U of T Faculty) Doppelganger Dilemmas: AngloDutch relations in early modern English literature and culture. Marjorie Rubright, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Two volumes of collected essays which germinated in the 2012 CRRS conference, Early Modern Migrations organized by Nicholas Terpstra and Marjorie Rubright: Exile and Religious Identity, 15001800. Edited by J. Spohnholz and G.K. Waite, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014.

CRRS Publications: Essays & Studies Series Collaboration, Conflict, and Continuity in the Reformation: Essays in Honour of James M. Estes on his Eightieth Birthday Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler 430pp / Softcover / 2014 / ISBN 978-07727-2174-7 / $49.95

Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile. Edited by Timothy G. Fehler, Greta Grace Kroeker, Charles H. Parker and Jonathan Ray, London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, c2014.

CRRS Fellow Publications

Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation. Nicholas Terpstra, Cambridge: CUP, 2015.

Michaelangelo’s Christian Mysticism: Spirituality, Poetry, and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Prodan, Sarah Rolfe, Cambridge: CUP, 2014.

The Renaissance Ethics of Music: Singing, Contemplation and Musica Humana. Kim, Hyun-Ah, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2015. 8

For several decades, James M. Estes has been pointing to the complexity of the problems facing sixteenth-century reformers and the practical solutions they were able to reach. The career of Johannes Brenz, who successfully laid the foundations for a territorial Church in Wurttemberg, the careful analytical thinking of Philip Melanchthon, who sought (but failed) to reach an accord with the Catholic side, and the incessant correspondence of Desiderius Erasmus, the Prince of Humanists, who saw the liberal arts as the solution to this world’s problems, all serve as guideposts for Estes’ career as a scholar, and also for this collection of articles in his honour. The esteem with which Jim Estes’ scholarship is held is reflected in the stunning array of scholars assembled in this volume.

After Civic Humanism: Learning and Politics in Renaissance Italy Edited by Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson 297 pp / Softcover / 2015 / ISBN 978-07727-2177-8 / $34.95

The thirteen essays in this volume demonstrate the multiplicity of connections between learning and politics in Renaissance Italy. Some engage explicitly with Hans Baron’s “civic humanism” thesis illustrating its continuing viability, but also stretching its application to prove the limitations of its original expression. Others move beyond Baron’s thesis to examine the actual practice of various individuals and groups engaged in both political and learned activities in a variety of diverse settings. The collective impression of all the contributions is that of a complex, ever-shifting mosaic of learned enterprises in which the well-examined civic paradigm emerges as just one of several modes that explain the interaction between learning and politics in Italy between 1300 and 1650. The model that emerges rejects any single category of explanation in favour of emphasizing variety and multiplicity. It suggests that learning was indispensible to all politics in

Renaissance Italy and that, in fact, at its heart the Renaissance was a political event as much as a cultural movement. Medici Women: The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany Edited by Giovanna Benadusi and Judith C. Brown 420 pp / Softcover / May 2014 / 978-07727-2164-8/ $45.95

The Medici grand ducal family and the court it created in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have long fascinated historians and the general public. Until recently, however, the women who married into the family or were born into it were relegated to the margins of history. Though long acknowledged as wives and mothers who contributed to the propagation of the Medici line, their function in the creation of the court, in shaping its culture, in contributing to the transformation of the state from a city-state republic to a principality, and in establishing the Medicis’ place in the European network of dynastic rulers tended to be either ignored or maligned. It is only in the last decade or so that scholars have begun to reassess their roles and achievements.

The Saint Between Manuscript and Print: Italy 1400-1600 Edited Alison K. Frazer 495 pp / Softcover / 2015 / 978-0-77272181-5 / $49.95

This volume is the first dedicated entirely to the intersection of saints and books - both of which Renaissance Italy produced in impressive numbers. The twelve essays identify mutually interactive developments in media and cult at a time when both underwent profound change. Taking up specific sites of intense cultural production and consumption, the authors pay special attention to the laity, to women’s spirituality, and to the reforming movement known as the Observance. The volume invites further study of saints of all sorts - canonized, popularly recognized, or self-proclaimed - in the fluid media environment of early modernity. This expertly curated volume presents twelve sharp and sophisticated essays situated at the intersection of two fertile fields: the cultural history of sanctity and the history of the transformations wrought by the introduction of printing.

Donations from our Community The CRRS is deeply grateful for the support of our community, in particular those who have helped us to maintain and build our collection through donations in cash or kind. The CRRS has benefitted this year from the generosity of Mr. Larry Pfaff, who donated a significant trove of rare books and etchings, including: Venetia, an engraved bird’s-eye-view map of Venice as it looked before the Great Plague of 1630 and the building of the church of Santa Maria della Salute, c. 1630. An etched title page of G.B. Piranesi’s Lapides Capitolini, 1762. Caii Suetonii Tranquilli vitae duodecim caesarum. Florentia: 1515. This edition of Sueonius’ Lives of the Twelve Ceasars includes interesting hand-drawn illustrations in the margins, one of which is seen to the left. D. Aurelii Augustini Hippon, Episcop Libri XIII Confessionum. Lugduni: Danielem Elzevirium, 1675. This edition of Book 13 of Augustine’s Confessions was printed by the widow of Jean Elzevir. Quintus Horatius Flaccus accedunt nunc Danielis Heinsii. De Satyra Horatiana Libri duo. Lugduni Batavorum: Elzeviriana, 1629. (Horace’s Satires, Book 2, edited by Daniel Heinsius) George de la Faye. Principes de Chirurgie. Paris, Méquignon, 1785. Pindari, Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia, caeterorvm octo lyricorum carmina, Alcaei, Sapphvs, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Bacchylidis, Simonidis, Alcmanis, nonnulla etiam aliorum. [Genevae] Henr. Stephanus, illustris uiri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, 1566. Donors 2014-2015: William R. Bowen, Stephanie Corbet, Deputazione di Storia Patria per l’Umbria, Eva Kushner, Tomáš Nejeschleba, Larry Pfaff, Records of Early English Drama, Scuola Dalmata, Bernadette Suau, Stephanie Treloar, University of Toronto Press, Mark Venard, Germaine Warkentin. We remain extremely grateful to Ms. Stephanie Corbet, whose unfailing generosity continues to support undergraduate involvement at CRRS through the Corbet Undergraduate Assistantship.

Recent Events Distinguished Visiting Scholar March 2015

The Distinguished Visiting Scholar in March 2015 was Herman Roodenburg, Endowed Professor and Chair of Historical Anthropology and Ethnography of Europe at the VU University Amsterdam. Prof. Roodenburg delivered a lecture entitled “‘Pathopoeia’ from Bouts to Rembrandt: How to Work the Believers’ Emotions through the Senses” as well as a seminar for graduate students on “The Crying Dutchman: Or How to Craft the Tears of Believers in the Seventeenth Century”. These talks explored themes such as the affective power of images based largely on Dutch art theory, as well as late-medieval rhetoric and sermons. The DVS talks led up to the 2015 CRRS international colloquium, Plastic, Present: Netherlandish Sixteenth-Century Sculpture. This colloquium was a follow-up to the 2012 CRRS conference on Netherlandish Culture, but followed an atypical approach: leading scholars from Europe and North America who specialized in subjects related to, but deliberately not specifically Netherlandish sculpture, were asked to write and circulate papers which were then discussed over two days; the group subsequently met in Berlin for a closing session at the Bode Museum before the RSA.

Anne Boleyn’s Music Book Colloquium 25 September 2015

The new school year began with song and music as CRRS hosted a one-day international colloquium organized by Deanne Williams (English, York University), “Anne Boleyn’s Music Book and its Court Contexts.” Scholars from North America, England and as far as the University of Kuwait came together to explore newlydiscovered manuscript evidence of Anne’s tastes in and ideas about music and what it might have been like to be a girl at the court of Margaret of Austria and Claude de France, where she spent her youth and, ostensibly, acquired this manuscript. The event concluded with a delightful concert of music from the book, performed by the Musicians in Ordinary.

51st Annual Erasmus Lecture 15 October 2015

The CRRS was pleased to host our 51st Annual Erasmus Lecturer Fernarndo Marias, Professor of Art History in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Professor Marias’ lecture on “El Greco at the Saint Joseph Chapel at Toledo: Working for a Converso Family,” explored newly discovered legal documents showing the converso heritage of the patrons of El Greco’s altarpieces in the chapel of St. Joseph of Toledo.

Recent & Upcoming Events Celebration of Early Modern Studies 20 November 2015

For the fourth time, the CRRS once again hosted a full day of celebrations of early modern studies at the University of Toronto and beyond. This popular event brought together a wide range of scholars from various departments across the city to showcase the exciting and diverse approaches to early modern studies being taken by graduate students, junior faculty and senior scholars.

Canada Milton Seminar XI 13-14 May 2016

Inaugurated in 2005, this event focuses on the most up-to-date scholarship not only in Milton studies but on seventeenth-century literature, culture, and intellectual life in general. It has attracted hundreds of scholars and students from across the world, including such celebrities as Stanley Fish and Natalie Zemon Davis. Last year was especially successful with brilliant papers by Steve Fallon (Notre Dame) and Brian Cummings (York in England), and Toronto alumni, Deidre Lynch (now at Harvard), Feisal Mohamed (now at CUNY Graduate Center), and Tim Harrison (now at Chicago).

This year our plenary speakers are David Norbrook (Oxford) on Lucy Hutchinson, Milton and theology, Regina Schwartz (Northwestern) on Milton and truth, Rachel Trubowitz (New Hampshire) on Milton’s chaos, and Dayton Haskin (Boston College) on “Milton in the Tomb of Dead Languages.” Other speakers include David Ainsworth (Alabama at Tuscaloosa), Erin 14-15 March 2016 Webster (Toronto and Birkbeck, London), Ryan Hackenbracht The Centre is pleased to welcome Historian Pamela Smith (Texas Tech), and Alison Chapman (Alabama at Birmingham). We (Columbia University, Seth Low Professor of History will end the gathering with a banquet at Massey College. Come and Director of the Center for Science join us for a great weekend. For more informaiton please refer to and Society) as the Distinguished the Centre website at: crrs.ca/milton2016 Visiting Scholar for 2016. Her talks will addresses the work of early modern European artists and Global Reformations: Transforming craftspeople, their objects and their Early Modern Religions, Societies and Cultures practices of making to bring to 27-29 September 2017 light their material philosophizing and systems of knowledge. The On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses, the CRRS will empirical techniques of experiment host a conference organized by Professor Nicholas Terpstra and and observation employed in the an interdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate students from natural sciences since the Scientific Revolution have important the University of Toronto. This international conference strives origins in the accurate description and eyewitness accounts for a more global, interdisciplinary, and interfaith comparative practiced by Renaissance historians and in the creative labors of approach as it explores how the developments of the Reformation Renaissance artists’ workshops. But since the seventeenth century, period and reform movements shaped religious-cultural-historical these shared origins have been obscured, and the divisions between exchanges between religions across the globe in the early modern the natural sciences and the arts and humanities have become ever period. It hopes to include papers on literature, art, and music, and wider. Studying the pre-modern artist’s workshop provides an also themes around diaspora, gender, and global culture. The Call opportunity for the historian to enter the contemporary laboratory. for Papers came out at the end of November and can be found on Drawing on techniques from both laboratory and archival research, the CRRS website at: crrs.ca/globalreformations this lecture crosses the science/humanities divide, explores the intersection of historical and scientific research, and considers our changing conceptions of the relationship between science, art, and the humanities. The fourth season of the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum (EMIGF) is already underway and shows every sign of continuing success as a premiere forum for current research “On Nearness, Order and Things: on the early modern period. Monthly meetings feature two Collecting and Material Culture 1400 to Today” graduate students presenting their research and one moderator, 8-9 April 2016 prompting comparative discussion among their peers from various departments across U of T and York University. Promotions Our 2016 conference is co-sponsored with the Northrop Frye Graduate Fellow Leslie Wexler is introducing an EMIGF Podcast Centre. More information is available on the CRRS website at with the upcoming EMIGF on January 28, so keep your eyes on the www.crrs.ca/events/conferences. CRRS Facebook page and our website calendar. Many thanks to Olenka Horbatsch for her tireless organization of EMIGF!

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Calendar of Events Friday, December 4, 2015 CRRS Holiday Party Please come and celebrate the new year with CRRS Burwash Senior Common Room Victoria College 5:00 – 7:00 PM Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Lecture III: Elisa Brilli (Italian Studies) “Translating and Illuminating the City of God. France - Italy, 14th -15th Century” Burwash Senior Common Room 4:00 – 6:00 PM Thursday, January 28, 2016 Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum IV Benjamin Lukas (History); Denis Yarow (English) Burwash Senior Common Room 4:00 – 5:30 PM Friday, February 5, 2016 Friday Workshop: Andreas Motsch (French) “Images of America and its people in Early Modern Print” Northrop Frye Room 205 3:30 – 5:00 PM Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum IV Tianna Uchacz (Art History); Mehmet Kuru (History) Burwash Senior Common Room 4:00 – 5:30 PM Friday, March 4, 2016 Friday Workshop: Paul Cohen (History; Directof for the Study of France and the Francophone World) Northrop Frye Room 205 3:30 – 5:00 PM

Monday, March 14, 2016 CRRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar (DVS) Lecture: Pamela Smith (History) “Transforming Matter and Making Art in Early Modern Europe” Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College 4:00 – 6:00 PM Tuesday, March 15, 2016 DVS Seminar: Pamela Smith (History) “Reconstructing the world of the Sixteenth Century” Regent’s Room (rm. 206), Goldring Student Centre *RSVP Required* 4:00 – 6:00 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2016 DVS Lecture II: Pamela Smith (History) “Historians in the Laboratory: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Art Making” Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College 4:00 – 6:00 PM Thursday, March 24, 2016 Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum VI Colin Rose (History); Olenka Horbatsch (Art History) Burwash Senior Common Room 4:00 – 5:30 PM Friday/Saturday, April 8-9, 2016 CRRS - NFC Conference “On Nearnes, Order and Things: Collecting and Material Culture, 1400-Today”, co-sponsored with: The Northrop Frye Centre; Organized by Stephanie Dickey (Queen’s University)

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum VII Clara Steinhagen (History and Philosophy of Science and Technology); Paula Karger (Comparative Literature) Burwash Senior Common Room 4:00 – 5:30 PM Tuesday, April 12 CRRS Graduate and Fellow End-of-the-Year Reception & Corbet Fellow Presentations Please come and celebrate the end of the school year with CRRS Burwash Senior Common Room Victoria College 5:30 – 7:00 PM Friday/Saturday, May 13-14, 2016 Canada Milton Seminar XI David Norbrook (Oxford) “Lucy Hutchinson, Milton, and the Writing of Theology”; Regina Schwartz (Northwestern) “Milton and Truth”; Dayton Haskin (Boston) “Milton in the Tomb of Dead Languages”; Rachel Turbowitz (New Hampshire) “‘Nor vacuous the space’: Milton’s Chaos and Vacuist-Plenist Controversy;” and others: David Ainsworth (Alabama, Tuscaloosa); Erin Webster (Birbeck College, London); Alison Chapman (Alabama, Birmingham); Ryan Hackenbracht (Texas Tech U) Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College *Registration Required*