Holly Crocker (Boston College), Boundless Subjects and the Literary Downfalls of Eleanor Cobham. Co-sponsored by the English Department Renaissance Colloquium.
Amy Appleford (Boston University), Peter Damian, Richard Rolle, and Julian of Norwich: Asceticism and the Impaired Chri st . Co-sponsored by the English Renaissance Graduate Colloquium.
Susan Phillips (Northwestern University) discusses her new book Learning to Talk Shop: Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Co-sponsored by the English Medieval Colloquium, the Medieval...
James Simpson (English, emeritus), Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts. Co-sponsored by the English Department Renaissance Colloquium.
Harvard English's own Kathryn Wagner will speak on “The Shepherds’ Gloria: Reception of Latin Liturgy and the Figure of the ‘Lewed’ Listener in the Mystery Plays.”