Month: April 2018

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Michal Zechariah on “Gratitude and Moral Agency in Paradise Lost”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
MONDAY, May 7, when

Michal Zechariah
PhD Student, English
University of Chicago

presents the paper:

“’Good Unkown’: Gratitude and Moral Agency in Paradise Lost”
MONDAY 7 May
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Rosenwald 405

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available with a password in the post above. Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Beatrice Bradley (bbradley@uchicago.edu) or Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu).

Image: Gustave Doré, Illustration for Paradise Lost, 1866

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Richard Strier on George Herbert & François de Sales

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
and the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop
MONDAY, April 23, when

Richard Strier
Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of English
University of Chicago

presents the paper:

“‘Devout Humanism’ and Its Problems: George Herbert & François de Sales”
MONDAY 23 April
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Rosenwald 405

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available with a password in the post above. Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Beatrice Bradley (bbradley@uchicago.edu) or Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu).

Image: Rogier van der Weyden, “The Magdalen Reading,” National Gallery, London: c. 1435-38.

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Ryan Campagna on “Margaret Cavendish’s Cosmic Pluralism”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, April 9, when

Ryan Campagna
PhD Student, English
University of Chicago

“Poring Through Worlds within Worlds: Margaret Cavendish’s Cosmic Pluralism”
MONDAY 9 April
5:00-6:30
ROSENWALD 405

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available with password in the post above. Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to join our email list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Beatrice Bradley (bbradley@uchicago.edu) or Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu).

Image Source: Margaret Cavendish (née Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne, Pieter Louis van Schuppen, Print by A. Maxwell, 1668.