Fall 2012

We have set up our schedule for the fall term and we anticipate continued lively investigations of issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields. As is our custom, the seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers; please call in advance for the papers. We hope you will be able to join us this fall both at the seminars and at the New England Renaissance Conference at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell on 20 October.

Monday, September 24

4:15 p.m. Squash 113

Peter Howard, Department of History, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Cultures of Belief: Framing Religion in Renaissance Florence

Thursday, November 15

4:15 p.m. Squash 110

Alastair Bellany, Department of History, Rutgers University

The Murder of King James I: George Eglisham and his Pamphlet

Saturday 20 October 2012. “Classical Revival and Reception in the Renaissance,” New England Renaissance Conference at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. For more information please see the following website: http://www.uml.edu/conferences/nerc/