IMEMS Durham

Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.

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Calling all students, academics, researchers, librarians, archivists and curators: come and take an IMEMS short course! 🖋️📜

- Fully online
- Flexible to your schedule
- £100 per course
- Optional live Q&As with your tutor

Explore and book here: https://t.co/o5qJBO3Tgq

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🎉 A new publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer is on the way! Elise Watson's 'Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age' is released on June 30 and is available for pre-order here: https://t.co/baec4Q0pL3

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📸 Last week's @BritishAcademy_ and @WellcomeLibrary -funded conference brought together a global community of scholars to explore the enduring power and complexity of early modern representations of gendered violence.

Read more: https://t.co/Tau53BkZBU

[Edmund Thomas @SpiralColumn]

This Thursday 18 June at 6 pm, Professor Anthony Geraghty @ArtHistoryYork will speak @IMEMSDurham on ‘Vanbrugh and Cicero: The architecture of Castle Howard and Seaton Delaval reconsidered’, 7 Owengate Durham. All welcome! @Trad_Arch_Bdays @YorksVernacular @CRSN_UK #vanbrugh

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Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Dr Erin Maglaque!

📖 Find out more about 'Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body' here: https://t.co/P5E41qAy5s

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and Péter Bokody (@PlymUni) will present 'Reading and Viewing Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Nymph of Fiesole in Renaissance Florence'. (2/2)

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Session 3, 'Framing gendered violence in literature and art' is chaired by Corinne Saunders. Jessica Goethals (@AlabamaUniversi) is presenting 'The Gendered Sack of Rome'; (1/2)

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and a paper by Marc Schachter (@durham_uni), 'Tyrannicide and Sexual Violence in Benedetto Varchi's Storia Fiorentina'. (2/2)

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Session 2 of the Daphne and her Sisters conference, 'Gendered violence in the historical record' is chaired by @Tom_Hamilton_ (@durham_uni) and includes a paper by @Calabrit1Monica (@Hunter_College and @CUNY), 'Violence and Death in 16th-century Bologna: Issues of Gender'; (1/2)

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@Cambridge_Uni and Jennifer Ingleheart @sapphicapuella (@durham_uni), presenting 'Golding's Translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.424-674 (the episode of Tereus, Procne and Philomela' (3/3)

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Session 1, 'Gendered violence across literary genres', is chaired by @ZiogasIoannis (@durham_uni), with a panel including Annalisa Perrotta (@SapienzaRoma), presenting 'Resisting Violence: Women, Weapons and Armour in Chivalric Poems from Pulei to Ariosto'; (1/3)

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Virginia Cox (@Cambridge_Uni), whose paper is entitled 'Del tuo sangue innocente, ahi, carte vergo: the scandal of uxoricide in late-Renaissance Italian lyric'; (2/3)

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It's the first day of our @BritishAcademy_ funded conference 'Daphne and her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence in Early Modern Literature and Art', part of the IMEMS Inventing Futures project of the same name!

Read more about the project here: https://t.co/Tau53BkZBU

[Boydell & Brewer @boydellbrewer]

Publishing this month ➡️ Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age by Elise Watson reveals the hidden world of ephemeral Catholic print in the so-called Dutch Golden Age.

Pre-order: https://t.co/RRocz6bydC
@elisewatson_ @IMEMSDurham @CatholicismsEM

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📢Exciting news: Prof John O’Brien & Prof Marc Schachter have been awarded an Amy Wygant Bursary by @SEMFSUK to support the publication, by @durham_uni IMEMS Press, of 'The Right to Resist: La Boétie’s "Of Voluntary Servitude" and Three Monarchomach Treatises'! @boydellbrewer📖

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Congratulations to IMEMS member Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso (@MLACdurham ) on being awarded the Pontremoli “Pier delle Vigne” Prize for Medieval Studies for 'Il poeta alle "scuole delli religiosi": Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294–1296)' (@Caroccieditore)!

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Paolo Broggio discusses his new book, Criminal Justice and Peace-making in Early Modern Italy, with Tom Hamilton, Stuart Carroll, Amanda G. Madden and moderated by Krista Kesselring in this online book event. Watch here 👉 https://t.co/5gq6t3UWU7 @IMEMSDurham

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📢 Job Opportunity at @durham_uni

Bridging Fellow in Early Modern Italian Studies: https://t.co/rIzQbGfuYV

IMEMS seeks to appoint a Bridging Fellow with research interests in the field of early modern Italian studies to the Inventing Futures research programme
@MLACdurham

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📢 Job Opportunity at @durham_uni

Bridging Fellow in Early Modern Italian Studies: https://t.co/rIzQbGfuYV

IMEMS seeks to appoint a Bridging Fellow with research interests in the field of early modern Italian studies to the Inventing Futures research programme
@MLACdurham

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New publication alert for #ChristopherMarlowe scholars in the IMEMS community! 👇

[Dr. Caitlín Rankin-McCabe (also 🦋) @RankinMccabe]

When one small footnote takes you deep down the rabbit hole... If you're interested in #ChristopherMarlowe, you might like to read my new note on Marlowe and the #ParkerLibrary!

@ParkerLibCCCC thanks to Tuija at the PL for all your help! 🗺️📚🌎

https://t.co/rb72BEQET8

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Tuesday saw our 'Imagining Alternatives' team participate in a workshop entitled 'Technologies of Wonder: Imagination and the History of Knowledge' at @QMUL , where they were joined in a panel discussion by Professor David Colclough.

Read more: https://t.co/NOBahLwe5M