Blog@SEMS: All Things Early Modern
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LAURA WRITES BACK
Extending the line from courtly love through the Tuscan dolce stil nuovo, Petrarchism redefined the position of women in European love poetry. Yet the more things changed, the more they remained the same. Petrarchism gave women a new inviolate space
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THE EXAMINATIONS OF ANNE ASKEW
The SEMS Text of the Month (ToteM) series this May features two books with hearts that beat as one: The First Examination of Anne Askew (1546) and The Latter Examination of Anne Askew (1547). They were published under a false imprint because they contained politically sensitive material and record the events that led to the…
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Text of the Month (ToteM) series launch!
Hello everyone, and welcome to the brand new blog of the Society for Early Modern Studies (SEMS). We flag off our blog this May with an exciting new series: Text of the Month or ToteM! As the title says, each month we will publish a brief note on an early modern text. This may be…
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