Welcome to the blog of the Society for Early Modern Studies: Everything early modern!
Welcome to the blog of the Society for Early Modern Studies: Everything early modern!
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Shakespeare’s Objects: Exploring the Off-Stage Lives of Early Modern Properties By Prof. Catherine Richardson, University of East Anglia Keep an eye on our EVENTS calendar for more online talks in the series. Check details of the talk on the event…
The Society for Early Modern Studies welcomes all to our Lecture Series! At regular intervals, invited speakers will deliver lectures on various aspects of the early modern period. Registration for the first event shall open soon, with our first speaker,…
John Donne’s Biathanatos Doyeeta Majumdar “nothing that we call sin is so against nature, but that it may be sometimes agreeable to nature” Biathanatos, I.i.7 When Hamlet muses upon “a consummation devoutly to be wished” (III.i), suicide was considered a…
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
Debapriya Basu “Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladies nor gentlewomen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time. And because I lay still and did not cry, my…
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…