PRISON WRITINGS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN

23 - 24 JULY 2007, Huntingdon Room, King’s Manor, University of York

PROGRAMME

MONDAY 23RD JULY
10:00 - 10:30 REGISTRATION (Coffee & Tea served)

10:30 - 11:45 PLENARY 1 Chair: Graham Parry
Rivkah Zim (King’s London)
“Writing behind bars: Contexts, genres and ideas”

11:45 - 1:00 OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS Chair: Bill Sherman
Ruth Roberts (Cambridge)
“’Frendes Abrode’: the imagined readership of John Frith’s prison works”

Kathleen Lynch (Folger Shakespeare Library)
“’I being taken from you in presence’: persecution as a condition of truthful selfhood”

1 - 2:15 BUFFET LUNCH provided at venue

2:15 - 3:45 POLITICS IN PRISON Chair: Bill Sheils
Robyn Adams (Queen Mary, London)
“’Easely Deciphered’?: William Herle in the Marhsalsea Prison”

Anthony Martin (Waseda)
“Norton in the Tower”

Philip Crispin (Hull)
“Faith, conviction and despair: Early Modern Catholic
prison-writing”

3:45 - 4:15 INTERVAL – Tea & Coffee served

4:15 - 5:30 PLENARY 2 Chair: James Sharpe
Penry Williams (New College, Oxford)
“’My boddy in the walls captived’: Sir Walter Ralegh in
the Tower”


7 for 7:30 CONFERENCE DINNER
PRISON WRITINGS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN
23 - 24 JULY 2007
Huntingdon Room, King’s Manor, University of York


TUESDAY 24th JULY
9:30 - 10:45 PLENARY 3 Chair: Bill Sherman
Molly Murray (Columbia University)
[Title tbc]

10:45 - 11:15 INTERVAL - Coffee & Tea served

11:15-12:30 SCIENCE BEHIND BARS Chair: Mark Jenner
Alexander Marr (St Andrews)
“’Quell’otio della prigione’: Architecture, mathematics, and the confinement of Mutio Oddi”

Bill Sherman (York)
"Patents and Prisons: Simon Sturtevant and the Fate of the
Renaissance Inventor"

12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH INTERVAL – Lunch not provided, delegates will be set free to graze in nearby York hostelries!

2:00 - 3:15 WOMEN AND SPIRITUAL CONFINEMENT Chair: Helen Smith
Julie Hirst (York)
“Writing from Prison: Mary Ward, The Lemon Juice Letters”

Catie Gill (Loughborough)
“’I did scarce know whether I was in the body or out of the body’ (Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, A Short Relation of Cruel Sufferings): Two Quaker women’s experiences of
imprisonment”

3:15 - 4:30 PLENARY 4 Chair: Bill Sheils
Jerome de Groot (Manchester)
"Prison writing, writing prison during the 1640s and 1650s"

4:30 - 5:00 INTERVAL – Tea & Coffee served

5:00 - 5:30 DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
Chair: Adam Smyth (Reading)
Contributors: Tom Freeman, Bill Sheils