Intellectual Royalism

12 April 2008, Chetham’s Library, Manchester

Coffee

10-11

Jerome de Groot (Manchester)

Introductory remarks/ Royalist Translation

Philip Major (Birkbeck)

‘A credible omen of a more glorious event’: Sir Charles Cotterell’s translation of La Calprenède’s Cassandre

Coffee

11.15-12.15

Sean Herrera-Thomas (Redwoods, CA)

‘By thee fish die; by thee dead friends revive’: Intellectual Marriage in Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler

Jo Smith (Sheffield)

The Hermeneutics of Cosmetics: Censorship and the Body Politic in A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty (1656)

12.15-1.15

Lunch

1.15-2

Matthew Yeo (Manchester/ Chetham’s), workshop on Royalism at Chetham’s

2-3.30

Session 3

Iain McClure (Birkbeck)

John Greaves, Pyramidographia and the royalism of Ancient Egypt

Jason McElligott (Oxford)

‘A Declaration and Protestation of the Governor and Inhabitants of Virginia’: Polemic, Censorship and Trans-Atlantic Royalism

Marcus Nevitt (Sheffield)

Rationalist Poetics and Anti-Intellectualism: Royalist Responses to Sir William Davenant's Gondibert

Details: Dr Jerome de Groot
Jerome.degroot@manchester.ac.uk