Thomas Browne Seminar Schedule

The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York will be hosting the 3rd Thomas Browne Seminar on Wednesday 3rd June. All welcome

2.00-3.00 Classical scholarship Iain McClure (Kings College, London): 'Milton's "cany wagons light", automata and the vacuity of invention.' Edward Paleit (Exeter): 'English classical scholarship and the merces literarum: the case of Thomas Farnaby'

3.00-4.00 Seventeenth Century Medical History Simon Howes (Oxford): "By these Means and Helps, the excellent Hippocrates arriv'd at the top of Physick": Thomas Sydenham and the politics of the Observationes Medicae. Mark Jenner (York): 'Country Tastes and a Chinese Touch? Sir John Floyer's Senses'

4.30 Followed by CREMS paper Angus Gowland (University College, London): 'Burton, Browne, and Renaissance dream theory'