Culture, Space and Power:
Peopling the Built Environment in Renaissance
England, c. 1450-1700
A workshop sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
to be held at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
University of Warwick
Friday 18 November 2005
Speakers will include:
James Brown (Warwick)
Paul Hunneyball (History of Parliament)
Simon Roffey (Winchester)
Adrian Green (Durham)
Clark Hulse (Illinois at Chicago)
Julie Sanders (Nottingham)
This one-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to explore the relationships between specific
forms of social and cultural practice and particular types of built environment in early modern
England Short papers and a round-table forum will explore:
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The characteristics and particularities of the built environment in Renaissance
England
The development and transmission of particular architectural styles and fashions
The relationships between buildings, institutions, political power and cultural
practice
The literary and artistic representation of the built environment
The potential and limits of spatial theory for the exploration of buildings and their
use
For more information on the workshop, contact Dr Catherine Armstrong
(C.M.Armstrong@warwick.ac.uk) or please visit
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/mellon-newberry/2005
The workshop is the inaugural meeting of a three-year Mellon Foundation-funded project to
foster collaboration between the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance Studies at the
University of Warwick and the institutions associated with the Newberry Library Center for
Renaissance
Studies
Consortium.
For
details
of
the
project,
see
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/mellon-newberry