“Objects of Early Modern Literature”
Provisional Programme
THURSDAY
Queen Mary, London
10.30-10.45: SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION
Joad Raymond, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Line Cottegniess
10.45- 12:30: SESSION 2: CARD AND NEWSLETTERS
Joad Raymond (Queen Mary), “Newsletters in early-modern Europe”
Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary), “Newsbooks and images”
Louise Fang (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): “The King was slyly fingered from the
deck”: card games, playing cards and the imagery of kingship in Shakespeare’s
Henry VI
Claire Labarbe (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): French Suits and the Fashioning of
Standard English-pattern Packs : Understanding the Playing-Card Device in Samuel
Rowlands's Series of Knaves
Discussion
13:15-14:15: SESSION 3: ORNAMENTS
Nancy Oddo (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Objects of coquetry in French
devotional narratives of the Baroque age
Anne-Valérie Dulac (Université Paris Nord), Miniatures and diplomacy in the early
modern period
DISCUSSION
14:15-14:45: Break
14:45 -16.15 pm Session 4: MUSIC
Chantal Schütz (Ecole Polytechnique), Music scores, news and drama in early
modern period
Simon Smith (The Queen's College, Oxford), Lutes on the stage"
Jo Norman (Victoria and Albert Museum), Politics, Baroque Music and Material
Culture
Discussion
16.15 -18.00 Session 5: MAPS
Laïla Ghermani (Université Paris Ouest) “Paradise’s only map”: Maps and the
Writing of Edenic Space in Early Modern Literature
Nydia Pineda (QMUL) Maps of the Moon
Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Diderot), The map as metonymic prop in
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary), Mapping a map: the Hereford mappa-mundi from two
to three dimensions
Discussion
FRIDAY
Morning session: Blythe House
10.30-12.30 SESSION 6: Materiality
Angela McShane (V&A), Introduction
Susan North (Furniture, Textiles and Fashion, V&A), Putting the ‘fabric’ into Material
Culture
Rebecca Unsworth (AHRC CDP Queen Mary/V&A), male/female gloves - as a source
for fashion news
Guillaume Coatalen (Université de Cergy),‘Not so good as she would desire’: the
quest for the perfect pair of gloves in early modern England
Denis Lagae-Devoldère (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Gloves in the theatre of the
Restoration.
Discussion
12.30-13.45 LUNCH
Afternoon session: V&A, SEMINAR ROOM
13.45-15.15 SESSION 7: Consumption
Angela McShane (V&A/RCA), History of Design Subjects and Objects: Political
Drinking Rituals in 17th Cent England
Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Black and White Veils –
Mourning, Sanctity and Fashion
Barbara Lasic (V&A), to be announced.
Bill Sherman (V&A), Consumption in the early modern period
15:15-17:00: Tour the galleries
17:00 - 19.00: Reception