CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN RENAISSANCE STUDIES
FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
RENAISSANCE LIVES
Grove House, Froebel College
22 October 2005
9.20-5.45
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
9.20-10.00
Registration and coffee (Grove House, Terrace Room)
10.00-10.05
Welcome: Dr Neil Taylor, Dean of Research, Roehampton University
(Portrait Room)
10.05-11.00
Turner Lecture in Renaissance Studies (Portrait Room)
Chair: Robin Headlam Wells (Roehampton University)
Dr David Starkey, ‘The life of Henry VIII: ambition and achievement’
11.00-11.20
coffee (Terrace Room)
11.20-12.50
short papers (Portrait Room)
Chair: Sonia Massai (King’s College London)
Kate McLuskie (The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon), ‘Telling
the Shakespeare story: subjectivity, creativity and the idea of genius’
Tom Healy (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Reason and revelation: the
pursuit of authentic biography in Foxe’s Actes and Monuments’
Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Dundee), ‘Relative values: early
modern women writers and familial discourse’
12.50-1.50
lunch (Terrace Room)
1.50-3.20
PARALLEL SEMINARS 1 and 2
Seminar 1: Autobiography and selfpresentation (Adam Room)
Seminar 2: Lives, letters and politics
(Panelled Room)
Chair: Susanne Greenhalgh (Roehampton
University)
Chair: Trevor Dean (Roehampton University)
Mark Jurdjevic (University of Ottawa),
‘Silvano Razzi’s Life of Francesco Valori:
republican biography in an age of
absolutism’
Lynsey McCulloch (Anglia Ruskin
University), ‘ “Here like a Roman statue I
will stand / Till death hath made me
marble”: self-monumentalisation and the
spirit of emulation in English Renaissance
drama’
Jessica Malay (University of Huddersfield),
‘Projecting the self through the funerary
monuments of others: Elizabeth Hoby’s
monumental strategy’
Deborah Montuori (Shippensburg
University), ‘Making Big Ben: Jonson’s
Conversations with Drummond’
John Pendergast (Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville), ‘Play-texts and
“winding-sheets”: authorial prefaces and
dramatic self-fashioning’
Antonio Cartolano (Roehampton University),
‘Self-presentation in the letters of Matteo
Maria Boiardo’
Tracey Hill (Bath Spa University),
‘ “London’s offspring, though the meanest”:
tracing the many lives of Anthony Munday
(1560-1633)’
Jane Kingsley-Smith (Roehampton
University), ‘ “Then spake fair Venus’ son”:
the erotic biography of Elizabeth I’
David Tweedie (independent) ‘David Rizzio,
Renaissance courtier’
June Waudby (University of Hull), ‘Sisters and
wives in search of subjectivity: reflected lives
of Protestant women exiles’
Samuel Pakucs Willcocks (University of
Pennsylvania), ‘Count Ulrich of Cilli: from
Styria to Stygia’
Adam Smyth (University of Reading),
‘Almanacs, annotators, and life-writing in
early modern England’
3.20-3.40
tea and coffee (Terrace Room)
3.40-5.10
PARALLEL SEMINARS 3 and 4
Seminar 3: Authorship, appropriation
and exemplary lives (Adam Room)
Seminar 4: The uses of biography (Panelled
Room)
Chair: Clare McManus (Roehampton
University)
Chair: Lucy Munro (Keele University)
Caroline Bowden (Royal Holloway
University of London), ‘Hidden
lives/exemplary lives: biographies of
English enclosed nuns in the seventeenth
century’
Gillian Jack (independent), ‘Anne Boleyn:
fact, fiction and feminism’
Amanda Piesse (Trinity College Dublin)
‘ “Therfore I wonder if he be I sertaine?”:
young men and social identity in Jacke
Jugeler’
Kathryn Prince (Birkbeck, University of
London), ‘The shelf-life of an afterlife:
Shakespearean biography in nineteenthcentury periodicals’
Karma Sami (Ain Shams University, Cairo),
‘ “O, playwright’s heart wrapped in a
player’s hide”: Shakespeare’s Richard III’
Louise Wilson (University of York),
‘ “Trifling toyes with true thinges”:
historicity, exemplarity and the earlymodern Arthur’
5.10-5.45
Wendy di Traglia (The Shakespeare Institute,
Stratford-upon-Avon), ‘ “Hee hath plaid his
part on this stage of earth with honour; and
now in his exit makes heaven his harbour”:
biography, funeral monuments and three
individual gentleman of Cheshire’
Neil Hook (University of Glamorgan),
‘Travelling [to the] light: Francis Godwin’s
“Man in the Moone” ’
Leo Rogers (Roehampton University), ‘Robert
Recorde, mathematical innovator’
Duncan Salkeld (University College
Chichester), ‘Up close and personal:
proximity and the past’
Elisabeth Salter (University of Aberystwyth),
‘Writing biographies of Renaissance nobodies’
Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford),
‘ “Shakespeare’s name Will”: dramatic
biography in early modern culture’
Henry Summerson and Vivienne Larminie
(University of Oxford), ‘Information,
disinformation, and images of truth: early
modern lives in the Oxford DNB’
Concluding panel of seminar chairs (Portrait Room):
The Turner Lecture in Renaissance Studies is sponsored by Turners Bookshop