The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

an epic poet and his audience
rabelais and social hierarchy

The following seminars will be held at 2.00pm (ending by 3.30pm) in Hilary Term 2020 in the Hovenden Room, All Souls College, Oxford. Sessions are on Wednesdays except the second, which is on a Monday. There will be two papers per session.All very welcome.                                  

Convenor: Neil Kenny [neil.kenny@all-souls.ox.ac.uk]

10 February

- NEIL KENNY (All Souls College, Oxford): Rabelais and Social Hierarchy

- ANDREW McRAE (University of Exeter): An Epic Poet and his Audience: Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, and the Early Stuart Literary System