Event: The Renaissance Opportune Moment - 12 November

A London Renaissance Seminar event

Afternoon, Thursday 12th November 2015

Room 112, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck, University of London

Join us for a workshop on different conceptions of the 'opportune moment' in the Renaissance from 13:00-17:00. RSVP at graspingkairos@gmail.com. Full schedule here and below.

This will be followed by an open lecture by Professor Neil Rhodes at 18:00.

"The Timing of the English Renaissance"

This paper will take a very broad look at the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England and ask why the moment of the ‘Renaissance’ came so late. The first half of the paper will focus on the Reformation and on the way in which Bible translation impacts on attitudes to the imagination. The second part of the paper will consider the search for style from the mid-century onwards and will look at several different English Virgils before reaching Spenser. Prof Rhodes will end by thinking about how we might understand the term ‘reformed versifying’.

We hope to see you there!