If nothing else, pingle is now our new favourite word

Common-places for Urquhart's translation of Rabelais and these masques include: different versions of learning (satirical excess vs contained and virtuous); dubious renderings of Scottish dialect; frozen icicle words

Stay tuned for Rabelais x Restoration masques next time...

Stay tuned for the chain of lateral - even anarchic! - connections we make as we traverse the period

Each session of our reading group is led by one of our graduate students, who suggests material - textual or otherwise - for that week. As part of the discussion, we aim to find a ‘common-place’ between the current week’s material and that from the previous week