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Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

University of Exeter, https://culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/
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Do take a look at the program on our website to get a taste of the exciting work creating new narratives about how women shaped philosophy in the early modern world culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/category/eve...
Events – Cultures of Philosophy
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May 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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If you wish to attend, we encourage you to fill this form as soon as possible to secure your place: shorturl.at/7gHi9 Please note that spaces are very limited, and participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Participation is in-person only.
April 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Thank you to the SSEMWG for sponsoring our panel! We'll be heading to Laura Knoppers' Lecture for the society after our roundtable: “Heire Apparant”: Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Clifford, and the Arts of the Triptych"
Listing from Conference Program Title: Heir Apparent: Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Clifford, and the Arts of the Tripych Abstract: This paper aligns the much-puzzled-over tripartite division of Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) with religious and dynastic triptychs. Lanyer’s three-part poem parallels the devotional center and the prominent placement of donors in the left and right wings of the altarpiece triptych, as well as its intermingling of past and present, sacred and secular, far and near. Recognizing how Lanyer draws on the triptych, we can see new unity and structure in her composition as well as new links with Anne Clifford, who commissioned a large triptych portrait, some thirty years later, to commemorate her accession to Clifford family titles and estates. Given her court connections, Lanyer might well have seen the tripartite dynastic portraits of Henry VIII adduced by scholars as precedent for Clifford’s portrait. Religious triptychs were also still found in Reformation England, including one owned by Clifford’s cousin. While Clifford fashions herself as landed heir, Lanyer shapes her as “Heire Apparant” of a crown of goodness, grace, and piety, not only by legacy from her pious mother, Margaret Russell, but by her own honorable deeds, including patronage. Lanyer’s appeal is more unified and strategic in its use of the visual arts than has been recognized.
March 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM