"Tudor Books and Readers" NEH summer seminar
6/18/2012 to 7/20/2012
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18 June - 20 July 2012
application deadline 1 March 2012
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Mark Rankin
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NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Tudor Books and Readers: 1485-1603
John N. King of The Ohio State University and Mark Rankin of James
Madison University will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on the manufacture
and dissemination of printed books and the nature of reading during the
era of the Tudor monarchs (1485-1603). In particular, they plan to pose
the governing question of whether the advent of printing was a necessary
precondition for the emergence of new reading practices associated with
the Renaissance and Reformation. Participants will consider ways in
which readers responded to elements such as book layout, typography,
illustration, and paratext (e.g., prefaces, glosses, and commentaries).
Employing key methods of the history of the book and the history of
reading, this investigation will consider how the physical nature of
books affected ways in which readers understood and assimilated their
intellectual contents. This program is geared to meet the needs of
teacher-scholars interested in the literary, political, or cultural
history of the English Renaissance and/or Reformation, the history of
the book, the history of reading, art history, women’s studies,
religious studies, bibliography, print culture, library science
(including rare book librarians), mass communication, literacy studies,
and more.
This seminar will meet from 18 June until 20 July 2012. During the first
week of this program, we shall visit 1) Antwerp, Belgium, in order to
draw on resources including the Plantin-Moretus Museum (the world’s only
surviving Renaissance printing and publishing house) and 2) London,
England, in order to attend a rare-book workshop at Senate House Library
and consider treasures at the British Library. During four ensuing
weeks at Oxford, participants will reside at St. Edmund Hall as they
draw on the rare book and manuscript holdings of the Bodleian Library
and other institutions.
Those eligible to apply include citizens of USA who are engaged in
teaching at the college or university level, graduate students, and
independent scholars who have received the terminal degree in their
field (usually the Ph.D.). In addition, non-US citizens who have taught
and lived in the USA for at least three years prior to March 2012 are
eligible to apply. NEH will provide participants with a stipend of
$3,900.
Full details and application information are available at http://www.jmu.edu/english/Tudor_Books_and_Readers. For further information, please contact Mark Rankin (rankinmc@jmu.edu).
The application deadline is March 1, 2012.
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