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Benito Rial received an MA in Spanish Philology from the University Complutense of Madrid and a PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is currently engaged in research and writing on the production and trade of books in the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth-century.

 

He has recently published Book Production and Trade in Santiago de Compostela (Madrid, 2007), and presented the papers "The Breviarium Compostellanum of 1484. A Reconsideration" (XI Congress of the Spanish Bibliographical Society, Madrid, 2007) and "The Life of Books in Santiago de Compostela, 1501-1553: A Case Study of European Networks" (Book History Discussion Group, Queen's University, 2008).

 

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In many books and articles on Scottish history, and especially in those focusing on religion, "medieval" Scotland is presumed to extend right to the Protestant Reformation of 1560. Mairi Cowan argues that this periodization conceals significant developments in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries when a combination of lay-led initiatives and elite-driven repressions brought the beginnings of Catholic Reform to urban Scotland before the advent of the Protestant Reformation and perhaps also a shift from a "medieval" to a more characteristically "early modern" form of society.

 

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John Gagné is an historian of Early Modern Europe and a post-doctoral fellow with the "Making Publics" working group at Concordia. He received his BA and MA from the University of Toronto (2000, 2001) and his PhD in History from Harvard University (2008). In 2006, John was graduate fellow at the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and has spent time in the libraries and archives of Milan and Paris. His dissertation, "French Milan: Citizens, Occupiers, and the Italian Wars, 1499-1529" examined the social and cultural impact of war and occupation in northern Italy during the Renaissance. His project with Making Publics, "Swords, Books, and Silkworms: Nodes of Knowledge and Localism in Renaissance Lombardy" investigates the connections between local culture and global trade in the sixteenth century with particular focus on objects and people as carriers of cultural meaning. John also works on the history of popular print, and has a chapter forthcoming in an edited collection on saints, manuscript, and print. Among his other interests are the connections between art and war, and the histories of consumerism and gastronomy.

 

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Mark Crane, a former CRRS graduate fellow (2002-2004), teaches history and Latin at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario. He is currently working on a project exploring the uses of printing by Paris theologians during the first two decades of the Reformation to promote their vision of orthodoxy. The workshop will discuss the polemical style of Jerome de Hangest, one of the Paris faculty of theology’s most prolific polemicists, in a little-known work challenging Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim’s De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum.

Dr Hyun-Ah Kim received a PhD in Historical Musicology at Durham  University, England. 
She has been a Fellow at the Centre for  Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) and
her current project is  'Sacred Rhetoric: Music in the Reformation'.  As an Adjunct
Faculty of  the Toronto School of Theology, Dr Kim teaches a course, 'Theology of 
Music', at Trinity College in the U. of T.  Her recent publications  include 'Humanism
and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern  England: John Merbecke the Orator and
'The Booke of Common Praier  Noted' (1550)'. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
(Aldershot:  Ashgate, 2008).

 

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Filomena Calabrese is a PhD candidate in the Department of Italian Studies and a graduate fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. Her dissertation, "Leonardo's Literary Writings and Currents in Renaissance Thought," is a study of the historical and philosophical context of Leonardo da Vinci's literary writings.

Calabrese's talk will explore the facetia genre through the facetia collections of Poggio Bracciolini and Leonardo da Vinci, arguing that this literary genre is an expression of an Italian Renaissance sensitivity and spirit which acknowledges and accepts all human qualities, including flaws, as a natural part of being human.

 

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Professor Sandro Landi is a historian of early modern Italian political culture (16th
-18th century) specializing in censorship, public opinion and political discourse. After
receiving his doctorate from the European University Institute (Florence) in 1995, he was
made associate professor at the University Michel de Montaigne of Bordeaux and researcher
at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Marseille. In 2005 he
obtained his “Habilitation à diriger des recherches” (HDR) from the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and was appointed professor of modern history at the
University of Bordeaux (department of Italian Studies).

His dissertation and subsequent book (/Il governo delle opinioni. Censura e formazione
del consenso nella Toscana del Settecento/, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000), opposes
Habermasian’s paradigm of the public sphere in dealing with the constitutive role of
censorship in the formation of public opinion in eighteenth century Tuscany, under
Lorraine rule. More recently Landi has studied the emergence of public opinion in the
Italian political discourse between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, with
particular emphasis on Machiavelli’s analysis of the concept of ‘/doxa’/ (/Naissance de
l’opinion publique dans l’Italie moderne. Sagesse de peuple et savoir de gouvernement de
Machiavel aux Lumières/, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006). In
collaboration with Jean Boutier and Olivier Rouchon Landi has edited a political history
of early modern Tuscany (/Florence et la Toscane XIVe-XIXe siècles. Dynamiques d’un Etat
italien/, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004). More recently he has published
a political biography of Machiavelli (Paris, Ellipses, 2008).

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John will explore the effect that the advent of print had on the library of Scheyern Abbey and on the reading practices of the monks there.

 

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