Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Leigh Blount

Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Joint Conference with the International Adam Smith Society, University of Paris, Sorbonne, 3-6 July 2013: Scotland, Europe & Empire in the Age of Adam Smith & Beyond (http://www.ecsss.org/meetings.htm

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Conference on ‘Paul’s Cross and the culture of Persuasion, 1520-1640’

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Leigh Blount

McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 16-18th August, 2012.

Papers will be presented on various aspects of this famous pulpit in the life of early-modern England, and especially with respect to the prominent role played by preaching at Paul’s Cross in shaping England’s early-modern religious and political identities. Our goal in particular is to initiate a reappraisal of the formation of sixteenth-century popular opinion on the hypothesis that Paul’s Cross sermons played a vital role in promoting the growth and development of a nascent ‘public sphere’ in Tudor and early-Stuart England.

For further details: http://www.mcgill.ca/creor/events

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New Statue of John Donne Unveiled

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Leigh Blount

A new statue of John Donne, Dean of St Paul’s, has been unveiled in the new garden to the south of the cathedral. It is a bronze bust, designed by Nigel Boonham (FRBS), and is inscribed with two lines from Donne’s famous poem ‘Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward’.

For more information please follow this link 

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