The Early Modern Research Centre at Reading University welcomes you to a research seminar on 11 March at 1.15pm
Tessa Storey, English and Italian Regimens Compared: The Protestant and the Catholic Body, 1500-1700
Dr Tessa Storey is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has worked extensively on courtesan culture, prostitution and material culture in Counter-Reformation Rome as well as on the history of medicine in early modern Italy. Her paper draws on new research following her recent co-authored book (with Sandra Cavallo) entitled Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford University Press, 2013).
The seminar will be held at University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, HumSS 128, 1.15pm.
For further information, see http://www.reading.ac.uk/emrc/ or contact Dr Lisa Sampson l.m.sampson@reading.ac.uk
