Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England

Description

This conference explored the intersections between natural philosophy and literature and was part of the research project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, a five-year ERC-funded project based at the Faculty of English and CRASSH, University of Cambridge. The programme booklet for the event is available here.

Convenors:

Subha Mukherji, Rachel E. Holmes, Elizabeth L. Swann, Tim Stuart-Buttle, Rebecca Tomlin

Speakers:

Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London), Katherine Hunt (University of Oxford) Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge), Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London), Jonathan Sawday (Saint Louis University), Helen Smith (University of York), 

 

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This project, KNOWING, has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-2007-2013). Grant agreement No. 617849.

For further information please contact crossroads@crassh.cam.ac.uk, but be aware that this project has closed and emails are not monitored frequently – we apologise for any delay in replying to you.