Public and Private in Kantorowicz: Studies in Spenser and Other Premodern Writers

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Joshua Held

Organizer Affiliation

Trinity International Univ.

Presider Name

David Adkins

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Toronto

Paper Title 1

The Wife's Two Bodies: Intimacy and Privacy in Renaissance Literary Marriage and Courtship

Presenter 1 Name

Brad Tuggle

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Alabama

Paper Title 2

The Queen's Two Bodies: Political Theology in Books Three and Four of The Faerie Queene

Presenter 2 Name

Mark Jones

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Trinity Christian College

Paper Title 3

The Royal Conscience in Public and Private Spheres: Kantorowicz, Charles I, Donne, Milton

Presenter 3 Name

Joshua Held

Start Date

10-5-2018 10:00 AM

Session Location

Valley 2 Harvey 204

Description

Fresh work on the relationship between public and private realms, as understood in Ernst Kantorowicz’s study of the “king’s two bodies,” and as presented in Edmund Spenser and his premodern contemporaries.

Joshua Held