Performing Husbandry: Book Culture in young Christopher Marlowe's Kent
- Location
- Old Sessions House CT1 1PL
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Date(s)
- Friday 19 June 2020 (18:30-20:30)
- Contact
- If you have any questions or require further information please contact the event organisers.
- Description
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Performing Husbandry: Book Culture in young Christopher Marlowe's Kent
Dr Claire Bartram (Canterbury Christ Church University)
This lecture asks whether we can extend insight into Marlowe's early years by looking more widely at book culture in Elizabethan Kent. It focuses particularly on the 1570s and considers the interests of the Kentish gentry in books about natural history and related practices of gardening and farming. Tracing their engagement as patrons, writers and translators, and readers, the paper considers how husbandry knowledge is shared and politicised in the county that came to be known as the Garden of England.
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