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)
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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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