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22nd Annual Town and Gown Lecture
Professor David Cressy
Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University
"What Not to Say - Dangerous Speech in Early Modern England"
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 7 p.m.
The lecture will examine scandalous, seditious and treasonable talk among ordinary people from the late middle ages to the mid seventeenth century. Exploring the popular political culture of Reformation England, it sets out to eavesdrop on lost conversations, to recover undutiful words, and to trace the fate of some of the offenders.
The lecture will be held at Alice Y. Holsclaw Recital Hall in the University of Arizona's School of Music (Auditorium located in the School of Music Building, SE corner of Speedway and Park. Parking available in Park Avenue Garage, NE corner of Speedway and Park. From the garage, walk south through the Speedway pedestrian underpass directly to the School of Music.) The lecture, presented by The Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, is free and open to the public.
About the Speaker
David Cressy is a social and cultural historian of early modern England. The foci of his research are the intersections of elite and popular culture, central and local government, and official and unofficial religion.
He has written nine major books, which include ENGLAND ON EDGE: CRISIS AND REVOLUTION, 1640-1642 (2006), SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND (2003), TRAVESTIES AND TRANSGRESSIONS IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND: TALES OF DISCORD AND DISSENSION (2000), and the prize-winning BIRTH, MARRIAGE AND DEATH: RITUAL, RELIGION AND THE LIFE CYCLE IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND (1997, paperback 1999). The latter won the John Ben Snow Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies (1998) and the Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society for Church History (1999).
Cressy is a renowned scholar and the recipient of several prestigious awards and honors. In 2000 the University of Cambridge conferred an honorary degree upon him. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1981, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and has enjoyed numerous national and international fellowships. David Cressy earned the Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, Clare College, in 1973.
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