An exciting workshop brought to you by the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies:

Early Modern Vernacularization:
A Multi-Disciplinary Discussion

The basic questions behind this workshop are what do different disciplines take ‘the vernacular’ and ‘vernacularization’ to mean and why or how do these concepts have particular purchase for the period 1500 – 1800?

Speakers:

Susan Fitzmaurice (Historical Pragmatics, Sheffield)

Adrian Greene (Architectural History, Durham)
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE – A USEFUL CONCEPT?

Matthew Johnson (Archaeology, Northwestern)
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE VERNACULAR

Anthony Milton (Political History, Sheffield)

Cathy Shrank (Literature, Sheffield)
RENAISSANCE REWRITINGS

Phil Withington (Social History, Sheffield)
VERNACULARIZATION AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

Please email g.schwartzleeper@sheffield.ac.uk if you would like to attend.