I appreciate Julie drawing my attention to musical ornamentation in the technical sense, and, if I remember correctly, this is often left to the player’s discretion and not noted, right? Once again we are bumping into the problem of aurality’s relative “untraceabilty.” But I wonder about “captivation” effects in the […]
Some thoughts on conversion and space starting from the etymology of conversion
Dear Colleagues – I am posting here my promised extract from Thomas More’s Supplication of Souls, and will be posting a comment on it early in the New Year. This is from the Yale edition of the Complete Works, which as you will see retains original orthography. There is a […]
Hi Everyone: This is an overlong abstract that I drafted as if for the CCLA panel that José and Stephen have proposed, even though I won’t be able to take part in that conference next May. José and Stephen kindly suggested that I post it now to the blog. So […]
Dear Group Members, As some of you may already know, IPLAI will hold an Early Modern Conversions reading group at McGill in the coming year. The sessions will be recorded and put up on the site, so those of you based outside of Montreal will be able to listen in. […]
Welcome to new members of Mapping Horizons! Please contact me by email (bronwen.wilson@uea.ac.uk) so that I can add you to the dropbox folder. In the folder you will find a bibliography and readings that will be updated and supplemented during our work. Together, we are creating three working bibliographies: Theoretical readings, Members work-in-progress, Historical […]
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Hello everyone, It is a pleasure to be back in the Conversions circle; I very much look forward to sharing my research, and contributing to the group in the near future. As I have not had the chance to do so in the past, I would like to use this […]
Hello Everybody, I want to pose three questions about conversion that I hope you will weigh in on. This exercise gives me a chance to articulate some ideas I’ve been thinking about recently, and also provides a very welcome alternative to the pile of term papers that I had planned […]
The research work for my PhD candidacy revolves around the city of Puebla, in New Spain, present-day Mexico. The project is divided into two parts: in the first part I’m interested in studying its foundation origins, and particularly the symbolic dimension of its urban traits, such as the grid layout, […]
