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Hi, I've passed this on to the head of our Medieval-Renaissance Group ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally-Beth MacLean" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:11 PM Subject: Special Lectures Announcement > PLEASE PASS THIS NOTICE ALONG > > Announcing two Special Lectures by John Schofield, Museum of London > Archaeologist and Architectural Historian > > > University of Toronto Lecture > > Friday 27 September: 4--6 PM > Location: Emmanuel College Lecture Hall 001 > > Co-sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies, Centre for Reformation and > Renaissance Studies, the Department of English, the Graduate Centre for > Study of Drama, and the Records of Early English Drama > > Looking Critically at Reformation and Renaissance London > > In recent years work by archaeologists and historians is beginning to > change traditional views about the Reformation and Renaissance eras in > London. The City of London, which was damaged by the Great Fire in 1666, > can be reconstructed in the imagination. Many old ideas about the > capital have to be modified or abandoned. The Great Fire was not the > creator of a new city as it is often described. Christopher Wren did not > invent the post-Reformation parish church. We can also begin to describe > the city which was left behind by many early American and Caribbean > colonists; and we can wonder how much of London, its material culture > and mentalities, went with them. > > Royal Ontario Museum/Records of Early English Drama Popular Lecture > > Saturday, September 28, 2-3 PM > Location: Theatre ROM > > ROM members, seniors, students: $15 > General public: $18 > > New Evidence for the Theatres in Shakespeare's London > > In recent years archaeologists and historians in London have dug up, > from various sources, new evidence about the form and character of > several Shakespearean theatres: not only the more famous Rose and Globe > on the south bank of the Thames, but also the Theatre, Curtain and > Fortune theatres on the north side of the city. Archaeologists have also > begun to fill out our knowledge of the Tudor city in which Shakespeare, > his colleagues and his audiences lived and worked. > > > Biographical Note > > John Schofield has been an archaeologist and architectural historian at > the Museum of London since 1974. He has written several books on > medieval and Tudor London, including The Building of London from the > Conquest to the Great Fire (3rd ed, Sutton, 1999) and Medieval London > Houses (Yale UP, 1995). He is also Archaeological Consultant to St > Paul's Cathedral. > > For further information contact Sally-Beth MacLean at Records of Early > English Drama > Phone: 416-813-4073; e-mail: [log in to unmask] >