tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post1748014516992999010..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Brainstorming on DeathBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1517138471074889082009-05-22T22:40:19.514-07:002009-05-22T22:40:19.514-07:00very cool course. when you say sermons by donne, ...very cool course. when you say sermons by donne, i assume you mean the last sermon, sometimes called "death's duell"?Renaissance Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06243095907452011303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-53910463367903365502009-05-22T10:08:47.199-07:002009-05-22T10:08:47.199-07:00I know you've got a lot of Donne on there already,...I know you've got a lot of Donne on there already, but what about The Relic?Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-53364968510936075782009-05-21T14:05:33.421-07:002009-05-21T14:05:33.421-07:00This sounds so fascinating! I would be interested...This sounds so fascinating! I would be interested in seeing a version of your syllabus once you sort it out.<br /><br />I've been wanting to teach a similar class in my field (19th century America), and maybe if I get a t-t job I can.The History Enthusiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920472487193649652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-34921421818891453892009-05-21T12:37:23.683-07:002009-05-21T12:37:23.683-07:00I just finished teaching a course on East Asian cr...I just finished teaching a course on East Asian crime fiction, and we began with a review of the development of crime fiction in Britain, France, and the US from things like the Newgate Calendar. That's a little late for your time period, though, isn't it?richardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-80898520129234392132009-05-21T11:37:50.088-07:002009-05-21T11:37:50.088-07:00It's focused on Scotland, but I love Deborah Symon...It's focused on Scotland, but I love Deborah Symond's "Weep Not For Me: Women, Ballads and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland". I've used it a couple of times with students researching on gender issues or the history of infanticide.<br /><br />Also, a few other references from my life-cycle course outline:<br />- Ralph Houlbrooke, “Death, church and family in England between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries” Death, ritual and bereavement (London: Routledge, 1989), 25-42.<br />- Dan Beaver, “‘Sown in Dishonour, Raised in Glory’: Death, Ritual and Social Organization in Northern Glouchestershire, 1590-1690” Social History 17 (1992), 389-419.<br />- Nigel Llewellyn, “Honour in Life, Death and in the Memory: Funeral Monuments in Early Modern England,” Royal Historical Society Transactions 6:6 (1996), 179-200.Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093558563358431804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-36492513858611074462009-05-21T11:30:02.331-07:002009-05-21T11:30:02.331-07:00I'll be interested to see how this shapes up.I'll be interested to see how this shapes up.sarahttp://sarainisrael.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-68880704786792163522009-05-21T11:01:25.859-07:002009-05-21T11:01:25.859-07:00Ooh, is it too late to suggest The Duchess of Malf...Ooh, is it too late to suggest <I>The Duchess of Malfi?</I> It's got so many big death scenes, and it would tie in awfully well with some of the other items on your list, especially revenge tragedy and the <I>ars moriendi</I> material...Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-89000306449631856302009-05-21T10:21:01.824-07:002009-05-21T10:21:01.824-07:00Ooo, can I take the course? I'm happy to give a ...Ooo, can I take the course? I'm happy to give a presentation on infanticide, or wife murder, or some such gory stuff :)<br /><br />By the way, if you go to the royal historical society bibliography (http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/dataset.asp) and use death as a keyword and time frames, you'll get a whole bunch of works on death. . . other keywords might turn up more. Maybe just for you, but still.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-17550752009739099812009-05-21T09:44:49.062-07:002009-05-21T09:44:49.062-07:00Doesn't Francis Bacon have an essay on death? Tha...Doesn't Francis Bacon have an essay on death? That might be helpful. (I could be wrong on both points.)<br /><br />Mary Sidney's translation of the psalms might fit well -- and you could talk about Philip's death (which is rather Fisher King-esque).<br /><br />It looks like it will be a great class!meghttp://xom.blogs.com/xoomnoreply@blogger.com