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Counsellors and Counselled

The Advice to Princes Tradition between the Hundred Years’ War and the British Interregnum

Segnaliamo la call lanciata dal Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari dell’Università degli Studi di Padova. Deadline 29 Febbraio.


Topic suggestions include – but are not limited to:

●  Literature of advice to princes in Latin and English

●  (Dis)continuities between the Medieval and the Early Modern advice tradition

●  Relationship between counsellors and counselled

●  Relationship with politics and history

●  Relationship between literature and political theory

●  Advice to political actors and its literary echoes in the British Isles

Keynote speakers: Raluca Radulescu, Bangor University Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex Proposals for 20-minute individual papers can be sent to: alessandra.petrina[@]unipd.it and should include a 350-word abstract and a 100-word biographical note. The deadline for submitting proposals is 29 February 2024. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 March 2024.

Scientific and Organising Committee: Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina, Sibilla Siano, Allison Steenson.