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Professor Mary Nyquist, 'Hobbes, Injury and the Question of Resistance'
Wednesday 20th February, at 2.15pm
Lawson Room, Kennedy Hall, School of English
All welcome
The Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature is delighted to welcome Professor Mary Nyquist, a distinguished Milton scholar at the University of Toronto. Professor Nyquist's publications include several influential essays on John Milton, George Buchanan, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Her forthcoming book, Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny and the Power of Life and Death (Chicago, 2013) explores the complex links between the figurative 'political slavery' of early modern anti-tyranny discourse (in Buchanan, Milton, Hobbes, Locke), and the rise of transatlantic slavery. She demonstrates how principles relating to political slavery are bound up with a Roman jurisprudential doctrine that sanctions the power of life and death held by the slaveholder over slaves and by the state over citizens.
Professor Nyquist will also lead a reading group meeting on war slavery – see reading group page for details