Reading Group
The CMEMLL Reading Group aims to facilitate the exploration of approaches to mediaeval and early modern legal texts and concepts from different disciplinary perspectives.
Semester 2, 2012/13:
6th CMEMLL Reading Group Meeting
On Thursday, 21st February, Professor Mary Nyquist (University of Toronto) will hold areading group on her unpublished paper (delivered at Yale and Oxford) entitled "Milton's Satan 'at Large': War slavery as ius gentium, divine penalty, or inherently unjust?"
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.
The reading group will be from 1-2pm in the Stephen Boyd Room, School of English; photocopies of the paper will be available from the School of English Office, CMEMLL box. All are welcome; refreshments will be available. The reading group should be of interest to students of Milton, to early modernists, and to those with an interest in war slavery and the law of nations.
Previous events:
Semester 1, 2012/13 (PDF, 61kb)
Semester 2, 2011/12 (PDF, 49kb)
Semester 1, 2011/12 (PDF, 48kb)