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Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar Lecture with Caroline Castiglione
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar announces its next lecture:
- Lecturer: Caroline Castiglione
- Title: "A Death is a Death: Monuments to Loss and Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Moderata Fonte's The Worth of Women"
- Date: Tuesday, April 18
- Time: 4 - 5:30 p.m.
- Location: Schmitt Hall, Room 104
- Seminar conveners: Alison Beringer (Classics and General Humanities), Raul Galoppe (Spanish and Italian), Kathleen Loysen (Modern Languages and Literatures), Jeffrey Alan Miller (English), Megan Moran (History), and Adam Rzepka (English).
About Caroline Castiglione:
Caroline Castiglione is a Professor of Italian Studies and History at Brown University. She received her Ph.D from Harvard University. Her research interests are political, legal, gender, and women's history in Italy and Europe between 1500-1800. Her first book, Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1650-1760 (Oxford University Press, 2005) won the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies in 2006. Her second book, Accounting for Affection: Mothering and Politics in Rome, 1630-1730 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) examines the symbiotic evolution of politics and mothering in early modern Rome.