RCSC ANNUAL LECTURES

2007    Paula Findlen, "The Death of a Naturalist: Knowledge and Community in Renaissance Italy"

2006     Brian Copenhaver, "Imagining the World of Nature: Before and After Descartes"

2005     John Marino, "Why a Dialogue Makes Better History: A Courtier in Late Renaissance Naples"

2004     Michael M.J.B. Allen, “Renaissance Platonism and its Damned Heresies”

2003     Lori Anne Ferrell, "Secular Teaching and Protestant Imagination: the "How-To" Book in England, 1570-1620"

2002     Anne Lake Prescott, “Father Time as a Multiculturalist:  Calendar and Reform in Renaissance England”

2001     Harry Berger Jr. “Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo’s Cave:  Vasari’s Lives of the Artists and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship”

2000     H. Ansgar Kelly, “Policing Sex in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance”

1999     joint meeting with RSA Annual Meeting

1998     Patricia Parker, “’Breeches and Leeks’:  On the problem of ‘containment’ in Shakespeare”

1997     Alan H. Nelson, “The Man Who Questioned Shakespeare:  Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels, 1610-1622”

1996     Stephen J. Greenblatt, “Ghostly Supplications”

1995     Richard Helgerson, “Murder in Faversham”

1994     Arthur F. Kinney, “Is Renaissance Literary History Possible?”

1993     David Cressy, “Monstrous Births and Credible Reports in Early Modern England”

1992     Bruce Cole, “Titian and the Idea of Originality in the Age of Humanism”

1991     Annabel Patterson, “’With one consent’:  Half-Hidden Republicanism in the Sixteenth Century”

1990     Anthony Grafton, “The Historical Devolution:  Problems and Prospects in the Study of Renaissance Historical Thought”

1989          Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, “Milton:  Divine Revelation and the Poetics of Experience”

1988          David Bevington, “Medieval and Renaissance Drama:  An Overview”

1987          Thomas M. Greene

1986     Paul Oskar Kristeller

1985     Harry Levin