CLOTHING THE RENAISSANCE

Giovanni Battista Moroni’s tailor at work, c1570

Join the London Renaissance Seminar for an afternoon of new research and inter-disciplinary discussions exploring clothing and accessories in the Renaissance.

1 – 6 p.m., Saturday 20 January 2018 at the Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury.

Speakers include: Hester Lees-Jeffries ,‘Shakespeare’s Tailors’; Rebecca Unsworth, ‘Doublets in Early Modern Europe’; “Natasha Awais-Dean, ‘Bejewelled”

Organisers: Sue Wiseman and Sarah Birt

The London Renaissance Seminar (LRS) is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature, and culture. It meets regularly at Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square. Anyone with a serious academic interest in the Renaissance is welcome and no registration is necessary.