Venue: Bartholin Auditorium, Bartholin Building
Chair: Joseph Sterrett, Aarhus University, Denmark
| 14.00-14.20 | Joseph Sterrett, Aarhus University, Denmark: The Tokens of Trust: Ritual and Object in Early Modern Drama |
| 14.20-14.40 | Ionut Untea, University of La Rochelle, France: Trust in the State of Nature: the Influence of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan on Restoration Literature |
| 14.40-15.20 | Discussion and coffee |
| 15.20-15.40 | Eoin Price, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, England: "I durst not trust any other place": Trust and Treachery in James Shirley’s The Traitor |
| 15.40-16.00 | Amber True, Michigan State University, United States: “A living, bold trust”: Struggle and the Representation of Faith in the Poetry of Anne Vaughn Lock, John Donne, and George Herbert |
| 16.00- | Discussion |
What qualities compose trust and confidence in the Renaissance? What signs call it into question? This seminar seeks to identify points of congruence and contention in sixteenth and seventeenth century notions of trust and how they might be betrayed. From the stage Macchiavel who discloses his plans to the audience to the kinsman who pledges his fealty, or the lover who exchanges his faithful vow, how did trust differ across such different domains as religious and political life or familial relations? - Organised by Dr. Joseph Sterrett (English, Aarhus University).
