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...STELLA Project], which is the UK’s only dedicated computer laboratory for teaching English studies and a key site of pioneering work in computer-assisted lear ...'' (2011), and co-editor (with Thomas Keenan) of ''New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader'' (Routledge, 2005). She has been a Member of the Institu

[[First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare]] was a touring exhibition from the Folger Shakesp * ''Within the Book and Volume: Early Modern English Literature at Texas A&M,'' February 8 –

...time to create Folgerpedia pages. The first Edit-a-thons in Folgerpedia's history will be held 3:30 to 4:30, April 7th and 21st, 2015, in the Boardroom. No e ...ticles might give the history and context for an item in our collection, a history of a former collector, or a bibliography of items we hold on a given subjec

''This page includes open access teaching resources in addition to summarizing this Folger Institute project.'' ...thered representatives from each awarded team, and concluded by making new teaching resources developed from micro-grants available on this page.

* [[An Anglo-American History of the KJV (conference)|Anglo-American History of the KJV (conference)]] (2011) * [[British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory (conference)]] (2005)

[[Alex Barber]], Lecturer of Early Modern History, University of Durham [[Andrew Boyle]], Lecturer in History, Brasenose College, Oxford

[[Freddy Dominguez]], Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas [[Peter Elmer]], Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, Exeter University

...o-edited ''The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900'' (2015). Her current book project, “‘A Fault of Humour’: The Constitution of Belief in Early Mo ...ofessor of English at George Washington University. She is the author of ''Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach'' (2016), ''Passing St

...ography), an interdisciplinary approach that unites musicology and theatre history, and a willingness to see performance theory and performance practice as mu ...ntury English Stage'' (2006) and ''Music for Macbeth'' (2004). Her current book project concerns music and dance in early modern English schools.

...he ways conceptualizations of space are changing the focus in research and teaching. This conference will draw on localized expertise for comparative discussio :Designed for doctoral candidates in History and English at work on their dissertations, this monthly seminar will addre

...fessor of English at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, teaching Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He is the author of ''Spenser’s I ...nities Institute. In addition to teaching broadly in early-modern European history, he offers classes in Irish Gaelic. He is the author of ''The Politics and

...nscribathon]] in conjunction with the [http://www.rarebookschool.org/ Rare Book School] at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. ...n_Teaching_and_Research Early Modern Manuscripts Online: New Directions in Teaching and Research]<br>

...xible online platform, to be built by the [http://chnm.gmu.edu/ Center for History and New Media at George Mason University,] will allow users to browse, sear ...poraries-to-the-book-of-english/ "From Shakespeare His Contemporaries to a Book of English"] on his Scalable Reading blog.

[[Charles Beem]], Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Pembroke [[Kathleen Comerford]], Professor of History, Georgia Southern University

...d a variety of printed and manuscript sources relevant to both English and History Ph.D. candidates. The goal throughout will be to foster interdisciplinary s ...ger Seminar on Cavendish and Hutchinson, and she is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Margaret Cavendish’s Political Career."

...e Library]], with the academic expertise of Erin Kidwell, Curator of Legal History in the Special Collections Department of Georgetown Law Library. ...university and independent rare book libraries, including serving as Rare Book Librarian at the University of Rochester and, most recently, as Assistant C

...s. For a background of how Early English Books Online was developed, see [[History of Early English Books Online]]. ...d, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475–1640'' (''STC''), [[History of Early English Books Online#Wing.2FWing2|Donald Wing’]]<nowiki/>s ''Sho

...Cultures, 1350-1700'' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). Her current book project is entitled ''Hemispheric Medievalisms: The “Old Religion” in t '''[[Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance (colloquium)|Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance]]'''

:Designed for doctoral candidates in History and English at work on their dissertations, this monthly seminar focuses on :[[Derek Hirst]] is William Eliot Smith Professor of History. He is the author of ''Representative of the People?'' (1975), ''Authority

;BPT: British Political Thought. Center for the History of British Political Thought—part of [[Folger Institute]]. ...-2020 main building; key access only. Often used to refer to the area with book stacks only, even though the elevator room, sump pumps, and "Deck C Page Ar

'''Making Meaning: Hands-on Basic Paleography and Book Production''' ...ng the early modern period. Daily lab sessions concentrating on historical book production will include hands-on exercises in allied trades such as typecas

'''[[Teaching Paleography (workshop)|Teaching Paleography]]''' ...phy at their home institutions. Applicants need not have had experience in teaching paleography, but proficiency in reading secretary hand is required and shou

...variety of printed and manuscript sources relevant to Ph.D. candidates in history and literature, and they learned (with the assistance of staff at the host ...ity with a joint appointment with NYU Gallatin. She has followed her first book, Outlaw Rhetoric: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare’s England

...lication to another. We will next consider a transitional period, when the book trade in England is fully developed, to examine the exchanges among manuscr ...cripts. Our sixteen scholar-participants will bring their own research and teaching agendas, and will welcome the visiting scholars, in tum, into ongoing inves

...ortunities to share their work-in-progress, whether dissertation chapters, book chapters, or articles. ...conflicts on the contemporary Western world. He is currently working on a history of rival views of human nature from the Middle Ages to the present.

...-long colloquium on [[Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance (colloquium)|Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance]], which welcomed advanced scholars whose re ...community in its gatherings. These are goals to which we can aspire in our teaching, and we can do this with youngsters and oldsters as well as formal students

...oolkit of source study, historicism, theatre and performance, and printing history. As major new publishing series – including Arden 4 and the Cambridge Sha ...variety of printed and manuscript sources relevant to Ph.D. candidates in history and literature, and they will learn (with the support and assistance of Fol

Designed for doctoral candidates in History and English at work on their dissertations, this monthly seminar will addre ...ng work on the 3rd edition of The Norton Shakespeare and a new book on the history play from Shakespeare to Tony Kushner and Caryl Churchill.

...nental Paper Wrappers and Publishers' Bindings in the 18th Century." ''The Book Collector'' 24 (Spring 1975): 37-49. ...d special collections cataloguing''. Prepared by the Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section. Chicago, 1988.

...-long colloquium on [[Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance (colloquium)|Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance]], which welcomed advanced scholars whose re ...w monastic orders emerged. They included [https://www.cistercian.org/abbey/history/the-cistercian-order/beginnings.html Cistercians], [https://contemplation.c

...essor of English at George Washington University. She is the author of <em>Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach</em> (2016), <em>Pas ...e a variety of printed and manuscript sources relevant to both English and History Ph.D. candidates and will learn (with the assistance of Folger staff) some

..., history of printing and the book, and religion. It might also serve as a teaching tool for a paleography course. As such, we have decided on a semi-diplomati ...s: Mirror of Seventeenth Century Science and Medicine”'' in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1974) 29:2, p. 174.

...se to it. This international conference, sponsored by the [[Center for the History of British Political Thought]], celebrates the 350th anniversary of these d ...n electronic edition, the assembly of an archival group of materials, or a teaching exercise. Over the course of an intensive weekend, the seminar will address

...s article is reproduced with his permission. For more information, see his book [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=337227 ''Collecti ...nge of literary and scientific subjects at four grade levels. She left the teaching profession in 1885 to marry the Brooklyn native [[Henry Clay Folger]], a me

...of the Gunpowder Plot, one of the most dramatic assassination attempts in history. On 5 November 1605, Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators were foiled in ...[[Jonathan Gil Harris]] (George Washington University), [[Jason Peacey]] (History of Parliament Trust), [[Charles Tilly]] (Columbia), [[Jenny Wormald]] (Oxfo

:The history of religious toleration has traditionally been written in intellectual and ...and Community in Utrecht, 1578–1620 ''(1995). He is currently working on a book entitled ''Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Tolerat

...ies designed to provide concise information on the social and intellectual history of the Tudor and Stuart periods. The booklet series continues until 1971. ...high-school teachers meet at a Folger conference to discuss new methods of teaching Shakespeare.

...ltures, 1350-1700 </em>(University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). Her current book project is entitled <em>Hemispheric Medievalisms: The “Old Religion” in <strong>Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance</strong>

'''[[Transactions of the Book (conference)|Transactions of the Book]]''' ...their research and teaching an attention to the physical properties of the book as well as to the dynamic-and historically situated-mediations a text may p

...: Theory, History, Practice (conference)|Early Modern Translation: Theory, History, Practice]]''' :Although the Folger Institute [[Center for the History of British Political Thought]] has continually widened the scope of its inq

...ganized), the readings will also include at least one published article or book chapter. The year-long series invites projects that address such topics as ...h, sixteenth, and seventeenth Christian centuries a decisive period in the history of the relation of the Bible to both Church and culture. This concentrated

...o debates about digitization, or portraits of Shakespeare) as can be posts teaching people about bibliographic matters (e.g., what signature marks are or the d ...posts that do both: “this is cool because it shows us something about the history of the letter Z” or “we have this and it’s useful/exciting for the fo

BBI: [https://britishbookillustrations.folger.edu/ British Book Illustrations: Extending Access to 17th-century Visual Culture] is a projec ...elevision across America. Select Browse for subject browses of Literature, History, Theater and more.

...a Zimmer]] and edited by [[User:MeaghanBrown|Meaghan Brown]], covers the ''history'' of EEBO. For current use and limitations, see [[Using Early English Books ...O project, short-title catalogues served as the means of selecting texts [[History of Early English Books Online|for imaging]] and as sources for the bibliogr

:'''Director''': [[Mary E. Fissell]] is a Professor in the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of ''Patien ...s of Holy Church in Medieval Europe ''(2000), and ''Interpreting Christian History'' (2005).

...-long colloquium on [[Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance (colloquium)|Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance]], which welcomed advanced scholars whose re ...mat of the famous Folger [[Shakespeare Set Free|''Shakespeare Set Free'']] teaching manuals, namely "What's On for Today and Why?," "What to Do?," and How'd It

Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose. ''A Companion to the History of the Book''. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007. ...s, Matthew. “Foundation.” In ''Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History'', 3–32. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2013.

...ch interests in early modern drama, computational stylistics, and literary history. ...on of women’s writing in manuscript miscellanies. She is also completing a book, ''Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England'', which e

:''The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b. 198'', ed. Jean Klene (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and ...ania (Abridged)'', ed. Mary Ellen Lamb (Medieval and Renaissance Texts for Teaching, 2011)

...are to Undergraduates, Folger Institute NEH microgrant project (2016-2017)|Teaching Shakespeare to Undergraduates]] ...wright of the non-Anglophone world. Twenty participants will examined this history of reception, adaptation, translation, and re-appropriation.