Description
The Early Modern Workshop in 2011, “Egodocuments: Revelation of the Self in the Early Modern Period,” seeks to examine how individuals in the early modern period wrote and thought about themselves. The workshop participants explore texts ranging from the obvious autobiographical texts to less obvious, such as ethical wills, Inquisition-prompted accounts of self, family diaries of births and deaths, travelogues, and others. Questions raised deal with issues of self-representation, reading, relationship with the divine, gender differences in self-representation, and motivations to write autobiographical accounts.
Event Website
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/emw/emw2011/
Start Date
21-8-2011 5:00 PM
End Date
23-8-2011 4:00 PM
Location
University of Texas at Austin
Included in
Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, History of Religion Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Social History Commons
EMW 2011: Egodocuments: Revelation of the Self in the Early Modern Period
University of Texas at Austin
The Early Modern Workshop in 2011, “Egodocuments: Revelation of the Self in the Early Modern Period,” seeks to examine how individuals in the early modern period wrote and thought about themselves. The workshop participants explore texts ranging from the obvious autobiographical texts to less obvious, such as ethical wills, Inquisition-prompted accounts of self, family diaries of births and deaths, travelogues, and others. Questions raised deal with issues of self-representation, reading, relationship with the divine, gender differences in self-representation, and motivations to write autobiographical accounts.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/emw/emw2011/emw2011/2
Comments
The documents discussed can be downloaded above, and the audio and video files are accessible from each presentation.
The Keynote Address and individual presentation audio files are also available through iTunes U.