Comments on: Hat honour http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102 A weblog on early modern culture, teaching English literature, and what else comes to mind Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:57:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Brett http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102#comment-1329 Brett Wed, 10 May 2006 14:07:53 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102#comment-1329 Sounds fantastic! As far as work in your field is concerned, the first name that comes to mind is Will Fisher (Lehman College, CUNY). His research on non-genital markers of gender identity (including hair, beards, handkerchiefs, and codpieces) is soon to be published by Cambridge UP as <i>Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture</i>. Two of the chapters have been published as articles in <i>Shakespeare Studies</i> and <i>Renaissance Quarterly</i>. I'm sure he'd be interested in expanding his list to hats! Garthine Walker (Cardiff) also discusses (in passing) the relationship between masculine authority and hats and other garments as part of her chapter on "Men non-lethal violence" in <i> Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England</i> (Cambridge UP, 2003). My own research is on discourses of bodily difference in early modern English drama, focusing on characters in liminal/boundary states (e.g. the werewolf in <i>The Duchess of Malfi</i> on the human/animal boundary), so the only hats I've come across really are those the Jews were forced to wear. Nonetheless I look forward to reading your paper, since the idea of 'hat honour' sounds like lots of fun! : ) Sounds fantastic! As far as work in your field is concerned, the first name that comes to mind is Will Fisher (Lehman College, CUNY). His research on non-genital markers of gender identity (including hair, beards, handkerchiefs, and codpieces) is soon to be published by Cambridge UP as Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. Two of the chapters have been published as articles in Shakespeare Studies and Renaissance Quarterly. I’m sure he’d be interested in expanding his list to hats!

Garthine Walker (Cardiff) also discusses (in passing) the relationship between masculine authority and hats and other garments as part of her chapter on “Men non-lethal violence” in Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2003).

My own research is on discourses of bodily difference in early modern English drama, focusing on characters in liminal/boundary states (e.g. the werewolf in The Duchess of Malfi on the human/animal boundary), so the only hats I’ve come across really are those the Jews were forced to wear. Nonetheless I look forward to reading your paper, since the idea of ‘hat honour’ sounds like lots of fun! : )

]]> By: Kristine http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102#comment-1326 Kristine Wed, 10 May 2006 12:58:33 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102#comment-1326 Well, I am honoured to welcome you to the comment section! I would love to have a copy of your paper after you have read it in Reading (no pun intended), thank you for the generous offer. I do not work in your area, but more general notions of honour are of importance to my research into representations of gender and revenge in early modern drama. Are you familiar with Jennifer Low's <i>Manhood and the Duel</i>? It has a chapter on "The Art of Fence and the Sense of Masculine Space" concerned with spatiality and honour that might perhaps chime in with hat honour, at least where ideas of politeness are concerned. And I could point you to <a href="http://bloggingtherenaissance.blogspot.com/2006/04/roundheads-reply.html" target="new" rel="nofollow">Blogging the Renaissance</a>, where Hieronimo wrote an interesting piece on religious hatwear. That's my penny's worth... I look forward to reading your paper! Well, I am honoured to welcome you to the comment section! I would love to have a copy of your paper after you have read it in Reading (no pun intended), thank you for the generous offer.

I do not work in your area, but more general notions of honour are of importance to my research into representations of gender and revenge in early modern drama. Are you familiar with Jennifer Low’s Manhood and the Duel? It has a chapter on “The Art of Fence and the Sense of Masculine Space” concerned with spatiality and honour that might perhaps chime in with hat honour, at least where ideas of politeness are concerned. And I could point you to Blogging the Renaissance, where Hieronimo wrote an interesting piece on religious hatwear. That’s my penny’s worth… I look forward to reading your paper!

]]> By: Arnold http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102#comment-1325 Arnold Wed, 10 May 2006 12:29:16 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102#comment-1325 Hi -- I'm a regular reader of this blog, and it was a pleasant surprise to find myself mentioned by name. The 'hat honour' piece is still work-in-progress, but I'd be happy to make copies available, after 21 June, to anyone who'd like to read it. It's part of a larger project on gesture and religion in early modern England, and I'm very keen to establish contact with other people working in this area. Hi — I’m a regular reader of this blog, and it was a pleasant surprise to find myself mentioned by name. The ‘hat honour’ piece is still work-in-progress, but I’d be happy to make copies available, after 21 June, to anyone who’d like to read it. It’s part of a larger project on gesture and religion in early modern England, and I’m very keen to establish contact with other people working in this area.

]]> By: Brett http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102#comment-1312 Brett Mon, 08 May 2006 13:19:59 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/05/07/102#comment-1312 At least you're in Europe – spare a thought for the rest of us! ; ) At least you’re in Europe – spare a thought for the rest of us! ; )

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