{"id":436,"date":"2016-03-09T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=436"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:29:25","slug":"the-2016-renaissance-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2016\/03\/09\/the-2016-renaissance-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Renaissance Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entitled, &#8216;<em><strong>Tyndale, Erasmus, and How to Read the Bible&#8217;,<\/strong><\/em> this year&#8217;s Renaissance Lecture\u00a0takes place on\u00a0<strong>Thursday 31 March<\/strong> at <strong>6pm<\/strong> in <strong>Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1<\/strong>, and will be given by <strong>Professor Brian Cummings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2015, a newly discovered manuscript of an English translation of Erasmus was acquired by the British Library (BL Add. MS 89149). It is of Erasmus&#8217;s seminal work <em>Enchiridion militis Christiani<\/em>. The translation is dated to 1523, making it the earliest known translation of Erasmus into English. In this lecture, I will investigate the manuscript, and also shed new light on William Tyndale&#8217;s putative part in the translation of this work, and the development of Tyndale&#8217;s landmark translation of the New Testament. In the process, I will re-examine the debate about literal and figurative meaning in scholasticism and humanism, before and after the Reformation, and the significance of Erasmian humanism to early Protestantism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Cummings<\/strong> is 50th Anniversary Professor at the University of York, in the Department of English and Related Literature.<\/p>\n<p><em>All are welcome to attend the lecture and there will be a wine reception afterwards.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entitled, &#8216;Tyndale, Erasmus, and How to Read the Bible&#8217;, this year&#8217;s Renaissance Lecture\u00a0takes place on\u00a0Thursday 31 March at 6pm in Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2016\/03\/09\/the-2016-renaissance-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}