Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Neil Kenny is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, where he is involved in language policy work as Lead Fellow for Languages. His publications include The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (2004), Death and Tenses: Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France (2015), and Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France (2021), all with Oxford University Press.

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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1: NEIL KENNY: Introduction
Language, Social Literacy, and Social Status
2: WARREN BOUTCHER: 'Noble ambition': New Social Literacies and Traditional Hierarchies in Early Modern European Literature and History
3: HELENA SANSON: Women's Social Status and their Access to Learning in Multilingual Early Modern Italy
4: CHRISTINE STEVENSON: English Builders in Translation
Roles of Cultural Production in Social Status
5: IAN MACLEAN: The Social Status of Publishers of Learned Texts in Europe 1560-1630
6: SARAH GWYNETH ROSS: Literary Collaboration and Social Legitimacy in an Actor's Oeuvre: The Peculiar Case of Francesco Andreini (d.1624)
7: JANE STEVENSON: Marta Marchina, Poetry and Social Mobility in Baroque Rome
Representing Social Status: Genres and Discourses
8: RICHARD OOSTERHOFF: The Idiota's Authority: Fifteenth-Century Hierarchies in Dialogue
9: SUSAN WISEMAN: Making 'Gypsies' in the English Reformation? Laws, Words and Texts (1530-1621)
10: JONATHAN PATTERSON: 'Greatness going off' in Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Tragedies
11: RICHARD MCCABE: Tragedy, or the Fall of Middle-Class Men
A Two-Way Relation
12: SIMON PARK: The Scribes of the Old Pillory: Hired Hands and their Customers in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon
13: COLIN BURROW: Authorship and Social Status in Early Modern England
Index