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The Importance of the implementation of financial regulation in crypto currency
Full text linkResearch Question and Justification
Why it is very necessary to implement financial regulation in cryptocurrency?
Can financial regulation play a significant role in stabilising the cryptocurrency market?
What would be the post implementation effect of financial regulatory body on crypto currency assets
Michael M. Wagoner, Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2022)
Full text linkCritical approaches to HRD
Full text linkThis is the Critical approaches to HRD chapter from the UFHRD Conference 2022 proceedingsdocument, published in May 2023
The Judgment (and Women Problems) of Solomon in Greenes Vision (1592)
Full text linkGreenes Vision: Written at the Instant of His Death (1592), a work of mock authorial repentance, has often been read alongside a range of other ostensibly expiatory pieces that Robert Greene composed around the turn of the 1590s, including Grene His Farewell to Folly, Greenes Mourning Garment, and the two-volume Greenes Never Too Late. It takes the form of a pseudo-medieval dream vision in which an inscribed Greene, apprehensive about the nature of his own literary legacy and fearing ‘future infamie’, encounters the vaunted spectres of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. The bulk of the text features a war of words waged between these two medieval literary celebrities, and, for this reason, it has excited a greater degree of interest from scholars in our own time than Greene’s other, topically related pamphlets of penitence. Contemporary scholarship’s ongoing fascination with Greene’s nostalgic depictions of his Middle English predecessors has meant, however, that the presence of King Solomon – a third authorial ghost who materialises alongside Chaucer and Gower and intervenes in their literary dispute – has not received sustained consideration. This is a lacuna that I here seek to rectify. As I will argue, Solomon functions in Greenes Vision not only as a third-party arbitrator in an aesthetic battle waged between ‘Graue Laureats’ (C2r), but also as a biased and ironically deployed peace-maker in an unresolvable clash of language and signification that ultimately seems to be just as much about the nature of women as it does about the literary modes and values that Chaucer and Gower represent
‘Nil penna sed usus’: Negotiating Female Authoriality in Esther Inglis’s Solomon’s Proverbs (Pforzeimer MS40)
Full text linkThis article centres on the specific case of Pforzeimer MS40 and probes Inglis’s position within her family ‘cottage industry’ by exploring the technique of ‘ambiguation’ in her beautiful presentation manuscript. Borrowed from the rhetorical analysis of diplomatic discourse, ambiguation belongs to the field of irony. Esther Inglis is generally considered as a conciliatory figure, what I will define as a textual diplomat, within the international Protestant community, as her volumes cross the Channel, as well as within her own family circle; indeed her diplomatic strategy in Solomon’s Proverbs needs also to be considered within her own production, as the tiny volume occupies a special place within her other sixteen so called ‘flower manuscripts’. What is more, the book is also part of a series of three copies which share material elements but yet widely differ in terms of patronage research. This double comparison allows to analyse how, even as Inglis creates a new style of manuscript presentation, she negotiates a space for her personal career within her family by a strategic use of several elements, some of them paratextual. This will lead to contextualize the meaning of a unique – to the best of my knowledge – dedicatory Latin poem, signed by her husband, appended to Pforzeimer MS40, which teases out Inglis’s diplomatic technique of ambiguation in her scribal creation
Maja Bondestam (ed.), Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020)
Full text linkPoetry and Peacemaking: Joachim du Bellay and the Truce of Vaucelles
Full text linkThis article will focus on two features of the truce hinted at in various theoretical accounts: the first is the fragility of the truce, the fact that it is less elaborately negotiated and not ratified in the ways that treaties are. This means that the meaning and efficacy of the truce is deeply reliant on how it is perceived or framed. The second, related, issue is the truce’s relationship to time, the sense that it may well come suddenly, elicit quick responses, and disappear just as quickly. To study these two features of the truce, I want to look at how it is depicted in lyric poetry. Poetry, after all, is the literary form that most directly asks us to think about the voice of the single individual. It registers the impress of external events on the self. Moreover, poetry is very often occasional, especially in the early modern period. Thus truces, which are contingent, often sudden, events, intersect easily with poems, which are generated in response to shifts in political life, or emotional climate. Poetry offers a space in which we can reflect on the relationship between peacemaking and the status of the individual – as subject, as political actor, as witness. The article focuses upon the Truce of Vaucelles (1556), which placed the French in Rome – among them the poet Joachim du Bellay – in a position of total ambiguity. On the one hand, peace had broken out. That seemed to be a good thing. On the other hand, the news placed the French in a very dubious light, branded as ‘traitors’, as they tried to work with their Roman diplomatic contacts
From War Crimes to ‘Truce Thinking’ in Shakespeare’s Henry V
Full text linkShakespeare’s Henry V (1600) concludes with a treaty between England and France, enabled through the marriage of King Henry and Princess Katherine, the compromises of France and Burgundy, Queen Isabella’s advocacy and even Henry’s own willingness to let his delegates speak on his behalf. Although the final scene dramatizes the historical treaty of Troyes (1420), the play’s Epilogue implies that the agreement produced not a lasting amity, but rather a temporary peace, a truce, an interlude between one war and another, ‘which oft our stage hath shown’ (Epi.13). This essay investigates the principles of what philosopher Nir Eisikovits has called in his timely A Theory of Truces ‘truce thinking’ in Henry V. I suggest that the play’s complex disquisitions surrounding Henry’s own alleged war crimes prime viewers to accept the principles of ‘truce thinking’ and the concluding settlement as a necessary, civilizing, and welcome respite from war even if this settlement turns out to be a truce rather than a peace
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, Shakespeare’s Englishes: Against Englishness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Full text linkWavering in Faith: Pythagoras, Metempsychosis, and the Fate of the Soul in English Renaissance Drama
Full text linkPythagoras was widely celebrated in the early modern period as a consummate authority on a wide variety of topics. But one area of his thought deeply troubled thinkers of the time, his belief in metempsychosis, or reincarnation. The idea that a human soul could have once inhabited an animal called into question the noble divinity of humanity. Further, the notion that the soul, after a person's death, would progress neither to Heaven nor to any realm of punishment shook the very foundations of Christian justice.
For this reason, metempsychosis was routinely dismissed as nonsense or heresy. And yet early English dramatists were fascinated by it, invoking it repeatedly in plays as a means of testing the limits of acceptable doctrine on the soul, all the while sheltering their dangerous speculations under the name and reputation of Pythagoras