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Stephen Bamforth

Professor of Renaissance Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Teaching Summary

French Renaissance literature and thought; Renaissance thought and literature in general; teratology; all forms of scientific and medical writing; neo-latin ; French seventeenth-century literature… read more

Research Summary

I have wide and vigorous interests across the field of early modern literature and thought, principally in France. I have published extensively on French Renaissance scientific poetry, the history of… read more

Recent Publications

  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2005. Dancing your way out of a tight corner : reflections on dance in sixteenth-century France. In: NYE, E., ed., Sur quel pied danser?: Danse et littérature: Actes du colloque organisé par Hélène Stafford, Michael Freeman et Edward Nye en avril 2003 à Lincoln College, Oxford Amsterdam: Rodopi. 31-49
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2005. Montaigne and Catullus Montaigne Studies. 17(1/2), 35-52
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2003. Aspects théâtraux du <i>Cymbalum Mundi</i>. In: GIACONE, F., ed., Le Cymbalum Mundi: actes du colloque de Rome (3-6 novembre 2000) Genève: Droz. 363-376
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2003. Molière et Rabelais. In: EMELINA, J., ed., Molière et la fête: actes du colloque international de Pézenas 7-8 juin 2001 Pézenas: Ville de Pézenas. 51-79

French Renaissance literature and thought; Renaissance thought and literature in general; teratology; all forms of scientific and medical writing; neo-latin ; French seventeenth-century literature and thought, but also an interest in European seventeenth-century literature and thought in general; in particular libertinage, and seventeenth-century theatre (comedy, and Molière especially).

Renaissance teaching - poetry, history of science, alchemy and astrology; court festival; music and dance; food and wine; illustration; art and architecture; history of the book and material bibliography

Seventeenth century teaching - poetry, theatre (comedy), libertinage, ballet de cour; commedia dell'arte; art and architecture; history of science and material bibliography

Current Research

I have wide and vigorous interests across the field of early modern literature and thought, principally in France. I have published extensively on French Renaissance scientific poetry, the history of medicine (Jacques Dubois in particular), early Renaissance court festival (the Festival of the Bastille in 1518, and the better known Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520). In both cases my work has been based on editing of texts describing the event, and in the case of the Field of Cloth of Gold the discovery of a previously unknown verse description of the meeting (for those of you who saw the recent David Dimbleby programme, the dragon flying through the sky was not a firework, but a kite - as the Dubois [Sylvius] text which I edit shows quite clearly).

My most recent major discovery has been the illuminated dedication manuscript to Elizabeth I of a famous Renaissance text on prodigies and monsters - the Histoires prodigieuses of the French writer Pierre Boaistuau. I published a facsimile edition of this manuscript with Franco Mario Ricci publishers of Milan in 2000, and later this year will publish a full critical edition of the text. I also have in preparation - for publication next year - a major critical edition of the scientific poetry of François Béroalde de Verville. My upcoming project is a book-length study of the concept of the scientific marvel from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.

  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2005. Dancing your way out of a tight corner : reflections on dance in sixteenth-century France. In: NYE, E., ed., Sur quel pied danser?: Danse et littérature: Actes du colloque organisé par Hélène Stafford, Michael Freeman et Edward Nye en avril 2003 à Lincoln College, Oxford Amsterdam: Rodopi. 31-49
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2005. Montaigne and Catullus Montaigne Studies. 17(1/2), 35-52
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2003. Aspects théâtraux du <i>Cymbalum Mundi</i>. In: GIACONE, F., ed., Le Cymbalum Mundi: actes du colloque de Rome (3-6 novembre 2000) Genève: Droz. 363-376
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2003. Molière et Rabelais. In: EMELINA, J., ed., Molière et la fête: actes du colloque international de Pézenas 7-8 juin 2001 Pézenas: Ville de Pézenas. 51-79
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2000. Corps, monstre et prodige à la Renaissance: l'exemple de Pierre Boaistuau. In: <I>Le Corps</I>, textes réunis et présentés par Emmanuel Jacquart 9. Strasbourg: University of Strasbourg. 31-50
  • BOAISTUAU, P. and BAMFORTH, S.J., 2000. Histoires prodigieuses : MS 136 Wellcome Library Milan : Franco Maria Ricci.
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2000. Architecture and Sculpture at the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1520) and the Bastille festival (1518). In: LINDLEY, P. and FRANGENBERG, T., eds., Secular sculpture 1300-1550 Stamford : Shaun Tyas. 219-236
  • BOAISTUAU, P. and BAMFORTH, S.J., 2000. Historias prodigiosas di Pierre Boaistuau del Manuscrito francés 136 de la Wellcome Library de Londres con dedicatoria a Isabel, reina de Inglaterra transcripción y notas de Staphen Bamforth traducción de Carlos Alonso Milan : Franco Maria Ricci.
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 2000. Storie prodigiose di Pierre Boaistuau dal manoscritto 136 della Wellcome Library di Londra con dedica a Elisabetta d'Ingilterra trascritto e annotato da Stephen Bamforth. Traduzione di Gianni Guadalupi Milan : Franco Maria Ricci.
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1999. Stephen H. Fleck, Music, Dance, and Laughter: Comic Creation in Moliere's Comedy-Ballets Modern Language Review. VOL 94(NUMBER 1), 199
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1999. Le thème de Babel dans l'oeuvre de Claude Duret. In: DAUPHINé, J. and JACQUEMIER, M., eds., Babel à la Renaissance: Actes du XIè colloque international de la Société Française d’Etude du XVIè siècle. Toulon – Mars 1997 227-240
  • BAMFORTH,S.J., 1998. Review of René Pommier, <em>Etudes sur le Tartuffe</em> (1994), <em>Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur</em> (1994), Richard Parish (ed), <em>Molière - Le Tartuffe</em> (1994) Modern Language Review. XCIII, 831-833
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1998. Paracelsisme et médecine chimique à la cour de Louis XIII. In: ZINGUER, I and SCHOTT, H., eds., Paracelsus und seine Internationale Rezeption in der Frühen Neuzeit: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Paracelsimus Leiden : Brill. 222-237
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1998. Barthelemy Aneau: Alector, ou le Coq, ed. Marie-Madeleine Fontaine French Studies. VOL 52(NUMBER 3), 334
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1997. Jacques Lassalle et sa mise en sc?ne de <em>Dom Juan</em>. In: Moli?re mis en sc?ne,Oeuvres et critiques XXII, (2). Tübingen: Gunter Narr. 164-179
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1997. Clément Marot, Fran&#231ois Ier et les muses. In: DEFAUX, G. and SIMONIN, M., eds., Clément Marot "Prince des poëtes fran&#231" 1496-1996, Actes du Colloque international de Cahors en Quercy 21-25 mai 1996 Paris : Honore Champion. 225-235
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1997. Cl?ment Marot et le projet de paix universelle de 1518: po?sie et propagande. In: DEFAUX, G., ed., La G?n?ration Marot Po?tes fran?ais et n?o-latins (1515-1550). Actes du Colloque international de Baltimore - 5-7 d?cembre 1996 Paris : Honore Champion. 113-129
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1997. Rabelais et la f?te. In: BIDEAUX, M., ed., Rabelais - Dionysos, Vin, Carnaval, Ivresse: Actes d'un colloque de Montpellier, 26-28 mai 1994 Marseille : Jeanne Laffitte. 81-95
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1996. A forgotten humanist tribute to Fran‡ois Ier - the <em>Geographica</em> of Paolo Pietrasanta. In: The Cult of Humanism in the Age of Fran‡ois 1er 17-40
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1996. Béroalde de Verville po&#232te de la connaissance. In: Nouvelle revue du seizième siècle XIV. 43-55
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1996. Autour du manuscrit 516 du Wellcome Institute de Londres: quelques r?flexions sur B?roalde de Verville, m?decin et alchimiste. In: B?roalde de Verville 1555-1626 13. Paris : Presses de l'École Normale Sup$#233;rieure. 41-56
  • DUP?BE,J. and BAMFORTH,S.J., 1995. The <em>Silva</em> of Bernardino Rincio (1518) Renaissance Studies. VIII, 256-315
  • BAMFORTH,S.J., 1994. A second missing scene in Racine's <em>Phèdre</em> Seventeenth-Century French Studies. XVI, 161-166
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., ed., 1994. Molière
  • BAMFORTH, S.J., 1994. MoliŠre and propaganda. In: MoliŠre, Special issue of <em>Nottingham French Studies</em> 33.1. 20-27
  • BAMFORTH,S.J., 1994. Béroalde de Verville and <em>Les Apprehensions spirituelles</em> Bibliothéque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. LVI, 89-97
  • BAMFORTH,S.J., 1993. The Field of Cloth of Gold - or All That Glitters French Studies. 48, 15-16
  • BAMFORTH,S.J., 1992. The Editing and Translating of Jacobus Sylvius: <em>Francisci francorum regis et Henrici anglorum colloquium</em> X(1), 6-15
  • BAMFORTH,S.J., 1991. Reflexions on the National Theatre's new <em>Miser</em> 40, 18-20
  • BAMFORTH,S.J., 1991. Review of Palissy, B, <em>Recepte Veritable,</em> Modern Language Review. I, 204-205
  • BAMFORTH,S.J., 1990. Un po?me de Sylvius sur l'entrevue du Camp du Drap d'Or Bibliothéque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. LII, 635-642

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