Symposium on Reading and Health in Early Modern Europe,
1500-1800
Medieval and Early Modern Research Group, Newcastle University
05-06 July 2013
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Keynote speakers:
Katharine Craik
Helen Smith
Richard Wistreich
‘Also it is seene that the reading of histories doth so hold and allure good wits, that divers times it not only maketh them to forget all other pleasures, but also serveth very fittely to turne away their griefes, and somtimes also to remedie their diseases.’
Thomas North (trans.), 'Amiot to the Readers', in Plutarch, The liues of the noble Grecians and Romanes (1579), sig. *vv.
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