Moreover, women and the monstrous were interrelated due to premodern biological understandings. Coinciding with the phenomenon of queens regnant was a noticeable rise in concern about strange portents and monsters, evidenced in the many printings and images about them. A queen ruling in her own right had committed a monstrous usurpation of a sphere that rightly belonged to men, a dreadful aberration that sent some, like the Scottish reformer John Knox, into paroxysms of anger and outrage. 1558-1603) in England, and their cousin Queen Mary of Scotland (r. Queenship, already a dangerous mix of political power with a woman’s natural roles as wife and mother, became even more troubling with the early modern phenomenon of queens regnant on several thrones across Europe, including three in the British Isles: Queen Mary I (r. In early modern times, women and monsters were on the margins of the natural order, deemed less than human and subordinate in all things to men-the perfect specimen, and head of state and household. By rethinking the restorative acts in the sixteenth century, the presentations will open up new questions about the ways in which writers, theoreticians and artists sought to rebuild, rewrite, and remake past histories and their artifacts in the present. The second panel takes up the rich subject of architectural theory and its engagement with classical sources and its sixteenth-century interventions. The first panel explores objects of restoration, from the discovery of 'lost objects' of the past that served as new subjects for experimentation, to drawing and repainting of sculpture, both ancient and contemporary, as acts of reinterpretation. Taking up different case studies, the proposed interdisciplinary papers will reveal the ways in which restoration in the sixteenth century was an ambitious philological and archaeological project that allowed for the creation of scientific discoveries, architectural theories, and artistic practices. Indeed, restoring the past was conceived as a way of reforming the present, of making it anew hence, unearthed ruins and discovered objects acted less as relics and more as aids in discursive and material processes of experimentation and renewal. This exploration and the subsequent questioning culminates in the most significant acts of restoration: Reformation and Counter Reformation. In the sixteenth century, establishing teleological and genealogical links with the ancient world served to justify political and economic goals of secular and religious leaders, leading some theologians and writers, including Erasmus, Luther, Montaigne and Rebelais among others, to be skeptical of such restoration efforts. By collecting, imitating, translating, and citing classical authors, fifteenth-century humanists and artists sought to recover the history of the ancient past. In seeking to restore the ancient past in the present, Petrarca hoped to renew and restitute it-a nostalgia that helped fuel Dante's anachronistic approach to literature, placing the classical world in direct dialogue with his Trecento moment.
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