Thomas Goodwin
DPhil Student
New College
Research Topic
The Social World of the Poligrafi and the Culture of Political Communication in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Supervisors: Prof David Parrott and Dr Miles Pattenden
I am a DPhil candidate in History at New College. I study the social, cultural, intellectual, and literary history of early modern Europe, with a particular focus on Italy. My main interests are the history of communication, (dis)information, and censorship; humanism and the questione della lingua; the social role of writers, artists, and intellectuals (broadly conceived); political thought, public opinion, and political life; the history of obscenity and sexuality; historiography, from the late medieval period to the present; and the application(s) of social and political theory to the study of the Renaissance and the early modern world.
My doctoral research project is a social history of the poligrafi – an amorphous group of professional writers, editors and translators – and their role in the evolution of political communication in sixteenth-century Italy.
In 2018, I co-organised the conference 'Beyond Truth: Fiction and (Dis)information in the Early Modern World' at New College, Oxford. For more information about the conference, please visit oxdisinfo.wordpress.com.
You can read more about my research and publications on my Academia.edu profile. I am on Twitter @T_S_Goodwin.
