Dr O. Noble-Wood
Oliver Noble Wood
Address: Hertford College
Email: oliver.noblewood@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 279419
Research
Oliver Noble Wood's research interests focus on sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spanish culture, with particular emphasis on Baroque poetry, painting, and history of the book. He is currently the Co-Investigator on an AHRC-funded project on the library of the Count-Duke of Olivares, minister-favourite to Philip IV of Spain between 1621 and 1643.
Teaching
Golden Age literature and painting.
Publications
‘Mars Recontextualised in the Golden Age of Spain: Psychological and Aesthetic Readings of Velázquez’s Marte’, in Rewriting Classical Mythology in the Hispanic Baroque, ed. by Isabel Torres (London: Tamesis, 2007), pp. 139–55
‘Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina: "A Vulcano, Venus y Marte"’, in The Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age, ed. by Nigel Griffin & others (London: Tamesis, 2008), pp. 175–221
‘Re-examining some of the Literary Sources for Velázquez’s La Fragua de Vulcano’, in Latin and Vernacular in Renaissance Spain: Ovid from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, ed. by Barry Taylor and Alejandro Coroleu (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008), pp. 147–61
‘Metaphors of Anarchism: The Rhetoric of an Andalusian Post-Conflict Testimony’, in The Genre of Post-Conflict Testimonies, ed. by Cristina Demaria and Macdonald Daly (Nottingham: CCCP, 2010), pp 82–107
(ed. with J.N.H. Lawrance & J. Roe) Poder y saber: Bibliotecas y bibliofilia en la época del conde-duque de Olivares (Madrid: CEEH, 2011)
‘Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas: Bibliotecas y bibliofilia en la literatura del Siglo de Oro’, in Poder y saber: Bibliotecas y bibliofilia en la época del conde-duque de Olivares (Madrid: CEEH, 2011), pp. 277–96