The Folger is closing at 4:30pm on Sunday, February 23, for a staff training exercise. Normal hours will resume when the Folger opens on Tuesday, February 25, at 11:00am.
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Sarah Higinbotham
is the co-director of Common Good Atlanta, a nonprofit that links the humanities to the community. Her PhD is in early modern literature and her scholarship centers around the intersections of literature and law. Sarah has written about the violence of the law in early modern England, critical prison theory, and human rights in children’s literature. She teaches at a men’s and women’s prison and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Oxford College of Emory University.
A guest post by Dr. Sarah Higinbotham In a 1628 sermon preached before the Assize court at Oxford, Robert Harris reminds the “Sheriffes, Iustices, Iudges” that they have taken “an oath for the common good.” He reminds them that they…
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