Budget

The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1650

Budget

Note: Although board and lodging costs are set for our journey, circumstances may dictate changes. Our foreign-based hosts require advance payment for lodging and, in the case of our visit to Oxford, partial board. Participants will be unable to make alternative arrangements for lodging or partial board. In order to participate in this program, individuals will need to return a signed form that grants permission to The Ohio State University to deduct these expenses from the seminar stipend. Participants will receive a check for the remainder prior to departure. In 2007 this amounted to approximately $750 out of a total seminar stipend of $3600.

Note: Hotel rates in Antwerp and Oxford are quoted in Euros or pounds sterling as is appropriate. The dollar equivalents of these rates are approximate and will be dependent on currency exchange rates at the time of our journey.

The stipend of $3800 that NEH will provide to participants will cover a considerable portion of the cost of this program. Basic expenses will include

Hotel Cammerpoorte, Antwerp: accommodation for 4 nights (Sunday 21 June - Wednesday 24 June) @ €65/night = €260
John Dodgson House, London: accommodation for 3 nights (Thursday 25 June - Saturday 27 June) @ £40/night = £120
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford:
         Bed & Breakfast in Single Standard Rooms for 27 nights (beginning Sunday                 28 June) @ £35/night = £945
         3 course Dinner with coffee for 20 dinners @ at £17.50/each = £350
        1 Lunch on Sunday 28 June @ £12 = £12
                            Total St. Edmund Hall = £1307

The stipend remainder of approximately $1100 would defray a portion of the expense of plane fare from USA to Antwerp and from London to USA. Participants will be responsible for the following costs in addition to incidental expenses:

Antwerp: all meals, entertainment, and local transportation
Oxford: all lunches after 28 June, entertainment, and dinners on Friday and Saturday
London: all meals, entertainment, and local transportation
Paperback copy of Philip Gaskell’s A New Introduction to Bibliography.

St. Edmund Hall offers optional in-room broadband ethernet access for £10. Participants also have the option of purchasing a laundry card at £10, which is usable at in-college laundry facilities. These fees are payable upon arrival to St. Edmund Hall.

Participants will receive the following free of charge:

packet of secondary readings
train transportation from Antwerp to London via Channel Tunnel & coach transportation from London to Oxford (both journeys will be gratis)
James K. Bracken. "Come Ye Blessed, Go Ye Cursed": The World of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Also Known as The Book of Martyrs. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Libraries, 1999. An exhibit catalog.
James K. Bracken and Mark Rankin. Religious Orthodoxy and Dissent in Early Modern England. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Libraries, 2005. An exhibit catalog.