Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE

History of Material Texts Seminar

Wednesday 30 November, 12.30-2, Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St

A guided tour of the Fitzwilliam exhibition ‘Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts’, in the company of the curator Dr Stella Panayotova.

Places are limited–please email Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003) if you would like to come.

 

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 30th November, 12-1:15pm, English Faculty, Room GR03
Hannah Worthen (University of Leicester and the National Archives)
‘For the hazards of War are equall’: The narratives of Royalist widows in print, petitions and at law during the Civil Wars and Interregnum

 

Early Modern European History Seminar

Thursday, December 1, 3 pm Senior Parlor, Gonville and Caius College

Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Workshop – Galileo’s Laughter: Knowledge and Play in the Renaissance

Copies of a pre-circulated paper will be available from Suzanna Ivanič (sdi20) from November

 

IN LONDON

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar

Thursday, Dec. 1, 17.15, Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

Maria Chiara Succurro (Southampton)
The Visconti and their histories: Writing and shaping memory in the chancery of Gian Galeazzo

 

British History in the 17th Century Seminar  

Thursday, Dec. 1, 17:15, Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

Rachel Foxley (Reading)
Defining democracy in Restoration England: Henry Neville and Algernon Sidney