Events This Week

Posted on February 24, 2017 by admin

IN CAMBRIDGE

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday, 28/02/17, 5.15pm in G-R06-07
David Hillman (Cambridge)
‘Farewell as welcome (and vice versa) in Antony and Cleopatra’

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 1st March, 12-1:15pm, English Faculty, Room GR03

Nailya Shamgunova (University of Cambridge)
‘Queering the Anglo-Ottoman Contact, c. 1550-1700’

Early Modern French Seminar

Friday, 3 March, 2-4pm, Clare College, Latimer Room

Mathilde BOMBART (Lyon 3)

‘La posture insurrectionnelle de l’auteur dans la polémique au XVIIe siècle: du littéraire au politique? Autour de Guez de Balzac’

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 1 March, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Jamie Trace (St Catharine’s)
‘Giovanni Botero and English political thought’

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar

Thursday 2nd March, 5pm, Room 9 of the History Faculty

John Morgan (University of Manchester)
Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire

Recurrent flooding was a condition of life in low and wet grounds. Erecting dams, scouring ditches and laying drains consumed significant amounts of labour time and money, as the profitability of agriculture rested on maintaining appropriate water levels. The success of one farmer was reliant on another, requiring complex co-ordination and administration. I will outline how flood protection was provisioned, its costs and their impact.

Early Modern European History Seminar

Thursday, 2 March 2017, 1-2pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

Censorship and philosophy in the Two Sicilies, c. 1688-1767

Felix Waldmann (Cambridge)

IN LONDON

Tudor & Stuart History Seminar (IHR)

Monday, 27 February,17:15, Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

‘Ralph Sheldon of Beoley & Weston (1537-1613): No Catholic or no consequences?’
Hilary Turner (Independent scholar)

Events This Week

Posted on February 11, 2017 by admin

IN CAMBRIDGE

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 15th February, 12-1:15pm, History Faculty, Room 5

Dr Alex Robinson (Sorbonne)
‘Et le roi prit tant plaisir à la musique’: Royal taste and music in the Renaissance – the case of Henri IV of France (1589-1610).

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 15 February, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Elly Robson (Wolfson),
‘“Unles ye bee stronger then wee”: contested justice, sovereignty and violence in seventeenth-century fenland drainage riots’

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar

Thursday, 16th February, 5 PM, Room 9 of the History Faculty

Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin)
Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism

In 17th-century France, even small-scale traders used ‘account books’ as instruments of everyday commercial activity. Wives usually kept accounts in small enterprises, producing perhaps the largest surviving corpus of non-elite women’s writing. The ‘books’ were freighted with legal, commercial, cultural and personal meanings. The gendering of financial record keeping is one of the ways in which women were integral in the intensification of market practices.

Early Modern European History Seminar

Thursday, 16 February 2017, 1-2pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

“The Trouble with Community and Diaspora: Ottomans in Vienna and Trieste in the 18th century.”

David Do Paço (Paris, Sciences Po)

IN LONDON

London Shakespeare Seminar

Monday 13 February, 5:15-7:00 PM, Senate Room, Senate House Library

Katherine Schaap Williams, ‘Unfixing Renaissance Disability’
Simon Smith, ‘Acting Amiss: Pleasure, Judgement and the Early Modern Actor’

Papers will be followed by questions, and then drinks and dinner at Busaba Eathai Bloomsbury (Goodge Street). For more information and to be included on the LSS mailing list please contact Gemma Miller at shakespeare@kcl.ac.uk.

Courtauld Institute of Art

Monday, 13 February 2017, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Research Forum seminar room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

‘The making of the sixteenth-century interior in England’

Prof. Maurice Howard (University of Sussex)

The physical interiors of early modern England exist now only in fragments or later re-modellings, but piecing together this evidence shows how care for materials, improvisation and a willingness to use painted illusion gave internal spaces a degree of visual cohesion. Three other kinds of evidence offer more to the historian: the documentary sources of commissions and inventories, the small but significant number of representations in paint and print, the descriptions of contemporaries, all of which sometimes complement each other but often tell us more about their various and highly individual modes and conventions of recording than give us a composite understanding.

Maurice Howard is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Sussex. His books include The Early Tudor Country House 1490-1550 (1987), The Tudor Image (1995), and The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England (2007). He co-authored The Vyne: A Tudor House Revealed (2003), and co-edited Painting in Britain 1500-1630 (2015). He was Senior Subject Specialist for the Tudor and Stuart sections of the British Galleries at the V&A, and is a former President of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the current President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

‘Portraits of Art Collectors in Mid-Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Venice’

Prof. Linda Borean (Università degli Studi di Udine)

In the Cinquecento and Early Seicento, Venetian portraiture developed a sub-genre depicting portraits of art collectors. These, have been generally investigated taking into account the connections between the artist and the patron, since many of them have been executed by the foremost painters and sculptors of the period, including Lorenzo Lotto, Paolo Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane, Bernardo Strozzi and Tiberio Tinelli. In this paper, I would like to shift the attention from these relationships to focus instead on the way in which portraits shed light on the biographies of the art collectors as we know them from wills, inventories, printed biographies and poetic compositions. This paper explores this topic by examining a series of case studies, including those of Andrea Odoni, Giovanni Paolo Cornaro, Alessandro Vittoria, Bartolomeo dalla Nave, Alvise Molin and Giovan Donato Correggio.

Linda Borean has been Professor of History of Art at the University of Udine since 2001. She is member of the Committee of the Ph.D in Art History. She has been Getty Scholar (2003/2004) and Andrew Mellon Senior Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (2012/2013). Linda Borean’s research, supported by some grants (Francis Haskell Memorial Fund, Royal Society of Edimburgh Grants in Humanities), concerns history of art and art collecting in Venice in early modern age. She has been member of the project Il collezionismo d’arte a Venezia supported by the Fondazione di Venezia and by the Getty Research Institute. In this context, she is the co-editor of the volumes Il collezionismo d’arte a Venezia. Il Seicento (2007) and Il collezionismo d’arte a Venezia. Il Settecento (2009). She has published essays in international journals (Arte Veneta; The Burlington Magazine) and given papers in international symposiums, universities (University of St. Andrews; Pune, India, Technology Institute; Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence; INHA, Paris) and museums (London, National Gallery; Madrid, Prado; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts).

Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 16 February, 17:30, John S Cohen Room N203, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

‘The Company of Inmates: Collective Identity and Self-government in the 17th-century London Prison’
Richard Thomas Bell (Stanford University)

Tudor & Stuart History Seminar

Monday, 13 February, 17:15, Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

‘Henry VIII, the colonisation of Boulogne and the development of the English Empire’
Neil Murphy (Northumbria University)

‘Ralph Sheldon of Beoley & Weston (1537-1613): No Catholic or no consequences?’
Hilary Turner (Independent scholar)

Events This Week

Posted on January 27, 2017 by admin

IN CAMBRIDGE

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday, 31/01/17, 5.15pm in G-R06-07
John Gillies (Essex)
The conversational turn in Shakespeare

History of Material Texts Workshops

Monday, 30 January, 12.30-2, Milstein Exhibition Centre/Seminar Room, University Library

A guided tour of the Cambridge University Library exhibition ‘Curious Objects’, in the company of lead curator Jill Whitelock, followed by discussion.

Places are limited–please email jes1003 to reserve.

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 1st February, 12-1:15pm, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site

Dr Hannah Murphy (University of Oxford)
“No day without a line”: calligraphy, perspective and the craft of writing in early modern Nuremberg

Cambridge Early Modern French Seminar

Friday, 3 February, 2-4pm, Clare College, Latimer Room

Sophie WAHNICH (CNRS)

Émeutes, émotions: la scène de quel conflit?

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 1 February, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Carys Brown (St John’s), Julie Kelsoe (Clare), and Fred Smith (Clare), ‘Historiography panel: toleration, coexistence and neighbourliness’

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar

Thursday 2nd February, 5pm in Room 9 of the History Faculty

Christof Jeggle (University of Würzburg)
Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

The debate over divergence in early modern Europe sees the Dutch Republic and Great Britain as the core of progressive economic development, and considers that the rest of the continent lagged behind. Using qualitative indicators I will question the notion of divergence in a continental perspective, offering case studies and proposing some reassessments in respect of comparing economic development.

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

Early Modern European History Seminar

Thursday, 2 February 2017, 1-2pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

Record-keeping as a tool of female self-formation in Early Modern Tuscany

Emma Nicholls (Cambridge)

Attendees are welcome to bring lunch to this brown-bag seminar. Tea and coffee will be served. All welcome.

Writing Women in History

Tuesday 31 January, 11am-noon, RFB142 (the media centre)

Our first session of the new year and new ‘Women and the Law’ theme for the term will be focused on an angry woman, Calefurnia, and the depiction of female rage in the Sachsenspiegel, a Germanic law code circulated in the 13th-15th centuries. We will be reading and considering the article ‘Calefurnia’s Rage: Emotions and Gender in Late Medieval Law and Literature’ by Sarah Westphal exploring how how gender and emotion are framed in literary and legal sources from medieval Central Europe.

Email writingwomeninhistory@gmail.com for article.

IN LONDON

Tudor & Stuart History Seminar (IHR)

Monday, 30 Jan 2017, 17:15- 19:15, IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

‘Rewriting the figure of the martyr: John Donne and the foundation of Christianity’

Shanyn Altman (Sussex University)

‘Sir Francis Walsingham and Anglo-Scottish politics, c. 1580-90’

Hannah Coates (Leeds University)

European History 1500-1800 (IHR)

Monday, 30 January, 5:15pm, IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

‘A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany’

Bridget Heal (University of St Andrews)

Events This Week

Posted on October 21, 2016 by admin

IN CAMBRIDGE:

Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices, & Theories (CRASSH)

Armour
26 October 2016, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

Victoria Bartels (Cambridge)

Middle English Graduate Seminar

Wednesday, October 26, 5:15 PM

English Faculty Room SR24

Sexuality and dishonour: punishing adultery & other crimes in southern France (c.1150-1320) – John Arnold (Cambridge)

Poetics Before Modernity

Tuesday 25th October 2016, 5:15, Old Combination Room, Trinity College

Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

“ALLEGORESIS AND ETYMOLOGY”

For many centuries, especially from Late Antiquity until the seventeenth century, European scholars often chose to interpret the foundational texts of their culture—for example, the Bible and the works of Homer and Virgil—by attributing to them more or less systematically coherent meanings that were strikingly at variance with those that uninformed readers would likely have thought they were communicating; and the same scholars often buttressed their interpretations by claiming that some of the words used in those texts had in fact a different, original meaning from the ones that ordinary speakers attached to them in everyday conversation. In so doing, these scholars were applying the procedures of allegoresis to those texts and of etymology to these words. These two scholarly practices also flourished independently of one another in this period; but their complex and intense interaction is one of the features particularly characteristic of the Western Classical tradition. This paper examines their nature, functions, and interrelations during Classical antiquity.

Glenn W. Most is Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He studied Classics and Comparative Literature in Europe and the United States, and has taught at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Siena, Innsbruck, and Heidelberg. He has published books on Classics, on the history and methodology of Classical studies, on comparative literature, cultural studies, and the history of religion, on literary theory and on the history of art, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also on modern philosophy and literature. Among his most recent publications are the edited collection Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach (with Anthony Grafton; Cambridge UP, 2016), and a nine-volume edition of Early Greek Philosophy in the Loeb Classical Library (with André Laks; Harvard UP, 2016).

Early Modern British and Irish History

Wednesday, October 26, 5.15pm
Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Stephen Tong (Corpus Christi)
‘John Bale: a Protestant bishop afloat in an Irish see’

Economic and Social History

Thursday, 27 October, 5 PM, Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
Dr Judy Stephenson (Oxford)
‘Labouring in early modern London’

IN LONDON:

Courtauld Institute of Art

Thursday 27 October 2016, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Caroline Villiers Fellow Lecture

‘Adrian Vanson and Adam de Colone: Technical Study of Two Scoto-Jacobean Stranger-Painters’

Caroline Rae: Caroline Villers fellow 2016-17, The Courtauld Institute of Art

The project will use established methods of technical art history in order to examine the materials and techniques of Adrian Vanson and Adam de Colone, two Netherlandish artists who worked in Jacobean Scotland. Religious persecution and fortuitous trade relationships led many Protestant Netherlanders to emigrate to Britain in the sixteenth century. Vanson and de Colone are notable amongst this group as they were patronised by the highest echelons of society: Vanson was James VI’s court painter and de Colone was the most prominent painter working in Scotland in the 1620s (who also painted the king). Thomson, whose publications remain a seminal source, constructed their core oeuvres in the 1970s. However, little technical examination has been undertaken on their works to date. The project will focus on the technical examination of paintings in the National Galleries of Scotland collection with the aim of clarifying issues of attribution and identity and illuminating their workshop practices.

Caroline recently completed her Ph.D (jointly hosted by the Department of Conservation and Technology at the Courtauld and the National Portrait Gallery, where she was a member of the Making Art in Tudor Britain team) which focused on issues of workshop practice, authorship and cross-cultural dialogues between native and émigré artists working in England at the turn of the seventeenth century. Previously, Caroline graduated with first class honours in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh/ Edinburgh College of Art and from the Conservation of Easel Paintings course at the Courtauld. Caroline contributes to the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon and has published on de Critz and Fuseli.

The event will also include a presentation by the 2016-17 Associate Fellow, Anna Koopstra, on Investigating Saint Jerome in his study by Hendrik van Steenwijck the Younger.

Tudor & Stuart History Seminar (IHR)

Monday, 24 October, 17:15

Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

Chris St John-Smith (Oxford)
‘Political management of the law and the implementation of religious policy by the Privy Council during the personal rule of Charles I’

Events this Week

Posted on May 6, 2016 by admin

IN CAMBRIDGE

CRASSH: Things That Matter

11 May 2016, 12:00 – 14:00

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

Dr Stella Panayotova (Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge)

History of Material Texts Seminar

Thursday, 12 May at 5 PM

Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), ‘Errant commas, absent pages, and shifting typos: the strange bibliographical world of Jonathan Swift’s English political works’

Venue: Keynes Room, CUL

Early Modern Economic and Social History

12 May, 5pm in Room 12 of the History Faculty.

Hülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
(with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci)

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

Studies of slavery in the Ottoman Empire focus on slavery among and for the official elite in the capital, with an emphasis on the 15th and 16th centuries, on the trade and its abolition in the 19th century, or more recently, on microhistories of slave lives beyond the harems and military households of the official elite. This study builds on the latter two trends. Using probate inventories from the city of Bursa and its hinterland, it examines long-term patterns in slave ownership and employment among commoners as well as the local elite. Probate evidence indicates that slave-holding steadily declined over the four centuries examined and by the time of its abolition, was already a marginal practice in this important provincial city. Price trends reveal a decline from the 18th century onwards, suggesting that declining ownership was due to causes other than supply and prices. We present statistics of ownership and characteristics of the slave body, and examine prices and supply and demand in connection with wages and purchasing power.

Early Modern French Seminar at the Whipple Museum

Friday 13th of May, 2-4pm in the New Gallery, Whipple Museum, Free School Lane.

Raphaële Garrod, CRASSH and Newnham College, Cambridge ‘L’opinion fantastique et trop gaillarde de Copernicque’: on three argument uses of cosmological novelties (Belleforest, Montaigne, Binet)

IN LONDON

Friday 13 May 2016, 12.15-13.45
Playing the Curtain with Dr Lucy Munro
Mortimer Wheeler House, 46 Eagle Wharf Road, London
From the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson in the 1590s to those of Dekker, Ford and Rowley in the 1620s, the Curtain was one of the most enduring performance places in early modern London. This talk will explore some highlights of this long history, from Jonson’s humours comedy and Shakespeare’s romantic comedies and histories to the topical story of The Witch of Edmonton and lost plays such as Henry the Unable, The Plantation of Virginia and The Man in the Moon Drinks Claret.
http://www.mola.org.uk/events/playing-curtain-dr-lucy-monroe

Leonardo da Vinci Society annual lecture

‘Art and Anatomy in the 15th and 16th Centuries’

Friday 13 May 2016 – 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Prof. Andrew Gregory: University College London

The developments in art in the 15th and 16th centuries brought with them a new interest in proportion, perspective and the accurate depiction of the human body. How did this affect the science of anatomy? This talk discusses the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Vesalius and Fabricius and looks at how the nature of the new art inspired and shaped a new wave of research into the structure of the human body and how such knowledge was transmitted in visual form. This ultimately led to a revolution in our understanding of anatomy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar

Wednesday, 11 May, 5.15 pm

‘Bloody Matters in Early Modern Drama and Culture: The Blood that is Shed, The Blood That is Said, The Blood That is Read’
Stephen Curtis

In it I will examine the various ways in which blood is used, read and interpreted in early modern tragedy paying particular attention to the material and corporeal aspects of its dramatic power. I will consider the religious and sacrificial origins of spectacular bloodshed, the practicalities of staging such sanguinary spectacle and conclude by exploring shifts in the cultural significance of blood in the light of scientific and medical developments in the early seventeenth century. I will argue that blood demands to be read and that understanding its materiality is key to this process of bloody hermeneutics.

Venue: Bloomsbury Room G35, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

British History in the 17th Century Seminar

Thursday, 12 May, 5.15pm

‘E.H.: printer of Marvell and Hobbes’
Martin Dzelzainis (Leicester)

Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar

Thursday, 12 May, 5.15pm

‘Henry Yevele and the building of the London Bridge Chapel’

Christopher Wilson (UCL)

Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House

Warburg Institute

Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 5:15 PM

Words and Things: Naming the Limits of Reason in Early Modern Culture

Alberto Frigo (University of Reims)
‘The Invention of Connoiseurship’

Richard Scholar (Oriel College, University of Oxford)
‘The Invention of Utopia’

Classroom 1, at the Warburg Institute

Senate House Library

Editing Shakespeare

This talk considers how Shakespeare’s text has evolved over the last 400 years. Theories about the purpose of editing and narratives about the origin of Shakespeare’s text and its transmission into print vary over time and editors take great pains to present their rationales as more fitting to the task of representing Shakespeare to their readers than the methods used by their predecessors. However, the impact of editorial theories on the editing of Shakespeare is not always straightforward and, while change occurs, thus suggesting that the editorial tradition is evolutionary and progressive, some editorial practices tend to endure, revealing a recurrent desire to perfect Shakespeare.

Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English Department at King’s College London. She has published widely on the history of the transmission of Shakespeare on the stage and on the page, focusing specifically on the evolution of Shakespeare’s texts in print before 1709 and on the appropriation of Shakespeare across different languages, media and cultures in the late 20C and early 21C.

WHEN

Tuesday, 10 May 2016 from 18:30 to 19:30 (BST)

WHERE

Senate House Library – Senate House Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-shakespeare-tickets-21452279345?ref=ebtn

Shakespeare’s Common Prayers

The Book of Common Prayer was the most popular book in early modern England; it was also a key source for Shakespeare’s plays of the period 1598-1606, in which the playwright repeatedly borrows the phrases and instructions from church rites and transforms them into dense, precise theatrical moments. When Rosalind pretends to merry Orlando, or when Macbeth considers his terrible guilt, each are really re-phrasing the Book of Common Prayer, and this paper will explore how Shakespeare adapted, stole, and metamorphosed this vital source.

Daniel Swift is the author of Shakespeare’s Common Prayers (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Bomber County (Hamish Hamilton, 2010), as well as the editor of the Selected Poems of John Berryman (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2014). He is Senior Lecturer in English at the New College of the Humanities.

WHEN

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00 (BST)

WHERE

Senate House Library – Senate House Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespeares-common-prayers-tickets-21480671266?ref=ebtn

Events this Week

Posted on April 24, 2016 by admin

Welcome back! Here are some events happening around Cambridge this week.

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 27th April at 5.15pm,
Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Harriet Lyon, Elly Robson, and Alice Soulieux-Evans,

‘Historiography panel: Space, Geography and Memory’

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar

Thursday, 28 April at 5pm in Room 12 of the History Faculty.

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Rouen)

Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case
(Turin, 18th century)

Recent research that emphasises differences between northern and southern Europe has argued that in southern countries where a dowry system was widespread, young girls, married women and widows were not encouraged to participate in the labour market since they could merely count on their dowry. On the contrary, I will argue that in pre-industrial Turin, dowry and women’s work were strictly connected. Not only was the dowry often earned by the work of young girls, it was also invested in the family business in which wives and widows played a crucial role as workers. The speaker has recently published Travail et propriété des femmes en temps de crise (Turin, XVIIIe siècle) (2104), and articles in Gender & History (2015); The History of the Family(2014), and Feminist Economics (2013).

Professor Lyndal Roper to give the 2016 Lee Lecture

We are delighted to announce that Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oxford, will give the 2016 Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture on 28 April at 6.15pm, in the Lee Hall.

The talk will be on The Battle of the Quills: Luther and the German Reformation, the subject of Professor Roper’s current research.

All are welcome to this free talk, which is the ninth lecture in the series. Booking is recommended – please book by email or by calling 01223 335936.

For more information please visit the Lee Lecture Series webpage.

Things: (Re)Constructing the Material World

Paint

27 April 2016, 12:00 – 14:00

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

Christine Slottved Kimbriel (Assistant to the Director, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge)
Dr Jose Ramon Marcaida (CRASSH, Genius before Romanticism, Cambridge)

Paint

27 April 2016, 12:00 – 14:00

Only one event this week, for the last week of term:

Thursday 10 March

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar

5pm, History Faculty, Room 12

Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School)

Give me your wealthy: Immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England