Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminar: Michaelmas 2012

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INTERDISCIPLINARY EARLY MODERN SEMINAR
Seminars are held in St. Catharine’s College OCR,
1.30 – 3pm (unless otherwise indicated).
Tea, coffee and biscuits are served.
All welcome!

MICHAELMAS TERM
10th October: Roundtable discussion on Diaries: What are the
implications of using diaries as sources? How are they useful
and how are they problematic?
Brief presentations from Simon Healy (History of Parliament), Cassie Gorman (English) and John Galagher (History).

24th October: 17th Century London: Public Spaces, Public Presence
Michelle Wallis (History and Philosophy of Science), ‘“A Favourable Construction Upon this Public Way of Practice”: Handbill Advertisements and the Medical Marketplace of Early Modern England’ and Kristen Klebba
(History), ‘For the Recreation of Our People’: Civic Culture, Merchant Elites and the Emergence of London’s Moorfields’.

7th November: Dr Adam Smyth (Birkbeck, London), ‘Scissors and Bibles at
Little Gidding’.

21st November: Dr Eoin Devlin (Selwyn College), ‘Restoring Catholic
England: Lord Castlemaine’s Mission to Papal Rome’.

For further details, or for the full 2012-13 programme, please contact:
Liesbeth Corens (lc495) Phoebe Dickerson (pd291)
Charles Drummond (cd432)

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