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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

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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)

 

 

Measure for Measure on Trial

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Shakespeare & the Law: Measure for Measure on Trial
Tuesday 15 March 18.00 – 20.00, Inner Temple Hall

Students from The Dickson Poon School of Law and King’s Department of English will perform a Shakespearean trial based on Measure for Measure at Inner Temple. The distinguished arbitrators will be Lord Judge, Lady Justice Arden and Executive Dean Professor David D Caron. The event, which is open to the public as well as King’s staff and students, concludes the Shakespeare & the Law module jointly taught by The Dickson Poon School of Law and the Department of English.

Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare most performed plays, ends with a trial in which Angelo is the accused. The Judge, Duke Vincentio, is the ruler of Vienna. He has resumed his authority after an absence during which Angelo was in charge and committed the crimes he is accused of. At the end of the trial the Duke pardons Angelo.

This mock trial questions the legality of the Duke’s pardon of Angelo. Here the Prosecutors seek a reversal of the pardon granted Angelo and argue that the law should be strictly applied with Angelo found guilty of blackmail and corruption. The second part of the trial questions the Duke’s legal and moral responsibility for maladministration and for relinquishing his obligations as a ruler. Here the Prosecutors seek that the Court find the Duke guilty of dereliction of duty and that the Court declare void the Duke’s later trial at the end of Measure for Measure.

A scene from Measure to Measure will be also performed during the evening – II.iv. Isabella will be played by Remmie Milner, and Angelo will be played by Mike Evans.

For information contact Hannah Crawforth: hannah.crawforth@kcl.ac.uk

 

Shakespeare in the Context of his Time

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‘What legacy shall I bequeath to thee?’ – Shakespeare in the Context of his Time

 An Interdisciplinary Graduate and Early Career Symposium Call for Papers

 Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen

22nd October 2016

Both universal and a product of his time Shakespeare remains an enigmatic writer. The celebration of the 400th anniversary of his death demonstrates his continued impact on scholarly thought and popular culture. Investigating Shakespeare among his contemporaries in a period of transformations will help to understand his enduring popularity. The symposium ‘Shakespeare in the Context of his Time’ invites proposals which consider the cultural transfer and translation of Shakespearean ideas on his time, but also the influence of the cultural context of the intellectual and cultural world of the sixteenth century on Shakespeare himself. This includes the intellectual exchange between Shakespeare and his contemporaries examined through all aspects of cultural, literary and theatrical influence. Papers are invited from early career scholars and graduate students in all disciplines which touch on Shakespeare’s work. ‘Shakespeare in the Context of his Time’ is organised by the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Please email 250-word abstracts by Sunday the 15th of May to Alison Passe and Julia Kotzur at shakespeareincontext@gmail.com. Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. Please include a brief biography (no more than 150 words). Possible topics could include:

– Shakespeare and Europe

– Contemporaneous intellectual sources of Shakespeare’s ideas

– The transfer of ideas between playwrights

– Shakespearean linguistics

– English History Plays

– Influences across multiple genres

– Performance history including Shakespearean theatre and use of his stage

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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  

The current immigration debate focuses on the admission to residence and citizenship of those fleeing poverty and civil unrest. But there are also pathways to residence and citizenship that seek to attract a very different sort of migrant: the wealthy. The present debate provides an interesting backdrop for previous ones. This paper focuses on the debate over migration c.1700 which culminated in the short-lived “Act for naturalizing Foreign Protestants“. Although partly inspired by the plight of foreign Protestants, the conversation focused primarily on economic, demographic and legal issues, a cluster of concerns that were absent from earlier debates over immigration.

 

Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies Seminar

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Tuesday 1 March, 5.30pm, Junior Parlour, T Blue Boar, Trinity College

Sarah Knight (Leicester)

A fabulis ad veritatem: Latin Tragedy, Truth and Education in Early Modern England

 
In his Ash Wednesday sermon of 1582, Laurence Humphrey, head of Magdalen College, urged his Oxford congregation to make the transition ‘à Cothurno ad Cineres, à prophanis ad sacra, à fabulis ad ipsam veritatis inuestigationem & disciplinam’ (from tragic buskin to ashes, from the profane to the sacred, from stories to that same examination and practice of truth). Humphrey distinguishes between drama and sermon, between being a passive spectator and an active seeker of religious truth, but many authors of Latin tragedies in early modern England expected greater intellectual engagement from those who watched or read their works than Humphrey’s sermon perhaps implies. The context of delivery for Humphrey’s sermon was also the most active site of composition and performance of drama, and so a study of Latin tragedy in early modern England inevitably focuses first on the universities. Some examples taken both from Oxford and Cambridge, such as the work of Thomas Legge and William Alabaster, as well as plays written by its graduates who wrote for continental Catholic institutions, particularly Edmund Campion, show how college and university drama evolved into a rich didactic medium. These plays suggest that the staging and consumption of such drama was not just for entertainment – Humphrey uses the term ‘ludicra’ – in this period, although collective enjoyment could be part of their appeal, and in several cases their authors express concern about the impressionable young minds of the audience and the formative influence of curricular and other institutional activity on the performance of drama.

All are welcome. Wine is served during the discussion of the papers.

For other inquiries, please contact Andrew Taylor at awt24@cam.ac.uk.
More information here.

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Tuesday 1 March

Renaissance Graduate Seminar, GR06/7, 5.15pm

Hester Lees-Jeffries (Cambridge)

Shakespeare’s Tailors

Wednesday 2 March

CRASSH (Re)Constructing the Material World, 12.30pm AR SG1

Religion

Dr Joanne Sear (History,Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge)
Professor Deborah Howard (Architecture & History of Art, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 3 March

Early Modern European History seminar, 1pm, Gonville and Caius Green Room

Irene Cooper (Cambridge)

‘Cose di casa’: The Materiality of Devotion in the Sixteenth-Century Neapolitan Home

 
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Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skills & Knowledge in Practice

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A conference to be held at the University of Cambridge, 1st-2nd September 2016

Organisers: Jennifer Bishop & John Gallagher

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From the workshop to the schoolroom, teaching and learning were everyday activities in early modern England. But who learnt what, from whom, and where? How did knowledge transmission work in practice? And what did it mean to be educated, to be skilful, in a rapidly changing society? This conference aims to bring together scholars working on the transmission of knowledge and skills in order to ask new questions about the educational cultures of early modern England.

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls of educational institutions. This history can bring together the studies of literacy and language, of artisanal and technical crafts, of science and medicine, of print, fashion, and commerce.

Where did teaching and learning happen? Outside established educational institutions lay vibrant cultures of knowledge transmission and exchange. This conference is interested in sites where knowledge was transmitted formally or informally, from workshops to schoolrooms and printing houses to coffee houses. What was the role of location, neighbourhood, and community in the circulation of knowledge? How did material environments interact with learning processes?

Who was a teacher? Who were the masters, teachers, tutors, and experts – male and female, English and immigrants – who transmitted knowledge and skills in early modern England? How did masters and teachers establish their technical or pedagogical authority, and how did they advertise or compete with one another? Can we reconstruct networks of knowledge, communities of teachers? Do our historiographies do justice to all those who performed educational labour? This conference hopes to consider ushers, technicians, servants, and labourers alongside masters and tutors.

How were skills and knowledge taught and transmitted? Learning is more than an intellectual experience. What were the physical, oral, and sensory realities of early modern learning? In artisanal and academic situations, how was embodied knowledge taught and transmitted? What was the role of the oral and the verbal in the transmission of knowledge? How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and learners in early modern England?

The deadline for abstracts is 1st April 2016. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to teachingandlearning2016@gmail.com.