Events This Week

Tuesday 16th February

Wren Library, Trinity College, 3pm

Nick Hardy (Cambridge)

Intended principally for graduate students interested in working on early modern Latin texts, this session will introduce some of the research methods that can be used in the study and contextualisation of humanistic printed books and manuscripts. Topics covered will include censorship; coterie and manuscript publication; the reconstruction of humanists’ libraries and the study of their marginalia; and the social, religious and political relationships between authors and other figures involved in the production of books.

Wednesday 17th February

CRASSH (Re)constructing the Material World, 12:30-2pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building
Interiors
Dr Antony Buxton (Tutor in design and domestic history, Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford)
Dr Ulrich Leben (Associate Curator of Furniture, The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor)

Early Modern British and Irish Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Aislinn Muller (Girton),
English Catholics and the Excommunication of Elizabeth I: Communication, Resistance and Remembrance

Thursday 18th February

 Early Modern European History Seminar, Green Room, Gonville and Caius, 1pm
Katy Bond (Cambridge)

Charles V’s Universal Empire: Fresh perspectives on a costume project, c. 1547

IHR Society, Culture, and Belief, 1500-1800, Past & Present Room (N202), IHR
Hillary Taylor (Yale University)
The affective economy of social relations in early modern England

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