IN CAMBRIDGE:
Things-(Re)constructing the Material World
25 May 2016, 12:30-2 PM
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building
James Poskett (Cambridge), Stefan Hanß (Berlin)
Cambridge Bibliographical Society
Wednesday, 25 May, 5 PM
Milstein Seminar Rooms, Cambridge University Library
Tea from 4:30 pm before the lectures.
Dr Kathryn James (Munby Fellow), ‘Loss and the English imagination: writing the dissolution of the monasteries in the early eighteenth century’
Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop
Friday 27 May 2016- 2-4 PM
Milstein Seminar Room, Cambridge University Library
Professor David Ganz: ‘When is a ‘Script’ not Several Scribes?’
Early Modern French Seminar at the Whipple Museum
Friday 27 May, 2-4pm
New Gallery, Whipple Museum, Free School Lane.
Katherine Reinhart, CRASSH and King’s College, Cambridge
‘Miscellany and Marginalia: The drawings of the early Académie Royale des Sciences’
IN LONDON:
Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar (IRC, UCL)
May 25, 5:15 PM
‘In Pewter two dozen great and small: From quantification to affective qualities in material culture’
Antony Buxton
Much analysis of material culture relies on the evidence of individual affective responses to artefacts, as well as the assumed contemporary perception of the properties of the object itself. This paper will discuss the potential of quantitative evidence to reveal qualitative conclusions. In a study based on the evidence of early modern probate inventories – in conjunction with contemporary texts and images – the capacity of the relational database to tease out nuanced variations in practice indicated by household furnishings makes possible a practice-based reading of the interrelationship between people and objects, and its indication of a changing social dynamic.
Venue: Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House
British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR, UCL)
Thursday, May 26, 5:15 PM
‘”Lying, flattering addresses?” Allegiance, popularity and status in loyal addresses 1658-1661’
Ted Vallance (Roehampton)
Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House
Medieval and Tudor London Seminar (IHR, UCL)
Thursday, May 26, 5.15pm
‘The pre-Fire church of St Botolph Billingsgate’
Stephen Freeth
Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House
