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Things are getting busy! Here are some events taking place this coming week in Cambridge and London.

IN CAMBRIDGE:

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday, October 18 at 5.15pm in G-R06-07

Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck)
‘Wheatcroft’s Written World’

History of Material Texts

Wednesday 19th October, 12:30-2, Board Room, Faculty of English

Matthew Symonds (University College London/CELL) will introduce the Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe Project and the new Digital Bookwheel (http://www.bookwheel.org/viewer/)

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 19th October, 12-1:15pm
English Faculty, Room GR03

Dr Jonathan Willis (University of Birmingham)
‘Towards a Cultural History of Theology: The Ten Commandments and Popular Belief in Reformation England’

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 19 October, 5.15pm,
Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Kate Peters (Murray Edwards)
‘Friction in the archives: contested record-keeping in the English Revolution’

Early Modern European History Seminar

Thursday, 20 October 2016, 1-2pm in the Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

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

Daniel Jütte (Harvard / CRASSH EURIAS Junior Fellow)
Defenestration as Ritual Punishment: Windows, Power, and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe

Writing Women in History Reading Group

Tuesday, October 18, Room 142 (Media Centre) of the Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site from 11.00-12.00.

This term our theme is ‘Women and Religious Communities’, where we will be tracing the experiences of nuns and female missionaries across the Early Modern world, ranging from Florence to Moscow and beyond. Towards the end of term we will also be welcoming a graduate speaker from the University of Warwick who will speak to us about a female convent community in Medieval France.
In our first session, on Tuesday 18th October, we will be looking at convent regulation and the issue of enclosure comparatively in 16th-century Italy and Muscovy (Early Modern Russia). We will be reading an article by Silvia Evangelisti entitled “We do not have it, and we do not want it: Women, Power and Convent Reform in Florence”, in conjunction with some contemporary convent rules, focussing predominantly on a source from a nunnery in Moscow (provided in translation). Email writingwomeninhistory@gmail.com to receive texts in advance of the session, and to be added to the mailing list.

 

IN LONDON:

London Shakespeare Centre (KCL)

Still Shakespeare

Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31)

20/10/2016 (19:00-20:30)

Part of the Arts and Humanities Festival 2016.

Presented by the London Shakespeare Centre as part of Shakespeare400

This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required via eventbrite.

Please direct enquiries to ahri@kcl.ac.uk.

Register at https://stillshakespearescreening.eventbrite.co.uk

‘Still Shakespeare’ – animated shorts screening

Still Shakespeare is a slate of five artists’ short animated films including new works by Shaun Clark, Sharon Liu, Kim Noce and Farouq Suleiman and Jonathan Bairstow. The film aredeveloped in partnership with the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London, animation company Film Club at Th1ng and animation company Sherbet.

The aim of the project was to create contemporary artworks that take iconic Shakespearean imagery as their starting point and respond in a variety of irreverent and original ways, making Shakespeare current and engaging to wide audiences and adding a contemporary element to the Shakespeare400 worldwide celebrations in 2016. The artist filmmakers were given access to the research and expertise of the London Shakespeare Centre.

The key research feeding into the project was the PhD by Sally Barnden, in the Department of English Language & Literature. Sally’s research on the intersection of Shakespeare’s plays, performance and photography is concerned with the way that certain well-known iconic images have been absorbed into a shared cultural memory.

The films will be screened, followed by a discussion of the work with some of the artists and members of the London Shakespeare Centre.

 

London Renaissance Seminar

The London Renaissance Seminar meets at Birkbeck regularly to discuss the literature, culture and history of the English Renaissance. It is free and welcomes all students, academics and people with an interest in the Renaissance or early modern period.

Buried Things in Early Modern Culture: Poetics, Epistemology and Practice

12 – 5 pm, Saturday 22 October 2016

Room 114, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square

What role did the practice and figuration of burial play in producing knowledge in Renaissance England? Drawing connections between literature, natural philosophy, urban history and material culture, speakers explore the significance, uses and problems of the lost and buried in early modern culture.

Featuring Elizabeth Swann (Cambridge): The Consolation of (natural) philosophy: knowing death in early modern England (1:10-1:50)

 

Courtauld Institute of Art

A Graphic Imperative: The impact of print and printed images upon Michelangelo’s design for the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Wednesday 19 October 2016
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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

Free, open to all.

Dr Charles Robertson: Oxford Brookes University

The Sistine Ceiling stands at a cusp of a development in artistic production. While it preceded the moment when printmaking became a fully integrated, and often determining, part of artistic production, through the interaction of Raphael and his followers with Marcantonio Raimondi and other printmakers, the Ceiling was already created when the visual senses of both the artist and his public were already profoundly affected by printmaking and printed illustrated books.  Michelangelo’s earliest work was a painted version of the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Martin Schöngauer, marking only the beginning of an ingrained fascination with prints apparent in his adaptation of printed images by artists ranging from Andrea Mantegna to Albrecht Dürer.  Michelangelo was also particularly drawn to illustrated books. This went well beyond the illustrated vernacular Bibles, that he certainly used, and  provided both specific instances for the Ceilings ichnographic invention together with formal and design solutions. Furthermore it may be suggested that the viability of the stylistic revolution that the Ceiling represented within the broad context of the High Renaissance depended, in part, on an audience which itself avidly consumed a wide range of printed images.

Charles Robertson is Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, Oxford Brookes University.  His research interests and publications include studies of Milanese art and architecture, particularly the work of Bramantino, the relationship of painting and architecture in the Renaissance, the impact of printmaking, and Michelangelo.   He is currently completing a study of Michelangelo’s Last Judgement as a highly contingent work.

 

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar (IHR)

Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated

Thursday, 20 October, 17.15

New: Research clinic.  Bring a research problem, big or small, for the seminar to discuss (and solve?)

 

British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR)

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

Thursday, 20 October, 17:15

DeAnn DeLuna (UCL)
The Monmouth plot of 1675

 

 

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IN CAMBRIDGE

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday 3 May, at 5.15pm in GR06/7.

Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson (Cambridge)

‘Richard II and the Early Modern Almanac’

In its descriptions of the political world, /Richard II/ makes extensive
use of figurative language drawn from both therapeutics and husbandry.
The pattern of this language underpins the play’s nationalism and its
concern with the cyclical nature of kingship; following it can help
explain why, for instance, Richard is a less successful statesman than
Bolingbroke or why the Gardener can so confidently criticise the king.
There is one genre of early modern popular writing that shares the
play’s linguistic field and its vision of history, nationhood, and
political order: the almanac. This paper positions /Richard II/ in the
culture of almanac use that proliferated in the 1590s and asks how much
the experience of reading and applying almanacs to the body and the soil
might have influenced the play’s language and vision. More broadly, it
asks: To what extent can Shakespeare’s interest in the popular practice
of almanac use explain the development of the new historical genre that
he was bringing to the stage in this decade?

Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Lecturer at Selwyn College,
Cambridge. She is the author of /Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and
Culture/ and is editing /Blood Matters/, a collection of
interdisciplinary essays as part of The Blood Project
(www.thebloodproject.net <http://www.thebloodproject.net>). This paper
is part of her current writing on Shakespeare and botany.

EARLY MODERN INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR

Wednesdays 12-1.30pm, SR-24 (Faulty of English)

4th May
Micha Lazarus (Trinity College, Cambridge)
“Nowell’s Little Soldiers: Terence, Seneca, and the God Aesculapius in 1540s Westminster”

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesdays 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

4 May
Ludmilla Jordanova,
‘Career Reflections: Places, People, Periods, Portraits’

History of Christianity Seminar

4 May, 2:15 PM, Lightfoot Room, Cambridge Divinity Faculty

Mr. Jonathan Reimer (Pembroke College)

‘Reconsidering Recantation: The Case of Thomas Bacon’

 

IN LONDON

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

Wednesday May 4, 5.15 pm

Senate House , South block, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

‘The Semiotics of the Body in Medieval Japanese Narratives’

Raj Pandey (Goldsmiths)

This paper suggests that the spirit/ soul/mind/body debates that have been central to Western thought, and that have shaped the core presumptions that have gone into the making of the body as a category, are inadequate for understanding the conception and experience of embodied being in the non-western world. It argues that the mind/body and nature/culture debates have little valence in classical and medieval Japanese texts where both material and mental/emotional processes are seen as central to the constitution of a meaningful body/self. The eleventh century romance narrative The Tale of Genji, for example, suggests an altogether different mode through which the body is imagined and experienced, not as something constituted through flesh, blood, and bones, but rather as an entity that is metonymically linked to robes that are repositories of both the physical and affective attributes of those who wear them.

Venue: Room SH246, 2nd floor, South block, Senate House

There are lots of interesting talks ongoing at the Senate House Library throughout May and June. Anyone interested should check them out here. This week, Professor Gordon McMullan (KCL) will present ‘Shakespeare in 1916: The First World War & the Origins of Global Shakespeare’ on 3 May at 18:30 in the Senate House Library.

Tuesday 3 May, 5.30 pm – History of Libraries research lecture, Warburg Institute

‘Bibliotheca Abscondita’: the Library of Sir Thomas Browne (1604-1682)

Lucy Gwynn, Queen Mary University

Thomas Browne, Norwich physician and one of the great essayists of the seventeenth century, was drawn to the indiscriminate dissolution and ruin brought by the passage of time, as ‘the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy’. His recreation of an impossible wunderkammer – the tract Musaeum clausum et bibliotheca abscondita – catalogued books, objects and artworks that had been lost to time, looting, war, and exile. This paper will compare the narrative of incompleteness and wistful recuperation in Musaeum clausum with my project to reconstruct of the contents of Browne’s own library, now only known to us through the catalogue of its sale in 1711. It will present evidence of Browne’s book ownership and use, and suggest ways in which Browne’s library, its contents, taxonomies and spaces, can be recovered.

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

Thursday, 5 May, 5.15pm

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

‘Medieval London almshouses’

Sarah Lennard-Brown (Birkbeck)

‘Meeting the monks: visitors to the London Charterhouse 1405-1537’
David Harrrap (QMUL)

 

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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

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)

 

 

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Tuesday 23rd February

Renaissance Graduate Seminar, 5.15pm, English Faculty GR06/7

Dr Anna-Maria Hartmann (University of Oxford)

Know your Enemy: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and the Art of Protestant Discernment

 

Wednesday 24th February

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar, 12pm, SG1, English Faculty Board Room
Richard Oosterhoff (CRASSH, Cambridge)

Idiot wit: framing lay knowers in the Northern Renaissance

 

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
John Gallagher (Gonville and Caius),
Learning Languages in Early Modern England

 

Friday 26th February

Early Modern French Research Seminar, New Gallery, Whipple Museum, 2pm

Jennifer Oliver (St. John’s College, Oxford):

Congnoistre l’engin de noz ennemys: Machines and Machinations in Rabelais and Beyond

 

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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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Monday 18th January

 

Fitzwilliam College Literary Society Talk, 5.30pm, Upper Hall 1, Fitzwilliam College Professor Helen Hackett (UCL)                                                                                       The Elizabethan Imagination                                                                                            All welcome. Drinks will be served after the talk. No booking requirement but please contact Hero Chalmers (hac26@cam.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

 

London Shakespeare Seminar, 5.15pm Senate Room, Senate House Library               Preti Taneja (QMUL)                                                                                         Shakespeare responses to the Syrian conflict: a presentation of research from Jordan and Syria 2015-16                                                                                                 Katherine Hennessey (Warwick)                                                                                      ‘All the Perfumes of Arabia’: Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula

 

Wednesday 20th January

 

Things, (Re)constructing the Material World: Alcohol, 12.30pm, Alison Richard SG1         Dr Richard Stone (History, University of Bristol)                                                             What is Cider?  What was Cider?  Recovering Seventeenth Century Material Culture        Dr Deborah Toner (History, University of Leicester)                                                    Pulque and Pulquerías

 

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Richard Ansell (Leicester)                                                                                     Education, Travel and Family Strategy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1650–1750

 

Bibliographical Society Lecture, 5.30pm, Society of Antiquaries, Piccadilly, London     Scott Mandelbrote                                                                                                        Isaac Newton, his library, and the history of scholarship More information here.

 

Thursday 21st January

 

History of Material Texts Seminar, 5pm, SR24

Friday 22nd January

Crossroads of Knowledge, Reading Group                                                              Contact Tim Stuart-Buttle (ts630) for more information.

 

Graduate Lecture Series, 1pm, GR06/07                                                                Rosalind Lintott                                                                                                    Everything you always wanted to know about Isidore of Seville (but were afraid to ask)

 

Early Modern French Seminar, 2pm, Free Gallery, Whipple Museum                           Simon Schaffer (Downing College, Cambridge)
Optical Philosophy in the Republic of Letters

 

Saturday 23rd January

 

Authorship and Attribution in Early Modern Drama: John Marston and Others             Room 114, 43 Gordon Square, London, more information here.

 

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Monday 9th November

London Shakespeare Seminar, 5.15pm, Senate Room, Senate House Library              Brett Gamboa (Dartmouth College)                                                              Shakespearean Metadrama, 2.0                                                                                   More information here.

Tuesday 10th November

Renaissance Research Workshop, on Lisa Jardine’s work and disciplinary legacy. 1.05-1.55pm, English Faculty GR-03. All welcome.

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar, 5pm, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius Penny Roberts (Warwick)                                                                                                “To my very great regret”: Adversity and Opportunity in the Huguenot Exile Experience  More information here.

Wednesday 11th November

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Jessica Crown (Clare)
Scholarship and Service in the Career of Richard Croke (1489–1558)                           More information here.

Thursday 12th November

Early Modern European History Seminar, 1pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College Aurelia Martín Casares (Granada)                                                                               Female trafficking in the Mediterranean: North African women in early modern Spain  More information here.

History of Material Texts Seminar, 5pm, Milstein Seminar Room, CUL                    Catherine Ansorge (University Library)                                                                             Ink and gold; how the Islamic manuscripts came to Cambridge                                    More information here.

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Wednesday 13 May

Centre for Material Texts: Material-Textual Breakfast
9-10.30 am, Social Space, English Faculty

Please join us in the Social Space on the ground floor of the English Faculty for the first ever CMT material-textual-breakfast. This is an opportunity to meet people, to discuss current projects and to firm up plans for the future. Grab a coffee from the ARB (or wherever) and come over. Freshly baked cakes will be provided.

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar                                                                         12-1.30PM, Green Room, Gonville and Caius: 

Matthew Woodcock (University of East Anglia)
‘Tudor Soldier-Authors and the Art of Military Autobiography’

Faculty of History, Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar                             5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall:

John Walter, ‘Career Reflections’

Thursday 14 May

Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies                                                                  5.30pm in the Junior Parlour, The Blue Boar, Trinity College

Stuart M. McManus (Harvard University/Warburg Institute)                                            ‘Quo validis armis capta Manila fuit: inter-imperial rivalry in Bartolomé Saguinsín’s Epigrammata’

In the wake of the failure of the British Occupation of Manila at the end of the Seven Years’ War, a local Tagalog priest, Bartolomé Saguinsín (c. 1694-1772), composed a set of epigrams dedicated to the Lieutenant Governor of the Philippines that celebrated the triumph of Catholic Spanish and Filipino forces over the Protestant British. These epigrams, which I am currently editing, provide a window onto imperial and confessional rivalries in South East Asia in the context of rising British ambitions in the region. As the only surviving account of the Occupation by a Filipino, the work also speaks to the experience of the indigenous people of the Philippines caught in the midst of a global conflict between the “great powers”. In the paper, I will first address the historical and intellectual context of the Epigrammata, then focus on the text of my edition in progress and issues of intertextuality. (For a pdf of the text under discussion, please email Andrew Taylor: awt24@cam.ac.uk) Directions are here. For other inquiries, please contact Andrew Taylor. Sponsored by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Early Modern Italy Seminar 5.15pm Wolfson Room I, IHR, Basement

John Law (Swansea), ‘The Fall of the da Carrara: Insights’

To be followed by UK launch of the Festschrift for the historian of late medieval Padua and Venice, Ben Kohl (1938-2010).

Friday 15 May

Early Modern French Seminar, Fitzwilliam Museum                                              2pm Graham Robertson Study Room, Fitzwilliam Museum

The final seminar of the series will be given by Jane Munro, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam. In an appropriate conclusion to our examination of objects in the collections of the museum, Munro will discuss ‘Fitzwilliam’s French Connections‘: how the museum’s founder took a special interest in the objects and paintings he acquired from early modern France. Munro will be introduced by Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities. All welcome. For those unable to attend, a short account of the paper will be available on this site following the seminar.

Emmanuel College Library Special Collections Lecture                                               2.15pm Laing Centre Atrium, Emmanuel College Library

Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian and Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library

‘A Tale of Two Libraries (and one that got away) Lambeth Palace Library and Sion College Library in the Seventeenth Century’                                                                        Numbers are limited. Booking is essential and entry will be by free ticket only. Please book early by either e-mailing the College Library at library@emma.cam.ac.uk or telephone (01223) (3)34233. A ticket will be sent to you on receipt of booking.

Institute of Historical Research Seminar                                                                        5.15-7.15pm, Senate House, University of London

Jaap Geraerts (UCL) ‘Contested rights: the Dutch Catholic nobility and the jus patronatus, c. 1580-1720′

Saturday 16 May

Institute of English Studies, University of London, EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Seminar                                                     2 – 4pm, Room 104, Senate House (first floor)

Katherine Hunt (Queen’s College, Oxford) ‘The Art of Variation: Church Bells and Combinations in Seventeenth-Century England’