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Things-(Re)constructing the Material World Seminar

‘Bronze’

8 June 2016, 12:00 – 14:00

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

Dr Victoria Avery (Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge)
Andrew Lacey (Artist and Independent Scholar)

Bronze was used in Renaissance Italy for numerous types of functional objects (artillery, bells, coins, lamps, inkwells) as well as decorative ones (equestrian monuments, statues, busts, medals). Extremely expensive, meaning-laden and complex to produce, works of art cast in bronze were desirable status symbols for Humanist patrons, and proofs of incredible technical mastery by sculptors and casters. Sculpture historian, Vicky Avery, and sculptor-founder, Andrew Lacey, will discuss ‘bronze in Italy c. 1500’ in terms of its meanings, usage and technology, focussing on the enigmatic Rothschild Bronzes, recently attributed to Michelangelo.

Open to all.  No registration required .

 

IN LONDON

Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture

Thursday 9 June 2016, 19.00
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe

‘Remembering and forgetting Shakespeare (and Cervantes and Jonson and Beaumont), or, what 1616 (and 1916) did for us.’
Professor Gordon McMullan (KCL) gives the 2016 Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture.
http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/education/events/lectures-talks/fellowship

 

All the World’s a stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas

Friday 10 June 2016, 10.30-17.00
Conference Centre, The British Library
This study day brings together leading specialists to explore Shakespeare’s cultural presence in Europe and the Americas.
http://www.bl.uk/events/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeare-in-europe-and-the-americas

 

British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 9 June, 5.15pm

“His Lands as well as Goods / Sequestered ought to be”: the introduction of sequestration, 1642-3

Charlotte Young (RHUL)

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

 

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 9 June, 5.15pm

Building Henry VII’s Savoy Hospital, 1505-1520

Charlotte A Stanford (Brigham Young University)

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

 

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Early Modern French Seminar

Friday 3 June, 2-4 PM, New Gallery, Whipple Museum, Free School Lane

Alexander Marr, Department of History of Art and Trinity Hall, Cambridge

‘Simon Vouet’s Satyrs, Anamorphosis and an Elephant’

 

IN LONDON:

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar (IHR)

Wednesday, 1 June, 5.15 pm

‘Urinating in early modern England: gender, space and iconoclasm’

Tim Reinke Williams (Northampton)

This paper, part of a broader project on masculinity and the body, explores when and where men urinated in early modern England. Existing scholarship has argued that leaky bodies were configured by early modern people as effeminate and weak, a thesis which this paper will question by arguing that for men, and sometimes women, urinating was a form of empowerment and might be a political action which enabled the desecration of particular objects. By considering places, circumstances and objects, as well as the positive uses to which urine was put, the paper will extend and modify existing understandings of gendered bodies in early modern England.

Venue: Gordon Room G34, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

 

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 5 May, 5.15pm

‘Medieval London almshouses’

Sarah Lennard-Brown (Birkbeck)

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

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

 

 

 

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Things-(Re)constructing the Material World

25 May 2016, 12:30-2 PM

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

‘Slaves’

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

 

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Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday 17 May, at 5.15pm in GR06/7 in the Faculty of English

Michael Schoenfeldt, ‘New pleasures and old pain: Donne and sensation’.

Throughout his rich and varied corpus, John Donne repeatedly seeks
meaning in the sensations of pleasure and pain. His literary career is
marked by robust avowals of the pleasures of lyric intimacy, as well as
by urgent expositions of the conventional pains of religious suffering.
In this paper, I argue that part of what is distinctive and compelling
about Donne is his careful attention to sensation. While Donne may have
only been partly successful in the attempt to find a lexicon of
suffering that could escape an inherited logic of redemptive pain, he
succeeded admirably in the effort to carve out an emergent discourse of
sanctioned erotic pleasure.

Michael Schoenfeldt is the John Knott Professor of English at the
University of Michigan, where he has taught since he received his Ph.D.
from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. He is also a Life
Member of Clare Hall. He is the author of /Prayer and Power: George
Herbert and Renaissance Courtship/ (University of Chicago Press, 1991),
/Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in
Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton/ (Cambridge, 1999) and /The
Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Poetry/ (2010); and editor of
the /Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets/ (2006).He is
currently editing /John Donne in Context/ for Cambridge, working on a
book for Blackwell’s entitled /Reading Seventeenth-Century Poetry/, and
researching a book-length study of pain and pleasure in early modern
England.

 

Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network Annual Lecture

‘The Habsburgs and their Eastern Neighbours: Re-evaluating the Religious Landscape of 16th-century Central Europe’

Tuesday, 17th May 2016, Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall, 5pm-6:30pm

Professor Howard Louthan (Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota)

While relations between the Habsburgs and their Valois, Tudor, and Ottoman rivals have been well studied, their connections with their eastern neighbors, the Jagiellonians, have not been examined with the same degree of scrutiny.  The paper will first offer an overview of the complicated web of relationships that developed between the two families.   I will then argue that a fixation with diplomatic and dynastic history has obscured our vision of a common cultural and intellectual landscape the families shared.  We will pay specific attention to a great scandal that occurred in mid-sixteenth century Poland and unpack that incident to explore some of the distinctive features of a multiconfessional religious culture that developed across Central Europe during the Age of Reform.

 

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 18 May, 12-1:30 PM

Liesbeth Corens (Jesus College, Cambridge):

‘Witnessing, Mission, and English Catholic Counter-Archives’

SR-24, Faculty of English

 

Cambridge Medieval Paleography Workshop

Friday 20 May 2016, Milstein Seminar Room, Cambridge University Library, 2-4 PM.

Dr. Katya Chernakova: Title To Be Announced.

Dr. Eyal Poleg: ‘The Late Medieval Bible’

The Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop is a forum for informal discussion on medieval script and scribal practices, and on the presentation, circulation and reception of texts in their manuscript contexts. Each workshop focuses upon a particular issue, usually explored through one or more informal presentations and general discussion. All are welcome.

 

 

IN LONDON:

Courtauld Institute of Art

Renaissance Work-in-Progress seminars

‘Titian and the Renaissance Model’

Wednesday 18 May 2016 – 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

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

Dr Joost Keizer: University of Groningen
Titian’s models muddle the boundaries between art and life. They lived in two worlds: in the social world and the world of the artwork. The questions assembled in the model were therefore not just aesthetic; they also redefined art’s relationship to life. How much distance should art take from lived experience? And how much does our perception of reality change when art trespasses the territory of the real? These questions are the subject of this talk.

Dr Joost Keizer (PhD Leiden University ’08) is Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. He has written Michelangelo and the Politics of Art (Yale University Press), The Realism of Piero della Francesca: The Life & the Work (Ashgate), and a book on Leonardo da Vinci with illustrations by Christina Christoforou (Laurence King). He has co-edited a volume on The Transformation of the Vernacular in Early Modernity. And he has published articles on Michelangelo, fifteenth-century portraiture, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, and the concept of style.

 

Institute of Historical Research (UCL):

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar

Wednesday, 18 May, 5.15 pm

‘Divers other trifles: the material culture of the sugar banquet in early modern England’

Louise Stewart

In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, sweet banquets consisting of preserved fruits, confections such as comfits and lozenges, and sculptures in sugar paste or marzipan were a significant element of aristocratic and gentry sociability.  Indeed, an elite person in early modern England would expect to be entertained with a sweet banquet at every wedding, christening and funeral as well as at other significant social occasions hosted by their peers.  What meanings did the banquet hold that led it to be so closely associated with these important life events?

This paper invites the audience to tour the spaces in which foods for the banquet were prepared and consumed; the banqueting house, the sweetmeat closet, and the child-bed chamber.  Inventories of these spaces, surviving material culture and contemporary descriptions of banqueting provide new insights as to why the sugar banquet was so pervasive in early modern England.  It provided opportunities for participants to demonstrate their refined manners, excellent education, good connections, virtue and inherent nobility.  As a cultural practice which was associated with femininity, did the sugar banquet also provide opportunities for female empowerment and creative expression?

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

 

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar

Thursday, 19 May, 5.15pm

Gogmagog and Corineus: from the West Country to the New Troy 
‘Trojans and giants on the sea-coast of Totnes’
John Clark (Museum of London)

‘Gogmagog come(s) to London’
Alixe Bovey (Courtauld Institute of Art)

 

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

 

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CRASSH: Things That Matter

11 May 2016, 12:00 – 14:00

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

Dr Stella Panayotova (Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge)

History of Material Texts Seminar 

Thursday, 12 May at 5 PM

Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), ‘Errant commas, absent pages, and shifting typos: the strange bibliographical world of Jonathan Swift’s English political works’

Venue: Keynes Room, CUL

Early Modern Economic and Social History

12 May, 5pm in Room 12 of the History Faculty.

Hülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
(with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci)

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

Studies of slavery in the Ottoman Empire focus on slavery among and for the official elite in the capital, with an emphasis on the 15th and 16th centuries, on the trade and its abolition in the 19th century, or more recently, on microhistories of slave lives beyond the harems and military households of the official elite. This study builds on the latter two trends. Using probate inventories from the city of Bursa and its hinterland, it examines long-term patterns in slave ownership and employment among commoners as well as the local elite. Probate evidence indicates that slave-holding steadily declined over the four centuries examined and by the time of its abolition, was already a marginal practice in this important provincial city. Price trends reveal a decline from the 18th century onwards, suggesting that declining ownership was due to causes other than supply and prices. We present statistics of ownership and characteristics of the slave body, and examine prices and supply and demand in connection with wages and purchasing power.

Early Modern French Seminar at the Whipple Museum

Friday 13th of May, 2-4pm in the New Gallery, Whipple Museum, Free School Lane.

Raphaële Garrod, CRASSH and Newnham College, Cambridge ‘L’opinion fantastique et trop gaillarde de Copernicque’: on three argument uses of cosmological novelties (Belleforest, Montaigne, Binet)

IN LONDON

Friday 13 May 2016, 12.15-13.45
Playing the Curtain with Dr Lucy Munro
Mortimer Wheeler House, 46 Eagle Wharf Road, London
From the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson in the 1590s to those of Dekker, Ford and Rowley in the 1620s, the Curtain was one of the most enduring performance places in early modern London. This talk will explore some highlights of this long history, from Jonson’s humours comedy and Shakespeare’s romantic comedies and histories to the topical story of The Witch of Edmonton and lost plays such as Henry the Unable, The Plantation of Virginia and The Man in the Moon Drinks Claret.
http://www.mola.org.uk/events/playing-curtain-dr-lucy-monroe

Leonardo da Vinci Society annual lecture

‘Art and Anatomy in the 15th and 16th Centuries’

Friday 13 May 2016 – 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Prof. Andrew Gregory: University College London

The developments in art in the 15th and 16th centuries brought with them a new interest in proportion, perspective and the accurate depiction of the human body. How did this affect the science of anatomy? This talk discusses the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Vesalius and Fabricius and looks at how the nature of the new art inspired and shaped a new wave of research into the structure of the human body and how such knowledge was transmitted in visual form. This ultimately led to a revolution in our understanding of anatomy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

 

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar

Wednesday, 11 May, 5.15 pm

‘Bloody Matters in Early Modern Drama and Culture: The Blood that is Shed, The Blood That is Said, The Blood That is Read’
Stephen Curtis

In it I will examine the various ways in which blood is used, read and interpreted in early modern tragedy paying particular attention to the material and corporeal aspects of its dramatic power. I will consider the religious and sacrificial origins of spectacular bloodshed, the practicalities of staging such sanguinary spectacle and conclude by exploring shifts in the cultural significance of blood in the light of scientific and medical developments in the early seventeenth century. I will argue that blood demands to be read and that understanding its materiality is key to this process of bloody hermeneutics.

Venue: Bloomsbury Room G35, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

British History in the 17th Century Seminar

Thursday, 12 May, 5.15pm

‘E.H.: printer of Marvell and Hobbes’
Martin Dzelzainis (Leicester)

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

Institute of Historical Research (UCL)

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar

Thursday, 12 May, 5.15pm

‘Henry Yevele and the building of the London Bridge Chapel’

Christopher Wilson (UCL)

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

 

Warburg Institute

Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 5:15 PM

Words and Things: Naming the Limits of Reason in Early Modern Culture

Alberto Frigo (University of Reims)
‘The Invention of Connoiseurship’

Richard Scholar (Oriel College, University of Oxford)
‘The Invention of Utopia’

Classroom 1, at the Warburg Institute

 

Senate House Library

Editing Shakespeare

This talk considers how Shakespeare’s text has evolved over the last 400 years. Theories about the purpose of editing and narratives about the origin of Shakespeare’s text and its transmission into print vary over time and editors take great pains to present their rationales as more fitting to the task of representing Shakespeare to their readers than the methods used by their predecessors. However, the impact of editorial theories on the editing of Shakespeare is not always straightforward and, while change occurs, thus suggesting that the editorial tradition is evolutionary and progressive, some editorial practices tend to endure, revealing a recurrent desire to perfect Shakespeare.

Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English Department at King’s College London. She has published widely on the history of the transmission of Shakespeare on the stage and on the page, focusing specifically on the evolution of Shakespeare’s texts in print before 1709 and on the appropriation of Shakespeare across different languages, media and cultures in the late 20C and early 21C.

WHEN

Tuesday, 10 May 2016 from 18:30 to 19:30 (BST)

WHERE

Senate House Library – Senate House Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-shakespeare-tickets-21452279345?ref=ebtn

 

Shakespeare’s Common Prayers

The Book of Common Prayer was the most popular book in early modern England; it was also a key source for Shakespeare’s plays of the period 1598-1606, in which the playwright repeatedly borrows the phrases and instructions from church rites and transforms them into dense, precise theatrical moments. When Rosalind pretends to merry Orlando, or when Macbeth considers his terrible guilt, each are really re-phrasing the Book of Common Prayer, and this paper will explore how Shakespeare adapted, stole, and metamorphosed this vital source.

Daniel Swift is the author of Shakespeare’s Common Prayers (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Bomber County (Hamish Hamilton, 2010), as well as the editor of the Selected Poems of John Berryman (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2014). He is Senior Lecturer in English at the New College of the Humanities.

WHEN

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00 (BST)

WHERE

Senate House Library – Senate House Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespeares-common-prayers-tickets-21480671266?ref=ebtn

 

 

 

 

 

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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)

 

 

Change and Exchange, 29 – 30 April 2016

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Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Screenshot 2016-01-13 12.57.05This two-day colloquium will explore ideas of change and exchange – and their implicit interrelation – across various early modern domains engaged with ways of knowing. It will put pressure on the wider notion of ‘economy’ itself and how it inflects our knowledge, management and articulations of the world. Using literary interventions and imaginative representations as a point of entry, these ‘exchanges’ will probe the dialogue between the period’s economic thinking and practices on the one hand, and the calculus of emotional and imaginative lives on the other. Day 1 will concentrate on economies of transformation across theology, law, literature and the aesthetics of representation; Day 2 will focus mainly on the cross-overs between the technologies of change in the market-place, and transactions in the sphere of cultural production.

This event is part of the research project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, a five-year ERC-funded project based at the Faculty of English and CRASSH, University of Cambridge.

Convenors:

Rachel E. Holmes, Subha Mukherji, Tim Stuart-Buttle, Elizabeth L. Swann

More information, programme and abstracts here.

DETAIL FROM QUENTIN MATSYS (1456/1466–1530), THE MONEYLENDER AND HIS WIFE (1514), WIKIMEDIA COMMONS