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Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

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Michaelmas 2015 schedule for the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar, held jointly between the faculties of English and History, in the Glover Room, Memorial Court, Clare College.

21 October, 12-1:30pm                                                                                            Dr Tom Hamilton (Trinity College, Cambridge)                                                Remembering the Wars of Religion: Pierre de L’Estoile and the “Drolleries of the League” from Ephemeral Print to Scrapbook History

4 November,12-1:30pm                                                                                                    Dr Daniel Starza Smith (Lincoln College, Oxford)                                                    Unvolving the Mysteries of the Melbourne Manuscript, or, Editing An Anonymous Stuart Play Fragment

18 November, 12-1:30pm                                                                                                 Dr Lizzie Swann (CRASSH, Cambridge)                                                                   ‘Nothing clearer, nothing darker’: Seeing the Light in Early Modern England

2 December, 12-1:30pm                                                                                                   Dr Ceri Law (Queen Mary, University of London)                                                               Conservative Oxford and Puritan Cambridge?  The Making and Maintaining of a Reformation Legend

All welcome. Any queries please contact ab2126@cam.ac.uk, more information here.

Events This Week

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Wednesday 10th June

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar                                                                         12-1.30pm, GR04 English Faculty Building:

Will Rossiter (University of East Anglia)
‘Two English Ambassadors, A Welsh Exile and an Italian Pornographer: Is Pietro Aretino Some Kind of Joke?’

IHR Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar                                                           5.15pm, Montage Room, G26, ground floor, Senate House:

Sophie Read (University of Cambridge)                                                                               The Immaterial Object: Incense in Early Modern Poetry

Warburg Institute Work in Progress Seminar                                                                2.15pm, Lecture Theatre, Warburg Institute:

Stuart McManus
Humanism and Classical Rhetoric in Portuguese Asia during the Renaissance

Friday 12th June

Things That Matter conference: Matter and Materiality in the Early Modern World 9am-7pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building

A one-day conference, Matter and Materiality in the Early Modern World, in collaboration with the CRASSH graduate group Things that Matter seminar series. The conference is funded by the School of Arts and Humanities and supported by the Centre for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). It will be held in the Alison Richard Building, the home of CRASSH.The conference will be centered around the theme of ‘materiality’ in order to acknowledge the current ‘material turn’ in scholarship. This will allow speakers to emphasise how the economic, cultural, and physical attributes of certain materials contributed to understanding the value and connotations of objects in their original contexts. Discussions will also encourage a deeper awareness of the theories of matter that permeated early modern thought and how these philosophies contributed to understanding the meanings of objects in the early modern world. More information and the conference programme 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’

 

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminar

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A seminar taking place next week:

Wednesday 29th April
Interdisciplinary early modern seminar, 12-1.30PM, Green Room, Gonville and Caius.

John Gallagher (Gonville and Caius College): “The Italian London of John North: cultural contact and conflict in early modern England”.

This paper takes as its focus a remarkable document of cultural encounter: the Italian-language diary of an English gentleman in 1570s London. On returning from continental travel in 1577, John North continued to keep the diary he had begun while abroad. What emerges from the diary is a uniquely detailed account of the life of an Italianate gentleman: the clothes, the food, the relationships, the books, and the practices that allowed one young man to remake his Italy in London. It offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day and face-to-face business of cultural contact in a decade when the Anglo-Italian encounter was increasingly fraught. This paper shows how we can use North’s diary to reconstruct the social, material, and sensory words of one Italianate gentleman, and poses broader questions about encounters and their anxieties in early modern England.