IN CAMBRIDGE
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
