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In 2017, I co-founded the ongoing Cambridge Seminar in Early Modern Scholarship and Religion together with Tim Twining and Kirsten Macfarlane. ... Early Modern European and Mediterranean history; Jewish history; intellectual history; history of

Before joining the Cambridge Faculty in 2016, I was Lecturer in early modern literature at the University of York. ... The Homeric Question in the Sixteenth Century: Early Modern Scholarship and the Text of Homer’, Renaissance Quarterly, 68 (2015),

Friday 11 November, 12.30-2, Portrait Room, Christ’s College. (in association with the Seminar in Early Modern Scholarship and Religion). ... Varieties of Writing Papers in Early Modern England’. All seminars will take place in the Faculty of English

Before joining the Cambridge Faculty in 2016, I was Lecturer in early modern literature at the University of York. ... The Homeric Question in the Sixteenth Century: Early Modern Scholarship and the Text of Homer’, Renaissance Quarterly, 68 (2015),

Ovid’s poetry in the Early Modern era; although Elizabethan and Jacobean engagements with the Metamorphoses—and, increasingly, the Heroides—routinely command critical attention, the reception of Ovid’s Amores remains ... This is a work of

Friday 11 November, 12.30-2, Portrait Room, Christ’s College. (in association with the Seminar in Early Modern Scholarship and Religion).

in the process the way embodied memory affected the form and focus of early modern verse. ... Building on the scholarship of writers like Michael Schoenfeldt and Gail Paster, who derive a description of early modern interiority and selfhood from early

The College currently has five Fellows in History and allied subjects who cover, between them, ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern history, and who teach a number of papers in British, ... and the relationship between law and politics between

Edmund Spenser and Animal Life. A colloquium at the University of Sussex, Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies Friday 18th June 2021. ... Led by scholars such as Erica Fudge, Laurie Shannon, Bruce Boehrer, and Karen Raber, this is a critical and

Chapters 3 and 4 consider major trends in Early Modern monster studies, Spenserian scholarship on monsters, and the gap opening up between them. ... And should we accept that the Early Modern mermaid’s identity is profoundly incoherent (8)?

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Medieval Encounters. Seminar or event series. Medieval encounters is an interdisciplinary medieval seminar series, supported by the Trevelyan Fund and the History Faculty. Seminars

Modern British History. Seminar or event series. The Modern British History seminar showcases new scholarship in the field, stretching from the 18th to the late 20th centuries and covering a range

The Global Early Modern Period: Global Perspectives on Modernity and History (Dr Dror Weil).. ... Thesis. The thesis is Part II of the MPhil in Early Modern History.

Led by scholars such as Erica Fudge, Laurie Shannon, Bruce Boehrer, and Karen Raber, this is a critical and philosophical approach that has lately gained much traction in early modern scholarship.

5-30 pm GMT, 9 February (Online Only):. Mark Stout (Johns Hopkins), ‘Modern American Intelligence and the First World War’. ... President Woodrow Wilson’s efforts to negotiate an early end the First World War in 1916 and early 1917.

It should come as little surprise to scholars working in a field with two names—Renaissance and Early Modern—that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a Janus-faced era, a ... alongside recent literary studies of Early Modern scientific

Textual Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England' (Cambridge International Scholarship); Patrick McGhee, 'Heathenism in the Protestant Atlantic World' (AHRC Studentship; now Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary); Frederick Smith, 'Catholic Mobility

The Modern Cultural History Seminar meets in the Caius College Senior Parlour, at 5pm on Wednesdays. ... The Modern Cultural History Workshop is a graduate-organized series for works-in-progress from both MPhil and PhD students that meets alternately

But twenty years after the initial development of scholarship on the global early modern, this consensus is shattering. ... Or, what evidence do we have of global connections/ circulations in the early modern period?

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. African Economic History. Seminar or event series. The African Economic History Seminar began in January 2018; as far as we know, the only regular research seminar dedicated to the

revaluation of the role of Islam and the “East” in Early Modern literary-political culture. ... and most important exploration of Persia and Persian empire on the early modern stage” (127).

Modern European History. Seminar or event series. The Modern European History Research seminar is the focal point in Cambridge for graduates and scholars in European history from c. ... Events. May. 7. Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the

to be Prussia’s opposite with a farmer-dominated social structure leading to stable democratization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Modern Irish History. Seminar or event series. The Modern Irish History Seminar is a research seminar of the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge.

of thought can yield significant insights into how the early modern theatre compels belief. ... Starting, then, with the premises: although in part one of the book she offers a fair and comprehensive conspectus of the ‘turn to religion’ in early

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. English Legal History. Seminar or event series. The Centre for English Legal History was established in 2012 and continues the long history of learning and research in English Legal

by Ian Balfour. Patrick Cheney, English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime: Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare. ... One can learn an awful lot from English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime.

Rethinking Feminism is true to its name in so far as it is largely a ‘rethinking’ of the major trends in early modern identity scholarship from the past few decades; one ... Sanchez, Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies," Spenser Review 48.1.9

In spite of the growing body of scholarship now devoted to early modern racial formation, few scholars have explored Edmund Spenser’s treatment of race outside of his treatment of the ... Scholarship on The View of the Present State of Ireland has

Frances E. Dolan provides an Exploration on ‘Hester Pulter and the Blazon in early modern England’ that would be a valuable addition to an early modern survey syllabus. ... The content is rigorously edited, yet approachable to users new to early

by Joe Moshenska. The Senses in Early Modern England 1558-1660, edited by Simon Smith, Jackie Watson and Amy Kenny. ... This has been particularly true of scholars concerned with the Early Modern period, upon which Ginzburg’s essay focused.

by Edel Lamb. Judith Owens, Emotional Settings in Early Modern Pedagogical Culture: ‘Hamlet’, ‘The Faerie Queene’, and ‘Arcadia’. ... Looking beyond the coercion and violent discipline commonly advocated as a pedagogical method and the focus

Early Modern History. Research theme. Cambridge has long been a leading centre for the study of early modern history. ... Early modern historians also participate in a number of collaborative research centres, projects, and networks.

Venue: Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College. Joint meeting with the Modern European History Research seminar.

printed texts of thousands of early modern ballads in a searchable, user-friendly database. ... For example, EBBA provides an intriguing beta version of a mapping project by Eric Nebeker titled “Geography of the London Ballad Trade, 1500-1700.”

Combining the deepest erudition with lively discussion, Alastair Minnis opens up a compelling area of Medieval scholarship. ... He shows how thinking about paradise enabled Medieval and Early Modern minds not simply to wonder what Eden might have been

Ong on concepts like ‘orality’ and ‘print culture’. While book history is a firmly established element of early modern studies and the study of ‘material culture’ continues to inform scholarship, Richards’ ... Richards’ Introduction

social role of Herrick’s poetry, and also on “the mechanics of scribal publication and the culture of reading, writing and performing poetry and music in early modern England” (II.5). ... The account of the printing and publishing

Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship.

that these Romano-British origins ‘have been insufficiently attested by scholarship on the early modern period’ (14) is to overlook the recent contributions of Lynn Staley and others to these ... While the study underplays the amount of recent

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

This element of the project may appeal to the more traditional scholar of Spenser, his poetry, and Early Modern Ireland. ... With collaborators at ECU’s University Multimedia Center, Herron has positioned his project as a competent bridge between

Brownlee’s first chapter focuses on how ordinary Protestants found personal meaning in the scriptures, quoting current scholarship, early modern admonitions from Thomas Cranmer, William Tyndale, and John Downham (among others). ... Brownlee’s fourth

Humanist scholarship has argued at times that “humanity” in its modern sense is a creation of the early modern period (specifically a creation of Shakespeare’s, if one believes Harold ... As a reading of Malory, however, it seems too modern in its

Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship.

type from her personal experience, rather than actually examining Early Modern print or its records. ... The Making of a Broadside Ballad has introduced enough variables in practice to raise substantial questions that should be addressed by solid

Ultimately, Maus’s book functions best as a provocation rather than a definitive statement about the Early Modern relationship between personhood and property. ... There is certainly an opportunity for cross-pollination between Early Modern and

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

Andrew Hadfield, In the Blood: Spenser, Race, and Identity. Notions of race based on blood and inheritance are widespread in the early modern period. ... This essay explores the losses that Spenser studies has incurred in its neglect of the scholarship