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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),

Early Modern World History. Seminar or event series. This seminar grows out of the Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar, founded in the 1980s by Peter Burke (Emeritus Professor of Cultural ... In line with developments in scholarship, the

Dr Matt Raven (Nottingham). May. 2. Charter boundaries and the vernacular in early medieval Wales and England.

Events. Apr. 25. Modern Transimperial History. Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute). ... May. 23. The ‘unwashed multitude’: Comparing colonial crowds in post-emancipation Jamaica and early twentieth-century Cape Town.

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. The Eighteenth Century. Seminar or event series. The Eighteenth Century Seminar is a post-graduate seminar, sponsored by the Faculty of History, aiming to explore topics of shared

Anna-Marie Pípalová. PhD Candidate in Early Modern History. Image. I am a PhD Candidate in Early Modern History, working on seventeenth-century Bohemian scholarship. ... I am interested in Central European and Habsburg history in the early modern period

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Byzantine Worlds. Seminar or event series. The Byzantine Worlds Seminar provides a venue for exploring the material and intellectual entanglements between the medieval worlds of the

separately—the Lutheran Reformation, the early modern Mediterranean, and the history of cultural encounter—were once a single arena of experience and investigation. ... I supervise for Part I, Paper 16 (European History, 1450-1760) and also lecture,

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

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

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. American History. Seminar or event series. Cambridge American History Seminar 2023-24. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00pm in the William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College,

In this way, the thesis contributes a missing piece to the complex history of the effects of humanist educational practices on the religious landscape of early modern Europe. ... Paris vs. Basel (a prequel): the patristic editions of Jacques Lefèvre

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Global Economic History. Seminar or event series. The Global Economic History Seminar began in April 2017. It is intended to showcase and discuss papers that examine comparisons and

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

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

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

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.

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?

1100 and 1600; Scott Mandelbrote’s interests' range across early modern British and European intellectual history, in particular the history of scholarship and the history of science; Brendan Simms works on ... modern European history, with interests

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

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).

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

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.

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Public and Popular History. Seminar or event series. What happens when history narratives are produced not for library bookshelves but for a mass audience? Does popularization of

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

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

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.”

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

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

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Medieval Economic and Social History. Seminar or event series. Cambridge has a strong tradition in the economic and social history of the middle ages, and this seminar has long been

Kerr Dissertation Awards. We congratulate him on this prestigious award. "Yahya Nurgat’s dissertation advances and nuances current scholarship on confessionalization in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire through a sophisticated investigation

His dissertation, “Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences,” explored how Jesuit missionaries’ experiences of the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644 transformed several ostensibly “European” sciences

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

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

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

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

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

by Ted Tregear. Michelle O’Callaghan, Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation. ... While the poets and poems these anthologies collect have been installed in the early modern canon, the anthologies

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

It would be impossible to exaggerate the contribution of Margaret Hannay to founding and grounding the now burgeoning field of scholarship on Early Modern Women Writers. ... Second, her roles as wife and mother made her sensitive to similar expressions

This is, in short, a formidably learned book that has a claim on the attention of anyone interested in early modern European thought. ... Popper’s topic here is not narrative technique or structure, but Ralegh’s approach to early modern scholarship

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

by William J. Humphries. Gordon, Andrew. Writing Early Modern London: Memory, Text and Community. ... Nevertheless, a comparative reading of these books allows us to evaluate their contributions to early modern urban scholarship with greater clarity.

A starter for ten: which poet and what text(s) in early-modern British literary history were most influential in the development of narrative religious poetry and Protestant epic? ... support for his opening assertions on the centrality of Du Bartas to