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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. Thursday 2nd February, 5pm in Room 9 of the History Faculty. ... behind. Using qualitative indicators I will question the notion of divergence in a continental perspective, offering case studies and

In paying more attention to the processes of consumption, attention is focused on social and economic aspects of the country house – a broadening of perspective which can offer a more rounded ... Collecting or consuming – motivations to consume; the

The world of letters played a crucial role in helping to assimilate, explore and influence this changing world: from histories of civil society to economic philosophy, merchant handbooks and, last but ... the diverse literatures of commerce and their

Every Phonetic Institute publication advertised that ‘Any Person may receive lessons from the Author by post gratuitously. ... Each lesson must be enclosed in a paid letter. The pupil can write about a dozen verses from the Bible, leaving spaces

post-colonial economic policies in Africa.

September 19th, 2014An early reader of a 1570 Euclid — possibly Sir Thomas Tresham — learns the hard lesson that neither number nor magnitude have any materiality.

February 26th, 2013Tuesday morning, 8.10 am, Ben’s cello lesson. He’s only eight so he has to have something to get his knees up to the right height.

I conclude with a rhetorical reading of Petrarch’s Seniles 17.3 to explore how the “lesson” of style has been incorporated and naturalized in literary production.

Her work combines current research into economic and material history with an approach to the history of ideas associated with Quentin Skinner. ... The final section then looks at political and economic ideas of luxury in seventeenth-century culture,