Hilary 2024

Convenors: Noel Malcolm (All Souls) and Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen)

Time: Thursdays. Weeks 1-6, & 8. 14.00–16.00.

Venue: Hovenden Room, All Souls College (Access is via the entrance to the College on the High Street – please ask at the porter’s lodge for further directions, or consult the information at https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/visiting-the-college)

Week 1: Thursday 18 January. 

‘Fire, Vulcanus, Archeus: A Close-Distant Analysis of the Evolution of Parcelsus’s Thought on Active Agents’

Speaker: Dr Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)

Week 2: Thursday 25 January.

‘Cardano the Pre-Cartesian’

Speaker: Prof Ian Maclean (All Souls, Oxford)

Week 3: Thursday 1 February.

‘When Reason is against a Man: Anticlerical Legacies from Hobbes to Paine’

Speaker: Dr Elad Carmel (Jyväskylä)

Week 4: Thursday 8 February.

‘A World Maker Late to the Party: John Witty (c. 1682–1712) and Mosaic Creation Within a Pedagogic Context’

Speaker: Dr Natasha Bailey

Week 5: Thursday 15 February.

‘Quakers, Collegiants, and Spinoza’

Speaker: Dr Russ Leo (Princeton)

Week 6: Thursday 22 February.

‘Rethinking Renaissance Medicine’

Speaker: Prof Vivian Nutton (UCL)

Week 8: Thursday 7 March.

‘Was Printing an Agent of Change? The Case of Academic Theology’

Speaker: Dr Christa Lundberg (St Catherine’s, Cambridge)

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Any changes to the programme will be posted on the Events page of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History (https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/).

Convenor(s): Margaret Bent and Matthew P. Thomson

Time: Thursdays. Weeks 2, 5, 8. 17.00.

Venue: Online only via Zoom. If you are planning to attend a seminar this term, please register using this form. For each seminar, those who have registered will receive an email with the Zoom invitation and any further materials a couple of days before the seminar. If you have questions, please just send an email to all.souls.music.seminars@gmail.com. Please note, this address will now be the main point of contact for these seminars.

Week 2: Thursday 25 January. 17.00-19.00.

‘Roman de Volvelles: A Story of Revolving Diagrams in Early Modern Quadrivial Texts’

Speaker: Susan Forscher Weiss (Peabody Instute and the Johns Hopkins University)

Discussants: Mary Carruthers (Oxford and New York University) and Michael Dodds (North Carolina

School for the Arts)

Abstract: Recent scholarly attentionon has focused on diagrams in early modern quadrivial texts. Representations of hands in musical texts reveal nuanced differences in their inscriptions. In addition to the hand, other diagrams such as trees and geometric shapes, particularly the circle, symbolize new ways of thinking about music that stretch the limits of the gamut. These diagrams also reveal that music was aligning itself with discourse and language that united the two artes, mathematical and rhetorical. That these diagrams imply movement is reinforced by the presence of 3-D interactive wheel charts known as volvelles, early versions of analog computers, by-products of an expanding interest in the science of navigation. These devices appear in manuscripts as early as the 1100 CE, as visual enforcements and pedagogical aids for learning both visually and kinesthetically in astronomy, astrology, calendrical calculations, cryptography, navigation, and architecture. In this paper, I will trace the progression of diagrams in musical sources leading to arguably the earliest musical text containing a set of windowed volvelles, Ambrosius Wilfflingseder’s Erotemata musices practicae, published in Nuremberg in 1563, and how these images reflect changes in music theory and practice that demonstrate a shift from a vocal toward an instrumental conceptualization of music.

Week 5: Thursday 15 February. 1700 - 1900.

‘New Interpretations and Contexts for the Motet Fragments Basel 71 and 72 ca. 1400’

Speaker: Johanna-Pauline Thöne (University of Oslo)

Discussants: Antonio Calvia (Università di Pavia), Kévin Roger (University of Tours) and Anne Stone (CUNY Graduate Center).

Abstract: Since their discovery by Wulf Arlt and Martin Steinmann some thirty years ago, two independent parchment fragments now housed at the University Library of Basel – the bifolio FIX.71 and the single folio NI6.72 (hereafter Basel71 and Basel72) – have awaited detailed study. This paper analyses, from multiple perspectives, the two different versions of the same fourteenth-century motet uniquely and incompletely recorded in these fragments. I shall not only untangle the complex voice transmission and musical structure of this motet, but also explore the chronology and interdependence of its two alternative poetic texts: …Papam querentes/Gaudeat et exultet (triplum and motetus in Basel71, concerning the papal schism of 1378) and Novum sidus orientis (triplum in Basel72, drawn from a Franciscan sequence). Finally, I discuss the composition’s striking musical and possibly also historical connections to the widely transmitted motet Rex Karole/Leticie pacis/Virgo prius, which is also partially preserved in Basel72. Overall, this remarkable case raises overdue and somewhat unexpected questions concerning manuscript transmission, compositional process, political propaganda, and musical and poetic creativity in the late fourteenth century.

Week 8: Thursday 7 March. 1700 - 1900.

‘Guillaume Du Fay between the Church and Two Courts: A Reassessment of his Biography’

Speaker: Barbara Haggh-Huglo (University of Maryland at College Park)

Discussants: Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago) and Reinhard Strohm (University of Oxford)

Abstract: In this paper, I reassess Du Fay's biography to emphasize his years in Savoy that I claim defined his career and his fame. A gap in his biography in 1433-34 corresponds to Auclou's travel from Rome to Dijon to bring a Miraculous Host to Duke Philip, the birth of his son Charles to whom Du Fay willed his music, and the court's travels to the Savoy wedding of 1434: a stay of Du Fay in Dijon would explain Duke Philip’s subsequent promotion of his career. At Philip’s court in 1433 was Henri Arnaut de Zwolle: K. Sachs associates a short text on counterpoint in the Buxheim Organ Book (with Du Fay songs) with a Dijon organ drawn by Zwolle, and language in Martin Le Franc’s Le Champion des Dames suggests Du Fay did play the portative organ. Le Champion includes a set of arguments against and for the Virgin Mary’s conception without Original Sin used by Carlier in his Parisian commentary on the Sentences suggesting Le Franc knew Carlier’s text. While in Savoy, Du Fay spent the winter of 1438/39 with Louis I of Savoy and Anne, where Le Franc may have heard him. Such stays in court castles during Du Fay’s Savoy years lead me to reassess the transfer of the Shroud to Louis I and music by Du Fay, including two songs and a rediscovered fragment of his Missa Ecce ancilla Domini. When Du Fay returned to Cambrai as a composer of distinct renown, he sought to raise the Cathedral’s music to court standards. His testamentary documents, post-mortem recognition by Dominicans and Franciscans, and the fate of his chant composed in Savoy for the Cambresian Recollectio festorum beate Marie virginis bear witness to his years in Savoy. That Du Fay, the priest, lacks the anecdotes of the later Josquin but was praised by Le Franc as a ‘most eminent and utterly modest musical practitioner’ corresponds to his appreciation by the two dukes who employed him in times of war and theological and political division.

Convenor(s): Hanna Sinclair and Maximilian Diemers.

Time: Mondays. Weeks 3, 5, 7. 16.30 (UK time)

Venue: Memorial Room, Jesus College.

Week 3: Monday 29 January, 16.30.

‘The Rediscovery of Artemisia Gentileschi’s long-lost Susanna and the Elders – part of a Digital Project Reconstructing Charles I and Henrietta Maria’s Art Collection’

Speaker: Niko Munz (Balliol College, Oxford)

Week 5: Monday 12 February, 16.30.

‘The Besieged Court: Ruling Women as Military Defenders in Scandinavia and Beyond’’

Speaker: Cathleen Sarti (Balliol College, Oxford)

Week 7: Monday 26 February, 16.30. Please note that this week's seminar will take place in the Ship Street Centre, Jesus College.

‘Heralds as Courtiers'

Speaker: Patric Dickinson (Secretary of the Order of the Garter, former Clarenceux King of Arms) 

Week 8: Monday 4 March, 16.30. Please note that this week’s seminar will take place in the Ship Street Centre, Jesus College.

‘State Bankruptcy and Salon Sociability: Women at the Danish Court in a Time of Turmoil, 1784–1815’.

Kristine Dyrmann (Linacre College, Oxford)

Convenor(s): Alexandra Gajda, Lucy Wooding, Ian Archer, Steven Gunn.

Time: Wednesdays. Weeks 1-8. 17.00.

Venue: Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College. Also available online via Teams. Please email ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk for the link to join. Please note that week 4’s seminar is online only.

Week 1: Wednesday 17 January. 17.00.

‘Royal Justice and the Court of Requests: from Thesis to Book’

Speaker: Dr Laura Flannigan (St John’s College, Oxford)

Reading: Laura Flanagan, Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547 (Cambridge, 2023); eadem, Hearings of the Court of Requests 1493-1538 (TNA REQ 1) (List and Index Society, 2023).

Week 2: Wednesday 24 January. 17.00.

‘Lollards, Londoners, and Luterans, in the Shaping of William Tyndale’

Speaker: Dr Andrew Hope (Independent)

Reading: David Daniel, William Tyndale: A Biography (New Haven and London, 1994), chs. 4-6; Susan Brigden, London and the Reformation (Oxford, 1989), ch. 2; Donald Dean Smeeton, ‘Lollard Themes in the Reformation Theology of William Tyndale’, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 6 (1986), chs. 1, 2; Victoria Christmas, Pragmatic Toleration: the Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515-1555 (Rochester, NY, 2015), chs. 1, 2.

Week 3: Wednesday 31 January. 17.00.

‘Healing, (Re)settling, and Empire in Interregnum England’

Speaker: Dr William White (University of Hertfordshire)

Reading 1: Tom Leng, 'The Meanings of "Malignancy": The Language of Enmity and the Construction of the Parliamentarian Cause in the English Revolution', Journal of British Studies, 53 (2014), pp. 835-58; Jonathan Scott, 'James Harrington's Prescription for Healing and Settling', in Michael Braddick and David L. Smith (eds.), The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 190-209

Week 4: Wednesday 7 February. 17.00. Please note that this week's seminar will take place online only.

‘Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Cranmer’s Homilies, and the Production of the Book of Common Prayer’.

Speaker: Professor Micheline White (Carleton University)

Reading: Micheline White, ‘Katherine Parr and Royal Religious Complaint: Complaining For and About Henry VIII,’ in Early Modern Women’s Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics, eds. Sarah C.E. Ross and Rosalind Smith, (Cham, Switzerland, 2020), pp. 47–65; Intro to Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner (1547) in Janel M.  Mueller ed. Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence (Chicago, 2011), pp. 425-442 [The Lamentation itself is on pp. 443-485]; Peter Marshall, “Evangelical Conversion.” In Religious Identities in Henry VIII’s England (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 19-42.

Week 5: Wednesday 14 February. 17.00.

‘The Reformation and the Image: Picturing Popery in Stephen Batman’s A Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation (1569)'

Speaker: Dr Adam Morton (Newcastle University)

Reading: Alexandra Walsham, ‘Idols in the Frontispiece? Illustrating Religious Books in the Age of Iconoclasm’ in Feike Dietz, Adam Morton, Lien Roggen, Els Stronks, and Marc van Vaeck eds., Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800 (Farnham, 2014), 21-52; Tara Hamling and Jonathan Willis, ‘From Rejection to Reconciliation: Protestantism and the Image in early modern England’, Journal of British Studies (2023)

Week 6: Wednesday 21 February. 17.00

Discussion of Professor Alec Ryrie’s Ford Lectures – ‘The World’s Reformation’

Week 7: Wednesday 28 February. 17.00.

Paper 1: ‘Marginalised or Mobilised: Two Differing Examples of Veteran Disability in Seventeenth-Century Britain’.

Speaker 1: Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall)

Reading 1: P. Horne & B. Frohne, ‘On the fluidity of ‘disability’ in Medieval and Early Modern Societies. Opportunities and strategies in a new field of research’ in S. Barsch, A. Klein, P. Verstraete (eds.), The Imperfect Historian: Disability Histories in Europe (Frankfurt, 2013) pp. 17-40; Geoffrey L. Hudson, 'Disabled Veterans and the State in Early Modern England' in Disabled Veterans in History, ed. D. Gerber (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2000), 117-144.

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Paper 2: ‘In Defence of Astrology: the Importance of Astrology in Early Tudor Society (1485-1558)'

Speaker 2: Anna Simms (Lincoln)

Reading 2: Hilary M. Carey. 1987. ‘Astrology at the English Court in the Later Middle Ages’. In Astrology, Science, and Society: Historical Essays, edited by Patrick Curry. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Wolfeboro, N.H: Boydell Press; Sydney Anglo,‘The London Pageants for the Reception of Katharine of Aragon: November 1501’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 26.1/2 (1963), 53–89.

Week 8: Wednesday 6 March. 17.00.

‘Making Sense of Sir Humphre Gilbert: Glory, Notoriety and the History of Elizabethan Expansionism’

Speaker: Professor Rory Rapple (Notre Dame)

Reading: J. A. Froude, 'England's Forgotten Worthies' in Short Studies on Great Subjects (London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1868) 294-333; Nicholas P. Canny, “The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland to America.” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 30, no. 4 (1973): 575-598.

Convenor(s): Raphaële Garrod, Jessica Goodman, Alice Roulliere

Time: Thursdays. Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7. 12.30-14.00 (UK time)

Venue: Maison Française d’Oxford.

Week 1: Thursday 18 January. 12.30 - 14.00.

'Quelle « espèce de convalescence » chez Diderot ? Enquête autour de La Religieuse'

Speaker: Benedicte Prot (University of Basel)

Abstract: Jacques, Ariste, Mlle de La Chaux, Suzanne: autant de personnages qui peuplent l’œuvre de Diderot et qui ont en commun de se retrouver en convalescence. Si l’importance de la médecine dans l’œuvre et la pensée de Diderot n’est plus à prouver, il reste à comprendre en quoi la convalescence, qui s’avère bien plus qu’un motif récurrent, l’intéresse spécifiquement. Cette présentation s’attachera en particulier à La Religieuse, tout en recourant à des discours médicaux et à d’autres œuvres telles que Le Rêve de D’Alembertet les Éléments de physiologie. Nous étudierons les convalescences qui jalonnent le parcours de Suzanne Simonin et structurent le roman-mémoires, jusque dans la Préface-annexe que nous relirons comme le récit clinique de la convalescence et de la rechute – fatale – de la religieuse. L’encyclopédiste témoigne ainsi du nouvel intérêt que le XVIIIe siècle porte à cet intervalle, périlleux et incertain, entre la maladie et la santé recouvrée. Aussi mesurerons-nous à quel point la convalescence constitue chez Diderot un lieu de rencontre entre fiction, philosophie et médecine.

Week 3: Thursday 1 February. 12.15–13.45. Please note that this week's seminar starts slightly earlier than normal and will take place at St John’s College (New Seminar Room).

‘Une librairie parisienne underground ? Vente et circulation d’imprimés sur le Pont-Neuf au 17^e siècle’

Speaker: Flavie Kerautret (Université Sorbonne, Paris Nord)

Abstract: Ouvert à la circulation en 1608, le Pont-Neuf parisien devient rapidement une zone de passage incontournable de la capitale et un lieu de vente informel pour divers produits dont les livres. Cette communication vise à examiner les conditions de circulation des imprimés sur le Pont-Neuf, grâce aux colporteurs et libraires étalants, et à interroger les conséquences de ce commerce parallèle sur les réseaux de vente habituels des livres à Paris. Il s’agira également d’étudier comment les « marchands libraires du Pont-Neuf », souvent mal vus et discrédités tout comme les imprimés qu’ils vendent, deviennent des sujets d’écriture et de fiction utiles pour polémiquer, en particulier au moment de la Fronde.

Week 5: Thursday 15 February. 12.30 - 14.00.

‘Impressing Hierarchy in Rabelais’

Speaker: Neil Kenny (All Souls, Oxford)

Abstract: To be added later in term.

Week 7: Thursday 29 February. 12.30 - 14.00.

‘Pragmatics and Power: Montaigne’s Portrayal of Communication in the Essais’.

Speaker: Marina Perkins (the Queens College, Oxford)

Abstract: The field of Montaigne studies is deeply preoccupied with Montaigne as communicator, the Essais as an act of communication, and the extent to which the text conveys a dynamic portrait of the author to its audience. By contrast, my research explores how Montaigne portrays communication in the world beyond the author and his readers, in settings where it influences, and is influenced by, the social and political structures of France during a period of internecine conflict. Across a range of settings that include ordinary conversation and civility, diplomacy, jurisprudence, and religion, the essayist takes a keen interest in the minutiae of intention, inference, and interpretation that constitute a communicative exchange. Relevance theory, a cognitively-inflected framework of utterance interpretation in the field of pragmatic language philosophy, provides an indispensable vocabulary for analysis of Montaigne’s portrayal of communication as an interaction between minds, an intersubjective phenomenon of which verbal exchange is only a subset. In this talk, I will offer a selection of case studies to show how a pragmatic approach offers unique insights into Montaigne’s discussions of communication and how they set him apart from his intellectual milieu. At the same time, I will show that Montaigne’s exploration of the imbrication of communication and power pushes at the bounds of relevance theory’s largely apolitical model of human interchange.

Convenor(s): Filippo de Vivo (St Edmund Hall); Leah Clark (Kellogg); Jane Crawshaw Stevens (Brookes); Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum); Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter); Emanuela Vai (Worcester).

Time: Tuesdays. Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7. 16.30 (unless otherwise specified)

Venue: Please note that the venue for this seminar changes throughout term.

Week 1: Tuesday 16 January, 16.30. Doctorow Room, St Edmund Hall.

‘Mobile Things/Mobile Motifs: Transcultural Objects Across the Mediterranean’.

Speaker: Leah R. Clark (Oxford)

Week 2: Wednesday 24 January, 16.30. Rector’s Drawing Room, Exeter College. Joint Session with the Iberian History Seminar.

‘Transforming the Atlantic World from the Mediterranean: Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700’.

Speaker: Alejandro Garcia–Monton (Granada)

Week 3: Tuesday 30 January, 16.30. Doctorow Room, St Edmund Hall. Joint Session with the Iberian History Seminar.

‘Disasters That Made the World Shudder: How Extreme Events Redefined Communication and Politics in the Spanish Monarchy'.

Speaker: Domenico Cecere (Naples)

Week 5: Tuesday 13 February, 16.30. Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall.  Organised with the support of the Ecole Française de Rome.

‘A Picaresque Project of the 18th century: The Savoyard King of Madagascar’

Speaker: Guillaume Calafat (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)

Week 7: Tuesday 27 February, 16.30. Doctorow Room, St Edmund Hall.

Roundtable: ‘Reflections on the global Mediterranean in Italian history’

Please note that abstracts for the above papers are available via https://italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern-italian-seminar along with further details about the seminar series.

Convenor(s): Lorna Hutson, Joe Moshenska, Bart Van Es

Time: Tuesdays. Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7. 17.15 - 19.15 (unless otherwise noted).

Venue: Merton College. T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre (weeks 1 and 3) or Mure Room (weeks 5 and 7).

Week 1: Tuesday 16 January. 17.15 - 19.15. T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre.

‘Shaking Spears: Salutation and its Undoing in Troilus and Cressida'.

Speaker: David Hillman (Cambridge).

Week 3: Tuesday 30 January. 16.00–18.45. T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre. 

Unfinished Conversations on Early Modern Women’s Writing: ‘Still Kissing the Rod?’ #3

Session I: 4.00-5.00pm

Presentations: Rosalind Smith (ANU) and Danielle Clarke (UCD).

Response: Ros Ballaster (Oxford).

Followed by tea break.

Session II: 5.15-6.45

Presentations: Sarah Ross (Victoria, Wellington) and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL).

Response: Diane Purkiss (Oxford), Viriginia Cox (Cambridge).

Roundtable.

Week 5: Tuesday 13 February. *12.30 - 14.00*. Mure Room. Please note the earlier start time this week.

Reading and Discussion: Adhaar Noor Desai, Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature & the Poetics of Decomposition (Cornell, 2023). We will discuss chapter 1, ‘Style: George Gascoigne’s “Patched Cote”, as well as the brief reaction following the chapter (pp. 26–68). The book is available online.

Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be provided. Please feel free to bring your own lunch.

Week 7: Tuesday 27 February. 17.15 - 19.15. Mure Room.

‘Milton and Imperial Cartography’.

Speaker: Su Fang Ng

Convenor(s): Ros Ballaster, Christine Gerrard, Katie Noble, Nicole Pohl, David Taylor, Carly Watson, Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, Abigail Williams.

Time: Tuesdays. Weeks 2, 4, 6.

Venue: Seminar Room East, Mansfield College.

Week 2: Tuesday 23 January. 17.30-19.00

‘Blake’s Plow’

Speaker: Dr James Wood (University of East Anglia)

Week 4: Tuesday 6 February. 17.30-19.00. 

Paper 1: Haunted Closet: Closet(ed) Plays and the Drama of the Body's Absence'

Speaker 1: Helen Dallas (University of Oxford)

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Paper 2: ‘Moving Parts: Circum-national emotions in Dublin Shakespeare’

Speaker 2: Madeline Saidenberg (University of Oxford)

Week 6: Tuesday 20 February. 17.30-19.00. 

‘Crowded Elegies: Phillis Wheatley Peters’ Critique of Identity’.

Speaker: Dr Katarina Stenke (Greenwich University)

Convenor(s): Nicholas Cronk and Avi Lifschitz

Time: Wednesdays. Weeks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8.

Venue: Summer Common Room, Magdalen College (except 14 and 22 Feb).

Week 2: Wednesday 24 January. 17.00. 

‘The play’s the thing: Jean-François Ducis’s Hamlet (1769-1815)’

Speaker: Joseph Harris (Royal Holloway, London)

Week 4: Wednesday 7 February. 17.00. Sophia Sheppard Room.

‘Cataloguing the Enlightenment: classification, marginalisation, and digital scholarship’.

Speaker: Zoe Screti (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)

Week 5: Wednesday 14 February. 11.00. Online Session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University.

‘Étienne-Géry Lenglet and the political economy of equality for the modern republic. 

Speaker: Minchul Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul)

Week 6: Thursday 22 February. 17.00.

‘Putting the Enlightenment in its place: religion, moral leadership and the genealogy of the 18th-century age of improvement’

Speaker: Damien Tricoire (Trier)

Week 8: Wednesday 6 March. 17.00. Sophia Sheppard Room.

‘Imagined afterlives in eighteenth-century France’

Speaker: Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College, Oxford)

Convenor(s): Natasha Bailey (Exeter College), Erica Feild-Marchello (Exeter College), Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College), Glyn Redworth (Exeter College), and Cecilia Tarruell (New College).

Time: Wednesdays. Weeks 2, 3, 4, 6, 8. 16.30 - 18.00 (UK time)

Venue: Rector’s Drawing Room, Exeter College.

Week 2: Wednesday 24 January, 16.30 - 18.00. Joint Session with the Early Modern Italian World Seminar.

‘Transforming the Atlantic World from the Mediterranean: Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700’

Speaker: Alejandro García Montón (Universidad de Granada)

Week 3: TUESDAY 30 January, 16.30 – 18.00. Joint Session with the Early Modern Italian World Seminar. DOCTOROW ROOM, ST EDMUND HALL. 

‘Disasters That Made the World Shudder: How Extreme Events Redefined Communication and Politics in the Spanish Monarchy’

Speaker: Domenico Cecere (Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’)

Week 4: Wednesday 7 February, 16.30 - 18.00.

‘Translation as Object and Method for Historical Inquiry: A Case Study on Sixteenth-Century Letters in the Maya Yucatec Language’

Speaker: Caroline Cunill (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Week 6: Wednesday 21 February, 16.30 - 18.15.

‘Dying Forms: Martyrdom Narratives on the Margins of Iberian Empire’

Speaker: Nicole T. Hughes (Stanford University)

Week 8: Wednesday 6 March, 16.30 - 18.00.

‘Mobile Polities and Reciprocal Encounters in Eighteenth-Century Philippines’

Speaker: Mark Dizon (Ateneo de Manila)

Convenor(s): Hannah Smith (St Hilda’s); B. Harris (Worcester); P. Gauci (Lincoln)

Time: Tuesdays. Weeks 1-8. 16.15 (with tea and coffee available from 16.00)

Venue: Beckington Room, Lincoln College. For those away from Oxford, the talks will be available on Teams. Apply to perry.gauci@lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the link to join the meeting online.

Week 1: Tuesday 16 January. 16.15.

‘Meitheal, Morrowing and the Wake: Reciprocal Labour and Collective Action in the pre-Famine Irish Peasantry, 1780-1845’

Speaker: Marc Mulholland (St. Catherine’s)

Week 2: Tuesday 23 January. 16.15.

‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706: “Favour'd With the Lord's Wonders”’.

Speaker: Daniel Reed (Oxford Brookes)

Week 3: Tuesday 30 January. 16.15.

‘Forgotten Children: Black Lives and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital’

Speaker: Hannah Dennett (Warwick)

Week 4: Tuesday 6 February. 16.15.

‘Company connections: Oxford’s du Bois Herbarium and the Role of East India Company Networks in sustaining Eighteenth-century Collecting Culture’

Speaker: Madeline White (Lincoln)

Week 5: Tuesday 13 February. 16.15.

‘The Telescope and the Rise of Polite Science in Eighteenth-Century Britain’.

Speaker: Han Zhao (Wuhan University) 

Week 6: Tuesday 20 February. 16.15.

‘The Space and Senses of ‘Open Justice’ in English Courts of Law, c. 1700-1800’.

Speaker: Estella Chen (Queen’s)

Week 7: Tuesday 27 February. 16.15.

Undergraduate thesis session. A recent undergraduate will give a presentation on their thesis.

Week 8: Tuesday 5 March. 16.15.

‘Rethinking the Eighteenth Century: from the 1960s to the Future’

Speaker: Jeremy Black (Exeter)

For information about the seminar, and news of forthcoming events, visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-seminar-in-mainly-British-History-...

We would be happy to post notices of interest to our group – contact perry.gauci@lincoln.ox.ac.uk

Convenor: Neil Kenney

Time: Tuesdays. Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7. 14.00 – 15.30.

Venue: Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford.

Info: 2-3 short papers per session. English translations will be provided for quotations from Rabelais’s works, alongside the original French.

Week 1: Tuesday 16 January.

Subject: Medicine.

Presenters: Richard Cooper (Brasenose College, Oxford); Raphaële Garrod (Magdalen College, Oxford); Rachel Hindmarsh (St Catherine’s College, Oxford).

Week 3: Tuesday 30 January.

Subject: Cognition.

Presenters: Kathryn Banks (Durham University); Terence Cave (St John’s College, Oxford).

Week 5: Tuesday 13 February.

Subject: Reinvention.

Presenters: Zak Eastop (Durham University); Jennifer Oliver (Worcester College, Oxford); Richard Scholar (Durham University)

Week 7: Tuesday 27 February.

Subject: Food.

Presenters: Neil Kenney (All Souls College, Oxford); Robert Ley (Magdalen College, Oxford).

Convenors: Dr Tracey Sowerby, Dr Kristine Dyrmann and Antonio Pattori. 

Time: Tuesdays. Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8. 16.15 (unless otherwise stated).

Venue: Merze Tate Room, History Faculty. Also online: please contact tracey.sowerby@history.ox.ac.uk for the link to join.

Week 2: Tuesday 23 January. 16.15.

‘Propaganda against the Co-Religionist: Ottoman-Afghan Diplomatic and Military Encounters in the 1720s’ 

Speaker: Dr Habib Saçmali (Marmara University)

Week 4: Tuesday 6 February. 16.15.

‘‘It Seemed That We Had Reached the Gates of Our Own Land”: Extraterritoriality, Resident Diplomacy, and the Fondaco System in the Late Medieval Period’

Speaker: Samuel Holcroft (University of Oxford)

Week 6: Tuesday 20 February. 16.15.

‘The Spanish Expeditions to Brunei: Iberian Diplomacy in Early Modern Asia’

Speaker: Euan Huey (University of Oxford)

Week 8: Tuesday 5 March. Please note that this seminar will take place from 12.00–13.00 and will be online only.

'Safavid Discourses on Diplomacy' 

Speaker: Prof. Nobuaki Kondo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Convenors: Paul Norris and Joseph Turner

Time: Tuesdays of weeks 2, 4, 6, 8.

Venue: 17.15 Seminar Room B, English Faculty.

Week 2: Tuesday 23 January. 17.15.

‘Reintroduction to Paleography’

Meghan Kern (Lincoln College)

Week 4: Tuesday 6 February. 17.15.

Paper 1: ‘‘I think h’as knocked | His brains out’: Laughter, violence and impropriety in Jacobean revenge tragedy’

William Hale (Oriel)

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Paper 2: ‘Amaranths: The Making of an Early Modern Myth’

Gui Nabais Freitas (Trinity, Cambridge)

Week 6: Tuesday 20 February. 17.15.

Herin Han (Magdalen), Title TBD.

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Camille Gontarek (Jesus), Title TBD.

Week 8: Tuesday 5 March. 17.15.

Richard Bradshaw (Hertford), Title TBD.