Michaelmas 2023

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

Time: Thursdays. Weeks 2, 4, 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 19 October. 17.00-19.00.

‘Newly Discovered Aquitanian Polyphony from c. 1100’.

Speaker: Sam Barrett (University of Cambridge)

Discussants: Andreas Haug (University of Würzburg) and Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame).

Abstract: This paper will present organa for four metra from Boethius’ De consolatione Philosophiae recently discovered in the margins of an Aquitanian manuscript copied c. 1100. It will show that the principal voices relate to the wider tradition of sung Boethian metra and that the organal voices were generated in accordance with principles outlined in theory treatises written towards the end of the eleventh century. The new find expands the number of recoverable melodies for Boethian metra, augments the number of surviving examples of organa consistent with the Ad organum faciendum group of treatises, and extends understanding of early medieval practices of singing non-liturgical versus. The successive disposition of the organum mirrors notational practices used in the earliest layers of Aquitanian polyphony, prompting reconsideration of the implications of surviving neumatic notations for non-liturgical lyric verse and consideration of the possibility that another Aquitanian notation dating from c. 1100 records organum for one of Horace’s Odes. It will be proposed, finally, that non-liturgical song traditions provide a previously overlooked background to the New Song.

Week 4: Thursday 2 November. 1700 - 1900.

‘Music Printing in Rome during the Long Sixteenth Century’.

Speaker: Jane Bernstein (Tufts University)

Discussants: Bonnie J. Blackburn (Oxford) and Noel O’Regan (University of Edinburgh).

Abstract: Rome ranked second only to Venice as a center for music book production in Renaissance Italy. Yet unlike their Venetian counterparts, who standardized their music publications, Roman printers, experimented more readily and more consistently with the materiality of their books. Emphasizing the exceptionalism of Roman music publishing, this talk highlights the innovative printing technologies and book forms devised by bookmen in the Eternal City. By drawing on landmark publications, it reveals a synergistic relationship between music repertories and the materiality of the book, particularly during the post-Tridentine period, when musical idioms, both new and old, challenged printers to employ alternative printing methods and modes of book presentation in the creation of their music editions.

Week 8: Thursday 30 November. 1700 - 1900.

‘Disiecta Membra Musicae: A new facsimile edition of music manuscript fragments from 14th- Century England’

Speaker: Peter Lefferts (University of Nebraska)

Discussants: Andrew Wathey (The National Archives and University of Northumbria) and Jared Hartt (Oberlin College).

Abstract: A volume of facsimiles of English fourteenth-century polyphonic music in preparation for the series Early English Church Music is intended to supersede Harrison and Wibberley, Manuscripts of Fourteenth Century English Polyphony (EECM 26, 1981). It will fill the current gap between Summers and Lefferts, English Thirteenth Century Polyphony (EECM 57, 2016) and Bent and Wathey, Fragments of English Polyphonic Music c. 1390-1475 (EECM 62, 2022). As in the latter two, leaves will be reproduced in colour, mostly at full size, and in their original order; further, about twice as many sources will be reproduced as in the 1981 book. This talk will address some of the most interesting features of the relevant new sources uncovered in the last 45 years, consider questions about provenance that have been raised by scholarship on the codices housing these musical fragments in their bindings, and offer a taste of the discoveries yielded by the use of modern research tools, from basic internet text searching to high-resolution digital and multi-spectral imaging. In addition, the repertoire of the extraordinary Dorset rotulus will serve as the point of departure for remarks about what is new in our picture of 14th-century English music.

Convenor(s): Hanna Sinclair and Maximilian Diemers.

Time: Mondays. Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7. 16.30 (UK time)

Venue: Ship Street Centre, Jesus College.

Week 1: Monday 9 October, 16.30.

‘“In good marital confidence”: A German Consort’s Apologia Against Her Husband’

Speaker: Charlotte Backerra (University of Göttingen)

Abstract: Consorts of premodern Europe supported their husbands in ruling the territory, conducting dynastic politics, and organising the family and household. Juliane of Nassau-Dillenburg (1587–1643), a grandniece of William of Orange, fulfilled this role since her marriage to Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel in the Holy Roman Empire in 1603. But in 1624, she publicly challenged her husband of more than 20 years. Juliane wrote an apologia – a memorandum or indictment – accusing Maurice of overspending, acting against the advice of his wife and councillors in matters of the Empire and Hesse, threatening the security of their lands and their dynasty, and opposing any agreement with the Hessian estates. She also refused to accept her husband’s physical and mental abuse, and made her emotional state publicly known. The talk analyses this unusual early modern text regarding its political and private dimensions. 

Week 3: Monday 23 October, 16.30.

‘The Power of Courts, 1814-1918: Dynasties, Armies and Culture’

Speaker: Philip Mansel (IHR/ Versailles, Co-founder of the Society for Court Studies)

Week 5: Monday 6 November, 16.30.

‘Financing Festivals, Music and Theatre in 16th and 17th century Italy and France’

Speaker: Francesca Fantappiè (Université de Tours)

Week 7: Monday 20 November, 17.00. Please note the later start time of this paper.

‘Fireworks at the Court of Louis XIII’

Speaker: Marie-Claude Canova-Green (Goldsmiths, University of London).

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

Time: Thursdays. Weeks 1-8. 17.00.

Venue: Habakkuk Room, Jesus College. Also available online via Teams. Please email ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk for the link to join.

Week 1: Thursday 12 October. 17.00.

‘Masters and Servants: Divinity and Masculinity in Early Modern England’

Speaker: Dr Leif Dixon (Regent’s Park College, Oxford)

Reading: Alexandra Shepard, Meanings of Masculinity in Early Modern England (2006), Introduction; 'Adam's Rib' and 'The Fall'; Karin Spiecker Stetina, ''Abba Father': Calvin's Understanding of the Fatherhood of God', in Michael Parsons (ed.) Since We Are Justified by Faith: Justification in the Theologies of the Protestant Reformation (2012), pp. 72-85.

Week 2: Thursday 19 October. 17.00.

‘A Study in Failure: the Bishops’ Bible and the Elizabethan Church’

Speaker: Dr Harry Spillane (Peterhouse, Cambridge)

Reading: Margaret Aston, ‘Bishops’ Bible Illustrations’, in Diana Wood (ed.), The Church and the Arts, Studies in Church History, vol. 28 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992), 267-85; Harry Spillane, ‘“A Matter Newly Seene”: The Bishops’ Bible, Matthew Parker, and Elizabethan Antiquarianism’, Reformation, 27:2 (2022), 107-24.

Week 3: Thursday 26 October. 17.00.

Paper 1: ‘Subjects concealed within wives: statute and crime in the Star Chamber, 1558-1603’

Speaker 1: Chloe Ingersent (Oriel College, Oxford)

Reading 1: T. Barnes, ‘A Cheshire seductress, precedent, and a ‘sore blow’ to Star Chamber’, in (eds) A. Green and S. White, On the Laws and Customs of England: Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne (Chapel Hill, MA, 1981), pp. 316-26; G. Walker, ‘Keeping it in the family: Crime and the early modern household’, in (eds) H. Berry and E. Foyster, The Family in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 67-95.

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Paper 2: ‘‘Firstly printed under the name of the reformed English

Church’: Reformation writings between England and the Holy Roman Empire, 1547-1603’

Speaker 2: Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Reading 2: Diarmaid MacCulloch, 'Protestantism in Mainland Europe: New Directions', in 'Recent Trends in the Study of Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Europe', Renaissance Quarterly 59/3 (2006), pp. 698-706; Andrew Pettegree, 'The Latin Polemic of the Marian Exiles', in his work Marian Protestantism: Six Studies (1996), pp. 118-128.

Week 4: Thursday 2 November. 17.00.

‘Being English in Rome: national identity and global Catholicism’

Speaker: Dr Lucy Underwood (Warwick University)

Reading: Simon Ditchfield, 'Romanus and Catholicus: Counter-Reformation Rome as Caput Mundi' in Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield (eds.) A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692 (Leiden: Brill, 2019) pp.131-147; Lucy Underwood 'Representing England in Rome: Sermons from the Early Modern English College to Popes and Cardinals' in Reformation & Renaissance Review 23:1 (2021), 4-26.

Week 5: Thursday 9 November. 17.00.

Paper 1: ‘Little cities: Experiencing and imagining the early modern military camp’

Speaker 1: Dr Emily Rowe (King’s College, London, and the Bodleian Library)

Reading 1: Elizabeth Horodowich, 'War and Society: The New Cultural History?', The Sixteenth Century Journal, 40:1, (2009), 209-212; Mary Elizabeth Ailes, 'Camp Followers, Sutlers, and Soldiers’ Wives: Women in Early Modern Armies (c. 1450–c. 1650)', A Companion to Women's Military History, ed. Barton Hacker and Margaret Vining (Brill, 2012), 61–91.

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Paper 2: ‘‘He carried, secretly a knotted string’: Catholic sailors on English Protestant ships fighting Spain (1568–1595)’

Speaker 2: Dr Andrii Pastushenko (Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics)

Reading 2: Richard Hitchcock, ‘Samuel Purchas as Editor-A Case Study: Anthony Knyvett’s Journal’, The Modern Language Review 99, no. 2 (2004): 301-12; Cheryl A Fury, Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen, 1580-1603 (London, 2002), 114-123.

Week 6: Thursday 19 November. 17.00

‘Conflict, Welfare and Memory: Outcomes of the Civil War Petitions Project’

Speakers: Professor Andrew Hopper (Kellogg College, Oxford) and Dr Ismini Pells (Kellogg College, Oxford).

Reading: https://www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk/discoveries-and-outcomes-of-civil-war-petitions/; Eric Gruber von Arni and Andrew Hopper, ‘Welfare for the Wounded’, History Today, 66:7 (2016), pp. 17–23; Ismini Pells, ‘Reassessing frontline medical practitioners of the British civil wars in the context of the seventeenth-century medical world‘, Historical Journal, 62:2 (2019), pp. 399-425.

Week 7: Thursday 23 November. 17.00.

‘Intertextual Whiggism: Political Aphorisms, Textual Appropriation, and Political Thought, 1570-1800’

Speaker: Professor Mark Goldie (Churchill College, Cambridge)

Reading: Richard Ashcraft and M M Goldsmith, 'Locke, Revolution Principles, and the Formation of Whig Ideology', Historical Journal, 26 (1983), 773-800; Kevin Killeen, The Political Bible in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2017).

Week 8: Thursday 30 November. 17.00.

Paper 1: ‘William Perkins and the constraints of reform in late Elizabethan England’

Speaker 1: Eric Beach (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Reading 1: Rosemary A. Sisson, “William Perkins, Apologist for the Elizabethan Church of England.” Modern Language Review 47, no. 4 (1952): 495–502; W. B. Patterson, William Perkins & the Making of a Protestant England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014 (especially pp. 1-63, 190-219).

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Paper 2: ‘‘A Byrd flew over the cuckoo’s nest’: the problem of

the Chapel Royal in post-Reformation England’

Speaker 2: Oscar Patton (Merton College, Oxford)

Reading 2: Peter McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching (1998) Chs 1-3; Kenneth Fincham and Nicholas Tyacke, Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700, (2007) Chs 1-3.

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 12 October. 12.30 - 14.00.

‘Following the footsteps of dessein: Montaigne, design and the Essais’

Speaker: Vittoria Fallanca (New College, Oxford)

Abstract: What is the design of the Essais? Montaigne often qualifies it directly: it is a design that is 'wild' and 'extravagant' perhaps also 'monstruous'. But Montaigne also often describes it negatively, in terms of what it is not, or does not do. The Essais are thereby qualified in terms of what has been left out: the shadows, traces, impressions of those things that have been excluded, excised. In this talk, I discuss what some of Montaigne's uses of the word design ('dessein') can reveal about the Essais as a work of both presence and absence, and reflect on what these insights can reveal about the development of design / dessein as a notion in Renaissance France and beyond. Analysing this term through its early polysemy (poised between the mental and the material, the real and the ideal) also allows us to see vital connections between literature, philosophy and the visual arts in Montaigne’s thought. Design emerges as an important tool for understanding elements of the Essais’s composition and the attitude to writing they embody.

Week 3: Thursday 26 October. 12.15 - 13.50. Please note that this week’s seminar will begin 10 minutes earlier than usual and will take place in the New Seminar Room, St John’s College.

‘The Matter of Poetic Air in Early Modern France’

Speaker: Jeffrey Peters (University of Kentucky)

Abstract: In seventeenth-century France, l’air galant described a social and aesthetic quality characterized by its inaccessibility to direct perception. It formulated meaning, but could not be explained. It conferred value but could not be defined. In this sense, it was not unlike physical air: a fundamentally generative and sustaining entity that is at the same time generally ungraspable in its normal state. In this paper I think about how the early modern science of air was curiously bound up with philosophical reflections on the nature of poetic art.

Week 5: Thursday 9 November. 12.30 - 14.00.

‘Enlightenment Influencers: Networks of Reuse in the 18th-century Archive’

Speaker: Glenn Roe (Sorbonne Université and Voltaire Foundation)

Abstract: To be added later in term.

Week 7: Thursday 23 November. 12.30 - 14.00.

‘Rethinking Theatrical Censorship During the Longer French Revolution’.

Speaker: Clare Siviter (University of Bristol)

Abstract: To be added later in term.

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.

Venue: Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall (unless otherwise specified)

Week 1: Tuesday 10 October, 16.30.

‘Beautiful Bodies: Spirituality, Sexuality and Gender in Leonardo’s Milan’

Speaker: Maya Corry (Oxford Brookes)

Week 3: MONDAY 23 October. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WEEK’S SEMINAR WILL BEGIN AT 16:00 AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD.

‘The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: Imagining and Experiencing’. Joint Session with the Seminar in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

Speaker: John Henderson (Birkbeck)

Week 5: Tuesday 7 November, 16.30.

‘Making the Renaissance Public: Location Based Interpretation of Early Modern Urban Space’

Speaker: Fabrizio Nevola (Exeter)

Week 7: Tuesday 21 November, 16.30. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WEEK’S SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE DOCTOROW ROOM.

‘The Fabrication of Historical Truths’

Speaker: Paola Molino

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 (except for week 3). Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7. 17.15 - 19.15.

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

Week 1: Tuesday 10 October. 17.15 - 19.15. T.S. ELIOT LECTURE THEATRE.

‘Meet the Faculty’

Speakers: Professor Helen Moore, Professor Joe Moshenska, Professor Diane Purkiss, Dr Philip West.

Abstract: We’re kicking off the academic year with a chance for graduate students new and continuing and early modernists in general to hear four English Faculty members speak informally and briefly about their research. Discussion will open out to enable the graduate and research community to put questions to the speakers.

Week 3: MONDAY 23 October. 17.15 - 19.15. MURE ROOM.

‘Do Shakespeare’s Characters Mean What They Say?’

Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Knapp (University of California at Berkeley)

Abstract: To be added later in term.

Week 5: Tuesday 7 November. 17.15 - 19.15. T.S. ELIOT LECTURE THEATRE.

‘The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition and Argument, 1479 - 1630: A Conversation’

Speaker: Professor Katrin Ettenhuber (Pembroke College, Cambridge). Professor Ettenbuber will be in conversation with Lorna Hutson.

Week 7: Tuesday 21 November. 17.15 - 19.15. MURE ROOM.

‘Milton’s Faulty Media: Allegory and Accommodation in Paradise Lost’

Speaker: Dr Namratha Rao (University of York).

Abstract: To be added later in term.

Convenor(s): Lyndal Roper, Giuseppe Marcocci, Natalia Nowakowska, Giora Sternberg, Cheryl Birdseye

Time: Wednesdays. Weeks 1-8. 11.15 - 12.45 (unless otherwise stated).

Venue: Rees Davies Room, History Faculty.

Week 1: Wednesday 11 October. 11.15 - 12.45.

‘The Well-Tempered Chase: Hunting, Emotions and Health in Early Modern Europe’

Speaker: Valerio Zanetti (Oxford)

Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci.

Week 2: Wednesday 18 October. 14.00 - 15.30.

‘Didn’t You Promise Us A River? Looking For The 17th-Century Mississippi’

Speaker: Katherine Ibbett (Oxford)

Chair: Giora Sternberg

Week 3: Wednesday 25 October. 11.15 - 12.45.

‘Unconventional Currents of Reform in Early Modern Italy’

Speaker: Querciolo Mazzonis (Teramo)

Chair: Filippo de Vivo

Week 4: Wednesday 1 November. 11.15 - 12.45.

‘Rethinking the Renaissance, A Mediterranean Perspective’

Speaker: Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young)

Chair: Filippo de Vivo

Week 5: Wednesday 8 November. 11.15 - 12.45. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WEEK’S SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE ONLY.

Details to join online will be made available shortly. Please check back here later in term.

‘Invisible Threads of Tradition: Refiguring Kinship and Knowledge in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1500’

Speaker: Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv)

Chair: Lyndal Roper

Week 6: Wednesday 15 November. 11.15 - 12.45.

‘Globalizing East-Central Europe from the Ground Up: Minerals, Metals, and Mountains’

Speaker: Suzanna Ivanic (Kent)

Chair: Natalia Nowakowska

Week 7: Wednesday 22 November. 11.15 - 12.45.

‘The German Peasants’ War (1524-1526): Facts, Reception History and New Approaches’.

Speaker: Thomas Müller (Wittenberg)

Chair: Lyndal Roper

Week 8: Wednesday 29 November. 11.15 - 12.45.

‘Colliding Empires: Material Trajectories Across the Early Modern Western Mediterranean’

Speaker: Ana Struillou (London)

Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci.

Convenor(s): Cathleen Sarti and Charlotte Backerra

Time: Mondays. Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8. 17:00.

Venue: Virtual Only. Please register online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-seminar-economic-history-of-mona....

Week 2: Monday 16 October, 17:00.

‘Court Business: Finance and Financiers at Louis XIII’s Court’

Speaker: Marc Jaffré (Durham)

Week 4: Monday 30 October, 17:00.

‘Dutch Gold and Charles I's Turn from Spain, 1634-1637’

Speaker: Elizabeth Hines (Chicago)

Week 6: Monday 13 November, 17:00.

Please note that this week’s seminar does not relate to the early modern period.

‘The Maharajah’s Money: Duleep Singh and the Royal Finances of the Sikh Empire, 1843-1893’

Speaker: Priya Atwal (Oxford)

Week 8: Monday 27 November, 17:00.

‘Louis XIV, Colbert and the Ordonnance du commerce of 1673’

Speaker: Luisa Brunori (Paris)

If you are interested in presenting your research, please get in touch with cathleen.sarti@history.ox.ac.uk and charlotte.backerra@uni-goettingen.de.

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.

Please see individual listings for time/ location.

Week 2: Tuesday 17 October. 17.30. Faculty of English, Lecture Theatre 2.

Annual Marilyn Butler Memorial Lecture: ‘Mary Wollstonecraft for the Twenty-First Century’

Speaker: Emma Clery (University of Uppsala)

Week 4: Tuesday 31 October. 12.30-13.45. Mansfield College, Seminar Room East.

‘Bernard Picart, the Image about Religion, and the Production of a New Truth Social?’

Speaker: Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes)

Week 6: Tuesday 14 November. 17.30-19.00. Mansfield College, Seminar Room East.

‘Unearthly Objects’

Speaker: James Metcalf (University of Manchester)

Convenor(s): Nicholas Cronk and Avi Lifschitz

Time: Wednesdays. Weeks 3, 5, 7, 8. 17.00.

Venue: Summer Common Room, Magdalen College (except week 8)

Week 3: Wednesday 25 October. 17.00.

‘Turning the page on the reign of Frederick the Great:

Mirabeau, Zimmermann and the ‘Berlin Enlightenment’, 1786-1792’

Speaker: Kevin Hilliard (St Peter’s College, Oxford)

Week 5: Wednesday 8 November. 17.00.

‘The Enlightenment Origins of Historicism’

Speaker: Béla Kapossy (Lausanne)

Week 7: Wednesday 22 November. 17.00.

‘Cosmopolitanism against revolution: counter-revolutionary legacies of the Enlightenment’

Speaker: Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam)

Week 8: Wednesday 29 November. 17.00. Please note that this week’s seminar will take place in the Sophia Sheppard Room at Magdalen College.

‘The animal question: from Bayle to Bentham’

Speaker: Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews)

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, 4, 6, 8. 16.30 - 18.00 (UK time)

Venue: Rector’s Drawing Room, Exeter College.

Week 2: Wednesday 18 October, 16.30 - 18.00.

‘The “Private” Side of Empire: Letters from the Portuguese Estado da Índia’

Speaker: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)

Week 4: Wednesday 1 November, 16.30 - 18.00.

‘Business Interests, Global Networks, and the Trade in Enslaved Africans to Peru, 1580-1640: The Case of Manuel Bautista Pérez’

Speaker: Linda Newson (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Week 6: Wednesday 18 November, 16.30 - 18.15.

‘1614, the World on the Thames: A Tentative Exercise in Global History and the History of Early Modern Empires’

Speaker: Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (LARHRA, Lyon)

Week 8: Wednesday 29 November, 16.30 - 18.00

‘Accountability: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Negotiation of Power in Early Colonial Peru’

Speaker: Laura León Llerena (University of Durham)

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 16.15)

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 10 October. 16.15.

Introductory Party.

Week 2: Tuesday 17 October. 16.15.

‘The Scottish Wonder: David Wilkie, London, and British Culture’

Speaker: Bob Harris (Worcester)

Week 3: Tuesday 24 October. 16.15.

‘West Indian Estate-ownership in England and Wales 1700 - 1830’

Speaker: Elisabeth Grass (St Peter’s)

Week 4: Tuesday 31 October. 16.15.

‘Twelve Jamaicamen and South Sea Stock’: Insurance and the Economy of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century London’

Speaker: Hunter Harris (Nuffield)

Week 5: Tuesday 7 November. 16.15.

‘William III, Mary II, and Naval Patronage, 1689 - 1702’

Speaker: Stuart Parks (St Cross)

Week 6: Tuesday 14 November. 16.15.

‘‘‘The entire performance gave universal satisfaction, and the

audience went away delighted’: Irish Protestant Audiences for Catholic Sacred Music in the Eighteenth Century’

Speaker: Maura Valentini (Hertford)

Week 7: Tuesday 21 November. 16.15.

‘English Prison Reform from Below’

Speaker: Kiaran Mehta (Max Planck Institute/ Leicester)

Week 8: Tuesday 28 November. 16.15.

‘‘An army marches on its stomach,’ yet it is hungry: Surgeons,

Soldiers, and Supply in Napoleon’s Grande Armée, 1806-1807’

Speaker: Calum Johnson (Durham)

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(s): Ross Moncreiff (All Souls); Jacob Fordham (University); Hannah Dongsun Lee (St Edmund Hall)

Time: Tuesdays of Weeks 2, 4, 7, and 8. 17:00 - 18:60.

Venue: Wharton Room, All Souls.

Week 2: Tuesday 17 October, 17:00.

‘Towards a Global Intellectual History of the Global: European Texts, Indigenous Contexts’.

Speaker: Zoltán Biedermann (UCL)

Week 4: Tuesday 31 October, 17:00.

‘Turkish Turbans, Greek Ceremonies, Catholic Friends: A Global History of Protestant Accommodation’

Speaker: Richard Calis (Utrecht)

Week 7: Tuesday 21 November, 17:00.

‘Bodily Knowledge in Qing China: Anatomical “Translations” into Manchu and Mongolian?’

Speaker: Sare Aricanli (Durham)

Week 8: Tuesday 28 November, 17:00.

‘The Scientific Revolution as Global History, 1200–1800’

Speaker: James Poskett (Warwick)

Please email ross.moncrieff@all-souls.ox.ac.uk to join the mailing list.