EMH EarlyModernHistory

I understand that Anthony Fletcher, formerly of the Universities of Sheffield, Essex and London (VCH) has died. He was living in a care home in Banbury, Oxfordshire in recent years. 

 This interesting review can be read  here  . 

  Leiden University Leiden, The Netherlands PhD position, project: LangProProfessional Opportunities in the Early Modern Language Sector ...

 For the events of the 1640s and 1650s in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, I have come in recent years to prefer the French term 'les grand soulevements'. I do not think that Marxist or quasi-Marxist terminology about a 'bourgeois revolution' or even an 'English Revolution' is helpful, especially since they entail imposing anachronistic economic and social categories on the participants in these struggles and attempting to justify forcing the narratives into conformity with these concepts. I ought to add that comparisons with mid-17th century continental risings against established regimes are more productive than much of the predominant historiography allows.                                                                   Christopher Thompson

  Guy Erez (NYU):  Animal Experiments and the Environmental Foundations of Seventeenth-Century Science Kenneth Novis (Oxford):  The Politics of Environment in Spinoza and Montesquieu For those who can't make it in person, please find the link to join via Teams below! https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OWVhYzJjNWYtMDFlMi00YzgyLTk2ZmUtNTAzNGIzNzczNTA5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a7865b8d-236d-4786-9f4a-d48f46159434%22%7d

  Monday 10 November London time: on zoom and in person at the IHR in the Wolfson Suite, NB01, basement   Clare Egan (University of Lancaster) ‘Libel performance and Legal Literacies in the early-seventeenth century English Provinces’ Libels between private persons occurring in the English provinces during the early modern period took many forms – from verse and song to pictures and plays – and by the early seventeenth-century they were being tried at the court of Star Chamber. By exploring such libels as performances this paper argues that they reveal the creative and interpretative skill of provincial communities participating in long-standing theatrical cultures of insult. The paper will also consider, however, a distinct and previously under-examined form of libel referred to in the legal records as ‘libellous articles’, which further suggest a range of legal literacies in provincial settings. Such lists of false ‘articles’ were circulated in comm...