Tudor and Stuart seminar at the Institute of Historical Research: programme for the coming term (pasted)

 

Monday 13 January 5:30pm London time; on zoom only

Piers Brown (Kenyon College, USA): ‘Early Modern Crowd Affects and Crowd Effects’

How might we theorize an early modern version of the psychology of crowds? While the language of the passions has become a dominant paradigm for the history of emotions in the period, it doesn't extend effectively to an understanding of how people behave as groups, whether they be crowds, audiences, or subjects. Using the corpus of Shakespeare's writing as my primary source, I explore the early English vocabulary for describing crowds, with a focus on their depiction as surfaces on which distinctive movements can be read by orators, actors and authorities as a reflection of their passionate responses.


Piers Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, USA 

Book here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/early-modern-crowd-affects-and-crowd-effects

Our programme for the rest of term is now bookable on the website:

27 January 2025 (Hybrid): Peter Lake (Vanderbilt), ‘Thomas Scott and Joseph Mede confront the political crisis of the early 1620s’.

10 February 2025 (Hybrid): Amilia Gillies (Kent), ‘'Investigating two mid-Jacobean Court Scandals: the Lake-Roos case and the fall of Lord Treasurer Suffolk'; and Anna-Nadine Pike (Kent), ‘“Sundrie uther young nobils that are about his highness”: Esther Inglis and Jacobean gift-giving’.

 

24 February 2025 (Hybrid): Neil Younger (Open University): “We have no newes in ower countrye”: news and political debate in Elizabethan gentry letters.

10 March 2025 (Zoom only): Jade Scott (Glasgow): “Her lusty practices”: Lady Anne Percy and Exile Networks of Intelligence.

24 March 2025 (Hybrid): Christine Gerwin (TU-Dresden), ‘“For the queen and for herself” Authority participation and policing in Elizabethan and Jacobean England’; and Waseem Ahmed (UCL), ‘Negotiating loyalty in Revolutionary England, 1649-1660’.

Book here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/tudor-stuart-history

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