Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar (Cambridge University) programme (pasted)

 

Michaelmas Term

 

22 October                                Paul Cavill (Cambridge)

The Two Swords: Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction in Henrician England


 

29 October                                Lucy Havard (Cambridge)

‘Improving’ the Garden and the Natural Knowledge of Early Modern Householders, 1600–1750

 

5 November                              Imogen Peck (Birmingham)

Family Archives in England, 1650–1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History

 

12 November                            Megan Holmes, Letty Pilgrim, and Mary Whittingdale (Cambridge)

State of the Field session, ‘Bodies in Motion’

 

19 November                            Sonia Tycko (Edinburgh)

Captured Consent: Contract Labour in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700

Respondent: Renaud Morieux (Cambridge)

 

26 November                            Adam Forsyth (Cambridge)

                                                The Several Elizabethan Courts of High Commission 

 

Lent Term

 

4 February                                Tim Harris (Brown)

Liberty and Slavery in Restoration England: Ignoramus Jurors, Kidnappers, and Slave Traders

 

11 February                              Jade Jesty (Cambridge)

                                                Royalist Experiences of Siege in Newcastle, 1640–1673

 

18 February                              James Fox (Glasgow)

Measuring, Accounting and the Social Dynamics of Numeracy in Scotland and Northern England, c.1660–1800

 

25 February                              Martha McGill (Cambridge)

‘Cunningly Couched in our Bowels’: Devils and the Human Body in Early Modern Britain

 

4 March                                    Steven Gunn (Oxford)

Life and Death in Tudor Prisons

 

11 March                                  Jonathan Baddley (Cambridge)

The Lord’s Supper, Practical Divinity, and Further Reformation in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England

 

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