Programme (pasted) for the Early Modern Britain seminar at Oxford University

 

Early Modern Britain Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2025


Thursdays at 5 pm, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College (except 23 October: for which Lower Lecture Room); online on Teams
Pauline Croft, ‘Free Trade and the House of Commons 1605-1606’, Economic History Review, 28 (1975), 17-27; S.G.E. Lythe, ‘The Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the Debate on Economic Integration’, Journal of Scottish Political Economy 5 (1958), 219-28; Alexandra Gajda, ‘War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604)’, Historical Research, 96 (2023), 459-72.
23 October     Dr Hannah Dawson (King’s College, London) ‘Early Modern Selfhood Revisited: the Case of Feminism’
Mary Astell, Reflections on Marriage (1706), preface; Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792 etc), chapters 1-5.
30 October         Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading) ‘Sailing upon Storied Seas: The Maritime Environment in Seafarers’ Writings, 1650-1750’
Steve Mentz, Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719 (2015);
Serpil Opperman, ‘Storied Seas and Living Metaphors in the Blue Humanities’, Configurations, 27 (2019), 443-61; Richard J. Blakemore, ‘Singing the Sea: Seafarers and the Maritime Environment in Early Modern Balladry’, in Angela McShane and Tim Reinke-Williams, eds, From the Margins to the Centre in Seventeenth-Century England (2024), 105-31.
6 November      Olivia Bennison (St. Edmund Hall) ‘“The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain’
Alanna Skuse, Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England (2021), ch. 4 ‘Acting the Part: Prosthetic Limbs’, 81-108; David Turner and Alan Withey, 'Technologies of the Body', History 99 (2014), 775-96.
13 November    Prof. Michael Braddick (All Souls College) ‘Rethinking the 1650s’
John Morrill, ‘A glorious resolution’, in The Nature of the English Revolution (1993), ch. 19; Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 (2010), chs. 4–5.
20 November    Dr Sonia Tycko (University of Edinburgh) in discussion with Prof. Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College) ‘Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700’
Sonia Tycko, “The Legality of Prisoner of War Labour in England, 1648–1655,” Past & Present 246 (2020), 35–68; Douglas Hay, ‘England, 1562–1875: The Law and Its Uses’, in Douglas Hay and Paul Craven, eds, Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562–1955, ed. (2004), 59–116.
27 November    Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton) ‘‘William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?’
Patrick Collinson, From Cranmer to Sancroft (2006), ch. 8; Tim Reinke-Williams, ‘Misogyny, Jest-Books and Male Youth Culture in Seventeenth-Century England’, Gender and History, 21:2 (2009); Tim Somers, ‘Jesting Culture and Religious Politics in Seventeenth-Century England’, Historical Research, 267 (2022).
4 December       Prof. Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) ‘Writing James VI and I’
              Clare Jackson, The Mirror of Great Britain: a life of James VI & I (2025).

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