Early Modern Britain seminar at the University of Oxford (pasted notice)

 Early Modern Britain Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2026 Thursdays at 5 pm, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College; online on Teams (please email ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk) 

 

15 October Prof. Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College) ‘“Sinceritie in these daies was sure borne to be sad”: Religion, Dissimulation and Elizabethan Drama’ Jeffrey Knapp, ‘Preachers and Players in Shakespeare’s England’, Representations 44 (1993), 29-59; Kilian Schindler, Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama: The Limits of Toleration (2023), Introduction 22 October Rev Dr Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall) ‘Irish wheat for London’s food crisis, 1630-1631’ Paul Slack, ‘Books of Orders: the making of English social policy 1577-1631’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5 th ser. 30 (1980), 1-22; Norman Gras, The evolution of the English corn market from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (Cambridge MA, 1915), 77-86; Raymond Gillespie, ‘Harvest crises in early seventeenth-century Ireland’, Irish Economic and Social History, 11 (1984), 5-18; Buchanan Sharp, Famine and scarcity in late medieval and early modern England: the regulation of grain marketing, 1256-1631 (Cambridge, 2016), 215-35 29 October Prof Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut) ‘Paradox and periodization: The curious case of gavelkind’ Hans Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the conquest of Ireland: a study in legal imperialism (Cambridge, 1985), ch.4; William Sprigg, A Modest Plea for an Equal Common-Wealth Against Monarchy (London, 1659), 58-75. 5 November Dr Hannah Dawson (King’s College London) ‘Feminism and Republicanism’ Quentin Skinner, Liberty before Liberalism (1998). 12 November Dr Martin Ingram (Brasenose College) ‘Regulating Sex in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart London’ Ian W. Archer, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London (Cambridge, 1991), ch. 6; Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons: Change, Crime, and Control in the Capital City, 1550–1660 (Cambridge, 2008), ch. 5; Martin Ingram, Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470–1600 (Cambridge, 2017), ch. 11. 19 November Prof. Neil Murphy (University of Northumbria) ‘Henry VIII’s Wars and English Spying in the 1540s’ Stephen Alford, The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I (London, 2012); Amy Blakeway, ‘Spies and Intelligence in Scotland, c.1530-1550’, in Sara Butler and K.J. Kesselring (eds.), Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain (Leiden, 2018), 83-104; Neil Murphy, ‘Spies, Informers and Thomas Howard’s Defence of England’s Northern Frontier in 1523’, Historical Research 93 (2020), 252-72. 26 November Dr Patrick McGhee (Christ Church) ‘Navigators, Pilgrims, and “Heathens”: History, Humanity, and Inheritance in the British Atlantic World, c. 1580-1626’ David Harris Sacks, ‘The Certain and Full Discovery of the World: Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot’, in Robert Fox (ed.), Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance (London, 2022), 11-49; Matthew Dimmock, ‘Faith, Form and Faction: Samuel Purchas’s “Purchas His Pilgrimage” (1613)’, Renaissance Studies, 28 (2014), 262-78. 3 December Dr Grant Tapsell (Lady Margaret Hall) ‘Editing Archbishop Sancroft's Letters: A Quick Fix in Sixteen Easy Years’ Patrick Collinson, From Cranmer to Sancroft (2006), ch. 8; R.A.P.J. Beddard, 'William Sancroft', ODNB; Grant Tapsell, 'A British Patriarchy? Ecclesiastical Imperialism under the Later Stuarts', in Stephen Taylor and Grant Tapsell (eds), The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited (2013), ch. 11 Ian Archer, Alexandra Gajda, Steven Gunn and Lucy W

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