Archive for April, 2009
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009The next Royal Historical Society meeting will be a lecture by Professor Blair Wordon on ‘Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate’, on Friday 8 May at 5.30pm, in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL. This talk will be followed by drinks.
New Online Journal: ‘Lives and Letters’
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Lives and Letters : A Journal for Early Modern Archival Research is a new peer reviewed journal, highlighting the archival research into the early modern period championed by the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL). The first issue is now available here: http://journal.xmera.org/lives-and-letters-volume-1-no-1-spring-2009/contents. The first issue contains an introdution by Jan Broadway and articles [...]
Origins of Modernity: Rare Books Exhibition Online
Monday, April 27th, 2009An exhibition of rare books at the University of Sydney took place a few years ago but the online version lives on. The exhibition features 140 original volumes of important early modern works. As the website introduction says: These are the books that shaped the modern mind. These are the books that changed the way [...]
Research Student Seminars at Birkbeck
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Two of this term’s papers are early modern, and both sound great. 28 April: Carolyn Harris, ‘Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe’. 26 May: Michael Essex, ‘ Aristocratic Elites in England and France and State Formation in the Late 17th Century’. Both are at 5pm in room 261 in the Malet St building. See [...]
News Round Up: Henry VIII
Friday, April 24th, 2009It seems the anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne in 1509 has taken media interest in a big way. Whether it’s David Starkey on Channel 4 or on Question Time on the BBC the monarch is definitely in the news. Here are some links to help keep up with all things Henry… 1536: [...]
Happy Birthday, Bard!
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Today is William Shakespeare’s (traditional) birthday (and, as it happens, death day) and so to celebrate (or mourn his passing depending on your take on it) here are some Shakespeare events and links. Shakespeare’s Globe will open its 2009 Season today with Romeo and Juliet. A free birthday event will take place before the play. [...]
London Renaissance Seminar: 16 May
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009The London Renaissance Seminar Classical Rome in the Renaissance Imagination Organiser: Linda Grant Saturday, May 16th 2009 Birkbeck, Room 403, Malet Street 1.30 Registration 1.50 Introduction (Linda Grant) Panel One Chair: Professor Catharine Edwards, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Birkbeck 2.00 The reception of fama in Sannazaro’s De Partu Virginis, Vida’s Christiad, and Milton’s [...]
Julian Swann: Inaugural Lecture, 13 May
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Professor Julian Swann, Professor in Early Modern History at Birkbeck, will deliver his Inaugural Lecture on Exile, Death or Imprisonment: The Politics of Disgrace in Early Modern France. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, May 13th at 5pm in the Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London, WC1. Click here to see the poster for [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group: Castiglione, 11 May
Monday, April 20th, 2009The Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group will meet on Monday, 11 May, Tillotson Room, 5th Floor, Dept of English and Humanities, 30 Russell Square 6-7.30. The group will be reading an extract from Castiglione’s The Courtier. The Hoby translation is available online at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier1.html. We will be looking at the first half of Book 1 [...]
Birkbeck Medieval Seminar: 23 May
Friday, April 17th, 2009Rethinking Medieval Marriage 23 May 2009 10am – 5pm Speakers Glenn Burger (Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York) In the Merchant’s Bedchamber Emma Lipton (University of Missouri) John Gower’s Politics of Marriage Shannon McSheffrey (Concordia University, Montreal) Marriage by Ravishment in Fifteenth-Century England Pamela Sheingorn (Baruch College and Graduate Center, City [...]
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