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Thursday, December 17th, 2009Call for Papers: Gossip, Gospel, and Governance: Orality in Europe 1400–1700 British Academy, London, 14-16 July 2011 Scholars are invited to propose papers for an important international conference on orality in early modern Europe, organised by the Medieval and Early Modern Research Group at Northumbria University. The aim of the conference is to explore the [...]
Bulletin Deadline Approaching
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009The next issue of our official publication, The Bulletin, is in preparation. Contributions are welcome and should be sent no later than 20 December 2009 to the Editor, John Croxon. The only real criteria for contributions is that they deal with a subject within our date range of 1450-1815. Book and other reviews, visits to [...]
Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
Sunday, December 13th, 2009The Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project is online. The impressive website will be useful for early modernists with many different interests. From the website: The Archive of Dulwich College in London, England, holds thousands of pages of manuscripts left to the College by its founder, the eminent actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626). This archive includes his personal and [...]
CFP: Writing Central Eastern Europe
Friday, December 11th, 2009Call for Papers: Writing Central Eastern Europe Conference at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 11-12 June 2010 In his inspiring and provoking book, Larry Wolff analyses the invention of Eastern Europe in the time of the Enlightenment. The question is whether Eastern Europe as a concept existed earlier? What about the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first [...]
Tonight! Prof. Quentin Skinner, ‘Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes’
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Prof. Quentin Skinner, ‘Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes’, Thursday 10 December, 6.30 pm, Malet St, Room B35 We are delighted to invite you to our end of term lecture. Prof. Quentin Skinner returns to the Birkbeck Early Modern Society, having given us a very stimulating evening three years ago on Machiavelli. Prof. [...]
Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009The University of Toronto has an online archive of materials relating to Wenceslaus Hollar. The website introduction says: Hollar was born in 1607, the son of an upper middle-class civic official. Very little is known about his early life, but he evidently learned the rudiments of his craft by age eighteen, left his native Prague [...]
Research Students’ Seminar, Birkbeck, 8 Dec 09
Monday, December 7th, 2009There are 2 papers tomorrow evening, 8 Dec, 5-6 pm, room 261, chaired by Dr Surekha Davies. Cristina Bellorini, ‘Plants and Medicine at the Medici Court in the Sixteenth Century’ (supervised by John Henderson and Filippo de Vivo) Harman Bhogal, ‘The Impact of John Deacon and John Walker’s Dialogicall Discourses upon Demonological Thought in Early Modern [...]
New Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Now Open at the V&A
Saturday, December 5th, 2009The V&A has opened its new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. As they say on their website: Beautiful and innovative, the V&A’s new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries are home to one of the world’s most remarkable collections of treasures from the period. These range from delicately carved ivories and intricate metalwork to Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks [...]
Fugger Family Manuscripts at the Bavarian State Library
Friday, December 4th, 2009The Fugger family became one of Europe’s most powerful merchant dynasties. Ennobled at the beginning of the 16th century, the Fuggers started to withdraw step by step from business during the second half of the century. In the decades following 1600 they adopted an aristocratic lifestyle. The Bavarian State library acquired two manuscripts relating to [...]
Christmas at Shakespeare’s Globe
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Christmas at the Globe 7 December 2009 – 3 January 2010, 10am–6pm Except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day To complement Shakespeare’s Globe’s first ever Christmas show, Footsbarn’s Christmas Cracker, there will be charming Christmas cabins nestling in the shadow of the iconic Globe Theatre as well as a magnificent Christmas tree. Traditional wooden cabins [...]
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