Birkbeck Early Modern Society AGM & First Lecture of the New Academic Year Our AGM will be held on Friday 19 Oct at 18.00 in Malet St, room B30 We will review the last year, hold elections for officers for 2012-13, and publish our new programme of events. We will also discuss our finances. The [...]
Simon Forman, the notorious London astrologer, recorded 10,000 consultations between 1596 and 1603. Most of these are medical. Forman’s casebooks can now be searched by name (of any party involved), date, sex, age, topic of consultation and many other criteria. The edition includes images of all the manuscript pages of Forman’s first volume, and more [...]
Working it Out: A Day of Numbers in Early Modern Writing Saturday 18 May 2013 Keynes Library, Birkbeck College, University of London ‘Arithmetic’ from Gregor Reisch’s Margarita Philosophica (1503) Call for Papers Early modern books are full of numbers, representing both practicality and mystery. This multidisciplinary conference explores numbers in British early modern literature [...]