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Early Modern Europe Seminars at the IHR

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Early Modern Europe Seminars at the IHR Mondays at 17.00 in the Holden Room (Room 20 Boardroom 103), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU Autumn Term 2011 31 October Dr Emma Barker (Open University) ‘Il n’y a point de tableau plus charmant que celui de la famille: Constructing domesticity in eighteenth-century France’ 14 November [...]

Royal Touch in Tudor England

Monday, January 24th, 2011

The Royal Touch in Tudor England: Revival and Reformation Saturday 19th February 2011 2.00 pm Stephen Brogan (Birkbeck and President of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society) Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, Senate House WC1 Historical Association members free Visitors £3 – no need to pre-book – join as a branch member (£10 p.a.) on [...]

New Book: Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690 edited by Philip Major A new publication of early modern interest – and a Birkbeck connection – from Ashgate Publishing: ‘”Exile’” is a condition which places a special kind of strain on every aspect of a person’s life. Nevertheless, what these exiles learned from [...]

Tonight: Our First Event of 2010-11!

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Our AGM is on Wednesday October 20th at 6.15. This will be followed at 7pm by our first speaker event of the academic year. Dr Marcus Dahl from the School of Advanced Studies will tell us about his exciting new research on Shakespeare authorship in a talk entitled  ‘Shakespeare, Middleton and Macbeth, A Re-Analysis’. Both [...]

From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World. A Colloquium to be Held at Birkbeck, University of London, 23-24 Sep 2010

Monday, July 19th, 2010

As part of Birkbeck’s thriving research culture, this event will bring together scholars to discuss the purpose and reception of ritual and ceremony in the early modern period. Early modern life was shaped by ritual and ceremony.  These rites had many functions, such as marking time, denoting power, place and order, and defining the sacred.  [...]

Annual Ecclesiastical History Colloquium, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Annual Ecclesiastical History Colloquium, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2010 Time: 15:30 – 20:00 Programme 3.30 Panel: ‘Samuel Wesley: Family, Theology and Mission’ ‘None but Presbyterian Baptism: Samuel Wesley and the Lay Baptism Controversy.’ Professor William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University ‘A Critical Analysis of the Theology [...]

The Royal Touch: Brogan at the IHR

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Stephen Brogan, President of the Early Modern Society, will be giving a paper at the Seventeenth-Century British History Seminar at the IHR on Thursday 25 February 2010 entitled ‘The Royal Touch: Scrofula, Sin and the Restored Stuarts, 1660-88′. Venue: Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Time: 5:15 [...]

Stephen Brogan on ‘The Royal Touch’ at the IHR

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Stephen Brogan, President of the Early Modern Society, will be giving a paper at the Seventeenth-Century British History Seminar at the IHR on Thursday 25 Feb entitled ‘The Royal Touch: Scrofula, Sin and the Restored Stuarts, 1660-88′. Venue: Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU Time: 5:15 in [...]

‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England: 30% Discount for EM Intelligencer Readers!

Monday, January 11th, 2010

‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England: Writing Women’s Identities Ulrike Tancke Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. VIII, 266 pp. (Costerus NS 180) ISBN: 978-90-420-2808-1 Paper ISBN: 978-90-420-2809-8 E-Book Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=COS+180 Readers of The Early Modern Intelligencer can claim a 30% discount on this title! Send an email to info@rodopi.nl ,and mention your postal address, [...]

Call for Papers: From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World One Day Colloquium at Birkbeck, University of London  Friday 24 September 2010 As part of Birkbeck’s thriving research culture, this event will bring together scholars to discuss the purpose and reception of ritual and ceremony in the early modern [...]

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