Early Modern Newsletter #5, NOVEMber 2024

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EARLY MODERN NEWSLETTER #5: NOVEMBER 2024

Seminar: Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Isabel Yaya McKenzie will deliver a talk entitled "Productive Misunderstandings: Confraternities, Catholic liturgy and the reconfiguration of Andean native lordship in the early colonial period."

Date: 26 November

Time: 17.00

Venue: Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford

CFP: York University Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

"The second meeting of the York University Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (YUSEMP) will take place at York University in Toronto, Canada on June 20–21, 2025. The seminar aims to be a small, informal venue for scholars of early modern philosophy at various career stages to share and discuss their work.

"Anonymized abstracts (max 450 words) should be submitted by December 15, 2024 as an email attachment to [email protected]."

CFP: Early Modern Latin America Workshop

Objects and everyday life in Early Modern Latin America

Art, crafts, and material culture in light of the encounter with European travellers

Paris, February 12, 2025

CFP: European Shakespeare Research Association

Shakespeare and Time

The ESRA 2025 conference (June 9-12) "will explore temporality from a variety of angles". Papers to be submitted by December 2, 2024.

Open-access articles

William David Green, A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear.

David McInnis, ‘Ed: Agberowe’, Seventeenth-Century Collector of Restoration Playbooks.

Sarah Betts, By The Sword Divided: The English Civil War as Sunday-Night Television Drama.

Maureen E. Mulvihill, By a Woman's Hand: Esther Inglis, Artisan.

Open-Access Online Course

Steven Reid, The Life and Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots.

Bloomsbury blog

125 years of The Arden Shakespeare: 10 things I’ve learned as Publisher

Margaret Bartley talks about her experience as the series editor.

The Burning Archive YouTube Channel

Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1600 to 1750

Monograph

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature

Georgina Wilson

Edited volume

Gardens and Academies in Early Modern Italy and Beyond

Series:

Intersections, Volume: 94

Editor:

Denis Ribouillault

Hybrid Lectures

Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World

University of London School of Advanced Study

Tuesdays, 17:50-19:00 UTC.

CONVENED BY: Alejandra Irigoin (LSE), Judy Stephenson (UCL), Coskun Tuncer (UCL) , Patrick Wallis (LSE), Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh) and Spike Sweeting (V&A Museum).

Harvard Conference

"Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World"

Date:

Monday, November 18, 2024, 12:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Barker Center, Room 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138

For more information on Harvard events, see their events calendar.

Forthcoming publication

In Readers' Hands

New Perspectives on Premodern Bibles in Europe

Series:

Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 78

Editors: Sabrina Corbellini, Wim François, Renske A. Hoff

This volume explores the production, transmission, and reading practices of vernacular Bibles in early modern Europe. This varied collection of essays provides historical, book historical, literary, theological, and art historical perspectives to the movements of manuscript and printed Bibles. The contributions concern Bibles in many different languages and from across the European continent, from Ireland to Portugal. Rather than perceiving Scripture and the material carriers of Scripture as static things, this volume demonstrates how Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users.

E-Book (PDF)

Availability:: Published 28 Oct 2024
EUR €119.00

Hardback

Availability:: Publication: 11 Dec 2024

EUR €119.00

New Yorker review of Andrew Janiak, The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman (forthcoming)

Does the Enlightenment’s Great Female Intellect Need Rescuing?

Émilie du Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t undermine her as a woman.

By Adam Gopnik

October 28, 2024

(The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman)

Folger video

How Shakespeare Revolutionized Tragedy, with Rhodri Lewis

EARLY MODERNS IN THE MEDIA

The Conversation

Mary Queen of Scots and the clandestine tricks of the women who kept her secrets

Published: October 25, 2024

Author: Jade Scott

The Guardian

Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub

Early modern tweets

An early modern take on the ancient world: Pyramids of Egypt, by Magdalena van de Passe, her version after Maerten de Vos, 1610 - 1638 (Rijksmuseum) pic.twitter.com/vmYS7rLR2v
— John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) October 17, 2024

If wishes were horses...

I'd like to be commissioned to write a series of short (sometimes very short) barely connected, slightly bonkers essays about things I think about early modern plays. Wouldn't we all?
— Eoin Price (@eoin_price) October 18, 2024

A fruitful day in the NRS today! Some missing sources have been found & I managed to find one of my favourite female nonconformists, the eloquent and always respectable (except for when leading a riot) Janet Fleming, mastermind of the 1674 Women’s Petition 👑 pic.twitter.com/eBftXG5cYE
— Dr Laura Doak (@lauraidoak) October 28, 2024

What every c17 gent needed! A BigWig stand! Dutch, Delft, Blue & White, Chinoiserie taste, painted with figures in a landscape of mountains, pine trees & fenced gardens ..... for sale, est💲20k-30k https://t.co/FAkXvToHqm pic.twitter.com/aCZaqgDyEa
— Prof Claire Jowitt - @clairejowitt.bsky.social (@clairejowitt) October 20, 2024

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