William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?
Patrick Collinson, From Cranmer to Sancroft (2006), ch. 8;
Tim Reinke-Williams, ‘Misogyny, Jest-Books and Male Youth Culture in Seventeenth-Century England’, Gender and History, 21:2 (2009);
Tim Somers, ‘Jesting Culture and Religious Politics in Seventeenth-Century England’, Historical Research, 267 (2022)
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark