Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Word of God and the problem of society
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800

Thursday 28 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The interpretation of sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800

Thursday 4 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Neapolitan moment: the Earthly Kingdom of Pietro Giannone
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Neapolitan moment: Vico’s idolatrous Gentiles
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800

Thursday 18 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Enlightenment: Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger on religions and society after the Flood
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The late Enlightenment: F.M. Pagano on earthly catastrophe and the first societies
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800