• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Natalia Nowakowska , Lyndal Roper , Giora Sternberg
• Timing: Wednesdays 11:15-12:45, unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 11:15 - “Her story” & Hagiography: Writing female lives in seventeenth-century France
  Jenny Hillman (Chester)

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 11:15 - Quintilian's dilemma: editing sexually loaded classical texts in Britain and the Dutch Republic in the eighteenth century AND Beverland's banishment: sex and the Classics in the works of a late 17th century Dutch scholar
  Floris Verhaart (Oxford), Karen Hollewand (Oxford)

Wednesday 28 October 2015

• 13:00 - Biblical Ishmael as Imagined in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  Elliot Horowitz (Oxford)

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 11:15 - A Persian Émigré at the Ottoman Court: Belief and Belonging in the Political Thought of Idris Bidlisi (1457-1520)
  Christopher Markiewicz (Oxford)

Wednesday 11 November 2015

• 11:15 - Temples of memory. The culture of remembrance in early modern Protestantism
  Marion Deschamp (Paris)

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 11:15 - Dürer's frantzosen, or: the Illness is in the Detail
  Birgit Münch (Trier)

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 17:00 - Dynasties: choices and chances of writing a global social history of rulership' 5pm Round table discussion and launch of Dynasties. A g
  Jeroen Duindam (Leiden), Natalia Nowakowska (Oxford), Craig Clunas (Oxford), John Elliott (Oxford)

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 11:15 - The Anglican Church Militant and Catholic Europe, 1605-1620
  Noah Millstone (Bristol)

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 11:15 - ‘Troubled Minds: Madness, Fear and Exclusion in Saint-Domingue (late 18th century)’
  Marie Houllemare (Amiens)

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 11:15 - New Perspectives on Early Modern Religion ‘Travelling to the Bathhouse and Jerusalem: Imagined and Contested Spaces in South West German Convents’ ‘Toleration, Co-existence or Pragmatism? The Case of Early Modern Upper Lusatia’
  Edmund Wareham (Oxford), Martin Christ (Oxford)

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 11:15 - ‘Locating Paradise in China: Joseph Stoecklein’s Chronology (1729) in context’
  Renate Dürr (Tübingen)

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 11:15 - ‘The Invention of Purity in the Early Modern Period’
  Peter Burschel (Berlin)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 11:15 - ‘Emotions, Selfhood and the Supernatural in German Criminal Trials’
  Laura Kounine (Sussex)

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• 11:15 - ‘Governing Hatred: Enmity, Politics and Community in the Kingdom of Naples, 1600-1700’
  Stephen Cummins (Berlin)

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 11:15 - New Perspectives on Early Modern Legal Culture ‘Honours as Property? Debating the Sale of Offices in 16th Century France’ ‘Property: More Important than Honour in Early Modern Life and Law?’
  Samuel Pollack (Oxford), John Jordan (Bern)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 11:15 - Roi de guerre ou Roi de paix?: Louis XV, Europe and the French Monarchy, 1736-1748
  Julian Swann

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 11:15 - From Göttingen to Sri Lanka: The 18th-Century Debate on Elephant Copulation and the Limits of Evidential Credibility
  Avi Lifschitz

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 11:15 - The Court as the World: Refocussing a Nobility on Court Life
  Fabian Persson

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 11:15 - Visual Dissent in the Iberian Empires, 1500-1700
  Giuseppe Marcocci

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 11:15 - 1. Religion in the Armies of the Thirty Years War/ 2. Early Modern Amsterdam: The European Market for War-Making
  Ryan Crimmins, Marianne Klerk

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 11:15 - New Materials, Old Conflicts: The Craft of Dyeing in 16th- Century Spain
  Adrianna Catena

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 11:15 - António Vieira, SJ, and the "Clavis Prophetarum": A Portuguese Fifth Imperialistic Project
  Ana Valdez

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 17:15 - Rebuilding Landscapes, Reconstructing Lives: Brandenburg after the Thirty Years War
  Please note that this lecture will take place at 5.15 in the Old Library, All Souls College
  Mary Lindemann

Wednesday 10 October 2018

• 11:15 - The paradoxes of an early modern object: an experiment in material history
  Dror Wahrman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 11:15 - Kinship and the cultural dynamics of seventeenth-century France: the Perrault family
  Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University)

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 11:15 - Heroes or villains? Runaway Christian captives and slaves in the early modern Mediterranean
  Cecilia Tarruell (Oriel College)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 11:15 - Reading the Bible in sixteenth‐century France
  Mack P. Holt (George Mason University)

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 11:15 - Looking at Ottoman Istanbul from its outskirts: sixteenth‐century poets and their gardens
  Asli Niyazioglu (Exeter College)

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 11:15 - Liquid empire: writing water in the early modern French Americas
  Katherine Ibbett (Trinity College)

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 11:15 - The Palatine family and the Peace of Westphalia, 1645-1647
  Thomas Pert (Lincoln College)

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 11:15 - Untraceable ideas? Black thought in the early Iberian Atlantic (1500-1640) and the transformation of Iberian empires and epistemologies
  Chloe Ireton (University College London)

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 11:15 - A Witch Hunting King? Christian IV and his Early Encounters with Witchcraft
  Louise Nyholm Kallestrup

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 11:15 - Their excellencies must not be erudite. Titles, letter protocol and the language of inequality in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1640-1822
  Leonhard Horowski

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 11:15 - Toussaint Louverture, the Black Spartacus of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
  Sudhir Hazareesingh

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 11:15 - The "Waning of the Renaissance" or "Surviving the Counter Reformation"? Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Bologna
  Nicole Reinhardt

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 11:15 - Moriscos, Conversion, and Negotiating Identities in Early Modern Spain
  Stephanie Cavanaugh

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 11:15 - Polemic and Political Thought in the later French Wars of Religion: Pierre de Belloy
  Matthew Innes

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 11:15 - Sharing Church Space between Lutherans and Catholics in Early Modern Württemberg
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Róisín Watson

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 11:15 - Foetid Odours and Heavenly Scents: Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and the Sense of Smell in the Early Modern World
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Tara Alberts

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 11:15 - Contemplating shells and contemplating Christ: A devotional grotto at a seventeenth-century German court
  Róisín Watson (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 11:15 - Experiments in managing an epidemic in seventeenth-century Siam
  Tara Alberts (University of York)

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 11:15 - The bare and open truth: The poligrafi's subversions of humanism, rhetoric, and court culture in Venice, ca. 1527-1556
  Thomas Goodwin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 15:00 - The Maghreb in 18th century Spain: Islamic institutions and slaves’ collective action
  Daniel Hershenzon (University of Connecticut)

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 11:15 - Bodies and self-tracking in early modern diaries
  Vitus Huber (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 11:15 - Religious conversion and the policing of sexuality in Renaissance Italy
  Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University)

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 16:30 - Hybrid Dermal Practices and the Origins of Race in the Early Modern Age
  Craig Koslofsky

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 11:15 - European Engagement with British Catholics (joint session with two papers)
  Heather McTaggart, Kate Shore

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 11:15 - Travelling Brides, Travelling Grooms: Festival, Gender, and Memory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Habsburg Wedding Journeys
  Patrik Pastrnak

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 11:15 - The Porcelain Merchant’s Handbook: The Eighteenth-Century Trade Networks that Supplied the Canton trade
  Anne Gerritsen

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 11:15 - A State of Undress: Health and Morality in the Early Modern Swedish Sauna
  Charlotta Forss

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 16:30 - Race and Royalty
  Alexander Bevilacqua

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 16:30 - Intimate Histories: Sex in an Old Regime City, and Rethinking Our Categories for Economic History
  Julie Hardwick

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 11:15 - Discovering Self-Identity in Travel: Russian Travellers in Ukraine of the Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century
  Kateryna Dysa, Chair: Natalia Nowakowska

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 11:15 - Owning Bodies, Owning Land: Property Formation in the Early Plantation Colonies
  Allan Greer, Chair: Alan Strathern

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 11:15 - "To govern many other kingdoms": Ignacio de las Casas on Arabic as a Tool for the Spanish Empire
  Erica Feild-Marchello, Chair: Natasha Bailey

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 17:00 - Mapping the Global Entanglements of Central European Albums in Sixteenth-Century Constantinople
  Please note this seminar is online via Zoom
  Robyn Radway, Chair: John Condren

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 11:15 - The Well-Tempered Chase: Hunting, Emotions and Health in Early Modern Europe
  Valerio Zanetti (Oxford), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 14:00 - Didn’t You Promise Us A River? Looking For The 17th-Century Mississippi
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Katherine Ibbett (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 11:15 - Unconventional Currents of Reform in Early Modern Italy
  Querciolo Mazzonis (Teramo), Chair: Filippo de Vivo

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 11:15 - Rethinking the Renaissance, A Mediterranean Perspective
  Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young), Chair: Filippo de Vivo

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 11:15 - ONLINE: Invisible Threads of Tradition: Refiguring Kinship and Knowledge in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1500
  Please note this seminar is online
  Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv), Chair: Lyndal Roper

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 11:15 - Globalizing East-Central Europe from the Ground Up: Minerals, Metals, and Mountains
  Suzanna Ivanic (Kent), Chair: Natalia Nowakowska

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 11:15 - The German Peasants’ War (1524–1526): Facts, Reception History and New Approaches
  Thomas Müller (Wittenberg), Chair: Lyndal Roper

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 11:15 - Colliding Empires: Material Trajectories Across the Early Modern Western Mediterranean
  Ana Struillou (London), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 11:15 - Rome Branded: The Politics of Heraldic Devices in the Early Modern Papal Capital
  Toby Osborne, Chair: Natalia Nowakowska

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 11:15 - "As If They Were Man and Wife": Sex Work as Gendered Labour in Early Modern Seville and Mexico City
  Clare Burgess, Chair: Lyndal Roper

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 11:15 - The French Court as a Military Institution, 1610-43
  Marc Jaffré, Chair: Giora Sternberg

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 11:15 - The Damel Who Spoke like François Ier: Essay on a Dynamic of the French Colonial Empire, 16th-17th Centuries
  François-Joseph Ruggiu, Chair: Giora Sternberg

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 11:15 - Letters, Archives, Precedent? Early Modern Rabbinic Responsa and Their Afterlives
  This seminar will now be held via Microsoft Teams
  Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Chair: Giora Sternberg

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 11:15 - Living with Accusation: Families Navigating the Fallout of Sodomy Charges in Early Modern Spain
  Maayan Aner, Chair: Lyndal Roper

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 11:15 - A Woman Doing Her Accounts: Some Lessons from a Peripatetic Early Modern Image
  Dror Wahrman, Chair: Lyndal Roper

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 11:15 - The Future in the Archives: Catholic Minorities Preserving their Past in the Dutch Republic
  Liesbeth Corens, Chair: Giora Sternberg