• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 9 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Race and Royalty
  Alexander Bevilacqua

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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