Cambridge Early Modernists

World History Seminar: Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University) – 'Gift-exchange, Diplomacy and Violence in the Early Modern South and Southeast Asian Encounter with Dutch Colonialism' 5-7 pm on Thursday 19 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: Jonathan Baddley (Cambridge) – The Lord’s Supper, Practical Divinity, and Further Reformation in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England 5.15 pm on Wednesday 11 March; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Eighteenth Century Seminar: Samuel Diener (Exeter College, Oxford) – Writing the self above and 'below stairs': Class, gender, and intellectual culture in the 1740s 5-7 pm on Tuesday 17 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern World History Seminar: Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer (Bristol) – A Mixture of Peoples: Blood, Nation and Intimacies in the Spanish (?) Philippines 3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 12 March; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College

Eighteenth Century Seminar: Alex Bamji (Leeds) – Ephemeral print and lay religious experience in eighteenth-century Venice 5 pm on Tuesday 3 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar: Pinar Ceylan (Cambridge) with Christopher Markiewicz (Ghent) – The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective 5 pm on Thursday 12 March; Erasmus Room, Queen's College

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: Steven Gunn (Oxford) – Life and Death in Tudor Prisons 5.15 pm on Wednesday 4 March; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Global Economic History Seminar: Safya Morshed (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) – ‘The Evolution of State Capacity in Early Modern Empires: The Mughal South Asian case 1556-1707’ 5 pm on Monday 23 February; in Audit Room, King's College

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar: Harry Spillane (Cambridge) – 'Too Many Bibles? Religious Uniformity, English Scripture and the Book of Common Prayer, 1549-1662' 4.00-5.30 pm on Friday 27 February; in Gulliver Room, Emmanuel College

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: Martha McGill (Cambridge) – ‘Cunningly Couched in our Bowels’: Devils and the Human Body in Early Modern Britain 5.15 pm on Wednesday 25 February; in Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Early Modern World History Seminar: Sonia Wigh (Cambridge) – The Lone Pregnant Body: Crafting Feminine Forms Through Manṣūr’s Anatomy (1640-1850) 3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 26 February; in Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Wednesday 18 February in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall James Fox (Glasgow): Measuring, Accounting and the Social Dynamics of Numeracy in Scotland and Northern England, c.1660–1800

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Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar: 4 pm on Friday 6 February, RJP Seminar Room at Emmanuel College Maddy Keightley-Phillipps (Durham) – 'A 'Vertuous Education': The Religious Education of Catholic Girls in Early Modern England

Early British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Wednesday 11 February, Graham Storey Room at Trinity Hall Jade Jesty (Cambridge) – Royalist Experiences of Siege in Newcastle, 1640-1673

Early Modern World History Seminar: 3 pm on Thursday 12 February, Senior Parlour at Gonville and Caius College Jan Machielsen (Cardiff) – The Original Air Friar: St Joseph of Copertino and the Miracle of Flight

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A reminder that our first Workshop of the term is TONIGHT! You don't want to miss it.

TODAY! Early Modern World History Seminar Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings 5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)

Quantitative History Seminar: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge) – Economic development in early modern England and Wales: A review of the evidence 5 pm on Wednesday 4 February; William Hardy Building Room 101 in the Department of Geography and Zoom