Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies

Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

📅 Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
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Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder The city of Gdańsk has a historical centre with several striking buildings which can make any historian’s heart beat faster, even with the knowledge that they were partly rebuilt after the destruct…

New blog post 📢
Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder'
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For more information on all of these fantastic papers, please see the website!

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Our last session of the year will be delivered by Izzy Daltry (Hull) on 11th December.

Izzy's paper is on 'Affective encounters: reading hydraulic models of emotion beyond geohumoralism in Antony
and Cleopatra.'

Esther Bancroft (Glasgow) will be presenting on 27th November.

The paper is on 'Religious Encounters: The Chapel at Little Moreton Hall.'

On 23rd October, we will be hosting Beth Lettington (Hull).

Beth will asking 'Could Spenser’s Errour be an eel?'

On 16th October, we will be hosting Rosalind Rothwell (Duke).

Her paper is on '“Pariah” Arrack: Alcohol and Caste in Early Modern French India.'

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This Thursday (9th October) at 1pm, our Early Modern Discussion Group will be recommencing!

Our first paper will be presented by our very own Cameron Whiteside on 'The Commission on Fees: its "Recommendations" and "Regulation" of Manuscript Production.'

Please see the website for how to join!

Call for Papers This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for literary criticism. In a period best known today for its poetry and drama, practical texts such as Gervase Markham’s The English Husbandman were ‘almost literally read to pieces’, Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ‘led the market’ as ‘a Tudor best-seller’, and cookery books enjoyed a staggering 70% reprint rate. That these texts occupied such a prominent position in the publishing industry is testament to their importance in early modern life. Yet despite this, literary criticism has been slow to embrace such texts as more than merely contextual sources for canonical texts by poets and dramatists such as Shakespeare and Spenser. Critics continue to frame Tusser’s work as an agricultural manual or almanack rather than a book of poetry, for example, while literary scholars tend to note his significance in the same breath as they denigrate the quality of his verse: an ‘agrarian book of jingles’ or ‘collection of doggerel’. Other practical texts such as receipt books and surveying texts have been interrogated primarily as a means of understanding early modern culture and society. Less common are studies of practical texts as works of literature, studies that centre the practical text rather than positioning it as context for the work of more canonical writers. This symposium seeks to address this gap, and invites contributors to consider how studying non-traditionally canonical texts can help scholars to reassess established positions. It is designed to lead to an edited collection, provisionally aimed at Routledge’s Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series, so speakers are encouraged to propose papers suitable for extension into a 6000-8000 word chapter. Recent scholarship by Katarzyna Lecky, Jessica Rosenberg, and Kyla Tompkins has begun to demonstrate

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
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Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰

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@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

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Policing by consent: an early modern perspective This post derives from some of the work I’ve been doing on my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship over the last year and a half. For more on these themes, I’ve an article coming out in H…

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police.

blog here:

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Looking forward to sharing some of my work on Fielding this Friday! ✨

This Friday (21st March), Sheffield will be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop on beer! Topics of discussion include the politics of brewing, how to make beer more sustainably, and the globalisation of the drink!

To join, get in touch!

Our first EMDG of the year is on Thursday! Join us virtually for 5-10 minutes of @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I talking about our cats before Tom's v interesting paper ⛪

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This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.'

This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details!

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SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵

Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches
Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm

This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

SCEMS Spring 2025 events lineup 👇

Great events coming up at Sheffield next week! Wonder who that is talking about the social history of translation in early modern London... 👀

Really looking forward to these workshops and events this semester!

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - Events Upcoming events If you would like to be notified about upcoming events, email scems@sheffield.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Full details of these events (inc. speaker details and registration information) can be found via our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Registration, as always, is free but essential.

We hope to see you there!

Early Modern Women and the Courts
Mon 10th March, 10am - 6pm

This workshop, headed by Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity), will include discussions of self-expression, the milling industry, and the lives of Irish women within the Chancery Court records.

A Journey Through Early Modern London: Negotiating Institutional, Social, and Cultural Histories
Fri 7th March, 10-11:30am

The following day, Ian Archer has kindly agreed to lead this masterclass on methods and concepts when researching early modern London.

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵

Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches
Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm

This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

Sheffield students! I am once again recruiting actors (and a fight director) for my practice-as-research workshops! please email lucy.clarke@sheffield.ac.uk if interested! @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social #skystorians #practiceasresearch #actorswanted

Old, drawn map of Europe and the logo of REMRA (Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance - University of Highlands and Islands), with a stylised image of a ship with sails. Text reads: Call for Papers. Northern Narratives: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Early Modern Period in the North Atlantic and Baltic

REMRA is excited to host its first multidisciplinary conference from 11 to 13 June 2025 to discuss its exciting research with academic colleagues in the field. We therefore invite papers in the following categories: Early Modern Warfare in the North Atlantic/ Baltic Early Modern Culture/ Archaeology in the North Atlantic Early Modern Public History Early Modern Communities and Identities Keynote speakers include Dr Lucy Dean (UHI), Professor Mark Elliot (UHI) and Dr Simon Burton (University of Edinburgh), Professor Mark Gardiner (University of Lincoln) and Professor Steve Murdoch (Swedish Defence University, Visiting Professor UHI).

The conference will be hosted online via MS Teams. Papers from postgraduate researchers and ECRs are particularly welcome. Please contact the conference team (remra@uhi.ac.uk) by 21 February 2025 to register your interest. If you would like to give a paper, please send a provisional title and short abstract (c.200 words). We are looking forward to hearing from you! The conference team: Mark Elliott (Highland Theological College, UHI), Jen Harland Archaeology Institute, UHI),Andrew Lind (Institute for Northern Studies, UHI), Kathrin Zickermann (Centre for History, UHI) In the bottom right-hand corner there is the logo of UHI.

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

REMRA is hosting its 1st interdisciplinary conference on Northern Narratives! To register your interest, please contact the conference team (remra@uhi.ac.uk) by 21 Feb 2025. For info, see below ⬇️ or visit bit.ly/4arhSwx

@uhiarchaeology.bsky.social @thinkuhi.bsky.social

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The last EMDG of 2024 will be held next Thursday lunchtime! Juliet Atkinson (Leeds) is joining us to share her research on border practices in London and Yarmouth, 1606-1640.

Full details (inc. the link to join) can be found via our website:
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