Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court

Sundays at Somerville: Anna Beer and The Death of an Englishman - Somerville College Oxford We are very pleased to welcome Dr Anna Beer to Somerville. A Fellow, and formerly Director of the Creative Writing MSt at Kellogg College in Oxford, Anna has recently brought out her first book of det...

If you’re in Oxford on 8 June, join us in person as we welcome @annabeerauthor.bsky.social - and otherwise join us online. This will be fun! www.some.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on “To give some colour as if they meant the peace”: a practice-based approach to ‘legality’ in early modern England. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com

Thanks @alanstewart50.bsky.social for his paper this evening on “The Maxims” of Francis Bacon. As Bacon’s editor, Alan’s survey of the manuscript and printed versions of this work, and the potential dedications to monarchs, made for a fascinating discussion.

LGBT+ History Month: research and resources

This #LGBTHistoryMonth you can explore related research and resources at the English Faculty on our website.

www.english.ox.ac.uk/lgbt-history...

Today!

This is tomorrow (Wednesday). All welcome!

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We are delighted to welcome @alanstewart50.bsky.social to our next seminar, with a paper entitled 'Francis Bacon’s Maxims of the Law: A Reappraisal'. All welcome to join us at 17.30 (GMT) on Wednesday 19 February! Please email MappingInns@gmail.com for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com

A really good question... I'm sure someone out there will know if so - I haven't seen any reports of ursine activity at the Inns either!

Great news! ☺️

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare is now officially launched!

Huge thanks to @roaringgirle.bsky.social, Lorna Hutson, and John Kerrigan for the lively discussion about archipelagic and editorial futures. @cambridgeup.bsky.social

For more details, see: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Old Measures of the Inns of Court (1570s – 1670s)

Thanks to @fabiociambella.bsky.social for a fabulous talk this evening about the Old Measures at the Inns of Court, and links between dance and early modern drama. Many people working in dance history might find his work on OMIC useful (clare.dlls.univr.it/omic/).

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Macbeth In this free webinar, Shakespeare expert Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Macbeth from Oxford World's Classics.

We have a few tickets remaining for our next English Faculty / OWC #Shakespeare webinar on 3 Feb.

This month, Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social welcomes special guest Sir Gregory Doran to discuss #Macbeth.

#teamenglish #CPD #EduSky

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Fantastic conference with a superb keynote!

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) this Thursday (23 Jan). We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella, Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome!

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) this Thursday (23 Jan). We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella, Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome!

Professor Lorna Hutson awarded the Saltire Society’s Research Book of the Year award

Congratulations to Professor Lorna Hutson whose book 'England’s Insular Imagining' has won Research Book of the Year at the Saltire Society National Book Awards 2024.

The judges pronounced it, "a landmark text across multiple disciplines." #SaltireBookAwards

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) on 23 January. We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella of Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome!

I was honoured to contribute to Henry Woudhuysen’s festschrift, brilliantly edited by Daniel Smith and Hazel Wilkinson. My chapter, on the elusive Love’s Labour’s Won, is free to access until 13 February - check it out and the rest of the book too 👇

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BBC Radio 4 - Human Intelligence, Teachers: Mary Somerville A remarkable 19th-century polymath inspired by the natural world and the universe beyond.

A fascinating programme on Mary Somerville, our polymath scientist namesake, is on Radio 4 this Wednesday, but available online already. It even features our alumna Dr Brigitte Stenhouse, Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at The Open University! Let us know if you give it a listen.

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) on 23 January. We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella of Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome!

Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court Visit the post for more.

Hello to Bluesky! If you work on early modern law and literature, or any aspect of early modern studies that involves the Inns of Court, follow us, look at our website and come to our online seminars. See mappinginns.wordpress.com