Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.
Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.
Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
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Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on โTo give some colour as if they meant the peaceโ: a practice-based approach to โlegalityโ in early modern England. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com
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Thanks @alanstewart50.bsky.social for his paper this evening on โThe Maximsโ of Francis Bacon. As Baconโs editor, Alanโs survey of the manuscript and printed versions of this work, and the potential dedications to monarchs, made for a fascinating discussion.
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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...
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Today!
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This is tomorrow (Wednesday). All welcome!
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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
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We are delighted to welcome @alanstewart50.bsky.social to our next seminar, with a paper entitled 'Francis Baconโs 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
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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!
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Great news! โบ๏ธ
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Old Measures of the Inns of Court (1570s โ 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/).
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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
shakespeare-webinar-macbeth.eventbrite.co.uk
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Fantastic conference with a superb keynote!
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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 โDancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Courtโ. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome!
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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-...
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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 โDancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Courtโ. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome!
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Professor Lorna Hutson awarded the Saltire Societyโs Research Book of the Year award
Congratulations to Professor Lorna Hutson whose book 'Englandโs 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
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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 โDancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Courtโ. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome!
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I was honoured to contribute to Henry Woudhuysenโs festschrift, brilliantly edited by Daniel Smith and Hazel Wilkinson. My chapter, on the elusive Loveโs Labourโs Won, is free to access until 13 February - check it out and the rest of the book too ๐
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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.
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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 โDancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Courtโ. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome!
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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
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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
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PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham | Wolfson scholar | English Teacher | Musician | Mother | Lover of cheese, quizzes, and Oxford commas
Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
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Early modernist at Padova Uni | ex MSCA Researcher at Sussex Uni | author of 'Lit and Intellectual Disability in EM Lit' (Routledge, 2021) | editor of 'Shaping IDs in EM Culture' (EUP, 2025); current projects on early mod novella translation and law and li
Sr Acq Editor, Early Modern Studies, Amsterdam University Press. Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her ๐
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
All Things Early Modern Literature โข Hon. Fellow at University of Melbourne โข PhD from Durham โข Bodies human/non โข Angels โข Marlowe โข Milton โข EM Encounters with the Islamic world โข
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Lecturer in Book History at IES. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills, out soon with MUP (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526129390/#generate-pdf). Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
Iโm a historian of the seventeenth-century Caribbean. I write about religion and slavery, and occasionally about emotions.
We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Prof EM Hist; Letters; Gloves; https://genderingthemuseum.co.uk; Swedish Res Council project on Hist of Separation; Histories of the Unexpected Pod: https://historiesoftheunexpected.com/about-us/; agent: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/james-daybell
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FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
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Expanding the canon of teachable and performable early modern plays, one open-access digital edition at a time. In partnership with UVic, DRE, NISE, MoMS, QME, and DSMP. lemdo.uvic.ca/lemdo
respectably absurd | she/her | own opinions | interests: Ghibli, puns, cats | research: Shax/Marlowe's French; multilingual early modern London; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winterโs Tale | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com ORCID: 0000-0002-4375-2961
Early Modernist, manuscripts, poetry, transmission, too many letters
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