Cambridge Early Modernists

I’m looking forward to presenting my research into Royalist experiences of siege in Newcastle this Wednesday at the Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar at Trinity Hall! Please do come along! ⚔️🏰 @emodcam.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social #skystorians #earlymodern

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

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

Eighteenth Century Seminar: Launch of Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu (eds.), 'The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification' (2025)
Chaired by Sujit Sivasundaram with volume contributors Kasia Boddy & Eszter Csillag
5 pm on Tuesday 3 February; Long Room, Gonville & Caius College

Early Modern British and Irish History:
Tim Harris (Brown) – Liberty and Slavery in Restoration England: Ignoramus Jurors, Kidnappers, and Slave Traders
5:15 pm on Wednesday, 4 February, Graham Storey Room in Trinity Hall

Early Modern World History Seminar – Lent Term 2026 Programme 🌏

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)

Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00 – 4.30 pm on Thursday 13 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College
Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge) – Who’s Afraid of the Fortune-Teller?: The Perception of Gypsy Women’s Magic During the Early Modern Period

Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00 – 4.30 pm on Thurs 4 December; Long Room, Gonville & Caius College
Jarrah Sastrawan (Australia National University) – Old and New Gods in the Spice Islands: Religious Transformation and Global Entanglement in Early Modern Southeast Asia

Eighteenth Century Seminar:
5–7 pm on Tuesday 2 December; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College
Alper Metin (I Tatti & Dumbarton Oaks Joint Fellow, Harvard University) – A Spoonful of Power and Piety: Imperial Soup Kitchens in Istanbul (1742–1801)

With discussants Kate Fleet (Cambridge), Lyndal Roper (Oxford), and Joan-Pau Rubiés (UPF, Barcelona)
Joint Seminar with the History of Scholarship

Early Modern World History Seminar:
5–7 pm on 27 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College
Launch of Richard Calis (Utrecht), 'The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius' (Harvard University Press, 2025)

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Wednesday 26 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Adam Forsyth (Cambridge) – The Several Elizabethan Courts of High Commission

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Wednesday 19 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Sonia Tycko (Edinburgh) – Captured Consent: Contract Labour in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700
Respondent: Renaud Morieux (Cambridge)

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Wednesday 12 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Megan Holmes, Letty Pilgrim, and Mary Whittingdale (Cambridge) – State of the Field session, ‘Bodies in Motion’

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar:
4 pm on Friday 21 November
Saba Alkuwari (St Andrews) – Biblical Humanism and Book Production in the Reformation: The case of Philipp Melanchthon and his relationship with the humanist printers and publishers in the first half of the sixteenth century

Eighteenth Century Seminar:
5-7 pm on Tuesday 18 November; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College
Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge) – Manufactured and Hidden Speech in Early Eighteenth-Century Saint-Pierre, Martinique

Eighteenth Century Seminar:
5-7 pm on Tuesday 18 November; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College
Jake Bransgrove (Cambridge) – "Clubbability" in Britain, 1760-1820: An Anatomy of a Sociable Mode

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Thursday 27 November; Lightfoot Room, St John's College
Gareth Austin (Cambridge) – Coercion and Markets: reconciling economic and social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c. 1450 – c. 1900

Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00 – 4.30 pm on Thursday 13 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College
Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge) – Who’s Afraid of the Fortune-Teller?: The Perception of Gypsy Women’s Magic During the Early Modern Period

Eighteenth Century Seminar:
5-7 pm on 6 November; Senior Parlour, at Gonville and Caius College
Jagjeet Lally (UCL) – Organic Matter and Consumer Society in Eighteenth-Century India
(Joint Seminar with World History)

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Wednesday 5 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Imogen Peck (Birmingham) – Family Archives in England, 1650–1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History

Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 6 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
Sophia Feist (Cambridge) – Court Tailors, Liveries, and the Performance of Politics in the Sixteenth-century Holy Roman Empire

Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 6 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
Tomas Brown (Cambridge) – This Ware he must grind in a Mill’: Remaking Ceramics in the Long Eighteenth Century

History and Politics Seminar:
5.30 pm on Thursday 5 November; Knox Shaw Room, @sidneysussex.bsky.social
Hugo Bromley (@camgeopolitics.bsky.social) – Rendered much cheaper than our work-people can make’; conceptualisations of household employment in English and British political economy, 1688-1715

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on 29 October in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall
Lucy Havard (Cambridge): ‘Improving’ the Garden and the Natural Knowledge of Early Modern Householders, 1600-1750

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on 22 October in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall
Paul Cavill (Cambridge): The Two Swords: Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction in Henrician England