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

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

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)