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Playhouse Lab
By Jane Rickard | December 8, 2023
Playhouse Lab is a play-reading group, which meets regularly in the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds to explore early modern plays in script-in-hand performances. It is co-convened by José A. Pérez Díez and Jane Rickard, and Brett Greatley-Hirsch manages the website. Our regular readers include members of academic staff; current undergraduate and postgraduate…
Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, CC (1928-2023)
By Liesbeth Corens | October 23, 2023
We are deeply saddened to learn that the historian Natalie Zemon Davis has died just shy of her 95th birthday. Her career spanned decades, encompassed early modern France, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean, and was never confined to or contented with the scholarly debate du jour but instead incorporated categories of analysis which…
Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons
By Anne James | March 11, 2023
Although by 1681 Edmund Hickeringill could complain ‘that every Book-sellers Stall groans under the burthen of Sermons, Sermons’ (The Horrid Sin of Man-Catching, 1681 ‘Epistle to the Reader’), many more early modern sermons were preached than printed. Consequently, the print record tells an incomplete story of preaching in early modern Britain, one that generally favours…
GEMMS Research Assistant Opportunities in the UK and the US
By Jennifer Farooq | September 21, 2022
The Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS) project is seeking two PhD students, one in the northeastern US and the other in the UK, in a related field of study (including but not limited to early modern English literature, social, political, and religious history, theology, and book history) to assist with data collection. The…
Early Modern German Shakespeare in Action: Creation Theatre’s Romio und Julieta
By Maria Shmygol | November 20, 2021
An online roundtable hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies on 4th May 2021 Participants: Maria Shmygol (University of Leeds), Harry McCarthy (University of Cambridge), Kareen Seidler (ex. Université de Genève), Lucy Askew (Creation Theatre), and Ryan Duncan (Creation Theatre) This event brought together scholars, translators, and theatre practitioners for a discussion of…
Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty
By Michelle Pfeffer, Robin Briggs, and Jan Machielsen | September 12, 2021
Sir Keith Thomas on the fiftieth anniversary of his Religion and the Decline of Magic A speech given at All Souls College on Friday 3 September 2021 by Sir Keith Thomas reflecting on the fiftieth anniversary of his ground-breaking Religion and the Decline of Magic, introduced by Alan Macfarlane. Due to a technical difficulty…