Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Early Modern Studies

This interdisciplinary research group will bring together faculty and graduate students whose scholarship focuses on the early modern period, ca. 1400-1800. We seek to promote research on early modern cultures and societies through the lenses of a variety of disciplinary approaches, across national boundaries, and within a global perspective.



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Hugh Thomas h.thomas@miami.edu to be added to the listserv.

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Spring 2024

All regular meetings will be Thursdays at 12:30pm with lunch served.

Thursday, March 7, 12:30pm

Vanessa Barcelos: "Why Laugh at Faeries but not at Witches? Cavendish's Place in the Early English Early Modern Witchcraft Debate in Poems and Fancies"

Location: Richter Library (first floor), Center for the Humanities Conference Room


Thursday, March 28, 12:30pm

Tim Martin: "Geoffrey, Archbishop of York: the 'Other' Son"

Location: Richter Library (first floor), Center for the Humanities Conference Room


Thursday, April 11, 12:30pm

Frank Palmeri: Title TBA

Location: Richter Library (first floor), Center for the Humanities Conference Room


 

Fall 2023

All regular meetings will be Wednesdays at noon with lunch served.

Wednesday, September 20, 12:30pm

Mihoko Suzuki: “The Culture and Status of Japanese Women according to Portuguese Jesuit Luis Frois (1532-1597)”

Location: Richter Library (first floor), Center for the Humanities Conference Room


Wednesday, October 11, 12:30pm

Linde Brocato: “The 1449 Toledo Rebellion”

Location: Richter Library (third floor), Faculty Exploratory Room


Wednesday, November 8, 12:30pm

Charlie Bartlett: “Roman law at the origins of political economy: Antonio Serra's Breve Trattato (1613)"

Location: Richter Library (first floor), Center for the Humanities Conference Room


Spring 2023 (to be archived)

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Thursday, February 16, 4:00 pm

Molly Warsh: ““Harpies”, “Caribs” and “Beasts of the Sea”: Thinking about Itinerancy Across the Species Boundary in the Early Modern Iberian Tuna Fisheries”

Location: 3rd Floor Conference Room, Richter Library

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Thursday, February 23, 12:00 pm

Jessica Rosenberg: “From Variety to Variation in Early Modern Botanical Writing”

Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100


Monday, April 13, 12:00 pm

Mary Lindemann: “Coming Out of War(s): The Experiences of Brandenburg-Prussia in the Seventeenth Century”

Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100

Hugh Thomas

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    Past Events

    Fall 2022

    Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100

    Monday, October 24, 12:00 pm

    Charles Bartlett: "Law, Rhetoric, and Criminal Investigation in the Venetian Terraferma: Francesco Casoni's De Indiciis (1557)"

    Monday, November 14, 12:00 pm

    Susanne Woods: "Freedom and Liberty in Lanyer and Milton"

    Thursday, December 4, 12:00 pm

    Gila Iloni: “Between Traveling Itinerary and Exile. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Constance in ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’”

    SPRING 2022

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    Tuesday, March 1, 2022 @ 3:00 PM
    Judaic Studies Lecture Room
    "The Quest for Historical Truth in the 18th Century--and Now"
    Suzanne Marchand, Boyd Professor of European Intellectual History
    Louisiana State University, Baton Roug
    SPRING 2020

    Monday, February 24, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
    Mary Lindemann (UM History)
    "The Waters of Brandenburg, 1627-1721"

    Thursday, March 19, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
    Pam Hammons (UM English)
    "Mothers and Widows: Worldmaking against Stereotypes in Early Modern English Women’s Manuscript"

    Monday, April 13, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
    Nelson Marques (UM History)
    "Fictions from the battlefield:war stories from 17th century Brazil"

    Fall 2019

    Monday, September 23, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
    Anna Bennett (UM History)
    "TBD"

    Friday, November 1, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
    Frank Palmeri (UM English)
    "TBD"

    SPRING 2019

    Monday, February 11, 2019
    4:30pm
    Third Floor Conference Room, Richter Library
    Bill Bulman, Associate Professor of History & Global Studies, Lehigh University: "The Rise of the Majority in Revolutionary England and its Empire"

    Monday, February 25, 2019
    12:00pm
    Law School
    Miranda Spieler (American University of Paris) 

    Thursday, March 7, 2019
    12:30-2:00pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room
    Karen Matthews (UM Art History)

    Monday, April 15, 2019
    12:30-2:00pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room
    Bianca Premo (FIU History)

    FALL 2018

    Tuesday, September 18, 2018
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
    Karl Gunther (UM History)
    "Vengeful Martyrs and England’s Long Reformation"

    Monday, October 15, 2018
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
    Mary Lindemann (UM History)
    "The Ecological and Environmental Consequences of the Thirty Years War: Longue durée and histoire événementielle"

    Tuesday, November 13, 2018
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
    Jesse Izzo (UM History)
    "Performing Consent and Consensus in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Royal Entry Ceremony in Context"

    FALL 2017

    Wed. October 11, 2017
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, 
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room
    Maria Stampino (UM, MLL)

    Tues. November 7, 2017
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, 
    Center for the Humanities Conference Room
    Logan Connors (UM, MLL)

    FALL 2016

    Tuesday, September 27, 2016
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, 
    Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
    Stephanie Skenyon (UM History)

    Tuesday, October 18, 2016
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, 
    Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
    Karen Matthews (UM Art History)

    Wednesday, November 2, 2016
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, 
    Third Floor Conference Rm
    Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford)

    SPRING 2017

    Wednesday, February 1, 2017
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, 
    Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
    Karl Gunther (UM History)

    Wednesday, March 8, 2017
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, 
    Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
    Mihoko Suzuki (UM English)

    Thursday, April 6, 2017
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, 
    Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
    Dabney (Bud) Park

    SPRING 2016

    Tues. February 23, 2016, 12pm - 1pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
    Mary Lindemann (UM History), "Reconstructing Landscapes, Rebuilding Identities in an Age of Unending War: Brandenburg, 1627-1680” 

    Wed. March 23, 2016, 12pm - 1pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100

    Karen Matthews (UM Art History), "Materiality and the Social Agency of Small-scale Luxury Objects in the Italian Maritime Republics, 1100-1400”

    Wed. April 13, 2016, 12pm-1pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100

    Erika Harlitz Kern (UM History), "Government Officials on the Periphery during Sweden's Age of Greatness. A Study of the Political Discourse between the Swedish Council of the Realm and the Governors of New Sweden and Narva with Ingria, 1620–1660”

    FALL 2015

    Mon. September 28, 2015, 12pm - 1pm
    Ashe Building Room 523

    Sarah Ritcheson (UM English)
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    Thurs. October 29, 2015, 12pm - 1pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
    Eugene Marshall (FIU Philosophy)

    Tues. November 17, 2015, 12pm - 1pm
    Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
    Jessica Rosenberg (UM English)

    SPRING 2015

    Tues. February 24, 2015
    12:30-1:30pm in Ashe 621
    Exclusion and Recuperation in the Seventeenth-Century French Novel: In Search of the Everyday by Barbara Woshinsky

    Mon. March 23, 2015
    12:30-1:30pm in Ashe 427

    Jason Pearl (FIU, English)
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    Fri. April 24, 2015
    12:30-1:30pm in Ashe 621

    Laura Giannetti (UM, MLL)
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    Fall 2014

    Wednesday, Nov 19, 2014
    12:30pm - 1:30pm

    Ashe Building, Room 511

    Spring 2012

    Friday, February 24th, 2012
    12:15pm - 1:30 pm 
    Works-in-progress seminar
    Carson Wilkie (FAU, History)
    Memorial Classroom Building 125D

    Tuesday, March 23, 2012
    5:00 PM
    Lecture by Anthony Cascardi (Center for the Humanities/Early Modern Studies Research Group)

    Thursday, March 29th, 2012
    4:30 pm
    Lecture: William Sherman 
    (University of York, Professor of Renaissance/Early Modern Studies)
    "Of Anagrammatology: Decoding the Renaissance Text"
    Richter Library Conference Room (3rd Floor)

    Friday, March 30th, 2012
    12:15-1:30pm
    Works-in-progress seminar
    William Sherman (University of York, Professor of Renaissance/Early Modern Studies)
    "The Reader's Eye"
    Memorial Classroom Building 125D
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    Thursday, April 22, 2012
    3:30 PM
    Lecture by Laura Giannetti  (Center for the Humanities/Early Modern Studies Research Group)

    Wed, April 25th, 2012
    12:15-1:30pm
    Works-in-progress seminar
    Ashli White (UM, History)

    Friday, February 26
    12:15 PM 
    Elizabeth Oldman "Illigitimate monarchy and legally-sanctioned king-killing in Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and Eikonoklastes"
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    Thursday, February 18
    3:30 PM
    Lecture by Guido Ruggiero
    (Center for the Humanities/Early Modern Studies Research Group

     

    Past Meetings

    SPRING 2014

    Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014
    12:20pm-1:35pm
    Erika Harlitz Kern, Ashe 511

    Friday, Feb 28, 2014
    12:20pm-1:35pm

    Perri Lee Roberts, Ashe 511

    Thursday, Mar 27, 2014
    12:20pm-1:35pm

    Carolyn Zimmerman, Ashe 511

    Fall 2014

    Monday, Sept 22, 2014
    12:30 - 1:30pm
    Physics Bldg. Room 334

    Fall 2013

    Friday, Sept 6th, 2013
    12:15pm - 1:30pm
    Tovah Bender (FIU), Ashe 511

    Tuesday, Oct 8th, 2013
    12:15pm-1:30pm

    Ashe 511

    Thursday, Nov 7th, 2013
    12:15pm-1:30pm
    Deborah Hamer (Columbia University), Ashe 511
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    Spring 2013

    Thursday, March 7th, 2013
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Indravati Felicite, Ashe 511

    Fall 2012

    Thursday, November 1, 2012
    Stephen Lazer (UM, History)
    Comm 5063

    Friday, September 23, 2012
    Pamela Hammons (UM, English)
    MM 125K
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    Monday, October 17
    Erica Heinsen, MM125D
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    Friday, December 2
    Mihoko Suzuki, MM125K
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    Thursday, February 24
    Simonetta Marin (UM, History)
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    Thursday, March 31
    Silvia Mitchell (UM, History)
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    Friday, April 29
    Viviana Diaz-Balsera (UM, MLL)
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    Thursday, October 21
    Warren Dym (UM History)
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    Thursday, November 11
    Barbara Woshinsky (UM Modern Languages)
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    September 10
    Karl Gunther (UM), "The Vestments Controversy and the Origins of Puritanism"
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    October 8
    Jason Pearl (FIU), "Genre and Geography"
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    November 12 
    Allison Johnson (UM), "Virtue's Friends: Patronage, Religion, and Friendship in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer"
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    Friday, January 29:  
    Andrew Styrcharski, FIU, English
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    Friday, February 26: 
     Elizabeth Oldmann, UM, English

    Thursday, March 25:  
    Rebecca Totaro, FGCU, English
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    Thursday, April 29: 
    Mary Lindemann, UM, History
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