New Work in Early Modern Intellectual History, 20 and 24 July 2020.
A virtual workshop. Speakers include Richard Calis (Cambridge), Karen Hollewand (Utrecht), Madeline McMahon (Princeton), Hannah Marcus (Harvard), Melissa Reynolds (Princeton), Timothy Twining (Cambridge), Floris Verhaart (QUB).
Organizers: Kirsten Macfarlane (Oxford) and Felix Waldmann (Cambridge).
To register please email kirsten.macfarlane@keble.ox.ac.uk or few23@cam.ac.uk.
PROGRAMME
20 JULY 2020
PANEL 1. Italy from Renaissance to Counter-Reformation
14:00-15:20
- Hannah Marcus (Harvard): “Defining Old Age in the Renaissance: The View from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Pandechion Epistemonicon”.
- Madeline McMahon (Princeton): “Rethinking Public Prayer in Counter-Reformation Italy”.
PANEL 2. Sex and Freedom in the Dutch Republic
15:45-17:15
- Karen Hollewand (Utrecht): “Sex and Science in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic”.
- Floris Verhaart (QUB): “Latin, Liberty, and Toleration: Pieter Burman the Younger’s Circle,Religious Freedom, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen”.
24 JULY
PANEL 3. Scholarship and Scripture
14:00-15:30
- Timothy Twining (Cambridge): “After the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (1592): Censorship and the Polyglot Bible in Catholic Europe, c.1600-1645”.
- Richard Calis (Cambridge): “Confessionalization and Scholarship in the Early ModernLevant: the case of the 1638 Geneva New Testament”.
PANEL 4. Text, Image, Binding: The History of the Book
16:00-17:30
- Melissa Reynolds (Princeton): “Prognostications Past and Present: Leonard Digges, Print for Profit, and the Passage of Time in Early Modern England”.
- Kirsten Macfarlane (Oxford): “An English Hebraist, An Ottoman ‘Rabbi’, and the Unlikely Story of the First Hebrew Books Printed in Amsterdam (1605-1606)”.17:45-18:45
- Felix Waldmann (Cambridge): “Giambattista Vico, Eugene of Savoy, and Hugo Grotius’s De Iure Belli ac Pacis, 1719”.
Closing Remarks*Please note all times are BST.