Event Archive

2024

November

• Research Seminar: Dr Sara Pennell (Greenwich), 'Rewriting the early modern women's conduct book: Hannah Wolley's A Guide to Ladies (1668)'

  20 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  In 1668 Hannah Wolley published her first (and, it turns out, only) non-recipe book: A Guide to Ladies and Gentlewomen.  This book survives in but one physical copy (in the Folger Shakespeare Library), and its rediscovery in their collection eight years ago brought to light a text which marks a...

October

• Research Seminar: Dr Aleksandra Ziober (University Wroclaw): Jan Stanisław Sapieha (1589-1635) and early modern mental health

  30 October 2024

  NB: the paper will be in person and online

• CEMS and History Masterclass with Professor Alexandra Walsham, Emmanuel College Cambridge: 'Unravelling the Reformation'

  25 October 2024, 09:30 - 11:00

  For online attendance from outside the university please register via eventbrite under booking information below.

• Prof. Robert Kozyrski (Catholic University Lublin): Divisions and Boundaries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. State - Churches - Society

  23 October 2024, 16:30 - 17:30

  Professor Robert Kozyrski s a historical geographer and professor at the Institute of History (Centre for Research on the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland) at the Faculty of Humanities of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In 2013 he published Clergy, churches and religion in the documents...

• Research Seminar: Dr Jo Edge (Edinburgh), 'Alice Thornton's Medical World'

  09 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Takes place in Taylor A36 and online -if you are an external visitor wanting to register please e-mail a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk for the link

September

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  Research Seminar: Khrystyna Baziuk (Lviv) Beyond the Emigrant: The Story of the Turner Family in Aberdeenshire

  25 September 2024, 16:00 - 17:15

  K. Baziuk is a doctoral researcher from the Institute of Ukrainian Studies named after I. Krypyakevych National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv where she works at the Medieval History Department.

May

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  Networking the Early Modern Past in North East Scotland

  18 May 2024, 12:00 - 17:00

  An afternoon event exploring networks and connections in the early modern north east of Scotland, and how we make connections from today with the experiences of the past. All very warmly welcome to attend all or part of the event!

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  Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700

  10 - 11 May 2024

  Early Modern Parliamentary Culture in Poland-Lithuania and the Kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland

April

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  Waldemar Deluga: Gothic Art in Ukraine

  24 April 2024, 13:00 - 14:15

  Waldemar Deluga is Professor of Art History at the University of Ostrava, Czechia. He specializes in Ukrainian art, particularly on its influences and transformations from the medieval period onwards. In 2019, he published Ukrainian Painting Between the Byzantine and Latin Traditions. Deluga also runs the journal Series Byzantina on Byzantine...

March

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  English and Polish Seventeenth-Century Almanacs as a Source for a History of Every Day Life

  13 March 2024, 13:00 - 14:15

  In this lecture, Professor Jakub Basista from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, will combine his research on popular culture, book history and early modern piety in the Polish and English public spheres.