Event Archive

2024

December

• Research Seminar: Michał Nowakowski (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin): 'The Other Ambassador: Ethos in Polish-Lithuanian Diplomatic Manuals'

  04 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Michal Nowakowski is a PhD student at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Department of Early Modern Polish Literature) and has just handed in his doctoral dissertation which focuses on Jesuit  literature. He already published a book which appeared in 2023 under the title 'Ambassador at the Crossroads. The...

November

• Research Seminar: Dr Brandi Adams (Arizona State University) More than Milton's Holinshed: The Phoenix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection

  27 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  This talk will address the founding of the Arizona Book History Group and some of the material in The Pheonix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection, 2300 rare books, many of which were published between 1300-1700. This collection has formed the basis of my (and Jonathan Hope's) call to return to...

• 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