📣 Still time to get your abstract in for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', a two-day conference to be held at Oxford on 18/19 June 2026. Generously supported by Corpus Christi, @oxfordcems.bsky.social, and @srsrensoc.bsky.social.
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C'est demain à 16h30 à l'Université de Rouen ! Il y a un lien zoom pour ceux qui voudraient suivre à distance !
This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
Peter Lely, Portrait of a Lady, 1650, huile sur toile, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Ekaterinbourg, Wikimedia Commons
Le dernier numéro (82) de la #revuescientifique XVII–XVIII est en ligne ! ✨
🔗 Disponible sur journals.openedition.org/1718/14350
📚 Accès PDF/Epub via les bibliothèques (Freemium)
✍️ La rubrique Varia est ouverte à vos propositions jusqu’au 1er mai !
#XVIIe #XVIIIe #histoire #littérature #recherche
Exciting news - a new portrait of Lucy Hutchinson has surfaced.
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
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Vient de paraître dans le n° 46 d'Etudes Epistémè
"Formes baroques de l’ineffabilité au théâtre", sous la direction de Christine Sukic et de Séverine Reyrolle.
"Molière hors de lui-même", sous la direction d'Hubert Aupetit et de Tony Gheeraert
Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, Knightley Building, 2-4 June MONDAY 2nd JUNE From 9.00 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION 9.25 WELCOME – CultPhil Team 9.30-11 ACADEMIES & NETWORKS Chair: Felicity Henderson (Exeter) Annalisa Nicholson (KCL), Mediating Knowledge Across Borders: Hortense Mancini, the Mazarin Salon, and the Royal Society Carlotta Moro (Exeter), Women, Natural Philosophy, and the Italian Academies in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparative Study of the Ricovrati and the Arcadia Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht), Latin: Language of Knowledge? A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Latinity across the Early Modern Low Countries and France Coffee break 11.15-12.45 COMMUNITIES & READERS Chair: Carlotta Moro (Exeter) Meredith Ray (Delaware), Gender, Natural Philosophy, and the Oral Landscape in Early Modern Italy Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck), Publishing an Astronomical Book in Seventeenth-Century Silesia: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia between Self-Translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power Kate Allan (Anglia Ruskin), “One rich usefull masse”: Katherine Philips and her Contemporary Scientific Readers Lunch 1.45-3.45 MEDICINE & BODIES Chair: Meredith Ray (Delaware) Giada Merighi (Pisa), «Io lo vorei curare con questa dicozione» («I would like to treat you with this decoction»). ‘Medical’ advice in family letters from a female hand. The example of Claudia Grumelli Salis Úna Faller (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon), “...to make a woemans milk come & increase, take the Green Leaves of fennell”: Manuscript recipe books’ epistemologies and herbal remedies for managing women’s health concerns, 1600-1697 Madeleine Sheahan (Yale), Mastering Time: Preservation, Longevity, and Timelessness Ilaria Ferrara (Ferrara), From prejudices about women to gender stereotypes: new forms of female agency starting from Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's "Rigorous Investigation"
4-5.00 CAVENDISH ROUNDTABLE: Esther Kearney (Nottingham), Sophie White (York), Evan Thomas (Otterbein), Chair: Sarah Hutton (York) TUESDAY 3rd JUNE 9.00-10.30 GENRES Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin), '"I am all a storm": Chaos and Disordered Matter in the Writings of Jane Cavendish and Frances Feilding Sajed Chowdhury (Utrecht), Psychology, Alchemy and the Woman Philosopher-Poet: Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), ‘So short do humours last’: Elizabeth Cary on Anger Management in The Tragedy of Mariam Coffee 10.45-12.45 ECOFEMINISM & NONHUMAN ANIMALS Eric Jorink (Leiden & Huygens Insitute, Amsterdam), Embroidery, Needles and Microscopes. Seventeenth-century Women and the Representation of Insects Manuel Fasko (Basel), Anne Conway on the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals (NHA) Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Verse: Ecofeminist Poetry in Early Modern England Catherine Evans (Exeter), “She rolls her unctuous embryo east and west”: Hester Pulter’s “creaturely poetics” and the Limits of the Maternal Body Lunch 1.40-2.40 ROUNDTABLE 2: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY & POETICS Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL); Meredith Ray (Delaware); Helena Taylor (Exeter), Chair: Cassie Gorman (ARU) Comfort Break 2.45-4.15 WOMEN AND DESCARTES Sarah Hutton (York), Women and Cartesian natural philosophy. From Margaret Cavendish to Émilie du Châtelet Michaela Manson (Monash), The Natural Philosophy of Mary Astell Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), Mary Astell Reads Descartes Tea 4.30-6.00 MANUSCRIPTS & EPISTEMOLOGIES Emma Bartel (Université Paris Cité), Looking for Women’s Engagement with Natural Philosophy in Marginal Manuscript Genres Jil Muller (Paderborn), Oliva Sabuco on Natural Philosophy Pedro Pricladnitzky (Paderborn), The Manuscript of Institutions de Physique: Émilie du Châtelet’s Development of Methodological Eclecticism CONFERENCE DINNER 7pm Côte Brasserie
![WED 4th JUNE
9.30-11 METHODS
Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden)
Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science
Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy
Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age
Coffee
11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION
Chair: Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen)
Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique
Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy
Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer
CLOSE AND LUNCH
This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:peyr652ptzk3m4gf3dgs4gmk/bafkreihuop4aupg2mp34d6apimeredvytwqabfll73i3g5ynem2eahujju)
WED 4th JUNE 9.30-11 METHODS Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden) Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age Coffee 11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION Chair: Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen) Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer CLOSE AND LUNCH This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].
We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June
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Issue n°46 of Etudes Epistémè has just been published.
A flyer with discount code AAFLYG6 for Early Modern Women's Wrtiing and the Future of Literary History by Michelle M. Dowd and Lara Dodds
My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Happy 50th birthday!
A pamphlet from the British Civil Wars regarding a petition presented by women, alongside woodcut images of two women from the period.
New TWTUD klaxon! Jackie Eales explores the oft-ignored role of women in the civil wars - from radical religious groups like the Quakers offering women equality of worship and preaching to women directly petitioning Parliament www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/wome...
très bon souvenir de ce lieu aussi! mais il y a 30 ans!
On s'y croirait!😉
Our #Shakespeare webinar series continues on 7 April at 6pm. Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Dr Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social to discuss the new Oxford World's Classics edition of The #Tempest.
All welcome! Register via Eventbrite:
The vehemently republican MS was held close by the family and not published till 1806. Julius Hutchinson issued special large-paper copies and boosted subscriptions; it became a best-seller.
Julius Hutchinson did cut many passages he thought readers would dislike and only in 1973 did James Sutherland issue an edition from the original MS. N. H. Keeble followed with a modernized edition. The new edition will for the first time include in full an earlier version written during the war.
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm, Graham Storey Room at Trinity Hall:
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (University of Rouen Normandy) - Memoir-writing, historiography and the English Revolution: the case of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Short Memorials
[Suspension du PEB]
En raison d'une baisse de plus de 40% de son budget 2025, la BIS est contrainte de réduire ses activités et services, notamment le service du Prêt entre bibliothèques, suspendu pour une durée indéterminée à partir du lundi 17 février.
Les demandes déjà en cours seront traitées.
These are the editions of Lucretius, by Denys Lambin and Daniel Pareus, which Lucy Hutchinson would have consulted 'in a roome where my children practizd the severall quallities they were taught, with their Tutors, & I numbred the sillables of my translation by the threds of the canvas I wrought in'
Introducing Lucy Hutchinson’s writings in a few posts. In the 1650s, translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, a bold atheist epic. How did a Puritan engage with materialist vision of history? Texts available in Oxford Works vol. 1, with Latin text and full commentary; text only ed. Hugh de Quehen.
Lucy Hutchinson is now on Bluesky!
Le livre devrait être publié en anglais / espagnol, en 2025, chez Brill (Leiden/Boston), dans la collection Heterodoxia Ibérica dirigée par Jorge Ledo, sous le titre Preface to the conversion of Moors or The Moorish Catechism attributed to Juan de Almarza, s.j. (1619-1669).
Congratulations Sarah!
Représentations et Usages de la Saint-Barthélemy, 1572-2022 / Mariamne et Hérode en Europe : métamorphoses d’une histoire antique, XVIe-XVIIe siècles journals.openedition.org//episteme/17... via @OpenEditionActu
Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...
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For one remarkable woman in the #17thC, the Tower wasn’t just a fortress—it was home, hospital, laboratory, and sanctuary. My novel brings to life the incredible story of Lady Lucy Apsley, who raised a family within these forbidding walls. #Skystorians
www.elizabethjstjohn.com/updates/lady...
Thrilled that a friend has had his first article published! It's on Sir Thomas Fairfax, it's outstanding, and it's open access. Congratulations, Ned! And enjoy, everyone! #EarlyModern #17thC #skystorians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you!
