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The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield. Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
One month to go till registration closes for #ReadingthePractical @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social @emjlynajsh.bsky.social!
Online attendance is free, in person is free for self-funded/unwaged PGRs and ECRs, and you can register HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX
Izzy Daltry will be joining us online **today at 1pm** to share her research on water in Antony and Cleopatra! Details below π
EMDG is back, this Thursday (26th Feb, 1-2pm)!
Izzy Daltry will be joining us from Hull to present a paper on watery emotion in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Izzy's abstract and the link to join online can both be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events
Early Christmas present! πβ¨οΈ
New paperback edition of the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Education series π
(I edited Vol 5) π #histed
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Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!
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One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP
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The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!
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Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
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New blog post π’
Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzigβs Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder'
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#earlymodern #historyofgrain
For more information on all of these fantastic papers, please see the website!
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Our last session of the year will be delivered by Izzy Daltry (Hull) on 11th December.
Izzy's paper is on 'Affective encounters: reading hydraulic models of emotion beyond geohumoralism in Antony
and Cleopatra.'
Esther Bancroft (Glasgow) will be presenting on 27th November.
The paper is on 'Religious Encounters: The Chapel at Little Moreton Hall.'
On 23rd October, we will be hosting Beth Lettington (Hull).
Beth will asking 'Could Spenserβs Errour be an eel?'
On 16th October, we will be hosting Rosalind Rothwell (Duke).
Her paper is on 'βPariahβ Arrack: Alcohol and Caste in Early Modern French India.'
This Thursday (9th October) at 1pm, our Early Modern Discussion Group will be recommencing!
Our first paper will be presented by our very own Cameron Whiteside on 'The Commission on Fees: its "Recommendations" and "Regulation" of Manuscript Production.'
Please see the website for how to join!
Call for Papers This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for literary criticism. In a period best known today for its poetry and drama, practical texts such as Gervase Markhamβs The English Husbandman were βalmost literally read to piecesβ, Thomas Tusserβs Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry βled the marketβ as βa Tudor best-sellerβ, and cookery books enjoyed a staggering 70% reprint rate. That these texts occupied such a prominent position in the publishing industry is testament to their importance in early modern life. Yet despite this, literary criticism has been slow to embrace such texts as more than merely contextual sources for canonical texts by poets and dramatists such as Shakespeare and Spenser. Critics continue to frame Tusserβs work as an agricultural manual or almanack rather than a book of poetry, for example, while literary scholars tend to note his significance in the same breath as they denigrate the quality of his verse: an βagrarian book of jinglesβ or βcollection of doggerelβ. Other practical texts such as receipt books and surveying texts have been interrogated primarily as a means of understanding early modern culture and society. Less common are studies of practical texts as works of literature, studies that centre the practical text rather than positioning it as context for the work of more canonical writers. This symposium seeks to address this gap, and invites contributors to consider how studying non-traditionally canonical texts can help scholars to reassess established positions. It is designed to lead to an edited collection, provisionally aimed at Routledgeβs Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series, so speakers are encouraged to propose papers suitable for extension into a 6000-8000 word chapter. Recent scholarship by Katarzyna Lecky, Jessica Rosenberg, and Kyla Tompkins has begun to demonstrate
CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature
University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
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Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich π°
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@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!
Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
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the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police.
blog here:
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Looking forward to sharing some of my work on Fielding this Friday! β¨
This Friday (21st March), Sheffield will be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop on beer! Topics of discussion include the politics of brewing, how to make beer more sustainably, and the globalisation of the drink!
To join, get in touch!
Our first EMDG of the year is on Thursday! Join us virtually for 5-10 minutes of @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I talking about our cats before Tom's v interesting paper βͺ
This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.'
This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details!
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SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! π§΅
Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches
Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm
This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.
SCEMS Spring 2025 events lineup π
Great events coming up at Sheffield next week! Wonder who that is talking about the social history of translation in early modern London... π
Really looking forward to these workshops and events this semester!
Full details of these events (inc. speaker details and registration information) can be found via our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Registration, as always, is free but essential.
We hope to see you there!
Early Modern Women and the Courts
Mon 10th March, 10am - 6pm
This workshop, headed by Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity), will include discussions of self-expression, the milling industry, and the lives of Irish women within the Chancery Court records.
A Journey Through Early Modern London: Negotiating Institutional, Social, and Cultural Histories
Fri 7th March, 10-11:30am
The following day, Ian Archer has kindly agreed to lead this masterclass on methods and concepts when researching early modern London.