THE LEICESTER EARLY MODERN SEMINAR

Programme for 2001-2002

 

  Semester 2
12 Feb Noel Malcom Hobbes and the republic of letters
29 Jan Chris Dyer (University of Leicester)* A new middle ages: food for thought for early modernists
26 Feb Helen Rawlings (University of Leicester) The formation of the post-Tridentine episcopate in Castile
12 Mar Peter Marshall (King's College, London) Notions of Empire in the age of the American Revolution
30 Apr Robert Evans (University of Oxford) Religion and Nation in the Early Modern Period: Some Central European Evidence

* Changed from 29 Jan to avoid a clash with Professor Marilyn Palmer’s inaugural.

The seminar will normally meet on Tuesdays at 5.30 in the History of Art slide room, Attenborough 1707.

Refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome.

Secretary: John Coffey (School of Historical Studies: [email protected] )

Convenors: Huw Bowen (School of Historical Studies), Ian Harris (Politics), Philip Lindley (History of Art)