Prof James Daybell has just published a new book, with Andrew Gordon of Aberdeen University, entitled Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain. This edited collection about early modern letter writing, published in the University of Pennsylvania Press’ Material Texts series, brings together leading scholars in the field from around the world including Nadine Akkerman, Mark Brayshay, Christopher… Continue reading New edited collection on Early Modern Letter Writing
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Conference: “Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800” (7-9 April 2016)
This three-day conference (7-9 April 2016) at Plymouth University on the theme of ‘Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800’ is part of a two-year AHRC-funded international research network run by Professor James Daybell (Plymouth University), Professor Svante Norrhem (Lund University), Dr Nadine Akkerman (Leiden University) and Professors Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van… Continue reading Conference: “Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800” (7-9 April 2016)
Feature: “Voices of angels & men: religious identity and pilgrimage to the Mont Saint-Michel in 16th & 17th century France”
BY ELIZABETH TINGLE The abbey of the Mont Saint-Michel is located on a spectacular natural site, a small rocky outcrop in the bay of Avranches in Normandy which is an island at high tide but accessible on foot at low tide. In 708 AD, Aubert, bishop of Avranches, founded a sanctuary on the Mont… Continue reading Feature: “Voices of angels & men: religious identity and pilgrimage to the Mont Saint-Michel in 16th & 17th century France”