Lent Term 2020
The workshop meets on alternate Thursdays during term in the Bateman Room, Gonville and Caius College, from 1-2 p.m. This is a space for scholars to air work-in-progress and to gain feedback on new projects or arguments. You are welcome to bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be served.
30 January
Eleanor Barnett (Cambridge)
Food and Religious Identities in the Venetian Inquisition, c. 1560 - c. 1640
Yahya Nurgat (Cambridge)
Mediating the hajj in the age of mass pilgrimage.
13 February
Tim Twining (Cambridge)
After the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (1592): Criticism, Censorship, and
the Polyglot Bible in Catholic Europe, c. 1600-1645
27 February
Guido Beduschi (Cambridge)
The News and its Public in Late Seventeenth-Century Italy: Giuseppe Maria Mittelli’s Satirical Prints
Raffaele Danna (Cambridge)
Figuring Out: The Spread of Hindu-Arabic Numerals in the European Tradition of Practical Mathematics (13th-16th centuries)
12 March
Ruth Schilling (University of Bremen)
Material Culture and Forms of Knowing on Early Modern Sailing Vessels
Convenors:
Melissa Calaresu (Caius)
Mary Laven (Jesus)
William O’Reilly (Trinity Hall)
Helen Pfeifer (Christ’s)
Ulinka Rublack (St John’s)
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