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Spring 2006

February 16 Rachel Weil (History, Cornell)
"Defending the Lancashire Gentlemen: Conspiracy and Political Culture in Williamite England"
 
March 2 Krista Kesselring (History, Dalhousie)
"Meanings and Motives in the Northern Rebellion of 1569"
John Acevedo (History), discussant
 
March 23 Michael Braddick (History, Sheffield)
"Mobilization, Polemic and Truth-telling in the English Revolution"
Jesse Einhorn (Sociology), discussant
5:15 PM - Please note changed time.
 
April 6 David Como (History, Stanford)
"William Walwyn, Underground Printing, and the Emergence of the Leveller Movement"
(no pre-circulated paper)
 
April 20 Ayesha Ramachandran (Renaissance Studies,Yale)
"The Wide Womb of the World: Origins and Epistemology in Spenser's Faerie Queene"
Anne Perry (History), discussant
 
April 27
John Rogers (English, Yale)
"Milton and the Heresy of Individualism"
John Acevedo (History), discussant
 

Autumn 2005

September 15 Annabel Patterson (English, Yale)
"The Allure of the Scofflaw: Rediscovering John Starkey"
Heather Welland (History), discussant
 
September 29 Alice Wolfram (History, Yale)
"Sexual Insult, Social Dispute, and the Middling Sort in Early Modern England"
(no precirculated paper)
 
October 13 Brent Sirota (History, Chicago)
"The S.P.C.K., the Low Church and the Protestant Interest, 1699-1716"
Katherine Mannheimer (Comparative Literature), discussant
 
November 17 Norman Jones (History, Utah State)
"Queen Elizabeth’s Wolsey?: Lord Burghley and the Management of the Elizabethan State"
John McCormack (Divinity School), discussant
 
December 1 Karuna Mantena (Political Science, Yale)
"Henry Maine and the Transformation of British Imperial Ideology"
Gerard Siarny (History), discussant
 
December 8 Peter Lake (History, Princeton)
"The politics of ‘popularity’ and the public sphere: the ‘monarchical republic’ of Elizabeth I defends itself"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Renaissance Studies), discussant
6:30 PM - Please note changed date and time.
 
For further information, please contact
Prof. Steven Pincus or Prof. Keith Wrightson
British Historical Studies Colloquium
Yale University, New Haven, CT
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