Since the center’s inaugural Lecture in Early Modern History, given in 2008 by Anthony Grafton, this series has presented cutting-edge research by historians of note. Topics have ranged from early Italian Renaissance book publication and eighteenth-century learned societies to South American colonization, early Anglican theology, and Cromwell’s Ireland, presented by scholars from throughout the United States and the United Kingdom.
Upcoming Lectures
In the modern era one of the primary markers of national identity, the very stuff of blood and belonging, is language. There has been a tendency to project modern readings—or misreadings—of language onto earlier times; however, recent scholarship has suggested that the early modern linguistic world was in fact much more variegated.