Carte du Cap Francois de Saint Domingue, Ayer MS 257, Map 197.
Since the center’s inaugural Lecture in Early Modern History, given in 2008 by Anthony Grafton, the Lecture in Early Modern History series presented cutting-edge research by historians of note. Topics 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.
Starting with the 2015-16 academic year, we have changed formats. Instead of individual lectures, we plan to hold a biennial full-day Early Modern Studies Symposium, expanding the scope to include the work of scholars in other disciplines—the literatures of various languages, art history, philosophy, and so forth—as well as history.