In his first lecture, Professor Grafton analyses the reading practices of John Caius (1510-1573) and highlights Caius's adoption of the annal tradition and of renewing documents.

Collection: Sandars Lectures 2016

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Fri 29 Jan 2016

In his second lecture, Professor Grafton analyses what Matthew Parker (1504-1575) might have thought he was doing while he was in the process of compiling what is now known as the...

Collection: Sandars Lectures 2016

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Fri 29 Jan 2016

In his third lecture, Professor Grafton studies the layered reading practices of Adam Winthrop and the many generations of the Winthrop family from England to America.

Collection: Sandars Lectures 2016

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Fri 29 Jan 2016

Discussion of Thomas Leeds's Temple of Wisdom, reflecting on the treasuring mentality and the role of the 'impartial reader' (recording missed the first five minutes, for which...

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Discussion of concealing and revealing, inclusion and exclusion in the history of information gathering of the Dutch East India Company.

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Tuesday 15 November 2016

'[T]hough Ramme stinks with cookes and ale,/ Yet say thers many a worthy lawyers chamber,/ Buts vpon Rame-Alley': An Innsman Goes to the...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Fri 5 Oct 2018

Elizabeth Evenden discusses the early modern perceptions of historical relations between Britain, Portugal, and Spain.

Collection: Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

Institution: Faculty of History

Created: Sat 20 Feb 2016

Discussion of collecting of spices as curiosities, with only a gradual move to commodities and competition.

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Discussion of the multiple angles on 'treasuries', office as a social space, and the role of women in the office.

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Discussion of the access and use of the Venetian secret archives, interrelating the administrative impulses with erudite historical study.

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Discussion of the material culture of Hearth Tax, showing the intrusion of the state into households but also the potential for negotiation.

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Discussion of the manuscript library of Thomas Plume

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Infertility and Sacred Space: From Antiquity to the Early Modern

Collection: CRASSH trailers

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Thu 2 May 2013

Jenny Rampling poses a seemingly simple question: what did early modern alchemists think they were doing and why?

Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium

Institution: Clare Hall

Created: Mon 9 Dec 2013

Discussion of the Swiss merchant archives and their use in legal and cultural usage.

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Discussion of the Archeology of Reading project and the digital archive.

Collection: Treasuries of Knowledge

Institution: Academic Division

Created: Sat 9 Apr 2016

Professor Terpstra calls for an alternative history of the reformation, one which put the concerns with purification, expulsion, and exclusion at its heart. This opens up new...

Collection: Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

Institution: Faculty of History

Created: Thu 18 Feb 2016

Nil Palabiyik brings back to light the Greek figures who were active participants in Late Humanism.

Collection: Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

Institution: Faculty of History

Created: Tue 24 Nov 2015

What do the French Wars of Religion look like when we add the perspective of exile, both external and internal.

Collection: Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

Institution: Faculty of History

Created: Thu 12 Nov 2015

Three key scholars working on the Ottoman empire discuss the impact of exile in its history.

Collection: Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

Institution: Faculty of History

Created: Wed 20 Jan 2016