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Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder

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Mabel Winter @mabelwinter.bsky.social · 15d

New blog post 📢
Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder'
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#earlymodern #historyofgrain

The city of Gdańsk has a historical centre with several striking buildings which can make any historian’s heart beat faster, even with the knowledge that they were partly rebuilt after the destruct…

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 15d

For more information on all of these fantastic papers, please see the website!

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 15d

Our last session of the year will be delivered by Izzy Daltry (Hull) on 11th December.

Izzy's paper is on 'Affective encounters: reading hydraulic models of emotion beyond geohumoralism in Antony
and Cleopatra.'

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 15d

Esther Bancroft (Glasgow) will be presenting on 27th November.

The paper is on 'Religious Encounters: The Chapel at Little Moreton Hall.'

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 15d

On 23rd October, we will be hosting Beth Lettington (Hull).

Beth will asking 'Could Spenser’s Errour be an eel?'

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 15d

On 16th October, we will be hosting Rosalind Rothwell (Duke).

Her paper is on '“Pariah” Arrack: Alcohol and Caste in Early Modern French India.'

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 15d

This Thursday (9th October) at 1pm, our Early Modern Discussion Group will be recommencing!

Our first paper will be presented by our very own Cameron Whiteside on 'The Commission on Fees: its "Recommendations" and "Regulation" of Manuscript Production.'

Please see the website for how to join!

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin...
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Call for Papers

This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for literary criticism. In a period best known today for its poetry and drama, practical texts such as Gervase Markham’s The English Husbandman were ‘almost literally read to pieces’, Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ‘led the market’ as ‘a Tudor best-seller’, and cookery books enjoyed a staggering 70% reprint rate. That these texts occupied such a prominent position in the publishing industry is testament to their importance in early modern life. Yet despite this, literary criticism has been slow to embrace such texts as more than merely contextual sources for canonical texts by poets and dramatists such as Shakespeare and Spenser. Critics continue to frame Tusser’s work as an agricultural manual or almanack rather than a book of poetry, for example, while literary scholars tend to note his significance in the same breath as they denigrate the quality of his verse: an ‘agrarian book of jingles’ or ‘collection of doggerel’. Other practical texts such as receipt books and surveying texts have been interrogated primarily as a means of understanding early modern culture and society. Less common are studies of practical texts as works of literature, studies that centre the practical text rather than positioning it as context for the work of more canonical writers. This symposium seeks to address this gap, and invites contributors to consider how studying non-traditionally canonical texts can help scholars to reassess established positions. It is designed to lead to an edited collection, provisionally aimed at Routledge’s Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series, so speakers are encouraged to propose papers suitable for extension into a 6000-8000 word chapter.

Recent scholarship by Katarzyna Lecky, Jessica Rosenberg, and Kyla Tompkins has begun to demonstrate

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰

@ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Aug 26

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Policing by consent: an early modern perspective

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · Jul 1

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police.

blog here:

drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...

This post derives from some of the work I’ve been doing on my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship over the last year and a half. For more on these themes, I’ve an article coming out in H…

drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Mar 17

Looking forward to sharing some of my work on Fielding this Friday! ✨

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Mar 17

This Friday (21st March), Sheffield will be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop on beer! Topics of discussion include the politics of brewing, how to make beer more sustainably, and the globalisation of the drink!

To join, get in touch!

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Mar 17

This Friday (21st March), Sheffield will be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop on beer! Topics of discussion include the politics of brewing, how to make beer more sustainably, and the globalisation of the drink!

To join, get in touch!

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Ella Alton @ellaalton.bsky.social · Mar 17

Our first EMDG of the year is on Thursday! Join us virtually for 5-10 minutes of @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I talking about our cats before Tom's v interesting paper ⛪

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Mar 17

This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.'

This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details!

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Mar 17

This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.'

This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details!

scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Upcoming events If you would like to be notified about upcoming events, email [email protected] to be added to our mailing list.

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Feb 25

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵

Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches
Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm

This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Feb 27

SCEMS Spring 2025 events lineup 👇

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Feb 25

Great events coming up at Sheffield next week! Wonder who that is talking about the social history of translation in early modern London... 👀

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Feb 25

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵

Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches
Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm

This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

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Mark Jones @ma-jones.bsky.social · Feb 25

Really looking forward to these workshops and events this semester!

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Feb 25

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵

Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches
Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm

This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · Feb 25

Full details of these events (inc. speaker details and registration information) can be found via our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Registration, as always, is free but essential.

We hope to see you there!

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