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Dr Rublack's research focuses on early modern Europe, and especially on Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. She is particularly interested in the structures of state, religion and society, cultural exchange, and attitudes to gender, the body, emotions and the self. She has completed a textbook on the European Reformation for Fischer Verlag, Germany and Cambridge University Press. She is ... preparing a substantial monograph which is entitled 'The Politics of Appearances in Early Modern Europe' and looks at the meanings of dress in this period. Her other publications include 'The crimes of women in early modern Germany', Gender in early modern German history' and 'Reformation Europe'.
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This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. The book looks at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage. Highlighted throughout is the importance of sexual reputation. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the personal lives of ordinary men and women in early modern England.
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"A superb group of contributors provide by far the best survey ever produced of the uses of the past in early modern England. The essays give the history of both religion and politics their proper place, and put historical writing in the context of other literary activities. Yet the whole is much more than the sum of its parts: a provocation to thought, an invitation to new research, it will prove a landmark volume."–David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History, University of York
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Congratulations are extended to postgraduate students Ann McGruer (English) and Geoff Baker (History) for the outstanding success of their AHRB-funded postgraduate conference on the Early Modern theme of Readers, Coteries and Audiences last weekend. Plenary addresses were given by Professor Julie Sanders (Nottingham), Dr Adam Fox (Edinburgh) and Professor Ann Hughes (Keele), with a further twelve papers from a mixture of postgraduate and postdoctoral students, all of which highlighted the innovative nature of current research into the literature, history and culture of early modern England. Ann and Geoff worked enormously hard on the organisation of this event, and were rewarded with a really stimulating and intellectually exciting conference. A second conference on a related theme is currently being planned for next academic year.
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The Early Modern European history program is recognized as a leader in the field. Organized around an introductory reading course (PDR in Early Modern History), topical colloquia taught by distinguished scholars, and a year-long history seminar, the early modern European specialization draws upon the history department's strength in cultural, social, intellectual, women's and gender, and comparative and global history. Students find their work enriched by the graduate program's parallel specializations: Early America, the Atlantic world, medieval history, and modern European history.Designed for highly qualified applicants, graduate studies in Early Modern European history provides an excellent foundation for academic careers in teaching and research.
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Dr O'Reilly has worked on a range of topics in early modern European colonial American and Atlantic history, and is particularly interested in migration, colonialism and imperialism in a comparative settling. He has supervised PhD dissertations on British views of empire, 1560-1725, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Emigration to Argentina, and the Portrayal of Bosnia and Bosnian Women in English-Language Texts, 1600-1914. His current research work focuses on central European views of the Atlantic political and cultural worlds in the eighteenth century.
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