Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World: Three lectures in one evening
Dates: | 12 March 2015 |
Times: | 17:00 - 19:00 |
What is it: | Seminar |
Organiser: | John Rylands Research Institute |
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John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World 2014/15 interdisciplinary seminar series John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester.
Sessions will be held in the Christie Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. The programme is supported by the John Rylands Research Institute. A group will go for drinks afterwards – all welcome!
• Dr Georg Christ, Manchester, ‘Marino Sanuto’s Diaries and History: Managing Venetian news, print and historiography (early 16th to 21st C.)’
• Dr Siobhan Talbott, Keele, ‘”By the accounts we have in the last publick news”: How information shaped behaviour in Franco-British commercial networks, c.1603-1763’
• Dr Mark Towsey, Liverpool, ‘”Who did they think they were”: Reading history for self-fashioning in eighteenth-century Britain’
Convened by Dr Sasha Handley and Dr Jenny Spinks.
Enquiries
Email: jenny.spinks@manchester.ac.uk
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Christie room
John Rylands Library
150 Deansgate
MANCHESTER