16 Oct 2019
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Paper of interest

Conferences
Hi Everyone, At the SCSC in St. Louis, I will be giving a paper that might be of interest to scholars of early modern women and gender: “The Materiality of Last Will” in the panel The Materiality of Writing: Social Norms and Performative Text in Premodern Towns, # 46, Mill Studio 5, 8:30-10:00. The paper considers last wills of seventeenth century Tuscan women as performative acts to understand women’s legal literacy and how they used it. Best, Giovanna Giovanna Benadusi Professor of History University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, SOC 260 Tampa, FL 33620-8100 (813) 974 2807 office…
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16 Oct 2019
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Newberry Library Fellowship Opportunities

Fellowship / Grant
The Newberry Library's long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to the Library's collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment. We invite interested individuals who wish to utilize the Newberry's collection to apply for our many fellowship opportunities: Long-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for continuous residence at the Newberry for periods of 4 to 9 months; the stipend is $4,200 per month. Applicants…
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16 Oct 2019
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New book, Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England

Book Announcement
Title: Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England Author: Josephine Billingham Series: Gendering the Late Medieval & Early Modern World Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of society’s darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period. It takes the reader on a journey through the streets and taverns where street literature was hawked, to the playhouses where the crime was dramatized, and the courts where it was tried and punished. Using a regional microstudy of coroners’ inquests and churchwardens’ presentments, coupled with…
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16 Oct 2019
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Book Publication Announcement. Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain

Book Announcement
Dear Colleagues: It’s my pleasure to announce the publication of the book Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain. From the publisher: Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman is an in-depth study of Mariana of Austria’s ten-year regency (1665–1675) of the global Spanish Empire and her subsequent role as queen mother. In Silvia Z. Mitchell’s revisionist account, Mariana emerges as a towering figure at court and on the international stage, and her key collaborators—the secretaries, ministers, and diplomats who have previously been ignored or undervalued—take their rightful place in history. When Philip IV of Spain died in…
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