Month: January 2023

SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION STUDIES 29th Annual Conference (hybrid format) The family was at the heart of early modern society. This conference considers what made a family in the early modern period and how families navigated religious change. During the Reformation, traditional bonds of blood and kinship could become strained and in some cases were severed due to conflicting religious beliefs. The closing of religious houses fractured spiritual communities whose members viewed each other as brothers and sisters; individual households and dynastic houses splintered due to opposing religious...

The University of Gothenburg In Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, Aristotle conceived ethics and politics to be both interrelated and exclusively male endeavors. This notion continued to be influential in the early modern period (c. 1500–1800). Yet in recent decades, feminist scholarship has showed that throughout the early modern world numerous women nonetheless discussed, developed, and challenged politics and ethics in profound and often surprising ways. The conference Early Modern Women on Politics and Ethics is organized by the Early Modern Seminar and the research...

Université Paris-Est-Créteil  (Unités de Recherche : Lettres, Idées, Savoirs ; Centre de Recherche en Histoire Européenne Comparée) Colloque international Les XVIe-XVIIIe siècles voient l’avènement au pouvoir en Europe de nombreuses souveraines, qui constituent, pour l’analyste, une catégorie différente de ces autres femmes illustres que représentent les femmes de rois, les favorites ou les femmes de l’ombre. C’est à la prise de parole publique de ces reines régnantes (ruling queens), corpus encore inexploré, que nous nous intéresserons principalement, mais aussi à leur réception....