Ned Ward and Laughter at the end of the Seventeenth Century
Preparatory reading: Quentin Skinner, 'Why laughing mattered in the Renaissance', History of Political Thought, 22/3 (2001); Jan Bremner and Herman Roodenburg (eds), A Cultural History of Humour (1997), introduction.
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Date: 19 January 2017, 17:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2017)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Breakfast Room
Speaker: Dr Kate Davison (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Organisers: Lucy Wooding, Lucy Wooding, Steven Gunn, Alexandra Gajda, Ian Archer
Part of: Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence