Writing Petitions in Early Modern England
Tea will be served from 4.45.
Suggested preparatory reading:
David Zaret, Origins of Democratic Culture: printing, petitions, and the public sphere in early-modern England (2000); R. A. Houston, Peasant Petitions: social relations and economic life on landed estates, 1600-1850 (2014); Keith Wrightson, Ralph Tailor’s Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague (2011).
Date:
19 November 2015, 17:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2015)
Venue:
The Breakfast Room, Merton College
Speaker:
Prof. Faramerz Dabhoiwala (Exeter College, University of Oxford)
Part of:
Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
