Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 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.
  Dr Kate Davison (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar