The author of this blog entry is Dr Abigail Greenall, Early Career Research Fellow at The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester.For some years now, Sasha Handley and I have shared a fairly healthy obsession with apotropaic, or evil averting, burn...

  This online book launch has been hosted by The Society for Renaissance Studies, November 14, 2023, 2:30 pm, to celebrate the publication of Stefan Hanß’s new book, Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, c. 1550–1650 (Routledge) with James...

This is a call for PGR, Post Doc, and ECR applications.As part of this year's CIDRAL programme dedicated to the theme of 'Archives' a group of academics in SALC and UoM's cultural institutions have received funding to develop three one-day workshops on intersecting...

Congratulations to Professor Stefan Hanß who has just been awarded the German History Article Prize 2023 for his recent article ‘Gendering the Material Renaissance: Women, Industriousness and the Female Body at the Court of Württemberg’.The Prize is awarded by The...

Join us celebrating the publication of Stefan Hanß's new book, Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, c. 1550–1650 (Routledge) with James Amelang (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Alex Bamji (University of Leeds), Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young...

This is a guest blog entry of Georgina Watson, a final-year PhD student at Manchester working on early modern Mediterranean commercial, military and religious interaction between Tuscany and the Ottoman Empire. In focusing on various members of the Tuscan Order of...

The Manchester Material Culture Lab—a reading group of Manchester-based researchers interested in material culture studies—is back. These meetings shall engender a dialogue between the disciplines studying material culture in Manchester. We also run work-in-progress...

The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective holds a substantial number of digital microscopes that are administered by Professor Stefan Hanß. These microscopes are used by various members of the Collective, in particular PhD students and Early as well as...

This interview discusses the labour and skills of early modern working women. Laura Gowing and Beverly Lemire have asked Stefan Hanß to further elaborate on‘Gendering the Material Renaissance: Women, Industriousness and the Female Body at the Court of Württemberg’—an...

Rachel Winchcombe, Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, was recently commended for her work on early American food history by the judges of the Sophie Coe Prize, the world’s leading prize for writing on food history.Rachel’s submission,...