VRG Seminar Themes, 2006-7

Since November 2006, the Early Modern VRE Research Group has held regular seminars using Access Grid. These have tackled the following subjects.

15 November 2006: History of Concepts

12 December 2006: Jenny Richards, Honesty; Mark Knights, Words and Concepts

17 January 2007: Glenn Burgess, Commonwealth

14 February 2007: Mark Philp, Arguing for Republicanism...; Anne Hughes, Commonwealth 1649

14 March 2007: Simon Middleton and Michael Winship, Republicanism in North America

2 May 2007: Howell Lloyd, Mark Greengrass and Simon Hodson; France, Bodin, Turquet de Mayerne

16 May 2007: Andy Wood, Social Perspectives on 'Commonwealth'

6 June 2007: Mike Braddick, Partisan Use of Standard Forms

27 June 2007: Phil Withington, 'William Bullein and the concept of counsel'

11-12 September 2007: Face-to-face Workshop, to discuss the group's collaboratively written articles, University of Warwick

17 October 2007: Collaborative Articles: a virtual seminar following up the work of the face-to-face workshop.

7 November 2007: Collaborative Readings: a virtual seminar devoted to reading four texts relating to themes of Commonwealth, presented by Colin Davis, Cathy Shrank, Mark Knights and Mark Philp

14 November 2007: John Watts: From Common Weal to Common Wealth