Lecture and Seminar Programme

Week	Lecture	Lecturer	Seminar
1.1	Introduction	Michael Bycroft	Journal abstracts
	AGE OF REFORMATION, c. 1500-1650
1.2	The Origins of Reformation	Peter Marshall	Primary sources: images
1.3	The Impact of Reformation	Penny Roberts	Introductions
1.4	Popular Culture and Witchcraft	Penny Roberts	Primary sources: witchcraft trialsLink opens in a new window
1.5	Catholic Christianity in Global Context	Anne Gerritsen	Assignment: historiographical review
	reading week
	AGE OF EXPANSION, c. 1450-1600
1.7	The Atlantic World	Michael Bycroft	Primary sources: maps
1.8	The Mediterranean World ARTICLE REVIEW DUE	Aysu Dincer	Primary sources: travel narratives
1.9	The Indian Ocean World	Guido van Meersbergen	Role-playing gameLink opens in a new window
1.10	The Global Renaissance	James Poskett	Revision quiz
	winter break
	AGE OF CRISIS?, c. 1600-1700
2.1	States and Absolutism	Jonathan Davies	Primary sources: mirrors for princes
2.2	Popular Politics and Protest	Mark Knights	Primary sources: petitions
2.3	Violence	Jonathan Davies	Primary sources: journals and novellas
2.4	Rival Empires	Guido van Meersbergen	Assignment 2: debate
2.5	Environmental Crises	Thomas Simpson	Assignment 2: debate
	reading week
	AGE OF REASON, c. 1660-1780
2.7	The Enlightenment	Michael Bycroft	Primary sources: dialogues
2.8	Work ARGUMENT ESSAY DUE	Charmian Mansell	Primary sources
2.9	Race and Slavery	Lydia Plath	Primary sources: databases
2.10	Gender and Sexuality	Naomi Pullin	Historical fiction and Hamnet film screening
	spring break
	EARLY MODERNITY NOW
3.1	Public Early-Modern History	Panel lecture	Podcasts
3.2	The Research Project in Theory	Michael Bycroft	Assignment 3: examples
3.3	The Research Project in Practice	Panel lecture	Assignment 3: workshop
3.4	no lecture or seminar
3.5	RESEARCH PROJECT DUE

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A barometer made by the London clockmaker Daniel Quare, around 1700. The barometer, a device for measuring air pressure, was invented in the seventeenth century.

According to radical thinkers at the time, the barometer showed that a vacuum (a space devoid of air) was possible. This contradicated the received wisdom that a vacuum was impossible.

There were many skilled instrument-makers in London in the period. Quare was a clockmaker at a time when clocks were in demand as luxury goods, aids to navigation, and instruments for exact science.

Image credit: Science Museum Group Collection.