RSA Boston 2016 Call for Papers: Intoxicants and Early Modernity

We’re pleased to announce an intoxicant-themed CFP for the Renaissance Society of America’s next Annual Conference, which will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, on 31 March−2 April 2016. Full details below; don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or require further information. CFP: Intoxicants and Early Modernity This set of sessions welcomes papers […]

‘Being One Night… Taking a Glass of Ale’: Intoxication in Church Court Records, 1580-1740

Our work on port books finished last summer – we’ve logged nearly 15,000 intoxicant-related transactions for the period 1580-1740 – and since then we’ve been busy working on manuscripts associated with our second research strand on intoxication and society: ecclesiastical court records. For the North West, I’m looking at a sample of around 2,000 cases from […]

Workshop Report: Material Cultures of Intoxication in Early Modern England and the Netherlands

Back in November, under the auspices of our fifth research strand, the V&A and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands jointly hosted an Anglo-Dutch Workshop and Reception around the topic of Material Cultures of Intoxication: Trade, Taste, and Exchange between the Early Modern English and the Dutch. Background The inspiration for the workshop emerged […]

Material Cultures of Intoxication: Trade, Taste, and Exchange between the Early Modern English and the Dutch

We’re excited to be organising a one-day workshop on Friday 28 November on ‘Material Cultures of Intoxication: Trade, Taste, and Exchange between the Early Modern English and the Dutch’. Jointly hosted by the V&A and the Netherlands Embassy, and drawing on some of our initial findings in our material culture strand (especially derived from our […]

Intoxicants and Early Modernity: The First Few Months

With our project and a New Year well underway the time seems ripe for a quick update. Since our formal start on the 1 October 2013 we’ve had a busy few months getting the research going, with most of the time spent developing and refining the data entry system for our first research strand on […]