Foto: Niklas Björling

Tabea Hochstrasser and Patrick van der Geest are two doctoral students living in opposite ends of Sweden, looking for fun and engaging ways to encourage discussion among early modern historians. To start off the new year, they are bringing back the Network for Early Modern History’s Reading Group. They invite all Early Modern historians to join with the following invite: 

"Between January and August, we will host a monthly on-line reading group session. The idea is to read and discuss academic texts (or historical sources) with a broad appeal. These texts should be at most 50 pages, but preferably no longer than 25. They do not even necessarily need to come from the field of early modern history, and of course texts written in a language other than English are welcome as well. The main criterium is simply that these texts are of interest to us all in one way or another.

Of course, we will need your input for this reading group to succeed. We currently have two texts planned for January and February, and your suggestions will help fill the rest of this term’s programme. If you would like to read a specific text, please send it to us so that we can put it on the list! 

The first reading group meeting will take place on Wednesday the 17th of January between 13.00-14.00 (CET). Up for discussion will be Filippo de Vivo’s ‘Microhistories of Long-Distance Information: Space, Movement and Agency in the Early Modern News’, Past and Present 14 (2019) 179-214, which can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz042. 

You can join the meeting through the following link:

https://umu.zoom.us/j/69877934335.

We look forward to seeing you on-line!

Tabea Hochstrasser (Umeå) & Patrick van der Geest (Lund)"

Full Reading Group Schedule

The complete suggested schedule for the Reading group can be found below, or by printing the pdf: 

Early Modern Reading Group Schedule (249 Kb)  VT24

1. Wednesday 17 January between 13.00-14.00:

Filippo de Vivo, ‘Microhistories of Long-Distance Information: Space, Movement and Agency in the Early Modern News’, Past and Present 14 (2019) 179-214, 35 pp., accessible at https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz042.
Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/69877934335

2. Wednesday 21 February between 13.00-14.00:

Arnaud Bartolomei et al., ‘A symptom of change or a remnant of the old world? The use of printed commercial circular letters in France and Europe (18th - 19th centuries)’, HAL (2018) 23 pp., accessible at https://hal.science/hal-01683970.

Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/68658482642

3. Wednesday 21 March between 13.00-14.00:

Reading TBA

Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/62792717455

4. Wednesday 17 April between 13.00-14.00:

Reading TBA

Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/68049195938

5. Wednesday 29 May between 13.00-14.00:

Reading TBA

Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/63969237061

6. Wednesday 19 June between 13.00-14.00:

Reading TBA

Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/63655607716

7. Wednesday 17 July between 13.00-14.00

Reading TBA

Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/67494614240

8. Wednesday 14 August between 13.00-14.00:

Reading TBA

Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/66443852314