Early Modern Research Group

We are scholars based at the University of Worcester engaged with all things early modern.

[Rebecca Mason @rmason717]

In 1668 John Penman was arraigned for holding and arguing that "women had no souls". He was given a sessional rebuke "sharplie becaus it was not judged convenient to caus him appear before the congregation lest he should incense women more against him." [NRS, CH2/683/1.]

[Early Modern Research Group @WorcEMRG]

"Do Defrauding Daughters make Deviant Wives?" Prof Nicoleta Cinpoes speaks on female agency in the Merchant of Venice at 5:30 pm on Monday 11 October. To attend this free online event click here on the night: https://t.co/b4EDYqxxW1

[Early Modern Research Group @WorcEMRG]

Why is the Devil happy in Hell? Why is he funnier than God? What is temptation? Prof Darren Oldridge muses on these things, with the help of Freud, in a free online lecture at 5 pm on Friday 17 July. Join in at https://t.co/BlgzJqqpWs
@earlymodern @Freud

[Early Modern Research Group @WorcEMRG]

@_drsang Is this the marvellous Samuel Clarke? (Or perhaps he stole it from someone else, which is entirely possible.)

[Jonathan Healey @SocialHistoryOx]

St Helen’s Bishopgate, which survived both the Fire and the Blitz. In 1649, Abiezer Coppe gave a sermon here in which he stood in the pulpit and swore at the congregation for an hour. The church is now conservative evangelical.

[Oli Foster @NotBBCSportsGuy]

In 1920, my great grandfather was demolishing a cowshed on a farm in Montgomeryshire, Wales.

Under a slab, he found a stone bottle - inside which was this written charm.

These charms were used to rid land of any ills that befell it.

#FolkloreThursday

[Early Modern Research Group @WorcEMRG]

Oliver Cromwell made a pact with the Devil in Worcester in 1651. At least that was the story circulating soon after his death. Prof Oldridge revisits this episode at the Enchanted Environments conference @worcester_uni on Friday 6 March.
#Englishcivilwar #witchcraft

[Elaine Murphy @PlymPrivateer]

Another Christmas story- 1691 Margaret Taylor is accused of dealing in stolen naval stores. Towns people help her to evade capture for 2 months. She is arrested & spends Christmas Day in gaol. But the magistrate freed her on 27 Dec -which really annoyed the navy in Plymouth

[Civil War Petitions @cwpetitions]

For those who enjoyed the recent 'Charles I: Killing a King' series on BBC4, our project PI Andy Hopper has written a new blog to accompany his interview with Lisa Hilton in Episode 1 on petitions, the sack of Leicester and the the regicide: https://t.co/dFv6qQIVe6
#cwpetitions

[The Historical Journal @HistoricalJnl]

From our December issue 📘

Misha Ewen (@mishaewen) on 'Women Investors & the Virginia Company in the Early Seventeenth Century'
#merchants #women #colonisation #trade #earlymodern

👉Free access here: https://t.co/58VRfuMbGi

[Early Modern Research Group @WorcEMRG]

Prof Darren Oldridge speaks @PershoreHigh on Tuesday on "Why Religion Mattered in Tudor England".
#earlymodern #Tudors

[Early Modern Research Group @WorcEMRG]

In the age of "fake news" we should think about the nature of belief. On Monday Prof Darren Oldridge asks "Why Did People Believe in Dragons?" @WellsCathedral1 - a place rich in dragon lore. See https://t.co/nLyA5OkvBc

[Early Modern Research Group @WorcEMRG]

Elaine Joyce speaks on William Carlos, "The Hero of the Boscobel Oak", at The Commandery, Worcester, at 7 pm on Thursday 15 August.
#englishcivilwar

[Early Modern Research Group @WorcEMRG]

Prof Peter Gaunt speaks at The Commandery, Worcester, on the Civil War in Wales, 1642-6: Thursday 18 July, 7 pm. For tickets and information see https://t.co/j5EtB2zUgy
#englishcivilwar

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

There have been numerous explanations for why the fairies disappeared in Britain - education, advent of electrical lighting, evangelical religion. But one old man in the village of Alves, Moray, Scotland. knew the real reason in 1851: tea drinking. Yes, tea banished the fairies