We are a group of historians, literary scholars, historians of art, music and material culture, with a strong interest in the interdisciplinary study of Italian history and culture in Italy and beyond, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. We meet regularly around the Early modern Italian seminar and hope to foster exchange and collaboration on all things Italian and on connections between Italian and other communities and cultures outside Italy, in the Mediterranean, Europe and the rest of the world.
We look forward to hearing expressions of interest from scholars from all disciplines and at all stages of their careers - please get in touch by sending an email to earlymodernitaly@history.ox.ac.uk
Caroline Callard (EHESS, Paris), 'Sovereignty, Spirituality, and the Subsoil in the Duchy of Savoy'
20 January 2026, 4:30pm to 12 March 2026, 4:00pm
Alexandros Hatzikiriakos (Sheffield), 'Sonic Identities and Coexistence in Venetian Crete (1453-1669)'
3 February 2026, 4:30pm to 12 March 2026, 4:00pm
Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge), 'The Romes of Thomas Jones (1742-1803)'
17 February 2026, 4:30pm to 1 March 2026, 4:00pm
Claire Judde de Larivière (Toulouse) "Who did Renaissance people think they were? Class consciousness, sense of belonging, and social categories in Venice 1400-1600"
25 November 2025, 4:30pm to 8 December 2025, 8:08am