Communities in Early Modern Europe – big and small societies, c. 1500 to 1800
5 July 2011
15 July 2011, University of Sheffield
A one-day conference to showcase the work of postgraduate and early career researchers whose research into early modern Europe relates to communities. We would like to encourage interdisciplinary approaches from across the arts and humanities and the social sciences.
The early modern period has often been linked with the birth of the individual, of the cultivation and presentation of the Self… However, such ideas about the primacy of the individual mush be reconciled with the strength of various social groups in this period, such as the numerous religious communities resulting from the Reformation or the family; as Natalie Zemon Davis has argued “certain forms of embeddedness – most especially in the family – could assist in consciousness of self”. Therefore, the aim of this conference is to explore the concepts and discussions relating to communities and individuals in early modern Europe across a broad range of contexts.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/communities.html
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