Monthly Archives: September 2017

New Book: The First of the Modern Ottomans

By James A T Lancaster | Published: September 26, 2017

The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vâsıf  By Ethan L. Menchinge (Cambridge University Press, 2017) The First of the Modern Ottomans blends biography with intellectual history. On the one hand, it is the story of an Ottoman life – the life of the scribe, ambassador, and prolific historian Ahmed Vâsıf […]

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New Oxford Francis Bacon Website

By James A T Lancaster | Published: September 1, 2017

New Oxford Francis Bacon Website The Oxford Francis Bacon critical edition has a new website for its project to complete a 15-volume critical edition of the works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the Elizabethan-Jacobean lawyer, natural philosopher, and statesman. The website includes details of the contents of each volume, published and planned, as well as the official […]

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Registration Open: Early Modern Civil Religion Workshop

By James A T Lancaster | Published: September 1, 2017

Registration Open: Early Modern Civil Religion Workshop 14 September 2017, Newcastle University This one-day workshop proposes to open a discussion into civil religion in early modernity on its own terms, rather than as a subsect of existing scholarly narratives. It seeks to bring together scholars from different disciplinary spheres in order to encourage reflection on […]

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