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Historian Highlight – Sophia T. C. Feist
Interviewed by Jake Bransgrove, @Jake_Bransgrove Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest instalment, we sat down with Sophia T. C. Feist (@stcfeist), a second-year PhD candidate at Corpus Christi College, to talk liveries, craft cultures at the courts of…
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Shakespeare’s Forgotten Publisher: The Curious Disappearance of Edward Blount
Why did Edward Blount, the publisher of Shakespeare’s First Folio, suddenly disappear from the historical record in the mid-1620s? Matt Ryan has found exciting new archival evidence that sheds light on this historical mystery.
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Hunted, or Charpentier’s Mythic Appropriations
David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) “I am he who, born in another age, was known during the last century.” So begins a despairing Marc-Antoine Charpentier in his Epitaphium Carpentarii, or musical epitaph. For much of his life, he believed that he was little more than a glorified chorister for the Duchesse de Guise, despite his training in…
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Historian Highlight: Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023)
by Chris Campbell Running to a mere 127 pages, The Return of Martin Guerre was perhaps never intended to be a career-defining book.[1] For its author, the historian Natalie Zemon Davis, it was less a labour of profound historical scholarship than a personal work of unfinished business. Nevertheless, it bears close investigation as it was…
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Holiday Gifting and Social Power in Early Modern England
By Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) While today, families gather around the tree to open gifts on Christmas morning, in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England Christmas Eve and Day were a comparatively solemn affair. That did not mean, however, that families, friends, and their patrons did not exchange gifts over the holidays! Rather than Christmas morning, New Year’s…
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