Conference and Seminar Documentation by Tom Hamilton
The French Wars of Religion have fascinated historians ever since the opening shots were fired in... more The French Wars of Religion have fascinated historians ever since the opening shots were fired in a barn in Vassy in 1562. Over the centuries, scholars have explored the myriad political, religious, military, and social aspects of these devastating civil wars. In recent years, however, researchers have also started to examine the memory of the Wars of Religion. They have asked how Catholics and Protestants looked back on the events they had experienced during the wars, how they recorded their memories, and what impact these memories had on post-war society. Most of the scholarship in this nascent field has focused on printed histories and elite memories, but we still know very little about the distinctions between local, national, and transnational memory practices; how memories varied throughout the social hierarchy, among individuals and groups, or within and between confessions; and what long-term impact traumatic memories had on early modern society. This conference aims to evaluate how the study of memory can reshape our understanding of the Wars of Religion.
To register visit voiceandcrime.eventbrite.co.uk. Registration costs £18 for lunch. Contact Tom H... more To register visit voiceandcrime.eventbrite.co.uk. Registration costs £18 for lunch. Contact Tom Hamilton (tbh27@cam.ac.uk).
Programme:
Voice and Crime in Early Modern France
28 March 2018 - Old Combination Room, Trinity College, Cambridge
9-9.30am Arrival and registration
9.30-9.45am Welcome and introduction, Tom Hamilton (Cambridge)
9.45-11.15am Song and crime, chair Daniel Trocmé-Latter (Cambridge)
Éva Guillorel (Caen), 'Song, Crime, and Memory in Early Modern France'
Tatiana Debbagi Baranova (Paris), 'Construire un crime politique : les chansons sur l'assassinat du duc et du cardinal de Guise'
Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge), 'Singing Crime on the Pont-Neuf'
11.15-11.30am Tea, coffee, biscuits
11.30am-12.30pm Age and gender, chair Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)
Suzannah Lipscomb (Roehampton), 'Women's Voices, Power Relations, and Sexual Assault in Early-Modern Languedoc'
Jan Machielsen (Cardiff), 'The Sad Fate of a Real Teen Wolf: Pierre de Lancre's Confrontation with Jean Grenier (1603-1610)'
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-3pm Oral evidence, chair Robin Briggs (Oxford)
Marie Houllemare (Amiens), 'Recovering One's Voice? Silenced Colonial Prisoners in Eighteenth-Century France'
Mark Greengrass (Sheffield) and Tom Hamilton (Cambridge), 'Un Seul oeil a plus de crédit que deux oreilles n'ont d'audivi: Oral Evidence in French Criminal Proceedings in the Period of the Civil Wars'
3-3.30pm Tea, coffee, biscuits back in the OCR
3.30-4.30pm Translations, chair Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge)
Gary Ferguson (Virginia), 'Voices and Stories: Same Sex Marriage in Early Modern France and Italy'
Adam Horsely (Exeter), 'Les merveilles d'autrui: Imitation, Translation, and Identifying the Criminal Voice at the Trial of Théophile de Viau'
4.30-5.30pm Collections relating to crime in the Wren Library with Nicolas Bell, the Wren librarian
6.30pm Drinks Reception
The French Wars of Religion have fascinated historians ever since the opening shots were fired in... more The French Wars of Religion have fascinated historians ever since the opening shots were fired in a barn in Vassy in 1562. Over the centuries, scholars have explored the myriad political, religious, military, and social aspects of these devastating civil wars. In recent years, however, researchers have also started to examine the memory of the Wars of Religion. They have asked how Catholics and Protestants looked back on the events they had experienced during the wars, how they recorded their memories, and what impact these memories had on post-war society. Most of the scholarship in this nascent field has focused on printed histories and elite memories, but we still know very little about the distinctions between local, national, and transnational memory practices; how memories varied throughout the social hierarchy, among individuals and groups, or within and between confessions; and what long-term impact traumatic memories had on early modern society. This conference aims to evaluate how the study of memory can reshape our understanding of the Wars of Religion.
Music was a crucial battleground in the Wars of Religion. In spite of this, historians and musico... more Music was a crucial battleground in the Wars of Religion. In spite of this, historians and musicologists have rarely combined their approaches to understand the full significance that music had in the civil wars. Historians have primarily studied how music shaped confessional identities, for example, as Protestants sang the Psalms together in worship or on the battlefield, to express their solidarity and take comfort in their faith despite persecution. Musicologists, on the other hand, have tended to concentrate on the most important composers from this time (such as Eustache Du Caurroy or Pierre Guédron), the genres in which they wrote (like ballets or airs de cour), or issues associated with the performance of this repertoire.
This conference brings together historians and musicologists with the aim of overcoming the boundaries that still remain between these scholarly disciplines. It focuses on the various contexts within which music was used and considers its impact in the Wars of Religion. Who sang music and for what aims? What was the relationship (if any) between the performance of music in elite circles versus the use of this art form among the wider public? Did music solidify or traverse confessional divisions? Lastly, how far can modern performers recreate the soundscapes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Treating the age of the Wars of Religion across a whole century and using France as a focal point for making wider comparisons, the papers in this conference will explore the role of music from all sectors of society, from the royal courts to the city streets, and from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives.
Free audiorecordings of our colloquium on "Treasuries of Knowledge: Collecting and Transmitting I... more Free audiorecordings of our colloquium on "Treasuries of Knowledge: Collecting and Transmitting Information in the Early Modern Period". http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/2218252
This colloquium will offer a platform for exchanges among scholars studying the history of librar... more This colloquium will offer a platform for exchanges among scholars studying the history of libraries, archives, and museum. In focusing on the theme of 'treasuries', our discussion will both historicise the role of collections in the early modern period and draw out the common themes of the cumulative nature and the materiality and value which scholars of various disciplines discern.
Publications by Tom Hamilton
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This Supplement builds ... more Download for free here: https://academic.oup.com/past/issue/230/suppl_11
This Supplement builds on a burgeoning body of research that approaches the archive not merely as the object, but as the subject of enquiry. It explores the phenomenon of record keeping in the early modern period in the context of significant ecclesiastical, political, intellectual and cultural developments that served as a stimulus to it: state formation, religious reformation, and economic transformation; the advent of the mechanical press, the spread of educational opportunity, and the expansion of literacy; changing epistemological conventions, shifting attitudes towards history and memory, and new modes of self-representation. The essays that comprise it focus attention on the impulses behind the surge in public and private documentation in Europe between 1500 and 1800 and place the process by which individual, collective and institutional records were created, compiled, authorised, and used under the microscope. They examine the activities of curators and scribes and analyse the issues of credibility and authenticity to which their endeavours gave rise, alongside the role of textual, pictorial, material and financial records in managing knowledge and giving expression to senses of identity. Stretching traditional, technical definitions of the record and archive, they investigate how writing and document-making of various kinds was shaped by dynamic interactions between ordinary people and by the quotidian circumstances and politics of everyday life. They also illuminate some of the multiple ways in which archives mediate and construct the past, preserving some traces of it for posterity while consigning others to permanent oblivion.
Reformation/Religious History by Tom Hamilton
by Violet Soen, Wim François, Antoine Mazurek, Els Agten, Paolo Sachet, Camilla Russell, Tomáš Parma, Morgane Belin, Querciolo Mazzonis, Tom Hamilton, Fabrizio D'Avenia, Sarah Elizabeth Penry, Ellénita de Mol, Sanja Cvetnic, Simon DITCHFIELD, Marianne C.E. Gillion, Soetkin Vanhauwaert, and Hélène Vu Thanh Refo500 Academic Series 35,1-3
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars f... more Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of the Council, in Europe and beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in these three impressive volumes. Bridging together different generations of scholarship, the authors reassess in the first volume Tridentine views on the Bible, theology and liturgy, as well as their reception by Protestants, deconstructing myths surviving in scholarship and society alike. They also deal with the mechanisms 'Rome' developed to hold a grip on the Council's implementation. The second volume analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. The third and final volume examines the afterlife of Trent in arts and music, as well as in the global impact of Trent through missions.
Books by Tom Hamilton
The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the lat... more The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. When historians interpret these events they inevitably depend on sources of information gathered by contemporaries, none more valuable than the diaries and collection of Pierre de L'Estoile (1546-1611), who lived through the civil wars in Paris and shaped how they have been remembered ever since. Taking him out of the footnotes, and demonstrating his significance in the culture of the late Renaissance, this is the first life of L'Estoile in any language. It examines how he negotiated and commemorated the conflicts that divided France as he assembled an extraordinary collection of the relics of the troubles, a collection that he called 'the storehouse of my curiosities'. The story of his life and times is the history of the civil wars in the making.
Focusing on a crucial individual for understanding Reformation Europe, this study challenges historians' assumptions about the widespread impact of confessional conflict in the sixteenth century. L'Estoile's prudent, non-confessional responses to the events he lived through and recorded were common among his milieu of Gallican Catholics. His life-writing and engagement with contemporary news, books, and pictures reveals how individuals used different genres and media to destabilise rather than fix confessional identities. Bringing together the great variety of topics in society and culture that attracted L'Estoile's curiosity, this volume rethinks his world in the Wars of Religion.
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Conference and Seminar Documentation by Tom Hamilton
Programme:
Voice and Crime in Early Modern France
28 March 2018 - Old Combination Room, Trinity College, Cambridge
9-9.30am Arrival and registration
9.30-9.45am Welcome and introduction, Tom Hamilton (Cambridge)
9.45-11.15am Song and crime, chair Daniel Trocmé-Latter (Cambridge)
Éva Guillorel (Caen), 'Song, Crime, and Memory in Early Modern France'
Tatiana Debbagi Baranova (Paris), 'Construire un crime politique : les chansons sur l'assassinat du duc et du cardinal de Guise'
Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge), 'Singing Crime on the Pont-Neuf'
11.15-11.30am Tea, coffee, biscuits
11.30am-12.30pm Age and gender, chair Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)
Suzannah Lipscomb (Roehampton), 'Women's Voices, Power Relations, and Sexual Assault in Early-Modern Languedoc'
Jan Machielsen (Cardiff), 'The Sad Fate of a Real Teen Wolf: Pierre de Lancre's Confrontation with Jean Grenier (1603-1610)'
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-3pm Oral evidence, chair Robin Briggs (Oxford)
Marie Houllemare (Amiens), 'Recovering One's Voice? Silenced Colonial Prisoners in Eighteenth-Century France'
Mark Greengrass (Sheffield) and Tom Hamilton (Cambridge), 'Un Seul oeil a plus de crédit que deux oreilles n'ont d'audivi: Oral Evidence in French Criminal Proceedings in the Period of the Civil Wars'
3-3.30pm Tea, coffee, biscuits back in the OCR
3.30-4.30pm Translations, chair Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge)
Gary Ferguson (Virginia), 'Voices and Stories: Same Sex Marriage in Early Modern France and Italy'
Adam Horsely (Exeter), 'Les merveilles d'autrui: Imitation, Translation, and Identifying the Criminal Voice at the Trial of Théophile de Viau'
4.30-5.30pm Collections relating to crime in the Wren Library with Nicolas Bell, the Wren librarian
6.30pm Drinks Reception
This conference brings together historians and musicologists with the aim of overcoming the boundaries that still remain between these scholarly disciplines. It focuses on the various contexts within which music was used and considers its impact in the Wars of Religion. Who sang music and for what aims? What was the relationship (if any) between the performance of music in elite circles versus the use of this art form among the wider public? Did music solidify or traverse confessional divisions? Lastly, how far can modern performers recreate the soundscapes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Treating the age of the Wars of Religion across a whole century and using France as a focal point for making wider comparisons, the papers in this conference will explore the role of music from all sectors of society, from the royal courts to the city streets, and from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives.
Publications by Tom Hamilton
This Supplement builds on a burgeoning body of research that approaches the archive not merely as the object, but as the subject of enquiry. It explores the phenomenon of record keeping in the early modern period in the context of significant ecclesiastical, political, intellectual and cultural developments that served as a stimulus to it: state formation, religious reformation, and economic transformation; the advent of the mechanical press, the spread of educational opportunity, and the expansion of literacy; changing epistemological conventions, shifting attitudes towards history and memory, and new modes of self-representation. The essays that comprise it focus attention on the impulses behind the surge in public and private documentation in Europe between 1500 and 1800 and place the process by which individual, collective and institutional records were created, compiled, authorised, and used under the microscope. They examine the activities of curators and scribes and analyse the issues of credibility and authenticity to which their endeavours gave rise, alongside the role of textual, pictorial, material and financial records in managing knowledge and giving expression to senses of identity. Stretching traditional, technical definitions of the record and archive, they investigate how writing and document-making of various kinds was shaped by dynamic interactions between ordinary people and by the quotidian circumstances and politics of everyday life. They also illuminate some of the multiple ways in which archives mediate and construct the past, preserving some traces of it for posterity while consigning others to permanent oblivion.
Reformation/Religious History by Tom Hamilton
Books by Tom Hamilton
Focusing on a crucial individual for understanding Reformation Europe, this study challenges historians' assumptions about the widespread impact of confessional conflict in the sixteenth century. L'Estoile's prudent, non-confessional responses to the events he lived through and recorded were common among his milieu of Gallican Catholics. His life-writing and engagement with contemporary news, books, and pictures reveals how individuals used different genres and media to destabilise rather than fix confessional identities. Bringing together the great variety of topics in society and culture that attracted L'Estoile's curiosity, this volume rethinks his world in the Wars of Religion.
Programme:
Voice and Crime in Early Modern France
28 March 2018 - Old Combination Room, Trinity College, Cambridge
9-9.30am Arrival and registration
9.30-9.45am Welcome and introduction, Tom Hamilton (Cambridge)
9.45-11.15am Song and crime, chair Daniel Trocmé-Latter (Cambridge)
Éva Guillorel (Caen), 'Song, Crime, and Memory in Early Modern France'
Tatiana Debbagi Baranova (Paris), 'Construire un crime politique : les chansons sur l'assassinat du duc et du cardinal de Guise'
Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge), 'Singing Crime on the Pont-Neuf'
11.15-11.30am Tea, coffee, biscuits
11.30am-12.30pm Age and gender, chair Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)
Suzannah Lipscomb (Roehampton), 'Women's Voices, Power Relations, and Sexual Assault in Early-Modern Languedoc'
Jan Machielsen (Cardiff), 'The Sad Fate of a Real Teen Wolf: Pierre de Lancre's Confrontation with Jean Grenier (1603-1610)'
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-3pm Oral evidence, chair Robin Briggs (Oxford)
Marie Houllemare (Amiens), 'Recovering One's Voice? Silenced Colonial Prisoners in Eighteenth-Century France'
Mark Greengrass (Sheffield) and Tom Hamilton (Cambridge), 'Un Seul oeil a plus de crédit que deux oreilles n'ont d'audivi: Oral Evidence in French Criminal Proceedings in the Period of the Civil Wars'
3-3.30pm Tea, coffee, biscuits back in the OCR
3.30-4.30pm Translations, chair Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge)
Gary Ferguson (Virginia), 'Voices and Stories: Same Sex Marriage in Early Modern France and Italy'
Adam Horsely (Exeter), 'Les merveilles d'autrui: Imitation, Translation, and Identifying the Criminal Voice at the Trial of Théophile de Viau'
4.30-5.30pm Collections relating to crime in the Wren Library with Nicolas Bell, the Wren librarian
6.30pm Drinks Reception
This conference brings together historians and musicologists with the aim of overcoming the boundaries that still remain between these scholarly disciplines. It focuses on the various contexts within which music was used and considers its impact in the Wars of Religion. Who sang music and for what aims? What was the relationship (if any) between the performance of music in elite circles versus the use of this art form among the wider public? Did music solidify or traverse confessional divisions? Lastly, how far can modern performers recreate the soundscapes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Treating the age of the Wars of Religion across a whole century and using France as a focal point for making wider comparisons, the papers in this conference will explore the role of music from all sectors of society, from the royal courts to the city streets, and from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives.
This Supplement builds on a burgeoning body of research that approaches the archive not merely as the object, but as the subject of enquiry. It explores the phenomenon of record keeping in the early modern period in the context of significant ecclesiastical, political, intellectual and cultural developments that served as a stimulus to it: state formation, religious reformation, and economic transformation; the advent of the mechanical press, the spread of educational opportunity, and the expansion of literacy; changing epistemological conventions, shifting attitudes towards history and memory, and new modes of self-representation. The essays that comprise it focus attention on the impulses behind the surge in public and private documentation in Europe between 1500 and 1800 and place the process by which individual, collective and institutional records were created, compiled, authorised, and used under the microscope. They examine the activities of curators and scribes and analyse the issues of credibility and authenticity to which their endeavours gave rise, alongside the role of textual, pictorial, material and financial records in managing knowledge and giving expression to senses of identity. Stretching traditional, technical definitions of the record and archive, they investigate how writing and document-making of various kinds was shaped by dynamic interactions between ordinary people and by the quotidian circumstances and politics of everyday life. They also illuminate some of the multiple ways in which archives mediate and construct the past, preserving some traces of it for posterity while consigning others to permanent oblivion.
Focusing on a crucial individual for understanding Reformation Europe, this study challenges historians' assumptions about the widespread impact of confessional conflict in the sixteenth century. L'Estoile's prudent, non-confessional responses to the events he lived through and recorded were common among his milieu of Gallican Catholics. His life-writing and engagement with contemporary news, books, and pictures reveals how individuals used different genres and media to destabilise rather than fix confessional identities. Bringing together the great variety of topics in society and culture that attracted L'Estoile's curiosity, this volume rethinks his world in the Wars of Religion.