September 22-23 2017
University of Oxford
In 1997, Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen College, Oxford) and Colin Jones (QMUL) published The Medical World of Early Modern France, a landmark in the history of medicine because of its integration of social and institutional history with intellectual history. It established a vibrant new approach to the history of medicine and knowledge of the early modern period while also encouraging Anglo-French intellectual exchange. As 2017 is the twentieth anniversary of this work’s publication and the year of Laurence Brockliss’s retirement, colleagues and former pupils have organized a colloquium in their honour. Scholars from a range of historical disciplines (classical scholarship/antiquarianism, philosophy, and the natural sciences) will discuss the ways in which knowledge is contextualized in early modern Europe and Britain. Participants are also from a variety of national perspectives and locations, demonstrating the range of Brockliss and Jones’s impact in integrating intellectual history with other sub disciplines of history.
Organizers: Erica Charters, Floris Verhaart, François Zanetti
Registration: £40 (£20 for students/ECR/unwaged), to open 1 August.
For more details: http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/event/knowledge-context-colloquium-brockliss-jones
Sponsors : Magdalen College, Oxford; Society for the Social History of Medicine; Florida State University; Queen's University, Belfast; History Faculty, Oxford.