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About Elspeth Currie

Elspeth Currie is a PhD student in the Department of History at Boston College where she studies women’s intellectual history in early modern Europe.

NBN Episodes hosted by Elspeth:

Early Modern History September 10, 2023

Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Performance and Pedagogy

Deanne Williams

Hosted by Elspeth Currie
Deanne Williams's newest book, Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy (Bloombury, 2023), is a groundbreaking study of the girl actor in the medieval and early …
Early Modern History July 22, 2023

The Global Refuge

Huguenots in an Age of Empire

Owen Stanwood

Hosted by Elspeth Currie
Owen Stanwood's newest book, The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire (Oxford UP, 2019), places the history of Huguenot refugees in a global context, the first truly international history …
Early Modern History December 10, 2022

Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period

Jane Stevenson

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Jane Stevenson’s newest book, Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2022), tracks the history and historiography of women Latinists in the early modern period. She relates how …
Early Modern History July 18, 2022

Laughing Histories

From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit

Joy Wiltenburg

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Joy Wiltenburg's book Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit (Routledge, 2022) breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was …
Early Modern History June 10, 2022

Storied Places

Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France

Virginia Reinburg

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Today I talked to Virginia Reinburg about her book Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France (Cambridge UP, 2019). Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth …
Early Modern History February 2, 2022

The Woman on the Windowsill

A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

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On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Díaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair …