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Writing Checks and Writing History: Female Patrons of History Publication in Early Modern England
By Elspeth Currie, Boston College If asked, any of us can conjure up the image of an author. If she’s a poet, she might appear in a black turtleneck, pen and Moleskine in hand. If she happens to be writing history, we may swap the notebook for a laptop, give her a half-empty cup of…
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Precio Felix: Public Iconography and Private Words of Margherita de’ Medici in the Mediceo del Principato
By Carlotta Cirilli, University of Teramo When we approach early modern historical writing, we tend to privilege its most established forms: printed treatises, verse chronicles, or retrospective historiographies. Yet the Clio Reframed conference unsettles precisely this hierarchy, asking how women engaged the past through media that resist such disciplinary containment. While my paper for the…
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Postgraduate and ECR Bursaries
We’re delighted to announce that Clio Reframed is now generously supported by the Society for Renaissance Studies and Oxford’s Centre for Early Modern Studies. As part of this new development, we are now able to offer small bursaries, funded by the SRS, to postgraduate and ECR speakers who might otherwise find it difficult to attend…
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Launch of ‘Clio Reframed’ and Call for Papers
Welcome to the website for Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750. This two-day conference will be held at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford on 18th and 19th June 2026 and feature keynote papers from Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin), Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (Université de Rouen Normandie), Emilie Murphy (University of York), Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of…
Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750
