William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Molly Warsh

“‘Breedlings’ and the ‘most sad Fenns’: Perceptions of Untameable Places and People in Samuel Pepys’s England”

Guest Speaker: Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh)

In this talk, Warsh will consider Pepys’s observations about the English fens and their inhabitants in the context of shifting seventeenth century ideas about what made certain places and people wild.  With Pepys’s interest in social mobility in mind, she will pay particular attention to broad trends in early modern thinking about social and biological production and reproduction, and the relationship between human and non-human nature.

Molly A. Warsh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the Editor of the Journal of Early Modern History. She is the author of American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire 1492-1700 (Omohundro Institute with the University of North Carolina Press, 2018) as well as several articles and book chapters.

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More information about past William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys lectures is available here.