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Lecture by Laurence BROCKLISS, Professor at Oxford University on Tuesday 26 November at 6.00pm

Esprit CALVET (1728-1810), his correspondents and his collection of antiquities; on the occasion of the publication of her book Calvet's Web
Dr Laurence Brockliss
M.A., D.Phil.
Reader in Modern History
Magdalen College
Email: laurence.brockliss@magdalen.ox.ac.uk
 
Dr Brockliss works on the history of education, science and medicine in early modern France and Britain and has a general interest in the history of European ideas.
 
Selected publications:

• French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Cultural History (Oxford, 1987)
• (ed. with Joseph Bergin), Richelieu and His Age (Oxford, 1992)
• (ed. with David Eastwood), A Union of Multiple Identities: The British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850 (Manchester, 1997)
• (with Colin Jones), The Medical World of Early Modern France (Oxford, 1997)
• (ed. with J.H. Elliott), The World of the Favourite (New Haven and London, 1999)
   
  Review of Lawrence Brockliss, Calvet’s Web, and Colin Jones, The Great Nation, forthcoming, The London Review of Books
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Published on : 11/26/2002