Commonplace Cambridge
@commonplacecam.bsky.social
The reading group and collaborative thinking space for early modern graduate students at the University of Cambridge
Oh, and we're starting a petition to bring back 'crisple' as a way of describing hair💁♀️💁
January 23, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Oh, and we're starting a petition to bring back 'crisple' as a way of describing hair💁♀️💁
If nothing else, pingle is now our new favourite word
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If nothing else, pingle is now our new favourite word
Common-places for Urquhart's translation of Rabelais and these masques include: different versions of learning (satirical excess vs contained and virtuous); dubious renderings of Scottish dialect; frozen icicle words
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Common-places for Urquhart's translation of Rabelais and these masques include: different versions of learning (satirical excess vs contained and virtuous); dubious renderings of Scottish dialect; frozen icicle words
Stay tuned for Rabelais x Restoration masques next time...
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Stay tuned for Rabelais x Restoration masques next time...
Stay tuned for the chain of lateral - even anarchic! - connections we make as we traverse the period
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Stay tuned for the chain of lateral - even anarchic! - connections we make as we traverse the period
Each session of our reading group is led by one of our graduate students, who suggests material - textual or otherwise - for that week. As part of the discussion, we aim to find a ‘common-place’ between the current week’s material and that from the previous week
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Each session of our reading group is led by one of our graduate students, who suggests material - textual or otherwise - for that week. As part of the discussion, we aim to find a ‘common-place’ between the current week’s material and that from the previous week