Edward Wilson-Lee and Giuseppe Marcocci - Laughter in the Archive: Half-Serious Storytelling and Religious Encounters in Portuguese India
Wednesday 6 May (Week 2), 4:30-6:30pm
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
Edward Wilson-Lee is 1596 Fellow at Sidney Sussex College in the University of Cambridge, where he teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, and medieval literature. He is the author of several works of cultural history, including The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library (Scribner, 2019) and A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic, and Two Visions of Global History (William Collins, 2022).
Giuseppe Marcocci is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Oxford.
