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Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

  • A New Home

    We are now located in the new Faculty of Arts Building, which brings all humanities departments under the same roof and provides an ideal place for students to work

  • CSR Workspace

    Our Centre has its own space for students to work quietly or collaboratively

  • Book Culture

    Among their various specialties, staff in the CSR have a strong interest in both manuscript and print culture in the Renaissance

  • Historical sites

    Being in the heart of the country we are lucky to benefit from being close to both Kenilworth Castle and Warwick Castle

  • Royal Shakespeare Company

    We benefit from all the study and research opportunities of being close to Stratford-upon-Avon and the Royal Shakespeare Company

  • Venice

    The Centre has strong ties with Venice, where MA students are able to study

Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance is an autonomous, internationally-recognized centre of the University supported by the Arts Faculty. It advances – through research, teaching, and outreach – the study of the period stretching from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, at Warwick and beyond. It explores Renaissance Studies in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way and within a context of international collaboration, promoting activities that intersect with the work of medievalists and early modernists.

Degrees and programmes

Undergraduates

MA students and PhD students

Community courses

Prospective students

Why study with us?

Funding your PhD

Research

Areas of expertise

Research projects

Research collaborations

Our research fellows

Prospective research fellows

CSR book series: Warwick Studies in Renaissance Thought and Culture

STVDIO seminar series

Research skills training in palaeography and Latin for research

Outreach

The CSR organizes special study days – and, subject to demand, longer courses – for the community. See our past events and look out for events in 2023.

You can also find out more about our online provision in palaeography and Latin for research.

Our online reading group (currently on Montaigne) is open to all.

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Renaissance news

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External networks

We have close links with the following organisations:

ICLS ~ The International Courtly Literature Society (British Branch)

FISIER ~ International Federation of Societies & Institutes for the Study of the Renaissance
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Monash Warwick Alliance

Newberry Library including funding opportunities (travel) and various fellowships

SEFR ~ Society for European Festivals Research

SNLS ~ Society for Neo-Latin Studies

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