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Ajmar, Marta

Dr Marta Ajmar
Marta Ajmar

(History of Art)

Research interests: Histories and practices of making, design, craft and embodied knowing; artisanal knowledge in Italy in the Renaissance and Early Modern period; artistic, material and technological interconnectedness between Europe and Asia in the global Renaissance; histories of the domestic interior and of the home as a site of cultural production; experiential pedagogies for higher education and beyond, particularly learning through making

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Akhapkina, Daria

Daria Akhapkina Image-Daria Akhapkina

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Edible Saints and Holy Vices: Late Medieval and Renaissance Ecclesiastical Parody'

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Alain, Mathilde

Mathilde Alain
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Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'The Christian kingdom of Ethiopia in the travel diary of Francisco Álvares (1520-1526)'

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Alexander, Jenny

Professor Jenny AlexanderAlexander, jennifer

(Department of History of Art)

Research interests: Medieval Art and Architecture especially the study of medieval and early modern buildings, their construction and use

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Avery, Jack

Dr Jack Avery

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow) Dr Jack Avery

Research interests: News, newswriting and propaganda in the 17th century; satire; early modern archives; maritime writing, especially in manuscript; Anglo-Dutch exchange in the late 17th century, especially with regard to news and literature; late 17th century intellectual and epistolary culture. Current research project: ‘The Correspondence of John Aubrey’.

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Azzarito, Claudio

Claudio Azzarito
Claudio Azzarito

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

The Logic of Diagnosis: Understanding and Predicting Diseases in the Medical School of Padua (1500 – 1600 ca.)

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Bates, Catherine

Professor Catherine BatesBates, Catherine new
(Renaissance Centre Research Professor)

Research interests: English literature and culture of the Renaissance period with a special interest in poetry, poetics, and courtly forms including lyric, epic, and romance

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Bates, Stephen

Dr Stephen Bates
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(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Late medieval and early modern religious and cultural history, particularly lay piety, printed discourse, English devotion to the Virgin Mary and the reign of Mary Tudor

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Brazeau, Bryan

Associate Professor Bryan BrazeauBrazeau, Bryan

(School of Cross-Faculty Studies, Liberal Arts)

Research interests: Italian renaissance epic (Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso), Poetics of the sacred, Sixteenth-Century Christian Epic (Latin and Italian), Counter-Reformation culture, Dante reception, Digital Humanities

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Brock, Susan

Dr Susan Brock Dr Susan Brock

(Renaissance Centre Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Shakespeare and his Warwickshire context; early modern theatre communities, and Warwickshire local history.

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Bycroft, Michael

Dr Michael Bycroft Bycroft, Michael

(Department of History)

Research interests: Science and technology in early modern Europe, with a special interest in France, state patronage, global connections, and materials such as precious stones, gold, dyestuffs, and porcelain

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Camillet, Fabio

Professor Fabio A. Camilletti Camilletti, Fabio

(SMLC, Italian)

Research interests: late-modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture (18th-21st centuries) and Dante's literary afterlife. His research is characterized by a strongly comparative outlook and a distinct interest in theory (intertextuality, theories of 'Spectrality').

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Capp, Bernard

Prof Em Bernard Cappcapp, bernard

(Department of History)

Research interests: The family and gender in early modern England; radical movements in seventeenth-century England; popular beliefs and popular culture; English slaves and Barbary corsairs

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Celati, Marta

Professor Marta Celati

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow) Marta Celati image

Research interests: Italian Renaissance Literature, Humanism, Neo-Latin Studies, Classical tradition, Historiography, Political thought, Relationship between literature and visual culture, History of the book, Philology

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Cesaraccio, Valeria

Valeria Cesaraccio
Cesaraccio, Valeria

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Teaching and Learning Latin in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Theory and Practice'

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Clark, Tim

Tim Clark Tim Clarke

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

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Comiati, Giacomo

Dr Giacomo ComiatiComiati image
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research interests: Petrarch and Petrarchism, Sixteenth-Century Italian Poetry, Renaissance Exegesis and the Commentary Tradition, Reception of the Classics in the Italian Renaissance, Reception of Horace, Renaissance Latin Poetry, Fifteenth-Century Latin and Vernacular Literature
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Cooley, Alison

Professor Alison CooleyCooley, alison

(Classics & Ancient History)

Research interests: All aspects of the Roman world - social, cultural, economic, and political

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Cornish, Archie

Dr Archie Cornish Archie Cornish

(Renaissance Centre Honorary Fellow)

Research interests: Landscape, architecture, allegory, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Nashe, ecocriticism, georgic

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Cotugno, Alessio

Dr Alessio Cotugno Cotugno, Alessio

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: History of the Italian language (XVIth-XXth cent.); Renaissance volgarizzamenti (Aristotle and Ovid); Renaissance grammar, rhetoric and poetics; vernacular Aristotelianism (Sperone Speroni, Alessandro Piccolomini, Benedetto Varchi); uses of the dialogue form in the Renaissance; Pietro Bembo

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Crowther, Ania

Dr Ania Crowther

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(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: James Shirley, Restoration, Abraham Cowley, Aphra Behn, Cavendish, theatre, drama, stage editing and promptbooks.

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Czepiel, Maria

Dr Maria Czepiel
Czepiel, Maria

(Renaissance Centre, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)

Research project: 'Humanism, Resistance and the Bible in Sixteenth-Century Spain'

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Daniotti, Claudia

Dr Claudia Daniotti

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(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Renaissance art, especially Italian; classical tradition; iconography and iconology; reception of ancient Famous Women; posthumous life of Alexander the Great; transmission of ancient texts and their interplay with visual arts; the macabre and representation of Death in medieval and Early Modern Europe; reception of antiquity at the court of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta in Rimini; Aby Warburg and his legacy.

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Davies, Jonathan

Dr Jonathan DaviesDavies, Jonathan

(Department of History)

Research interests: Violence and insults and crime and punishment in early modern Europe (including the British isles); the history of the Italian states (especially Tuscany and the Republic of Venice) between 1350 and 1600

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De Smet, Ingrid

Professor Ingrid De SmetDe Smet, Ingrid

(School of Modern Languages, French)

Research interests: Neo-Latin literature and intellectual culture in France, the Low Countries, and Italy (1550-1650); the history of the book; satire, polemics and conflict; falconry and hunting in the Renaissance and Early Modern period

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Dincer, Aysu

Dr Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasisdincer,aysu

(Department of History)

Research Interests: Social and economic history of the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (family and gender, material culture, slavery); history of the crusades and the crusader states; history of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus; trade and use of aromatics

Office: 3.17 Faculty of Arts Building; Tel: 024 765 0928; Email: A.Dincer@warwick.ac.uk

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Din-Kariuki, Natalya

Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki Din-Kariuki, Natalya-crop

(English and Comparative Literature)

Research interests: literary and intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; rhetoric and poetics; travel writing; transnational and transcultural encounter; modes of cosmopolitanism; religious prose.

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Du, Wanxin

Wanxin Du DU, Wanxin image-2-crop

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Violent Crimes and Criminal Justice in the State of Siena. 1590-1650'

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Earle, Rebecca

Professor Rebecca EarleEarle, Rebecca

(History)

Research interests: History of food, Spanish America, nationalism, letter-writing, clothing

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Edwards, Jennifer

Dr Jennifer Edwards

(English and Comparative Literary Studies)

Research interests: early modern drama, literature and culture, Shakespeare, emotions and embodiment, medical humanities.

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Fairbanks, Chloe

Dr Chloe Fairbanks

(Renaissance Centre Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: transnational and transcultural encounter, cultural geography, ecocriticism/ecofeminism, practical writing, Shakespeare, and early modern drama

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Fallanca, Vittoria

Dr Vittoria Fallanca Fallanca, Vittoria-crop for web

(Renaissance Centre, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)

Research project: 'The Anterotic Tradition: Love and its Opposites in Renaissance France'

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Fletcher, Stella

Dr Stella Fletcher

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(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Renaissance papacy, especially cardinals and conclaves; Anglo-Italian relations in any period, including those between Britain and the papacy; post-Reformation monasticism; clerics in fiction; historiography

 

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Frey-Kupper, Suzanne

Professor Suzanne Frey-KupperFrey-Kupper, Suzanne

(Classics & Ancient History)

Research interests: Reception of antiquity on coins and medals; Coinage of the Western Mediterranean

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Gardner, Julian

Prof Em Julian GardnerGardner, Julian

Emiritus Professor (Department of History of Art)

(Renaissance Centre Honorary Professor)

Research interests: Late medieval and renaissance art; Giotto di Bondone; art and patronage; religious orders

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Gardner von Teuffel, Christa

Dr Christa Gardner von TeuffelGardner von Teuffel, Christa

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: History of art, architecture, liturgy, religious orders in Italy, South and North of the Alps from the late Middle Ages to the High Renaissance

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Gilmore, John

Professor John T GilmoreGilmore, John

(English and Comparative Literary Studies)

Research interests: Neo-Latin verse, especially in the long eighteenth century; the history of translation into Latin verse as a means of introducing European readers to non-European literatures; literature of the long eighteenth century in Britain and its former Caribbean colonies

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Goldring, Elizabeth

Dr Elizabeth Goldring Goldring, Elizabeth-latest

(Renaissance Centre Honorary Reader)

Research interests: 16th- and 17th- century court culture; England and the Continental Renaissance; the history of patronage and collecting; portraiture and biography and the reception of Tudor art and literature from the 17th century to the present

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Grant, Tess

Professor Teresa Grant~ Renaissance Centre Director Tess Grant

(English and Comparative Literary Studies)

Research interests: Medieval and Renaissance drama, especially issues surrounding staging; Renaissance literature and culture. Research projects include, The James Shirley Project

Office: 5.25 Faculty of Arts Building; Tel: 024 7652 3664; Email: T.grant@warwick.ac.uk

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Green, Lawrence

Dr Lawrence Green green_lawrence-latest.jpg

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research Interests: Worked on the John Nichols Project; English Literary Renaissance; Shakespeare; the Medieval Legacy; Performance History

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Guthrie, Sofia

Dr Sofia Guthrie Sofia Guthrie

(Renaissance Centre Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: The seventeenth-century Huguenots, particularly southern French Protestantism; France's Protestant academies; early modern Sweden (especially the Vasa dynasty); Gustavus Adolphus as a literary figure; Latin poetry as a vehicle of ideology and political identity

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Haijing Jiang, Nancy

Dr. Nancy Haijing Jiang Haijing Jiang, Nancy

(English and Comparative Literary Studies)

Research Interests: English literature from the late 13th to 15th centuries, with special interests in religious culture, penitential literature, economic humanities, and the global Middle Ages

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Hartles, Sophie

Sophie Hartles

Hartles, Sophie

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Laughter and Violence in the Italian Renaissance: The physical and emotional abuse of the beffa’

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Hayaert, Valérie

Dr Valérie HayaertHayaert, Valerie

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: the dialogue between art and law in the long term

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Iordanou, Ioanna

Dr Ioanna IordanouLink opens in a new windowIordanou, Ioanna

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Early modern Venice, early modern intelligence and espionage, organisational history, Arsenale, Venetian shipbuilders and sailors

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Jackson, Simon

Dr Simon Jackson Jackson, Simon-imageLink opens in a new window

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Early modern music and poetry, early modern religion and poetry, George Herbert, the metaphysical poets

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Kemenade van, Eva

Eva van Kemenade Kemenade van, Eva-crop

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Public Rituals, Space and the Senses in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bologna'

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Knights, Mark

Professor Mark Knightsknights, mark

(Department of History)

Research interests: The political culture of early modern Britain and its empire c.1500-c.1800, with particular interests in the history of corruption, the integration of political and social history, the nature of public discourse, the role of print, and the interaction of politics, literature and ideas. 

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Kümin, Beat

Professor Beat KüminKumin, Beat

(Department of History)

Research interests: The cultural history of German-speaking Europe and England (c. 1400-1800), political agency, religious life and social exchange in local communities during the early modern period

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Lee, Alexander

Dr Alexander LeeLee, Alexander

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: The cultural and political history of Italy, c.1300-c.1550; Petrarch; Machiavelli; Michelangelo; ideas of Empire in early humanistic political thought; Neo-Latin poetry in Renaissance France

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Leta, Matteo

Dr Matteo Leta
Leta_Matteo

(Renaissance Centre / IAS Research Fellow)

Research interests are centred on the intersections between the sciences and playwriting, as well as the representation of otherness in the Renaissance

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Letchford, Clive

Clive Letchford
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Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Pedagogy and Innovation in the Shadow of Tradition in England, 1540-1640'

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Li, Chi-fang Sophia

Dr Chi-fang Sophia LiSophia Li photo

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Italian Cultural Influences on English Renaissance Drama, with a special focus on Thomas Dekker and his collaborators; Renaissance prose studies and early modern news; composers' Shakespeare

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Lines, David

Professor David A LinesLines, David

(School of Modern Languages, Italian)

Research interests: Ancient thought (especially Aristotelianism) in Renaissance Italy; Renaissance ethics, politics and science; institutions of culture and learning; libraries and history of the book.

Office: 4.45 Faculty of Arts Building; Tel: 024 7652 3250; Email: d.a.lines@warwick.ac.uk

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Lizzul, Giorgio

Dr Giorgio Lizzul
Giorgio Lizzul

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Economic and Political Thought, Public Debt in Renaissance Italy, Chronicles and Humanist Historiography, Fifteenth-Century Latin and Vernacular Philosophy, Aristotelian Literature

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Marshall, Peter

Professor Peter MarshallMarshall, Peter

(Department of History)

Research interests: Early modern religious history, especially the Reformation and its impact

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Martens, Christian

Christian Martens
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Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'François Hotman : Writing and Making History in Times of Religious Conflict'

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Members of Advisory Board

External Members of the CSR Advisory Board
Professor Brian Cummings (English, York): Chair
Dr Alexander Marr (History of Art, Cambridge)
Dr Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute representative)
Patrick Spottiswoode (Trustee, Rose Theatre Trust)
Dr Laetitia Sansonetti (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
Professor Isabel Torres (Hispanic Studies, Belfast)
Dr Tabitha Tuckett (Rare Books Librarian, UCL)
Dr Simona Valeriani (Victoria and Albert Museum)

The board also includes, ex officio:

The CSR’s Director, currently Dr Teresa Grant

The CSR’s Director of Graduate Studies, currently Dr Rich Rabone

Representatives of Warwick academic staff and research fellows

Representatives of the CSR’s Honorary Fellows

Representatives of the CSR’s postgraduate community

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Molà, Luca

Dr Luca Molà

(Department of History). Venice coordinator, based in Venice during Term 1mola-luca

Research interests: History of the Italian Renaissance; economic and social history of Europe in the early modern period

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Moldovan, Delia

Dr Delia Moldovan
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(Renaissance Centre / IAS Research Fellow)

Research interests: The imagery of Italian Renaissance calendars. The relationship between agriculture and the myth of power. The intersection of visual and material culture. The transmutation of motifs across time, borders and media

Twitter: @MoldovanDelia

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Moorman, Gloria

Dr Gloria MoormanGloria Moorman-2021

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Intellectual and artistic exchange between Italy and the Low Countries (especially during the 16th and 17th centuries); book history and the history of libraries; early modern court culture; encomia in word and image; city praise.

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Muratori, Cecilia

muratori, cecilia 1Dr Cecilia Muratori
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research Interests: Man-animal distinction in Renaissance philosophy; history of animal ethics
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Norrie, Aidan

Dr Aidan Norrie
Norrie-Selfie 2 at Newberry

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Elizabeth I of England, biblical typology, memory and commemoration in seventeenth-century England, the Commonwealth and Protectorate, early modern English history and literature, and monarchy globally

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Paranque, Estelle

Dr Estelle Paranque Paranque, Estelle 
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research interests: Elizabeth I's royal authority and representations. Anglo-French relations under Elizabeth I's reign. Monarchical representations of Henri III of France, Catherine de Medici, and French consorts. Queenship during the early modern period (France, England, and Spain). Twitter Feed
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Parga Ornelas, Iván

Dr Iván Parga Ornelas Ivan Parga

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Neo-Latin literature and poetics; Renaissance Humanism; Classical reception in the Renaissance; The epic tradition; Renaissance self-fashioning; Renaissance Literary Careers; Maffeo Vegio; Giovanni Baptista Mantovano; Petrarch

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Paterson, Linda

Prof Em Linda PatersonPaterson, Linda

(School of Modern Languages, French Studies)

Research interests: Medieval French and Occitan literature and history, troubadours

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Pavlova, Maria

Dr Maria Pavlova
Pavlova, Maria

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Italian Renaissance literature, chivalric romance, chivalry, Charlemagne in the Renaissance, Renaissance Italy and the Islamic world, Renaissance Italy and Ottoman Turkey

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Pert, Tom

Dr Tom PertTom Pert image

(Renaissance Centre, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)

Research project: 'The Refugee Experience in the Thirty Years' War'

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Petit, Caroline

Dr Caroline Petit petit, caroline 2

(Classics & Ancient History)

Research interests: The long history of ancient medical texts (especially Galen), rhetoric, intellectual history

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Pullin, Naomi

Dr Naomi Pullin Naomi Pullin image

(Department of History)

Research interests: Religious and gender history in the early modern British Atlantic, with particular interest in the early Quaker community; the roles of women in Protestant dissent; and the history of friendship, enmity and solitude in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Rabone, Rich

Dr Rich Rabone ~ CSR Director of Graduate Studies Rabone, Rich

(School of Modern Languages, Hispanic Studies)

Research Interests: Early modern Spanish literature and intellectual culture; classical reception; sixteenth-century Seville; emblems; wit.

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Rimell, Victoria

Professor Victoria Rimell rimmel_victoria.jpg

(Classics & Ancient History)

Research interests: Imperial Latin literature, critical theory, gender studies, and the reception of classical texts

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Roberts, Penny

Professor Penny RobertsRoberts, Penny

(Department of History)

Research interests: the social, cultural, religious and political history of sixteenth-century France, especially the period of its religious wars; peace-making and violence, religious minorities and their networks, truth and secrecy in early modern France and Europe'

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Salzberg, Rosa

Dr Rosa Salzberg
salzberg, rosa

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Mobility and migration in Renaissance Venice and its empire; urban history and the history of communication

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Schwartz-Leeper, Gavin

Dr Gavin Schwartz-LeeperSchwartz-Leeper, Gavin

(School of Cross Faculty Studies, Liberal Arts)

Research interests: Early modern English literature and history relating to historiography, religion, book history, Tudor politics, martyrdom

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Shewring, Margaret

Dr Margaret Shewring
shewring, margaret-new

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Court and Civic Festivals of the European Renaissance and Early Modern periods, Theatre of the Renaissance and Restoration; Shakespeare on the Contemporary Stage; performance spaces and design.

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Sideri, Cecilia

Cecilia Sideri Cecilia Sideri

(Renaissance Centre, AHRC Assistant Professor)

Research project: 'Vernacular Culture and Greek Texts in the Renaissance: from Florence to Europe'

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Spina, Marta

Marta Spina Marta Spina

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Sallust in the European Renaissance'

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Sprang, Karin

Karin Sprang Karin Sprang

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Transalpine Travellers and Friendly Affairs: Alba Amicorum in Early Modern Italy, ca. 1550-1700'

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Stylianou, Anastasia

Dr Anastasia Stylianou

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Early modern religious, social and cultural history, the history of migration and transculturalism, bibliographical history, local history

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Sweet, Jayne

Jayne Sweet ~ Renaissance Centre Administrator Jayne Sweet image
Office Hours: Monday-Thursday, 09:00-17:00
Room: 2.38 Faculty of Arts Building
Tel: 024 7652 4587
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Tadel, Alex

Alex TadelAlex Tadel

Renaissance Centre PhD Student

Research project: 'Bene constitutae civitatis alumna eloquentia: Neo-Latin letters by women humanists in the Venetian Quattrocento'

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Tagliaferro, Giorgio

Dr Giorgio Tagliaferro Tagliaferro, Giorgio

(Department of History of Art)

Research interests: Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Art (especially Venice and the Veneto); visual arts and the display of power; representation and spectatorship; drawing and the creative process; art theory and criticism

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Tramontana, Felicita

Dr Felicita Tramontana Tramontana, Felicita

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Migration in the early modern world

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Trevisan, Sara

Dr Sara Trevisan
Sara Trevisan

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: bibliography, history of the book in early modern Europe and Britain, manuscript studies, bookbinding history, Arabic language, Islamic manuscripts, Arabic printed books, early modern paper-making

Sara is a specialist in early printed books and manuscripts, Continental and British, with a gradual expansion towards Islamicate and Arabic material, at Sokol Books Ltd, London. Worked at Warwick on Royal Genealogy in the Age of Shakespeare (British Library/Boydell and Brewer, 2020).

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Valeriani, Simona

Dr Simona Valeriani
Valeriani, Simona

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Renaissance and Early Modern material culture, with a focus on architecture and connected technologies. History of Knowledge, in particular the interface between artisanal and learned culture, different epistemic systems, including importance of embodied knowledge in art, craft and natural philosophy. Europe in a global context.

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Vanautgaerden, Alexandre

Dr Alexandre Vanautgaerden
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(Renaissance Centre Honorary Reader)

Research interests: Humanism, Neo-Latin Studies especially Erasmus, libraries and history of the book; the transformation of physical areas in heritage spaces (museums, libraries, archives) consequent to the development of digital humanities. Alexandre is book specialist, he was head of the Erasmus Museum in Brussels and head of the Bibliothèque de Genève in Switzerland.

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van Meersbergen, Guido

Dr Guido van Meersbergenvan_meersbergen, guido-new

(Department of History)

Research Interests: Early modern diplomacy, cross-cultural encounters, Renaissance ethnography, colonialism in South Asia

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Verhaart, Floris

Dr Floris VerhaartLink opens in a new window Verhaart, Floris

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Intellectual history, Neo-Latin studies, gender history, relationship between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment

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Vince, Máté

Dr Máté Vince Vince, Máté

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: renaissance literature, early modern religious controversies, the classical tradition, rhetoric and aesthetics, translation studies. Worked at Warwick on, 'The Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon, 1610-1614'

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Wang, Xiaona

Dr Xiaona Wang
Xiaona Wang

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: Early Modern Science, Medicine and Philosophy; Renaissance Occult Sciences; Science and Religion; Francis Bacon; Isaac Newton; Newtonianism in the Eighteenth Century

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West, John

West, John

Dr John West

(English and Comparative Literary Studies)

Research interests: 17th-century literature and culture; Civil War and Restoration poetry and drama, especially Dryden; literature and politics; literature and religion

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Whitehead, Christiania

Dr Christiania Whitehead Whitehead, Christiania-2024

(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)

Research interests: : Middle English and Latin religious literature 1100-1500, in particular, apophatic mysticism in the vernacular (the Cloud-author); devotional treatises for women; northern English hagiography (Cuthbert, Oswald of Northumbria); lyric poetry and allegory.

Current research project, hosted at the University of Lausanne and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation: ‘Re-configuring the Apophatic Tradition in Late Medieval England’.

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Wood, Sarah

Dr Sarah Wood

(English and Comparative Literary Studies)

Research interests: Piers Plowman, late medieval religious literature, allegory, alliterative poetry, authorial revision, and the history of the book

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