Akhapkina, Daria
Daria Akhapkina
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Edible Saints and Holy Vices: Late Medieval and Renaissance Ecclesiastical Parody'
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Edible Saints and Holy Vices: Late Medieval and Renaissance Ecclesiastical Parody'
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'The Christian kingdom of Ethiopia in the travel diary of Francisco Álvares (1520-1526)'
(Department of History of Art)
Research interests: Medieval Art and Architecture especially the study of medieval and early modern buildings, their construction and use
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
(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
(Department of History)
Research interests: Research interests: humanism, religious polemic, church history, forgery and censorship. For digital exhibitions see The Art of Disagreeing Badly: Religious Dispute in Early Modern Europe
(English and Comparative Literary Studies)
Research interests: Classical tradition in early modern literature; renaissance letters; neo-Latin literature. Research projects include: The Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon, 1610-1614
(Department of History of Art)
Research interests: Artistic patronage, religious orders and intersections between the Veneto and Northern Europe in the later middle ages and Renaissance. Research projects include: Family Values: Locating the Family in the Early Modern Italian Workshop
(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
(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
(School of Modern Languages, French)
Research interests: Old French literature; manuscript studies; translation; modern philosophy and critical theory
(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
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
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
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Education in Sixteenth-century Italy between Latin and Italian: teachers, students and methods'
(Department of History)
Research interests: state formation, law and cultures of performance.
Tudor Cobrea, CSR Masters Student 2023-24
(Classics & Ancient History)
Research interests: All aspects of the Roman world - social, cultural, economic, and political
(Renaissance Centre Honorary Fellow)
Research interests: Landscape, architecture, allegory, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Nashe, ecocriticism, georgic
(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
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research interests: James Shirley, Restoration, Abraham Cowley, Aphra Behn, Cavendish, theatre, drama, stage editing and promptbooks.
(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.
(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
(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
(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
(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.
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Crime and Justice in Tuscany in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries'
(History)
Research interests: History of food, Spanish America, nationalism, letter-writing, clothing
(English and Comparative Literary Studies)
Research interests: early modern drama, literature and culture, Shakespeare, emotions and embodiment, medical humanities.
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
(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
(Classics & Ancient History)
Research interests: Reception of antiquity on coins and medals; Coinage of the Western Mediterranean
Joe Frost, CSR Masters Student 2023-24
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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research Interests: Worked on the John Nichols Project; English Literary Renaissance; Shakespeare; the Medieval Legacy; Performance History
(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
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Laughter and Violence in the Italian Renaissance: The physical and emotional abuse of the beffa’
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research interests: early modern Venice, early modern intelligence and espionage, organisational history, Arsenale, Venetian shipbuilders and sailors
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Public Rituals, Space and the Senses in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bologna'
(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.
(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
(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
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Renaissance schoolteaching: Latin language pedagogy and innovation in the shadow of tradition in
England, 1540-1640'
(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
(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
(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
(Department of History)
Research interests: Early modern religious history, especially the Reformation and its impact
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'François Hotman : Writing and Making History in Times of Religious Conflict'
The board also includes, ex officio:
The CSR’s Director, currently Dr Teresa Grant
The CSR’s Director of Graduate Studies, currently Dr Aysu Dincer
Representatives of Warwick academic staff and research fellows
Representatives of the CSR’s Honorary Fellows
Representatives of the CSR’s postgraduate community
Clare Merrick, CSR Masters Student 2023-24
(Department of History). Venice coordinator, based in Venice during Term 1
Research interests: History of the Italian Renaissance; economic and social history of Europe in the early modern period
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary 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
(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.
(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
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'From Vergil to David: Maffeo Vegio’s ‘Literary conversion.’ A study on the shaping of literary careers by early Renaissance writers'
Member of The Oxford Latinitas Project
(Schol of Modern Languages, French Studies)
Research interests: Medieval French and Occitan literature and history, troubadours
(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
(Renaissance Centre, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
Research project: 'The Refugee Experience in the Thirty Years' War'
(Classics & Ancient History, Assistant Professor)
Research interests: The long history of ancient medical texts (especially Galen), rhetoric, intellectual history
(Renaissance Centre Honorary Professorial Fellow)
Research interests: The afterlives of early modern plays, dramaturgy and adaptation, Shakespeare in performance, Applied Shakespeare, eco-theatre, the theory and practice of arts criticism, festivals and festival culture
(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.
(Renaissance Centre, British Academy Research Fellow)
Research project: ‘The Politics of Biblical Narrative in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Context’
Email: Esther.van-Raamsdonk@warwick.ac.uk
(School of Modern Languages, Hispanic Studies)
Research Interests: Early modern Spanish literature and intellectual culture; classical reception; sixteenth-century Seville; emblems; wit.
(Classics & Ancient History)
Research interests: Imperial Latin literature, critical theory, gender studies, and the reception of classical texts
(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'
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research interests: Mobility and migration in Renaissance Venice and its empire; urban history and the history of communication
(School of Cross Faculty Studies, Liberal Arts)
Research interests: Early modern English literature and history relating to historiography, religion, book history, Tudor politics, martyrdom
(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.
(Renaissance Centre, AHRC Assistant Professor)
Research project: 'Vernacular Culture and Greek Texts in the Renaissance: from Florence to Europe'
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Transalpine Travellers and Friendly Affairs: Alba Amicorum in Early Modern Italy, ca. 1550-1700'
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Bene constitutae civitatis alumna eloquentia: Neo-Latin letters by women humanists in the Venetian Quattrocento'
(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
Joint Renaissance Centre/Monash PhD Student
Research project: Ars Oblivionalis: A Cultural History of Forgetting in Renaissance Florence
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research interests: Migration in the early modern world
(Renaissance Centre, Honorary Research Fellow)
Research interests: bibliography, history of the book, manuscript studies, bookbinding history, the European Renaissance, English literature and culture, early modern antiquarianism.
Sara is antiquarian book specialist at Sokol Books Ltd, London. Worked at Warwick on Royal Genealogy in the Age of Shakespeare (British Library/Boydell and Brewer, 2020).
(Department of History, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
Research project 'Imagining Englands: Confessionalisation, Catholicism and National Identity after the English Reformation'
(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.
(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.
(Department of History)
Research Interests: Early modern diplomacy, cross-cultural encounters, Renaissance ethnography, colonialism in South Asia
(Department of English)
Research interests: cultural and intellectual history, Neo-Latin studies, classical tradition, history of sexuality, history of religion, history of universities.
Research project: The Correspondence of Dominicus Baudius https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/research/currentprojects/baudius
(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'
(Renaissance Centre, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
Research interests: Early Modern Science, Medicine and Philosophy; Renaissance Occult Sciences; Science and Religion; Francis Bacon; Isaac Newton; Newtonianism in the Eighteenth Century
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
(English and Comparative Literary Studies)
Research interests: Piers Plowman, late medieval religious literature, allegory, alliterative poetry, authorial revision, and the history of the book
Renaissance Centre PhD Student
Research project: 'Alchemical iconography as mediator of knowledge on the example of European manuscripts of 15h and 16th centuries'