Previous PhD Theses Topics

Previous PhD theses include :

Bene constitutae civitatis alumna eloquentia: Neo-Latin letters by women humanists in the Venetian Quattrocento' (Alex Tadel)
The Christian kingdom of Ethiopia in the travel diary of Francisco Álvares (1520-1526) (Mathilde Alain)
Laughter and Violence in the Italian Renaissance: The physical and emotional abuse of the ‘beffa’, c. 1400-1600 (Sophie Hartles)
Political communication through discourse and urban space: Popular festive rituals in early modern Lyon and Bologna (Eva van Kemenade)
Alchemical iconography as mediator of knowledge on the example of European manuscripts of 15th and 16th centuries (Sergei Zotov)
From Vergil to David: Maffeo Vegio’s ‘Literary conversion.’ A study on the shaping of literary careers by early Renaissance writers (Iván Parga Ornelas)
Elizabeth I, Counsel, and Memory in Early Modern England (Aidan Norrie)
From Inscription to Collection: Ancient Epigraphy in Renaissance Italy and Southern France (Paloma Perez Galvan)
Broadening Horizons through Books: Town Atlases in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Gloria Moorman)
Creating an Urban Reading Public: Cheap Print in Early-Modern Bologna (Rebecca Carnevali)
The use of Jerusalem and Jews in Elizabethan and Jacobean sermons (Mitchell Gould)
Controversies on Astrology in Renaissance Italy in the Late 15th and Early 16th Centuries (Ovanes Akopyan)
James Shirley and the Restoration Stage (Ania Crowther)
Court Entertainments and Performances in Early 17th-Century Italy (Leila Zammar)
Marsilio Ficino’s notebooks (Rocco Di Dio)
Mastering the climate: Theories of climatic influence in the early colonial age (Sara Miglietti)
John Hall's Little Book of Cures (1611-1635): A New Translation (Greg Wells)
'Foreign' Books for English Readers: Published Translations of Navigation Manuals and their Audience in the English Renaissance, 1500-1640. (S De Schepper)
The Irish Plays of James Shirley, 1636-40 (J Williams)
Thomas Dekker and Chaucerian Re-Imaginings (C S Li)
Maritime Communities in Late Renaissance Venice: The Arsenalotti and the Greeks, 1575-1600 (I Iordanou)