Research Projects

Thanks to the breadth and depth of Warwick’s expertise in Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, the Centre has been home to a broad range of collaborative research projects with funding from, among others, the AHRC, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the European Science Foundation, the Institut Universitaire de France, the Leverhulme Trust, and Horizon 2020 (including Marie Sklodowska-Curie). Large-scale research initiatives have included the James Shirley project, Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy and Petrarch Commentaries and Exegesis, all three funded by the AHRC, as well as the Leverhulme-funded Renaissance Cultural Crossroads project, which produced a database of Early Modern English translations (1473-1640), and the Leverhulme International Network on Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Europe, c. 1400–c. 1650, which has generated three volumes of Proceedings (the last of which was published in 2023). All projects are detailed in our Research Archive, linked HERE.

Current Doctoral Research:

Itinerant Women in England and France (Jeanne Dufresne)
Effects and Affects: A Cultural History of the Drum in England 1500-1700 (Tom Langham)
'The Logic of Diagnosis: Understanding and Predicting Diseases in the Medical School of Padua (1500 – 1600 ca.) (Claudio Azzarito)
'Teaching and Learning Latin in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Theory and Practice' (Valeria Cesaraccio)
'Sallust in the European Renaissance' (Marta Spina)
'François Hotman : Writing and Making History in Times of Religious Conflict' (Christian Martens)
'Edible Saints and Holy Vices: Late Medieval and Renaissance Ecclesiastical Parody' (Daria Akhapkina)
'Renaissance school teaching: Latin language pedagogy and innovation in the shadow of tradition in England, 1540-1640' (Clive Letchford)
'Transalpine Travellers and Friendly Affairs: Alba Amicorum in Early Modern Italy, ca. 1550-1700' (Karin Sprang)
'Violent Crimes and Criminal Justice in the State of Siena. 1590-1650' (Wanxin Du)
'Bene constitutae civitatis alumna eloquentia: Neo-Latin letters by women humanists in the Venetian Quattrocento' (Alex Tadel)

Recently graduated doctoral students HERE.

Recent Publications by our Doctoral Students

Daria Akhapkina:

“A devout and holy sermon”: sources of parody in sermons joyeux (degruyter.com

Christian Martens:

Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu, Christian Martens, "Une journée particulière (20 octobre 1602). Le renouvellement de l'alliance entre Henri IV et les ambassadeurs des Ligues suisses au sortir des guerres de Religion : recharge sacrale, traditions politiques et innovations diplomatiques dans le manuscrit fr. 10717 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France",Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 177 (2024 for 2022), p. 109-149. You can find it here on Warp:https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/188164/

Marta Spina

Petrarca postillatore di Agostino. Il codice Vaticano latino 458' in Neulateinisches Jahrbuch, forthcoming in June 2025.

Alex Tadel:

2025 (Ahead of Print). ‘An Exceptional Woman? Polissena Messalto Grimaldi and the Variety of Women’s Latin Writing in the Quattrocento’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 88

2024. ‘Isotta Nogarola as a Public Intellectual: An Unpublished Letter from Silvestro Lando Concerning her Defence of Eve’, Humanistica Lovaniensia 73: 65–98 (Co-authored with Thomas Hendrickson)

2022. ‘Isotta Nogarola: Elegija v slavo cianskega podeželja’, Keria 24.1: 195–202

Book Chapters

2025 (Forthcoming). ‘Scholarly Shepherd(ess): Angela Nogarola’s Eclogue on Milanese Politics (1403)’, An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature by Women, ed. by Stephen Harrison and Gesine Manuwald (Bloomsbury)

Editorial

2026 (Forthcoming). Special Issue on ‘Women Latin Authors’ of the Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 12.1 (Co-edited with Simon Smets)

Book Reviews

2023. Review of Idealising Women in the Italian Renaissance (2022), ed. by Elena Brizio and Marco Piana, Modern Language Review 118.4: 629–30