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 is due to be published in 2023). All projects are detailed in our Research Archive (link here).

Current Doctoral Research:

• 'François Hotman : Writing and Making History in Times of Religious Conflict' (Christian Martens)
• 'Psychophysiology in Pietro Pomponazzi's philosophical thought: the Expositio libelli De sensu et sensato (1524-1525)' Leonardo Graciotti (visiting PhD student, Jan - Sept 2023)
• '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)
• 'The Making of Kingship of Richard III in English History and Theatre'. Po-Hao Lin (one-year visiting PhD student)
• 'Crime, Punishment and State Justice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany' (Wanxin Du)
• '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)
• 'Alchemical iconography as mediator of knowledge on the example of European manuscripts of 15th and 16th centuries' (Sergei Zotov)
• 'Public Festive Rituals in Renaissance Bologna: Space, Senses and Power' (Eva van Kemenade)
• 'Laughter and Violence in the Italian Renaissance: The physical and emotional abuse of the beffa’ (Sophie Hartles)
• From Vergil to David: Maffeo Vegio’s ‘Literary conversion.’ A study on the shaping of literary careers by early Renaissance writers (Iván Parga Ornelas)

• Ars Oblivionalis: A Cultural History of Forgetting in Renaissance Florence (Matthew Topp)