Current & Recent Research Projects and Colleague/Student Collaborations

Warwick research in the Renaissance and Early Modern period has benefitted from a broad range of funding,

including the AHRC, The Leverhulme Trust, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Modern and Humanities Research Association.

The Oxford University Press The Complete Works of James Shirley, funded by the MHRA.
‘The ‘Mirror’ of History. Prince and Tyrant in Italian Renaissance Literature, between Political Theory and Historiography’ (Dr Marta Celati)
Antiquity and its Uses: Reception and Renewal (Johns Hopkins Collaboration)
Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies
Redesigning Time: Ovid’s Fasti and the Politics of Renaissance Poetic Calendars (Dr Bobby Xinyue)
Migration in the early modern world: the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land as a facilitator of the circulation of people in the Mediterranean (Dr Felicita Tramontana)
Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650
The Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon, 1610-1614
Cryfield Grange Project

Current doctoral research:

From Vergil to David: Maffeo Vegio’s ‘Literary conversion.’ A study on the shaping of literary careers by early Renaissance writers (Ivan Parga Ornelas)
Elizabeth I, Counsel, and Memory in Early Modern England (Aidan Norrie)
Ars Oblivionalis: A Cultural History of Forgetting in Renaissance Florence (Matthew Topp)
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)

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past, edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie (London: Routledge, 2019).