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 (link here).

Current Doctoral Research:

• '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)
• '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 Rituals, Space and the Senses in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bologna' (Eva van Kemenade)
• 'Laughter and Violence in the Italian Renaissance: The physical and emotional abuse of the beffa’ (Sophie Hartles