Research
Staff expertise is particularly strong for Italy and England, but also covers France, Spain and the Hispanic world, the Low Countries, German-speaking territories, and the wider Mediterranean. Many members take (or are sympathetic to) a comparative or global approach.
Thematically, the CSR has special strengths in:
- religious, political and social history
- manuscript studies, print culture and the history of the book
- late-medieval to early modern thought and intellectual culture, including the history of scholarship and universities; the classical tradition / reception studies; commentaries and translations; and the history of medicine and the history of science
- medieval and Renaissance literature, theatre, and performance
- the visual arts and the world of artisans, especially in Italy
Research Projects
- Antiquity and its Uses: Reception and Renewal (Johns Hopkins Collaboration)
- Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650 (Prof Simon Gilson)
- The Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon, 1610-1614 (Dr Paul Botley)
Current Masters and Doctoral Research:
- '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)
- 'Popular Festive Rituals in Space, Sound and Print in Renaissance Italy and France' (Eva van Kemenade)
- 'Laughter and Violence in the Italian Renaissance: The physical and emotional abuse of the ‘beffa’, c. 1400-1600' (Sophie Hartles)
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From Vergil to David: Maffeo Vegio’s ‘Literary conversion.’ A study on the shaping of literary careers by early Renaissance writers (Iván Parga Ornelas)
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Ars Oblivionalis: A Cultural History of Forgetting in Renaissance Florence (Matthew Topp)
Ren/Med Staff Research
Research Archive
Recent Publications by our
Doctoral Students
Noter, classer, utiliser: les carnets de voyage d'Antoine d'Abbadie en Éthiopie, by Mathilde Alain
Eva van Kemenade, 'Marginalised Voices in French Festival Culture’, The Court Historian, 27.1 (2022). DOI