Research Projects
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)
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'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
Recent Publications by our Doctoral Students
“A devout and holy sermon”: sources of parody in sermons joyeux (degruyter.com
‘Amélie Chekroun, La Conquête de l’Éthiopie. Un jihad au XVIe siècle’, Médiévales 85.1, 2024 (book review).
'‘Dicono li Ethiopi’: Ethiopian contributions to Francisco Álvares’s travel account to Ethiopia (c. 1540)' , MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 18 (2024), pp. 5-14;
‘“Este, dizem, corre ao longo do Nilo”. Le Nil dans le récit de Francisco Álvares (1520-1526) ’, Annales islamologiques 57 (2023): 99-126.
'Marginalised Voices in French Festival Culture’, The Court Historian, 27.1 (2022). DOI Online article link
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/
Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca ·Isotta Nogarola: Elegija v slavo cianskega podeželja.December 2022.
Petrarca postillatore di Agostino. Il codice Vaticano latino 458' in Neulateinisches Jahrbuch, forthcoming in June 2025.