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
- 'Morally Ambiguous Ancient Women in European Art, c. 1350-1620’ (Dr Claudia Daniotti)
- ‘The Politics of Biblical Narrative in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Context’ (Dr Esther van Raamsdonk)
- Dr Lucy Rayfield, research interests: Early Modern French and Italian comedy, with a particular focus on laughter as a polemical and political weapon
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The Oxford University Press The Complete Works of James Shirley, funded by the MHRA.
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‘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)
- Redesigning Time: Ovid’s Fasti and the Politics of Renaissance Poetic Calendars (Dr Bobby Xinyue)
- 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 doctoral research:
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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)
- Elizabeth I, Counsel, and Memory in Early Modern England (Aidan Norrie)
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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)
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Creating an Urban Reading Public: Cheap Print in Early-Modern Bologna (Rebecca Carnevali)
Ren/Med Staff Research
CSR Research Blog
Research Archive
Recent Publications by our
Doctoral Students
From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past, edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie (London: Routledge, 2019).
'La stampa popolare tra larga diffusione ed interessi eruditi: il caso dei materiali profetici nella collezione della Galleria Estense di Modena, by Rebecca Carnevali. (Studi di Memofonte 164-176).
‘A Changing Perspective on the Eternal City Revealed: Blaeu's Admiranda Urbis Romæ (1663) Compared to Later Editions of the Town Atlas of Rome’, by Gloria Moorman. (Quaerendo, 45: 1-2, 108-124)