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Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

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

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.
Several of these projects are described here:

Current doctoral research:

  • 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)

  • 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)

 

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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)