The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies aims to consider how new scholarship and interdisciplinary methods and approaches have refigured our understanding of several developments traditionally associated with the term and period Renaissance.

Over the last twenty years or so, scholarship has revolutionised our understanding of the Renaissance, not only in details, but in approaches and methods. Even so, some scholars remain less than well informed about developments in other disciplines while a wider community of curators and librarians and the interested public is often uninformed of the latest scholarship. The Centre aims to redress the balance with a wide range of activities such as public lectures, seminars, and collaborations with other institutions.

Reform and Reformation: The Sixth Research Colloquium
For more information about this event on the 22 May 2012, see http://www.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/2011/48169.html

MRes in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
QM offers a MRes in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies– a programme perfect for students with an interest in archival research, critical editing, life-writing and document-based and intellectual histories.

There is also a Renaissance and Early Modern Studies pathway in the MA English Studies programme, see: www.english.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/masters/pathway_two/59763.html

Many academics associated with the Centre teach on both the MA and MRes programmes.

Seminar series
Since being established in 2005, the Centre has run a lively seminar series with well-known speakers from QM and further afield. Highlights include: Roger Chartier (Paris), Anthony Grafton (Princeton), Simon Thurley (Director of English Heritage), Peter Holland (former director of the Shakespeare Institute now at the University of Notre Dame) Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard), Anthony Pagden (UCLA) and David Starkey, the well-known historian and broadcaster. Not to mention lectures from QM's own academics.

QM / Freiburg exchange
Queen Mary has established a successful research exchange with the University of Freiburg collaborating in two key areas: the long Renaissance and the cultural history of literary communication. For more about the QM / Freiburg exchange see: www.history.qmul.ac.uk/events/exchanges/freiburg/index.html

Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies has close links with CELL (The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters) which develops research projects which have relevance to the period 1500-1800. CELL's work is based around three themes, which are letter collections, lives and works and marginalia. For more information, see: www.livesandletters.ac.uk

 

 

Images on the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies website taken by Alastair Dunning.