Medieval and Early Modern Research Group (MEMS), Northumbria

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The Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) research group is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together researchers in History, English Literature, Art and Music who work on Britain, Europe and the wider world in the period before 1700.

Research in the group focuses on four key strands:

• Religious Cultures This research strand promotes the comparative study of religious cultures across medieval and early modern Europe. It supports a lively variety of interdisciplinary research including the changing institutional, material and spatial contexts of religious life, theology and liturgical thinking, textual and artistic representations, confessional relations, parish communities, domestic worship and broader socio-political and cultural perspectives.

• Appropriation and Authority This research strand supports interdisciplinary research into medieval and early modern texts, textiles and other cultural products, examining their appropriations across time and space and reflecting upon their relationship with questions of authority and authorship.

• Music and Sound This research strand focuses on the musical culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century England and English musicians abroad, and encompasses ballads and popular song as well as music associated with court and the aristocracy. Music is considered in relation to gender, religion, philosophy and politics. Members of MEMS also have interests in manuscript studies and early music printing, as well as the challenges of editing music of this period.

• Royal Studies This research strand focuses on aspects of monarchical rule and court studies in the early modern period, including royal ceremony in urban and court settings, queenship and kingship, court culture including material culture, the literary and historical reputations of monarchs, and political history of monarchies.

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Northumbria University
London