Medieval and Renaissance Research Group

Description

An overview of research highlights, projects and activity within the Medieval and Renaissance research group:

• Successful record in obtaining AHRC awards and Leverhulme fellowships
• 2007 Leverhulme Prize awarded
• £252,000 grant awarded in 2008 for Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Nationalism project
• AHRC funded project to create electronic edition of early Stuart libels
• Research interests include the relationship between politics and literature; religion and literary culture, cultural geography; literature and domestic travel in early modern England; reception of Virgil in the Civil War polemic; Shakespeare in the English theatrical memoir, and English writing and the Ottoman Empire
• Conferences held on subjects such as the Medieval Mystical Tradition, Syon Abbey and its Books, Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England and Retelling the Renaissance
• Links to the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Early Modern Studies

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University of Exeter
Streatham Campus
Northcote House
Exeter
EX4 4QJ

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Centre for Medieval Studies, Exeter

The Centre for Medieval Studies is home to excellent interdisciplinary graduate training and research into most aspects of the medieval world. It brings together a lively graduate community with one o… read more about Centre for Medieval Studies, Exeter

University Of Exeter
Northcote House
The Queens Drive
Exeter
EX4 4QJ
United Kingdom

Centre for Early Modern Studies, Exeter

Established in 2007, the Centre for Early Modern Studies capitalises on the exceptional concentration of scholars of the early modern era based at the University of Exeter. Formally located within the… read more about Centre for Early Modern Studies, Exeter

University Of Exeter
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
Exeter
EX4 4RJ
United Kingdom