Early Modern Research Centre

10/03/2015

The Early Modern Research Centre at Reading University welcomes you to a research seminar on 11 March at 1.15pm

Tessa Storey, English and Italian Regimens Compared: The Protestant and the Catholic Body, 1500-1700

Dr Tessa Storey is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has worked extensively on courtesan culture, prostitution and material culture in Counter-Reformation Rome as well as on the history of medicine in early modern Italy. Her paper draws on new research following her recent co-authored book (with Sandra Cavallo) entitled Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford University Press, 2013).

The seminar will be held at University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, HumSS 128, 1.15pm.

For further information, see http://www.reading.ac.uk/emrc/ or contact Dr Lisa Sampson [email protected]

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02/03/2015

Call for book series proposals: Literary & Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
For more than a decade now, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity, http://www.ashgate.com/LITSCI, has provided a forum for groundbreaking work on the relations between literary and scientific discourses in Europe, during a period when both fields were in a crucial moment of historical formation. We welcome proposals that address the many overlaps between modes of imaginative writing typical of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—poetics, rhetoric, prose narrative, dramatic production, utopia—and the vocabularies, conceptual models, and intellectual methods of newly emergent 'scientific' fields such as medicine, astronomy, astrology, alchemy, psychology, mapping, mathematics, or natural history. In order to reflect the nature of intellectual inquiry during the period, the series is interdisciplinary in orientation and publishes monographs, edited collections, and selected critical editions of primary texts relevant to an understanding of the mutual implication of literary and scientific epistemologies.
As the series continues to evolve, we particularly seek submissions to do with:
· alchemy
· science in the New World
· meteorology
· knowledge networks
· global science
· machines
· poetics and science
· navigation/mapmaking

To submit a proposal, or for more information, please contact: Erika Gaffney, Publishing Manager, [email protected]

For more than a decade now, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity has provided a forum for groundbreaking work on the relations between literary and scientific discourses in Europe, during a period when both fields were in a crucial moment of historical formation. We welcome proposals…

19/11/2014

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11/11/2014

On Wednesday 12th November, Dr Hannah Newton will speak on 'The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720' at 1.15pm in HUMMS 127, University of Reading.

21/10/2014

On Wednesday 26th November, 1.15 pm: Dr Chloe Houston is speaking on 'Too Good to be True: Reforming Utopia in Thomas Nicholls' A pleasant Dialogue... (1579) and Thomas Lupton's Sivqila (1580)', at an event to launch her new book, The Renaissance Utopia: Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society. All welcome. HUMSS, Room 127, University of Reading.

11/01/2014

Oscar Wilde and Robert Herrick cover Reading. Which authors are connected with your area?

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02/01/2014

Elizabeth Heale has been awarded the 2013 Josephine Roberts Award for a Scholarly Edition for her edition, 'The Devonshire Manuscript: A Women’s Book of Courtly Poetry', published in the ‘ The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe’, The Toronto Series 19, by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, in 2012.

23/10/2013

The Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews invites applications for the ISHR Visiting Research Fellowship in Scottish Historical Studies, to be taken up during ei...