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EME Blog
We post details of our events, Calls for Papers, Jobs, seminars, conferences and other early modern happenings on our new Blog.
Forthcoming Events
24th April, 4.30pm, Foster Court 132, *Special Guest Lecture*
Stephen Pender (University of Windsor, Ontario), Heat and Moisture, Rhetoric and Spiritus
29th May, 4.30pm, Foster Court 225
Gabriel Harvey's Reading
Mathew Symons (UCL, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters), tbc.
Chris Stamatakis (UCL, English), tbc.
Respondent: Lisa Jardine (UCL, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters).
A commemorative workshop open to all Good Friday, 1613–2013:
John Donne’s ‘Riding Westward’ at 400 on 21st March 2013, Wilkins Old Refectory, 5 to 6.30pm.
The Malone Society's John Edward Kerry prize has been won this year by one of our Early Modern Studies MA students for a project on Ralph Crane's scribal copies of Middleton's A Game at Chesse.
Details of recent publications by members of the Centre are available on our News page.
Course Options
You chose 60 credits worth of optional courses from an extensive list. The list below is a typical selection of what will be on offer, year on year. Please check availability with the course convenor and bear in mind that acceptance on a given option is at the discretion of the relevant tutor and your being suitably qualified:
Early Modern Options
Literature
- Approaches to the Reception of the Classical World
- Digital Resources in the Humanities
- Early Modern Books and Their Readers in Northern Europe
- Early Modern Handwriting and Manuscript Culture 1500-1800
- Historical Bibliography
- Language and Literature of the Dutch Golden Age
- Literature of the Dutch Golden Age: Advanced Reading
- Manuscript Studies
- Modern Literary Theory (taking Postcolonialism and Historicisms seminar)
- Petrarch, Rime
- Sex and the Body in Early Modern Europe
- Shakespeare's Afterlives
- Shakespeare in his Time
- The Italian Book, 1465–1600
- The Self and the World: Theoretical Approaches to Travel Writing
French
- Dead Things and Demolition Sites: Cultural, Visual and Historical Representations in France, 1598-1889
- Political theologies between the early and postmodern
German
History
- From Renaissance to Republic: The Netherlands c.1555-1609
- Giordano Bruno
- Marsilio Ficino, De amore
- Political Thought in Renaissance Europe
- Renaissance Texts: Resources and Research Techniques
- Rhetoric and dialectic (tbc)
- Sephardic Jewry: From Golden Age to World Diaspora
- Signs, Mind and Society: Early Modern Theories of Language
- The Conquest of Mexico
- The Public Sphere in Britain, 1476-1800
- Transformations of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe
- Transnational Cultural Exchange
- Visions of Power: The Arts and Rulership in Pre-Modern Russia
- War and Peace in 17th- and 18th-century Europe
Art History
- Art and Culture in the Netherlands (1578-1672)
- Early Modern Horror
- Theories of Authorship in Early Modern Italian Art
- Values of Design in the Italian Renaissance
- Vision and Body in the Early Modern Cabinet of Curiosities
Archaeology
- Aztec Archaeology: Codices and Ethnohistory
- Maya Art, Architecture and Archaeology
- Managing Museums
- Museums Communication
- Museum and Site Interpretation
Latin
- Medieval and Renaissance Latin (Beginners)
- Medieval and Renaissance Latin (Intermediate)
- Medieval Latin Literature (Advanced)
It may also be possible to take options available through the School of Advanced Study's MA in the History of the Book subject to approval.
Medieval Options
The medieval options available here are offered through the Medieval and Renaissance Studies programme and are subject to availability and at the discretion of the convenor and course tutor.
Medieval Literature
- Advanced Old Icelandic Literature
- Anglo-Saxon Court Culture
- Comparative Medieval Literature
- Dante, Divina Commedia
- English and Englishness in the Middle Ages: the Politics of the Vernacular
- Medieval Manuscripts and Documents
- Mythology and Religion in Medieval Scandinavia
- Parzival
- The Medieval English Book
- The Rise of Romance, 1150-1230
- Written Sources for the Viking Age
Medieval History
- Animals and the Medieval Imagination
- Comparative Governance in Europe 1150-1350
- Conflict and Cohesion: Jews and Christians in Medieval Literature
- Identity and Power in Medieval Europe, AD 500-1300
- Kisses of His Mouth: The Song of Songs in Medieval Judaism and Christianity
- Magic in the Middle Ages
- Medieval Archaeology: Selected Topics and Current Problems
- The Medieval Papacy
- Ways of Reading: Jewish Bible Interpretation in the Middle Ages
Medieval Language
- History of Old and Middle English
- Introduction to Old Norse
- Medieval French Discourse
- Middle High German
- Medieval Icelandic Palaeography
- Medieval Italian
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