Early Modern Exchanges
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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
29th May, 4.30pm, Foster Court 225
Gabriel Harvey's Reading
Mathew Symons (UCL, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters), Matching up the Margins: Across Gabriel Harvey's Books
Chris Stamatakis (UCL, English), How Gabriel Harvey Read His Castiglione
Respondent: Lisa Jardine (UCL, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters).
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.
News
It is a great pleasure to announce the arrival at UCL of a complementary early modern research centre, adding still further to our existing strengths. The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters is directed by Lisa Jardine and focuses on archival based projects.
Recent Publications by Staff Associated with the Centre
Avi Lifschitz has just published Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the 18th Century with Oxford University Press.
Helen Hackett's new book A Short History of English Renaissance Drama has just been published by I. B. Tauris.
A volume of essays on Neo-Latin poetry that includes versions of the papers given at our Launch Conference, co-edited by Gesine Manuwald, Professor of Latin in the Department of Greek and Latin and a member of the Centre. To purchase a copy from Bloomsbury click here.
Helen Hackett's most recent book explores three centuries of invented encounters between two of England's most enduring cultural icons and was published by Princeton in 2009.
Alexander Samson, co-director of the Centre, recently edited and contributed to a Special Issue of Renaissance Studies on gardens and horticulture in the early modern period.
Henry Woudhuysen, Professor in UCL's English Department and Dean of Arts and Humanities, co-edited The Oxford Companion to the Book, 'a ground-breaking reference work on all aspects of the book from ancient times to the present day'.
