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The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies is a flourishing interdisciplinary community devoted to the study of the long 16th and 17th centuries. Find out more about our
MA in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

News

Kevin Killeen wins 2024 Bainton Prize

Wednesday 6 November 2024

Kevin Killeen has been awarded the 2024 Bainton Prize, for his monograph, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable (Stanford University Press, 2023).


Publication News: Matt Townend's 'J. R. R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction'

Monday 21 October 2024

Congratulations to Matt Townend, who has just published 'J. R. R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction' (Oxford University Press).


Northern Writers’ Awards 2024 unveiled

Wednesday 3 July 2024

Congratulations to Cindy Withjack, who has been awarded the Northern Debut Award for Fiction


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Events

Thu
27
Mar
Thu
3
Apr

Dis-ease, Pain and Redemption in Early Modern Musicking

Bettina Varwig discusses the impact of J.S Bach's music on early modern Lutheran congregants.

Thu
1
May

An English Italian and an Italianate Englishman in Ireland: Lodowick Bryskett and Sir John Harington

This year's lecture will be delivered by Professor Andrew Hadfield.

Thu
8
May

Shadows in the Water: Overreading (in) the Renaissance

Elizabeth Swann (Durham University) presents this event, followed by the CREMS Summer Party.