Accessibility statement

Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Welcome to the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies

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


More news »

Events

Mon
23
Jun

Magic and witchcraft conference 2025

Join us (online or in-person) for this three-day conference. The event will approach this thorny question from a range of angles, including legal, historical, literary, psychological and colonial to name a few.