Postgraduate study

Studying at CREMS

CREMS offers:

  • a flourishing interdisciplinary community devoted to the study of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • a dynamic research culture
  • a programme of research seminars and conferences attracting scholars of international standing
  • support for postgraduate-led workshops and discussion groups
  • encouragement and financial support for students giving papers at conferences away from York
  • a commitment to the professional as well as the academic development of its students with an established record of placing students in academic positions

Teaching strengths

We have particular strengths in:

  • the interface between the history of the book, the history of religion and the history of ideas
  • space, landscape and the environment
  • violence and crime
  • Shakespeare re-figured
  • editing and performance
  • the reading of history in Elizabethan England
  • Neapolitan history, topography and culture
  • the court cultures of England, Italy Holland and France

We welcome enquiries from potential students about any of these activities.

Humanities Research Centre

The Humanities Research Centre is a beautifully designed space of shared belonging for academics and postgraduates from across York's eight arts and humanities departments. Its dynamic and inclusive community provides a highly stimulating and supportive base for postgraduate study.

Masters programme

Click here for information about our
MA in Renaissance & Early Modern Studies

CREMS students visiting Castle Howard

"I enjoyed the interdisciplinary nature of the course and the themes and issues raised helped create a truly comprehensive view of the period ..."

Fortune Teller by Caravaggio
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Useful Links

null is the CREMS Postgraduate Forum, run by and for all  postgrads with an interest in the Renaissance/Early Modern period.  Events are listed on the CREMS calendar, or contact the organisers for information: curiositycabinet2010@gmail.com

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Research Students

  • We are happy to advise and support applicants in their submissions for Interdisciplinary MPhil and PhD study, although applications need to be made through one of our parent departments: English & Related Literature, History, History of Art and Archaeology. Do get in touch with us to discuss your proposal:  crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk.
  • CREMS encourages reseach students to feel they are members of a supportive and stimulating interdisciplinary community and to take part in interdisciplinary research seminars, conferences and student-led activities where subject boundaries are easily crossed.

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"Having been warned that writing a PhD thesis could be a rather lonely experience, I was delighted to find that, by association with CREMS, the opposite was true! The regular CREMS events make for an extremely vibrant and rich research community, and it's amazing how much I was able to pick up from historians, archaeologists and even musicologists which enlivened and enriched my own research.  I've made some great friends through CREMS, as well as being inspired by the marvellous range of research topics I've been introduced to. It's been a pleasure to be part of the CREMS community!"

Chloe Preedy, PhD English Literature, associated with CREMS