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Call for Papers: Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment, c.1580-1750

Monday 21 July 2025

We invite proposals for the final conference of the AHRC-DFG project, ‘Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 1580-1750’.


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).


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