Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Welcome to the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies
“The staff have been very helpful, welcoming and eager to impart their knowledge. I have made great friends in my programme and together we've had fantastic opportunities…”
Bringing together faculty and postgraduates from a wider range of disciplines than any other university in the UK
The Centre has its own dedicated space in the award-winning Berrick Saul Building
CREMS is part of the University of York's Humanities Research Centre
Well placed for research into the rich archival and cultural resources found in and around York
A lively programme of seminars and conferences attracting scholars of international standing
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
Monday 5 August 2019
We are delighted to announce that Jon McGovern, whose recently submitted PhD thesis investigates Anti-Sedition Literature in England 1536-1603, is this year's winner of the Gordon Forster Essay Prize.
Monday 10 June 2019
Professor Kevin Killeen has appeared on the BBC's In Our Time, presented by Melvin Bragg, describing the remarkable career and inventive writings of the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne.
Wednesday 22 May 2019
CREMS is delighted with the success of its most recent conference.