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 historic Heslington Hall
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
Thursday 29 October 2026
An academic from the Department of History and the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize.
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’.
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).