Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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Call for Papers: Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment, c.1580-1750
Posted on 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
Posted on 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'
Posted on 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
Posted on Wednesday 3 July 2024
Congratulations to Cindy Withjack, who has been awarded the Northern Debut Award for Fiction
York graduate wins prestigious Wolfson postgraduate studentship
Posted on Tuesday 30 January 2024
Livvy Golby Kirk, who did the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies MA in 2020/21 has just won a prestigious Wolfson postgraduate studentship to study with Karen Harvey at Birmingham.