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News from 2018

Hair in History

Monday 19 November 2018

An interview with CREMS research associate Susan J. Vincent


Stuart Carroll to give prestigious lecture at St Andrews

Thursday 25 October 2018

Professor Stuart Carroll, of the Department of History and the Centre Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, is delighted to have been invited to give this year's Reformation Day public lecture at the University of St Andrews.


Former CREMS Research Associate wins PhD thesis prize

Wednesday 17 October 2018

Dennj Solera (University of Florence) has been awarded the best doctoral thesis in Tuscany for the historical and philosophical sciences.


Jon McGovern wins prestigious Sir John Neale Prize

Monday 9 July 2018

The Sir John Neale Prize is a prestigious essay prize awarded annually by the Institute of Historical Research.


Shakespeare's Rose theatre pops up in York

Thursday 5 July 2018

Professor Judith Buchanan has advised on the pop-up theatre


Framed in mystery: painting tells story of doomed Norfolk family

Thursday 5 July 2018

Professor Jonathan Wainwright (Music) analysis of a lost 17th-century painting


Trip to the Bowes Museum

Wednesday 4 July 2018

A CREMS and CECS joint trip report


200 years of Jacob Burckhardt

Tuesday 5 June 2018

Events celebrating the work of Jacob Burckhardt receive positive reception.


Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in early modernity

Monday 4 June 2018

In this Keynote Address, Prof William Franke closes a conference on the parameters of the unknowable and the unutterable in early modernity.


Meet Jacob Burckhardt, the thinker who invented 'culture'

Friday 1 June 2018

CREMS director Simon Ditchfield was principal organiser of a series of events to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss cultural historian, Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97)


Amanda Lillie to Chair British Academy Event at the National Gallery

Tuesday 22 May 2018

To mark the 200th anniversary of art historian Jacob Burckhardt’s birth


Speech, Sound and Dialogue in Early Modern Culture, 1500-1700

Friday 16 February 2018

Early Modern Postgraduate Symposium


Burckhardt at 200: The Civilization of the Renaissance reconsidered

Tuesday 16 January 2018

A two-day conference revisits the Swiss historian's accounts of the Italian Renaissance The British Academy, London


Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in early modernity

Wednesday 10 January 2018

Keynote Speaker: William Franke (Vanderbilt). Author of ‘On What Cannot be Said’ and ‘A Philosophy of the Unsayable’


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