Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Interdisciplinary Humanities Centres at York

• Centre for Medieval Studies

• Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

• Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies

• [Centre for Modern Studies]

An Umbrella Organisation

• History: 10

• English: 8

• History of Art: 5

• Politics: 2

• Music: 2

• Philosophy: 1

What Centres Do

• Seminars

• Conferences

• Publications

• Graduate Teaching

• Research

What Centres Do

• Seminars:Oxford 4

London 4

York 2

Princeton

Wisconsin

Leeds

Leicester

Liverpool

Sussex

Sheffield

What Centres Do

• Conferences

Shrews on the Renaissance Stage

Rethinking the Baroque

Renaissance Paratexts

Exile Early Modern Europe

Prison Writings in Early Modern Britain

What Centres Do

• Publications

What Centres Do

• Graduate Teaching

New Crems MA

What Centres Do• Research

‘Records of Central Government: Clerical Taxation in England and Wales, 1173-1664,’ a project run by Bill Sheils (with a £350,000 grant from the AHRC) in collaboration with The National Archives to produce a database of all taxation returns relating to clergy and clerical institutions.

‘The Church Court Records at York: cause papers 1300-1858,’ a project funded by a $744,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to construct a database of the surviving cause paper files from the York diocesan courts held at the Borthwick Institute for Archives.

Helen Weinstein’s Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past secured a grant of more than £325,000 (under the AHRC’s new Knowledge Transfer Fellowship Scheme) for its ‘1807 Commemorated’ project. A collaboration between IPUP, the Institute for Historical Research, and six national museums, the project will examine the ways in which the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade has been marked across the UK.

Management Issues

Absence of a funding mechanism

Hiring and other strategic issues

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Scholarship

• Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971)

• Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics (2002)

• Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980)

• Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth (1994)