Renaissance and Early Modern studies
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Work at Queen Mary in the field of Renaissance and Early Modern Studies – noted by the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise panel for its excellence – combines outstanding individual achievement with a commitment to collaborative, interdisciplinary projects. Important collaborations established within or in association with the Department include the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), the Oxford Francis Bacon Project, the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and the King’s Printer Project. As well as producing ground-breaking research, these centres of study have hosted major international conferences on topics such as the Jacobean printed book and early-modern lives.
Members of the Department have published a series of prominent monographs, editions, and collections of essays over the last few years. As well as biographies of Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren, recent publications and ongoing studies deal with representation of royal authority in Stuart England; the political and cultural resonances of the sea in mid-seventeenth-century poetry and prose; the material meanings of Italian Renaissance Pharmacies, and transactions of commercial exchange in Italy between 1400 and 1600; the early-modern circulation of Michel de Montaigne’s work; the acquisition and dispersal of the art collection of King Charles I; the works of the philosopher, historian, essayist, and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
Staff working in these areas include:
- Robyn Adams
- Warren Boutcher
- Andrea Brady
- Jerry Brotton
- David Colclough
- Lisa Jardine
- Graham Rees
- Kevin Sharpe
- Maria Wakely
- Evelyn Welch