Medieval and Renaissance research group

An overview of research highlights, projects and activity within the Medieval and Renaissance research group:

• Successful record in obtaining AHRC awards and Leverhulme fellowships
• 2007 Leverhulme Prize awarded to Nicholas McDowell for his work on John Milton
• £252,000 grant awarded in 2008 for Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Nationalism project
• AHRC funded project to create electronic edition of early Stuart libels
• Research interests include the relationship between politics and literature; Milton; religion and literary culture, cultural geography; literature and domestic travel in early modern England; reception of Virgil in the Civil War polemic; Shakespeare in the English theatrical memoir, and English writing and the Ottoman Empire
• Conferences held on subjects such as the Medieval Mystical Tradition, Syon Abbey and its Books, Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England and Retelling the Renaissance
• Links to the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Early Modern Studies