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Summer School on Early-Modern English Manuscripts

This virtual summer school, financed by the “Cité des Écritures” of Sorbonne Nouvelle provides training on how to locate, exploit and edit early modern English manuscripts (1500-1700). It is intended for students and colleagues of all disciplines who, in the context of their own research or professional project, need to...

Écrits et écritures de la période moderne : identifier, comprendre et exploiter les manuscrits

Cette université d’été virtuelle, financée par la Cité des Écritures de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, est composée de quatre journées de formation centrées sur la localisation, l’exploitation et l’édition de manuscrits anglophones de la première modernité (1500-1700). Elle s’adresse à un public d’étudiant.es, de masterant.es, de doctorant.es et d’enseignant.es chercheuses, toutes...

Religion in the Early Enlightenment: The Significance of Religious Dissenters for the Seventeenth-Century Political Discourse

A blog post by Francesco Quatrini (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali) The last two decades have witnessed a growing interest in Enlightenment studies. Prompted by Jonathan Israel’s ground-breaking studies on the “radical Enlightenment” in the Dutch Republic, scholars have focused on intellectuals promoting...

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Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent

BRITAIX is delighted to announce that Alison Searle and Emily Vine (University of Leeds) will present the AHRC-funded research project ‘Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)’: Monday 1 February 2021, 16.30 -18.30 European Standard Time (3.30 – 4.30 GMT) This...

A new publication from the Lived Religion Group

We are delighted to announce the publication of: Reconstructing early-modern religious lives: the exemplary and the mundane co-edited by Anne Dunan-Page, Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Tessa Whitehouse in the latest issue of E-rea, https://journals.openedition.org/erea/10058

Literature and the arts in the Renaissance

Literature and the arts in the Renaissance

Within its programme on the visual arts, LERMA will welcome Jean-Jacques CHARDIN (Strasbourg) and Anne-Valérie DULAC (Sorbonne Universités) on Monday 5 March, 17.00-19.00, Seminar room 2.44, Maison de la Recherche. Jean-Jacques Chardin, “L’éloquence des images emblématiques: icônicité et narrativité dans A Choice of Emblemes (1586) et Minerva Britanna (1612).” Anne-Valérie Dulac, “’Who gives...

Lecture by Milad Doueihi

Lecture by Milad Doueihi

Pursuing its interest in Digital Humanities, Britaix is pleased to announce that it will welcome Milad Doueihi for a public Lecture on 21 March 2016. Milad Doueihi will inaugurate one of our research centre’s new programmes, which will explore different ways of defining and experiencing modernity. For more information, please contact Prof. Jean Viviès, jean.vivies@univ-amu.fr Among...

Baroque in Britain

Baroque in Britain

Following some discussion in our last session on architecture, you might be interested in the five-part series broadcast by Radio 4, entitled, ‘Baroque in Britain’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r83p1/episodes/player

Graduate Symposium on Dissent

Graduate Symposium on Dissent

The graduate symposium on Dissent, under the auspices of the French Society for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Société Française d’Étude du Dix-Huitième siècle, will take place on the Schuman campus, 20-21 March 2015. It is organized by LERMA (Anne Page  & Jean Viviès) and CIELAM (Stéphane Lojkine). To...

St Omer Shakespeare folio

Britaix is very pleased to announce that following the recent discovery of a first folio of Shakespeare in St Omer’s Library, two of our French colleagues, Prof. Line Cottegnies (Britaix, 2012, see here) and Prof. Gisèle Venet (Paris 3, Sorbonne-Nouvelle) have published their first findings on the volume in open access,...

Literature & philosophy seminar

Literature & philosophy seminar

The first session of the interdisciplinary Literature & Philosophy seminar (CEPERC/CIELAM)  on beauty in the 16th and 17th centuries will take place on: Thursday 6 November, 17.30-19.30 in Seminar Room 2.41 (Maison de la Recherche) Valérie Debuiche, “Le beau dans la pensée philosophique de Leibniz” Members of the Britaix are...

Electronic Enlightenment: conference of Robert McNamee

Electronic Enlightenment: conference of Robert McNamee

Dr Robert McNamee, Director of the Electronic Enlightenment Project at the Bodleian Libraries, will give a public conference entitled: “Editing correspondence for Electronic Enlightenment — scholarly technology and the first global social network!” Monday 1 December 2014, 3.00-4.30 pm, multimédia building T1, conference room, Campus Schuman ‘With 63,968 letters and documents...

Session 2: 1st December 2014

Session 2: 1st December 2014

This year’s second session will take place: Monday 1 December  2014, from 5.00pm to 7.00pm in Seminar Room 2.44, Maison de la Recherche, Campus Schuman. Around the website Georgian Cities « Les parcours interactifs comme exploration des espaces urbains – des ordres d’architecture aux lieux complexes des villes »,  Prof. Marie-Madeleine Martinet (Université...

Prize for Nathalie Bernard and Stéphanie Gourdon 0

Prize for Nathalie Bernard and Stéphanie Gourdon

Britaix is delighted to announce that SELVA, the French learned society on travel narratives, has awarded his 2014 Research Prize to Nathalie Bernard (Aix-Marseille University) and Stéphanie Gourdon (Lyon 2), for their annotated translation of Mary Wollstonecraft’s letters from Scandinavia, published by Aix-Marseille University Press in a series directed by...

Session 1: 6 October 2014 0

Session 1: 6 October 2014

This year’s first session will take place: Monday 6 October  2014, from 5.00pm to 7.00pm in Seminar Room 2.44, Maison de la Recherche, Campus Schuman. This methodological session will give us the opportunity to explore various ways of approaching early-modern architecture and to prepare for the year’s papers on architectural order...

The City and the King 0

The City and the King

The City and the King: Architecture and Politics in Restoration London (Yale University Press, 2013), Christine Stevenson’s latest book, was shortlisted for the 2014 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award (See Courtauld Institute website and Yale University Press). Britaix is delighted to welcome her and her colleague, Elizabeth McKellar (Open University), on 6...

Welcome to Britaix 17-18 0

Welcome to Britaix 17-18

This is the new website of Britaix 17-18, a research seminar of Aix-Marseille University (Centre for the Study of the Anglophone World, LERMA, E.A. 853) devoted to 17th- and 18th-century Britain. The seminar was created in 2002 and is open to academics, M.Phil and doctoral students, and early-career researchers. It...