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Author: Laurence Lux-Sterritt

The concept of Visibilisation through the prism of Britaix 17-18

  Britaix 17-18 is now part of a project which, within LERMA, gathers colleagues from varied fields to explore the concept of ‘visibilisation’ from an interdisciplinary perspective. On 27 January 2025, Nathalie Bernard, Francesca Genesio, Ruth Menzies, Anne Page and Laurence Sterritt got together to discuss what ‘visibilisation’ meant to...

Margaret Clitherow or the Construction of a Saint?

The season of blog posts by some of our Master’s students is upon us once more. Lula Brunel, Isaure Emmanuelli and Hector Erb share their research into Yorkshire martyr Margaret Clitherow.      In contemporary British Catholic culture, Margaret Clitherow is regarded as a symbol of courage, devotion, and sacrifice,...

20 years of Studies on Travel Literature

On 11 and 12 May 2023, the SELVA (the French Société d’Étude de la Littérature de Voyage du monde Anglophone) will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of its creation by our esteemed member and own founder, Professor Jean Viviès. On this occasion, a two-day conference will be held at the university of Côté...

Evidence of Lay Religious Devotion and Public Practice

BRITAIX 17-18 welcomes you to its latest seminar on Lived Religion, which will be held via Zoom on Monday 17 April, from 16.30 to 18.30 (Paris time, or 15.30-17.30 BST). To attend, please register via Eventbrite below.   W. M. JACOB, Evidence for Lay Religious Devotion and Public Practice in...

Vivre sa religion dans la clandestinité

Exceptionally, this session will be in French.  Le séminaire BRITAIX 17-18 est heureux de vous convier à sa prochaine séance sur la religion vécue, qui se tiendra le lundi 6 mars 2023 de 16h30 à 18h30, en Zoom. Vous pouvez aussi nous rejoindre par Zoom, via notre page Eventbrite. Séance « Vivre...

A (not so) Early Modern Pamphlet: The Popish Plague.

Manon Lenormand and Klaudia Porucka, both MA students with us, read Arthur Marotti’s ‘Alienating Catholic: Recusant Women, Jesuits, and Ideological Fantasies’, in Religious Ideology & Cultural Fantasy. Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (University of Notre Dame, 2005), pp. 32-63. Below is their reflexive work, which they chose...

Taking The Veil: Catholic Nuns in 17th-century Early Modern England

Taking The Veil: Catholic Nuns in 17th-century Early Modern England As part of their MA course, students Jean-François Carvin, Justine Radojcic and Catherine Roux read Frances E. Dolan’s seminal article, ‘Why are Nuns Funny? Huntington Library Quarterly 70, no. 4 2007: p.509–35. This served as a springboard for deeper reflexion and...

Social distancing in 17th-century letters

A blog post by Laurianne Bremond. Laurianne is a member of the LERMA, and recently successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled “Pour ma Chère Chère Soeur” : édition critique et traduction de la correspondance entre Charles II et Henriette-Anne, duchesse d’Orléans. In this post, she analyses the materiality of letters...

Voyages du capitaine Lemuel Gulliver en divers pays éloignés: a review by Amélie Derome

SWIFT, Jonathan.. Ed. Valérie Maffre and Dominique Triaire. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2021. ISBN 978-2-36781-336-3, 15€.   Less than a year after Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift had been published in London, Voltaire was already extolling the virtues of this book which he deemed thoroughly entertaining thanks to...

Mise en texte and Communities: Writing the Convent, Writing the Self

This session will explore the building of common narratives through the study of the texts of the English convents exiled on the Continent; whilst they sought to publicize the shared values and opinions of religious Catholic communities, conventual founding texts such as autobiographies, biographies and chronicles bore the distinctive trace...

Gulliver and Beyond: a study day

Gulliver and Beyond Texts and their Afterlives Research GroupLERMA, Aix-Marseille UniversitéMonday 6th December 2021 Salle de colloques 1, campus ALLSH, Aix-Marseille Université, 29 avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-ProvenceOr by Zoom  Register   9h15: Welcome and coffee 9h45: Introduction and presentation Morning panel. Chair: Professor Jean Viviès (LERMA, Aix-Marseille University) 10h00:...

Texts and their Afterlives: Robinsonades

Britaix 17-18 is starting the new term with a flourish of activities both from its individual study groups and from its general seminar. Please join us for the first session of “Texts and their Afterlives”, around the legacy of Robinson Crusoe. Registrations are free via Eventbrite; see the registration button...

“Mise(s) en texte”: Writing American Identity

20 September 2021 : « Writing American Identity » 16.30 – 18.30 This session will be held on site, at the Schuman campus of Aix-Marseille University, salle de colloque 1, bâtiment multimédia.However, you can also join us via Zoom by registering on Eventbrite below.  Florence Petroff (University of La Rochelle),...

Conference announcement

LERMA-QMCRLE conference Lived Religion in Europe 1500-1800: Individual and Communal Practice 15-16 October 2021, online (via Zoom)   Since 2017, the Centre for the English-Speaking World (LERMA) at Aix-Marseille Université and the Centre for Religion and Literature in English (QMCRLE) at Queen Mary University of London have jointly hosted a...