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...
Author: Laurence Lux-Sterritt
“Remember, remember, the fifth of November: gunpowder, treason and plot.”
The season of blog posts by some of our Master’s students is upon us once more. In this post, Mathilde Arrosa and Juliette Naudin take a look at the Gunpowder Plot in contemporaneous publications,...
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...
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...
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...
Next seminar session: “Ce que révèle la mise en texte(s)”
Lors de la deuxième et dernière année de notre cycle d’étude sur la notion de mise en texte, nous aborderons la question des normes et des codes, quand les différents acteurs de la mise...
Presenting Le Journal de Gouverneur Morris pendant la Révolution Française, by Prof. Gérard Hugues
Britaix17-18 is delighted to relay this promotional video, in which Professor Gérard Hugues presents his seminal three-volume edition and translation of Gouverneur Morris’s Journal during the French Revolution. The rights to this video belong...
The Holy Scriptures of Mary Ward
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES OF MARY WARD-UNVEILING THE REVELATIONS OF TWO FEMALE WRITERS To our readership: the following text has to be understood as a fiction based on a research article written by Christiana...
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...
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...
Behind the Scenes of Protestant Propaganda
A bawdy verbal joust between a Friar and the Pope: Behind the scenes of Protestant propaganda. As part of their assessment, Master’s students Nourhane Boutarfa, Coralie Chantelot, Sarah Collen and Océane Lopez studied...
Mise en texte and Early Modern Textual Transformations
The third session of our seminar on the notion of Mise en texte will be held onMonday 28 March 2022, at 16.30 EST (15.30 GMT) on Zoom. Our guest speakers, Tessa Whitehouse (Queen Mary...
Encountering Capuchins in 1630s London
By Dr Liam Peter Temple Dr Temple is the Capuchin Fellow in the History of Catholicism at the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University. He is currently engaged on a research project exploring...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
Britaix 17-18 welcomes new events for September-December 2021
Our Seminar series hopes to welcome many of you, either in person or online, as the new academic year begins. Times indicated below are all GMT +1 (French time). You can also follow us...
