Author: Laurence Lux-Sterritt
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...
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...
Jean Viviès on the English Novel
Our colleague Prof. Jean Viviès has taken part in a four-part programme by France Culture, entitled Il était une fois le roman. Episode one, Made in England, retraces the origins and particularities of the...
Jean Viviès discusses voices, translation and creativity
For their third episode, the organisers of the new podcast @EnBonneVoix have interviewed our colleague and founding member of our seminar, Prof. Jean Viviès. His answers to Anaïs Martin’s and Emilie Mitran’s retrace his...
Dr Chloë Reddaway on the VCS (Visual Commentary on Scripture)
The VCS: New Conversations between Art and Scripture In the paper I gave for the Lived Religion study day in December 2020, I introduced a project based at King’s College London, called the Visual...
‘Houses of Worship: The architectural expression of religious beliefs in early America’.
On 4 December 2020, the Lived Religion study group organized a study day on Lived Religion and the Visual Arts, in collaboration with our institutional partner, the Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature...
Seminar: Nonconformist Everyday Religion
The Lived Religion study group of BRITAIX 17-18 is delighted to announce a session around Nonconformist everyday religion Monday 29 March 202116.30 -18.30 CET (15.30 – 17.30 GMT) Rob Daniel (Univ. of Warwick) ‘”A...
James Cook’s logs and journals: a seminar
The study group “Texts & Their Afterlives” will host a seminar primarily aimed at students preparing the Agrégation, around James Cook’s logs and journals. It will be held on Monday 1 March between 4.30...