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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,...

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...

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...

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 pm and 6.30 pm (European Standard Time). We will welcome our two guests: Sandhya Patel (IHRIM-Université-Clermont-Auvergne) The Lives...

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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

Our next – and last – study day on Lived Religion in partnership with QMCRLE

On Friday 4 December 2020, the Lived Religion study group and their partners at QMCRLE will hold their fourth and last annual study day exploring the notion of lived religion. After ‘Documenting Lived Religion 1500 to the Present: Perspectives Across Borders’, ‘Lived Religion: Theory and Practice ‘ and ‘Lived Religion...

Progress and education: our first Zoom webinar.

We are delighted to announce that the session on Progress and education, which had been reported from March 2020 because of COVID-19 restrictions, was held with great success on Monday 12 October, (16.30 – 18.30) via videoconference.  Sandrine Parageau (Université Paris-Nanterre, junior IUF member), « Avancement du savoir et réforme...

Our three joint events LERMA / TELEMME/ GIS Institut du genre

Monday 9 December 2019, 16.30 – 18.30, Maison de la recherche, room 2.44 Preparatory session to our Study Day funded by the GIS Institut du Genre « Figures de la spiritualité féminine dans les espaces catholiques et protestants (Europe occidentale, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) : les systèmes religieux au prisme du genre » – Christine...

OUR NEW PROGRAMME 2019 -2020

Times: 16.30 -18.30,  room 2.44,  Maison de la Recherche, campus ALLSH 29 Av. Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence  The podcasts of our sessions are available here. 23 September 2019    Conference by John Mullan (University College London):  ‘Revolutionary Jane Austen : The Transformation of the Eighteenth Century Novel ?’   14 October 2019 Research programme on...