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...
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“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,...
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...
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...
New online exhibition on the history of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Check out this wonderful new online exhibition, and an interview of Rowan Williams: http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/exhibition/uspg/
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
