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...
Category: Research post
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,...
Grave matters: Family strife and confessionalised dying in Antwerp’s Wonder Year (1566-1567)
A blog post by Louise Deschryver. Louise is a research fellow of the FWO Flanders and is writing a doctoral thesis at the Research Group of Early Modern History at KU Leuven. In November...
Religion in the Early Enlightenment: The Significance of Religious Dissenters for the Seventeenth-Century Political Discourse
A blog post by Francesco Quatrini (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali) The last two decades have witnessed a growing interest in Enlightenment studies. Prompted by Jonathan Israel’s...
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...
