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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 entre Charles II et Henriette-Anne, duchesse d’Orléans. In this post, she analyses the materiality of letters...

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, Voltaire was already extolling the virtues of this book which he deemed thoroughly entertaining thanks to...

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 ground-breaking studies on the “radical Enlightenment” in the Dutch Republic, scholars have focused on intellectuals promoting...

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 Commentary on Scripture (VCS), and spoke briefly about how its ‘digital reality’ is engaging with people’s...

‘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 in English. One of our speakers was Dr Carl Lounsbury, who is emeritus senior architectural historian...