36 monthsProgramme duration
29,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
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Programme overview
Main Subject
History
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
The Early Modern Studies PhD programme adopts a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, alongside a thorough grounding in skills and is underpinned by the unparalleled resources available to students on our doorstep in Bloomsbury. The literature, culture, history, philosophy, art and material remains of the world in the period 1500 – 1800 can only be fully understood through this multifaceted prism.
Renaissance Literature, early modern history, the literature and cultures of the early modern world, book history, marginalia and annotation, history of reading, colonial history, Spanish imperial history, Italian academies and pastoral drama, Mesoamerican art, drama.
In addition to these areas, the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges promotes interest in the following broad areas:
- Travel, exile and migration in early modern Europe and the New World
- Trade and flows of material as well as cultural goods within and beyond Europe
- Translation, translators and language learning
- Literary influences across national, provincial and linguistic borders
- Representations of intra- and extra-European ‘others’ in literature and art
- Religious and political interactions in the wake of the Reformation
- Occasions of significant cultural contact and/or heightened intranational anxiety
- The production, circulation, and collection of books and manuscripts across Europe, the emergence of libraries and the book trade
- Dissemination and development of scientific and medical knowledge, spread and transfer of technology
- Old worlds and New worlds, from botanical and medicinal exchanges to pathogens, people and practices, colonialism and ethnography
- Interplay between past and present, historiography, the archaic, nostalgia and the newfangled, classical and medieval pasts, archaeology and material cultures.
Programme overview
Main Subject
History
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
The Early Modern Studies PhD programme adopts a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, alongside a thorough grounding in skills and is underpinned by the unparalleled resources available to students on our doorstep in Bloomsbury. The literature, culture, history, philosophy, art and material remains of the world in the period 1500 – 1800 can only be fully understood through this multifaceted prism.
Renaissance Literature, early modern history, the literature and cultures of the early modern world, book history, marginalia and annotation, history of reading, colonial history, Spanish imperial history, Italian academies and pastoral drama, Mesoamerican art, drama.
In addition to these areas, the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges promotes interest in the following broad areas:
- Travel, exile and migration in early modern Europe and the New World
- Trade and flows of material as well as cultural goods within and beyond Europe
- Translation, translators and language learning
- Literary influences across national, provincial and linguistic borders
- Representations of intra- and extra-European ‘others’ in literature and art
- Religious and political interactions in the wake of the Reformation
- Occasions of significant cultural contact and/or heightened intranational anxiety
- The production, circulation, and collection of books and manuscripts across Europe, the emergence of libraries and the book trade
- Dissemination and development of scientific and medical knowledge, spread and transfer of technology
- Old worlds and New worlds, from botanical and medicinal exchanges to pathogens, people and practices, colonialism and ethnography
- Interplay between past and present, historiography, the archaic, nostalgia and the newfangled, classical and medieval pasts, archaeology and material cultures.
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