Medieval and Early Modern Studies @ Newcastle

The Medieval and Early Modern Studies @ Newcastle research group aims to bring together the large concentration of scholars from different subject areas within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (including History, English, Classics, Modern Languages, Music, and Law) working on pre-modern periods up to c. 1800. It stimulates interdisciplinary and collaborative research by organizing events at which scholars from different disciplines within the university and from outside discuss ideas on related topics. In the last few years, collaboration in the field of early modern studies (1500-1800) has shown the value of integrating a wide range of methodologies and interests and perspectives from different geographical areas.
At the same time, it has been found that the research of colleagues working on these crucial periods of European and world history shares significant common themes and interests, which are currently being developed further in a number of special interest groups. One example is the Republican Reading Group, which meets monthly to discuss republican thinkers, the historiography of republicanism, and republicanism as a theory and a practice. Another thematic group is formed by the large number of scholars interested in editing: textual editing, corpus building and innovative ways of using digital techniques to include cross-disciplinary elements like visual elements, music, translation, while retaining a strong philological grounding.
MEMS is part of the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

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