Dr Raphael Lyne’s new book Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature is published in February 2016 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Using ideas from cognitive science this work sets up some new ways of thinking about how poems remember one another, but keeps coming back to the idea that the poems and plays are themselves essays and […]
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Elizabeth Savage Curates British Museum Exhibition
Earliest attempts at colour printing in the West are on display for the first time at British Museum exhibition of German Renaissance Colour Woodcuts curated by British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Elizabeth Savage. A new exhibition at the British Museum examines the earliest attempts to incorporate colour into printmaking in the 1400s and 1500s in […]
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Nicolette Zeeman has been elected to the Professorship of Medieval and Renaissance English from 1st January 2016.
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