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Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies
The Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) is a centre of excellence at the University of Birmingham for research into the history of the Reformation and early modern Britain and Europe. Since the creation of the Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies in 2004 CREMS has hosted prestigious conferences, and has developed a thriving seminar culture that reflects the diverse research interests of staff and students. Based in the Department of Modern History, CREMS includes scholars from the Departments of Medieval History, English, Theology, History of Art, Modern Languages and the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Its leading members have a high national and international research profile, making it one of Britain’s largest hubs for advanced work in this field. The Centre has exceptional resources for students and academics interested in the early modern period. The University of Birmingham boasts fine facilities for archival and library research. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts hosts one of Britain’s finest collections of Renaissance art. CREMS also has close links with the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon . Staff research interests include the history of the Reformation and Catholic Reformation, European contacts with the wider world in the early modern period, early modern politics political culture, the history of ideas and the classical tradition, social and local history, and visual and material culture in early modern Britain and Europe. The Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies offers a range of research and taught Masters degrees, and PhDs. For more information see Postgraduate Study.
NEW: Bursaries are available for our MA programs. If you are interested in applying for these or want further information on the programs please email Dr Elaine Fulton at e.k.fulton@bham.ac.uk CREMS ANNUAL LECTURE In 2008-9 year Dr Mark Greengrass gave the CREMS annual lecture. The title of his paper is ‘The Reformation of the Past: Protestants and the Middle Ages’. The lecture took place in the Barber Lecture theatre on 28 October 2009 at 5.15 pm. NEW: Wuhan University in China invited six speakers from CREMS to a conference in September on medieval and early modern Britain. A very successful interdisciplinary conference was held at the Shakespeare Institute on 26 June, on Crossing the Channel: England and the Continent in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. NEW: We are pleased to welcome Dr Simone Laqua-O'Donnell who has been appointed Lecturer in Early Modern European history, January 2009. NEW: Interdisciplinary seminar ‘Early Modern Literature, Culture and Society’, Wednesdays at 4.15 pm, seminar room 103, Arts Building.
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