Early Modern European History in the Department of History

Staff

Specialist Staff

• Dr Nicholas Eckstein
  Social and cultural history of Late-Medieval, Renaissance and Early-Modern Italy, especially Florence. Neighbourhood and social interaction; popular religion and lay devotion; daily life; urban culture; the social context of art.
• Associate Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice
  Early Modern British, European and Atlantic history, intellectual history, the history of political thought, and the history of colonisation.
• Dr John Gagné
  Early modern Europe, print news, collecting, and war, local-global connections in premodernity, gender, consumerism, consumption, and food

Staff with Research Interests related to Early Modern European history

• Dr Saliha Belmessous
• Dr Michael McDonnell
• Dr Cindy McCreery

Recent Publications

Andrew Fitzmaurice, Humanism and America: An intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625. (Ideas in Context; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003).

Teaching

Junior Units of Study

• HSTY1031 Renaissance and Reformation

Senior Units of Study

• HSTY2645 Invisible Cities: Imagining Urban Italy
• HSTY2647 Renaissance Italy
• HSTY2650 European Conquests 1500-1700
• HSTY2660 Violence in Italy
• HSTY2686: Food, Environment, and Culture in Europe (1300-1800)

Postgraduate Seminars

• HSTY6985 Perspectives on the Italian Renaissance

Research Projects

• Beyond the Neighbourhood: The Urban Histories of Sociability and Community in Renaissance Florence, 1400-1500.
  (Dr Nicholas Eckstein)
• The Anatomy and Physiology of Renaissance Florence: the Dynamics of Social Change in the Fifteenth Century
  (Dr Nicholas Eckstein)
• The Price of Freedom
  (Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice)
• State formation and European expansion
  (Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice)
• A history of terra nullius
  (Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice)

Postgraduate Study

Recently Completed PhDs

• Kit Candlin, Making empires work : transnational fluidity and the politics of advantage in the Atlantic world 1790-1820 (2009)
• Catherine England, The use of children in Renaissance Florence (2006)
• N. P. J. Gordon, On Fictive Space (2010)
• Jean Riley, Censorship of the print trade in Tudor England (2004)

Current PhDs

• Kate Colleran
  Sound and Culture in the Renaissance: an 'Acoustemology' of Florentine and Sienese Society
• Patricia Leehy
  Expatriate and Outsider Communities in Renaissance and Early-Modern Florence