CMRS RESEARCH NETWORKS
The Centre has launched a number of Research Networks with a view to promoting research in the early period and collaboration between scholars at an individual and institutional level. These networks aim also to focus attention on the riches of Trinity's Old Library and to promote instruction in methodologies for interpreting the past. The networks are coordinated by eminent specialists in the respective fields. The involvement of other institutions, scholars, postgraduates, and members of the public is most welcome.
THE EARLY-MODERN GARDENS IN CONTEXT RESEARCH NETWORK
On 21st November 2009, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin, launched its interdisciplinary research network, Early-Modern Gardens in Context, at an inaugural conference of the same name. The Centre is keen to hear from other institutions and also from independent scholars, students, and researchers who are interested in participating in this network. The focus of the network is strongly interdisciplinary, and it examines - primarily through conferences, workshops, and publications - a wide range of issues and themes touching on Early-Modern gardens. These include any aspects of horticulture and garden design that would benefit from cross-disciplinary study, with a particular emphasis in such areas as gardens in Medieval and Renaissance literature, historic gardens of Britain and Ireland and influences on their design, and Early-Modern gardens in illustrated books.
The network is also designed to relay any potentially relevant information concerning forthcoming conferences, publications, funding opportunities etc. to its members.
All enquiries concerning the network should be directed to the Director of the research network, Anatole Tchikine.
Please consult the network's website at the following link: http://earlymoderngardens.wordpress.com/conferences-and-events/
CHAUCER IN CONTEXT
The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin, launched its research network Chaucer in Context at a conference of the same title held in Trinity on Saturday 17 April 2010; speakers included Gerald Morgan, Alan Fletcher, Nick Jacobs, and Rory McTurk.
The network aims to promote discussion and collaboration between Chaucer scholars through seminars, workshops and conferences. The Centre is keen to hear from other institutions, scholars, and post-graduates who are interested in participating in this network. The network is also designed to relay any potentially relevant information concerning forthcoming conferences, publications, funding opportunities etc. to its members. To date, the network has published a volume of articles, Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry, ed. Gerald Morgan (Oxford:Peter Lang, 2012). This was launched in Trinity’s Long Room Hub on 11 May 2012.
All enquiries concerning the network and the conference should be directed to the Director of the research network,Dr Gerald Morgan.
FORUM FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY-MODERN WOMEN IN EUROPE
This research network was formally launched at a colloquium in Trinity College Dublin held on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd September 2010.
The Forum is committed to supporting collaborative and individual research on the early modern women of Continental Europe. This encompasses the creative output of early modern women, their depiction in literary and artistic works, and their socio-historic contexts. The Forum is designed to cross both disciplinary and geographical boundaries. It is intended that this initiative will foster the publication of interdisciplinary research and facilitate the emergence of a new scholarly network in this field.
We are especially interested in utilising the relevant holdings of the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin, in order to further the study of early modern women.
Expressions of interest from scholars (including postgraduate research students) in relevant disciplines are most welcome.
BYZANTINE STUDIES RESEARCH NETWORK
This research network was launched in October 2010 at the workshop '“Convivencia” in Byzantium? Cultural Exchanges in a Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Lingual Society' (1-3 October 2010), an event sponsored by the ESF and organized by the Centre's Research Associate Dr Barbara Crostini. This network builds on the Centre's earlier initiatives to promote Byzantine Studies through workshops organised by Dr Savas Neocleous (see archive). All enquiries concerning the network and the workshop should be directed to the Director of the research network, Dr Barbara Crostini.
OTHER RESEARCH NETWORKS IN WHICH THE CENTRE IS INVOLVED
CULTURES OF WAR RESEARCH NETWORK
This international research network links IMEMS (Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Wales) with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. Established in 2006 by Andrew Hiscock (Bangor), this network brings together scholars, students and independent researchers who are investigating aspects of war from the early middle ages to the early eighteenth century. The network is strongly interdisciplinary, and welcomes anyone with an interest in examining the implications of cultural violence and disseminating findings in an academic forum.
Areas of interest are listed below, but they are not exclusive, and the network has hosted discussions and projects on various aspects of war in the pre-modern world. The fields listed here are intended as crystallising points for clusters of scholars, whose members will define the most urgent questions and formulate activities to answer them.
- The soldier / writer
- Warfare and court culture
- Conflict and the construction of national identity
- Colonialism and conquest
- Literatures of war
All enquiries concerning the network should be directed to the Director of the research network, Andrew Hiscock, at els408@bangor.ac.uk.
RÉSEAU INTERNATIONAL POUR DES RECHERCHES SUR LA SAVOIE 1500-1800/INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR RESEARCH ON SAVOY IN THE EARLY-MODERN PERIOD
This research network, proposed in May 2009 by delegates participating in panels on Savoy (organized by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University) at the annual conference of the Sixteenth-Century Society, was officially launched 26-28 May 2010 at a conference organized by the Centre, Les Conflits en Savoie (1500-1800) (see archive of past events 2009-2010). A volume of articles entitled Political, Religious and Social Conflict in the Duchy of Savoy 1400-1700 arising from the network and edited by Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey will be published shortly by Peter Lang in the series Medieval and Early Modern French Studies. For further details about the network, contact Sarah Alyn Stacey.