Professor Simon Gilson is a co-investigator on this 3 year AHRC funded project led by the University of Manchester. The project is undertaking an in-depth study of the material features of prints (1472-1629) of Dante's 'Comedy'.

Dr Rosa Vidal Doval has been awarded a one-year Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to study the development of purity of blood.

Prof. Henrike Lähnemann has received a three-year ProNiedersachsen grant in conjunction with the Klosterkammer Niedersachsen and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung to continue editing the letter books of Northern German nuns together with the historian Prof.

Professor Valerie Worth has secured a two year Emeritus Fellowship for her research on Women & Translation in Early Modern France.

The Centre for Early Modern Studies is host to the largest, most vibrant early modern scholarly community in the world.

This project aims to map and analyse the multiple engagements of various Caribbean countries with the complex and vexed process that is globalization since 1493 (when Columbus landed in Guadeloupe).

"Greek Studies in 15th Century Europe" is a Marie Curie individual research project held by Dr. Paola Tomè and financed by the European Union at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages in Oxford.

Rabelais remains the Renaissance poet of the belly. Pregnancies and births, urination and excretion punctuate the adventures of his giants Gargantua and Pantagruel. His style fits those themes. According to settled views among critics, the Rabelaisian belly and its related style signal either the comic crowning of our lower regions in the upside-down world of carnivalesque fiction, or humanist satire wielded against diseased body-politics: old universities, the Church.

The project follows literary rivers across texts from France and the Americas, thinking about those rivers as tributaries to a wider oceanic history.

This is a collaborative international project which is one of the 18 to be funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) which will begin work on 30 September 2013.

This AHRC funded major research project aims to make the riches of the theatres of Spain and Spanish America accessible to English-speaking researchers and theatre professionals.

The ANR AGON project focuses on early modern disputes (cases, querelles or controversies) and their relationship to creation. It involves researchers of early modern culture in both France and England.

This project explores the value of literature as an object of knowledge, and more specifically, the cognitive value of literature in relation to other kinds of discourse.

This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers.

A period of leave spent as Visiting Fellow at the Fondazione Cini (Venice) in 2013 suggested to me that there was an excellent opportunity for Oxford Humanities to collaborate with the Cini.