The personal reign of James VI in Scotland (1585-1603): court and household

Steven Reid specialises on the intellectual, political and religious history of Scotland between c. 1450 and c. 1650, especially the life and reign of James VI in Scotland (1567-1603). His recent book,...

The Latin Language of Architecture: Britain 1150-1350

Karl Kinsella received his DPhil from the University of Oxford for a study on textual and visual representations of architecture in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In 2023, he published the book God's Own Language: Architectural...

Testimonial Knowledge in Islamic Philosophy

Fedor Benevich, senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, received his PhD at the LMU Munich and worked in the DFG-funded research project “The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East from the 12th...

Jeanne de Jussie (1503-1561) and Reformation in Geneva

Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner has widelypublished on various areas of female spirituality in the late Middle Ages. Her research also includes the early Reformation, especially the influence of Lutheran theology on the first English Reformers. She...

Fires in the House-top: Early Modern Women Writers, Milton & the Manosphere

This paper grows out of a larger project, which applies new approaches from social and cultural history, political theory and literary criticism to illuminate a key period...