Early Modern History Research
Current Research Projects
- Managing Memory: Tower Ball Deposits in the German Lands (Beat Kümin)
- Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia, 1600-1830
- Heretics and Believers: A New History of the English Reformation
Current Networks
- Leverhulme International Network on ‘Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Europe, c.1400–c.1650’
- Warwick Network for Parish Research, with the associated My-Parish platform
Completed Research Projects
- Centre for the History of Innovation and Creativity (CHIC)
- Cultures of Commerce and Invention in Europe, 1500-1850
- European and New World Forms of Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America c.1520-1800
- Global Arts: East Meets West, Creativity and Cultural Interchange in the Early Modern World
- Global Commodities: The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections
- Global Jingdezhen: Local Manufacturers and Early Modern Global Connections
- Maroon Communities in 18th Century South Carolina
- Medicine at the Baroque Court in Munich, 1600-1750
- Mexico and the Enlightenment Conference
- Reading for Cures in Early Modern England
- Selling Consumption in the Eighteenth Century: Advertising and the Trade Card
- Servants, Society and the State: The Making of the Social in England, 1760-1820
- Social Sites - Öffentliche Räume - Lieux d'échanges, 1300-1800
- Southern Charities Project
- Text and Image in Spanish America
- The Eighteenth Century: Cultures of Collection and Display: Waddesdon Manor Programme
- The Social Topography of a Rural Community: The Warwickshire Parish of Chilvers Coton, c.1600-1730
- The Spaces of the Past: Rethinking Renaissance and Early Modern Cultures in Transatlantic Context
The Warwick University History Department hosts the Eighteenth Century Centre and the Early Modern Forum which are focussed on early modern history, and the Global History and Culture Centre and the Centre for the History of Medicine which include early modern history. The Department also has close ties with the European Early American Studies Association, the interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, all of which include early modern history: