TEEME is an international doctoral programme in early modern studies funded by the European Union under the Erasmus Mundus scheme. It is structured around a unique collaboration between university-based researchers in the humanities and the cultural and creative sector in four EU countries (United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic). We are looking for candidates with research projects that are comparative and interdisciplinary in conception, that bear a clear relation to present needs and debates, and that span at least two different linguistic, religious and/or ethnic cultures within Europe, or that relate one European with one non-European culture, in the period 1400 to 1700, or in later political or cultural uses and representations of early modern literature and history. By relating a broad understanding of ‘text' – in its original meaning of tissue, web or texture – to underlying ‘events' – the raw data of the past shaped into story by ‘weaving' or writing – all projects will combine a textual-literary with a cultural-historical strand.

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Dr Barbara Bombi: Reader in Medieval History

Ecclesiastical and religious history, 1200-1400; canon law and history of the medieval papacy; crusades and history of the military orders; Anglo-papal relations in the 14th century; Latin diplomatic and palaeography. Recent publications include: Il registro di Andrea Sapiti, procuratore fiorentino presso la curia papale nei primi decenni del XIV secolo (2007); Novella plantatio fidei. Missione e crociata nel nord europa tra la fine del XII e i primi decenni del XIII secolo (2007); I Cristiani e il favoloso Egitto: Una relazione dall'Oriente e la storia di Damietta di Oliviero da Colonia (co-ed, 2009).

Dr Alixe Bovey: Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

Medieval visual culture, focusing especially on Gothic illuminated manuscripts. Recent publications include: Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts (co-ed, 2007); Jean de Carpentin's Book of Hours: The Genius of the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (2011). l

Professor Peter Brown: Professor of Medieval English Literature

Chaucer and other late-medieval English writers; contextual aspects of medieval culture, including historiography, the visual arts, dreams and space. Recent publications include: A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c1350-1500 (2007).

Dr Rosanna Cox: Lecturer in Early Modern Studies

Political thought, culture and literature in the mid to late 17th century; John Milton; early modern statecraft and diplomacy; gender, politics and reading; education and the English universities from the mid-16th century. Recent publications include: Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture (co-ed, 2010).

Professor Kenneth Fincham: Professor of Early Modern History

Early modern Britain, particularly religion; the clergy of the Anglican Church; the era of the Civil Wars. Recent publications include: Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700 (co-author, 2007); Vital Statistics: Episcopal Ordination and Ordinands in England, 1646-60, English Historical Review (co-ed, 2011).

Dr Helen Gittos: Lecturer in Medieval History

Anglo-Saxon England, especially the 10th and 11th centuries; the earlier medieval European Church, especially its liturgy and architecture; the status and uses of medieval vernacular languages; Anglo-Norman liturgy and architecture, and the impact of the Conquest on these topics. Recent publications include: Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England (forthcoming); Understanding Medieval Liturgy (co-ed, forthcoming)

Dr David Grummitt: Lecturer in Early Modern History

Early modern government and politics, diplomacy and war; particularly Tudor England. Recent publications include: The Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England 1436-1558 (2008); War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559 (co-author, 2008); A Short History of the Wars of the Roses (forthcoming).

Dr Sarah James: Lecturer in Medieval Literature

Late medieval vernacular theological writings in their historical, religious and political contexts; the pastoral care tradition; interactions between medieval literature and visual culture; dreams and visions; late medieval drama. Publications include: articles on Capgrave's Life of St Katharine and Pecock and the uses of the vernacular; reconfiguring concepts of orthodoxy and heterodoxy in late medieval England.

Dr Andy Kesson: Lecturer in Early Modern Studies

Performance theory, book history, representations of the body and sexuality on and off the stage, reception theory, pedagogy and the history of English as a scholarly discipline. Current projects include a collaborative workshop investigating the relationship between words and action onstage. Recent publications include: John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship (forthcoming); The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England (co-ed, forthcoming).

Professor Bernhard Klein: Professor of English Literature

Early modern literature and culture, Irish studies, maritime culture and history. Recent publications include: On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing (2007); Dido: Dramatisches Gedicht in Die Abteilungen (2011); Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain (co-ed, 2011).

Dr Luke Lavan: Lecturer in Archaeology

Everyday use of space in the late antique and early medieval city (AD 300-700), drawing on archaeological, textual and epigraphic evidence from across the Roman Empire. Recent publications include: Housing in Late Antiquity: From Palaces to Shops (co-ed, 2007); Objects in Context, Objects in Use (co-ed, 2008); Technology in Transition AD300-650 (co-ed, 2008); The Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism (ed, 2011). www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/staff

Dr Marion O'Connor: Reader in English and American Literature

Theatrical reconstructions and dramatic revivals; iconography; drama as historiography; censorship. Recent publications include: The Witch (Oxford University Press Collected Works of Thomas Middleton) (co-ed, 2007); Shakespeare Reproduced: The text in history and ideology (co-ed, 2008); The Court Beggar and The Queen's Exchange (The Collected Works of Richard Brome) (ed, 2010).

Professor David Ormrod: Professor of Economic and Cultural History

Early modern English and European economic and cultural history. Recent publications include: The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770 (2008); Artists, Dealers and Connoisseurs. The Origins of the English Art Market, 1650-1815 (forthcoming). /profiles

Dr Ryan Perry: Lecturer in Medieval Literature

Middle English textual cultures with a particular focus on historiographical literature; pastoral/ affective writings of the 14th and 15th centuries; late-medieval manuscripts containing English texts and methodologies which explore the axis between textual and material culture; devotional manuals and books containing lives of Christ.

Dr David Potter: Reader in French History

Early modern France; the state and local society in the 15th and 16th centuries; the impact of war; the French aristocracy in the 16th century; Renaissance diplomacy. Recent publications include: Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, c.1480-1560 (2008); Henry VIII and Francis I: the Final Conflict, 1540-47 (2011).

Dr Catherine Richardson: Reader in Renaissance Studies

Early modern literature and drama; language and narrative; material culture, especially clothing and the household. Recent publications include: William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (co-ed, 2009); Everyday Objects: medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings (co-ed, 2010); Making Household: The account book of Sir Thomas Puckering of Warwick and London (co-ed, 2011).

Dr Ben Thomas: Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Art; Curator, Studio 3 Gallery

Italian Renaissance art; Renaissance writing on the visual arts; 16th and 17th-century prints.

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