Research in Literature 1300-1700

Research in this group

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The School takes a historically informed line in Arthurian studies (Field, Radulescu), the literature of faith and argument (Corns, Sullivan, Wilcox), and gender (Hiscock, Niebryzdowski, Wilcox). All seven staff have submitted one or more monographs or scholarly editions in these areas. Moreover, the three chairs are responsible for the standard editions of Herbert and All's Well (Wilcox), Malory (Field), and Milton and Winstanley (Corns), and the Research Lecturer (Niebrzydowski) has co-edited the St Albans Psalter.

Our work is supported by the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. In 2006, scholars in the period in English, History, Law, Music, Theology and Welsh from Aberystwyth and Bangor (Swansea and the National Library of Wales are also involved to make a total of over 40 leading scholars) synergized to form IMEMS, which received £520,000 from HEFCW as part of the Research and Enterprise Partnership between Bangor and Aberystwyth universities. We now have the second largest Medieval and Early Modern research institute in the UK (after the Warburg). IMEMS has four aims:

Explore research questions that reflect our strengths (e.g. religious dissent, colonialism, poverty, languages and transculturalism)
To stimulate, support and disseminate our research through bi-weekly video conferences with leading scholars (e.g. Margaret Bent (Oxford), Michael Clanchy (Warburg), John Morrill (Cambridge), and Alan Rudrum (Simon Fraser), totalling 63 world-leading researchers since 2001)
To invite international scholars to Bangor to present papers at conferences, such as our biannual Restoration conference.
To spearhead the uses of the new technologies, to allow academics to talk with the most relevant people in their discipline across the world.

IMEMS has recruited three post-doctoral research lecturers (to service work under these aims), including Niebrzydowski in Bangor's School of English. Our school has taken a leading role in establishing three IMEMS research strands: 'Cultures of War', 'Textual Practices', as well as 'Women and the Sacred'.

Staff in the School of English also sustain debate in these areas of research at national and international level, as follows:

In 2002, Field hosted the International Arthurian Society's twentieth triennial conference, bringing 215 American, British, and continental scholars.
Corns is the founder and co-convenor of the British Milton Seminar.
Hiscock organized 'The Mistress Court of Mighty Europe: Configuring Europe and European Identities' (2004).
In 2003 and 2007 Radulescu organized sessions at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, and in 2006 organized two sessions at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo). She ran the 2007 conference of the British branch of the International Arthurian Society.
Wilcox organised the Later Renaissance Literature sessions at the conference of the International Association of University Professors of English (Vancouver 2004), and a series of colloquia on Gender and Early Modern Drama in England and Spain (Groningen 2002-3).