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Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Whose words are they, anyway? Visiting 'Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens'

In this blog, Clodagh Murphy reflects on her recent visit to "Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens" at the British Library. The first exhibition to consider both queens jointly, "Elizabeth and Mary" tells their remarkable story through the queens’ ‘own words’.

Clodagh Murphy • 20-01-2022

Classics and Classical Civilisation · Medieval and Early Modern Studies · Modern and Contemporary Studies

New Publication Alert! Arts in Society: Academic Rhapsodies

Have you finished our blog and are you looking for more open access content on the arts in society to read from home? Look no further, we have a fresh open access publication for you!

Lieke Smits + 3 others • 31-03-2020

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

It’s a Small World: The Dollhouse in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

A small corpus of extant seventeenth-century Dutch dollhouses shares traits with other contemporary collecting practices, but demonstrates different potentials for microcosmic thinking.

Jun Nakamura • 21-02-2019