Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Exeter, UK

Major Research Projects and Grants

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Professor Malcolm Cook is the Director of the AHRC funded project to prepare a critical edition of the correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (online edition to be published by the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford ).

Dr Henry French (History) has been awarded a major AHRC grant for a project on ‘Man's Estate: Masculinity and Landed Gentility in England , 1660-1918' which will run from 2007-2010. This project has enabled the appointment of Dr Mark Rothery and Jennifer Jordan as research assistants.

Dr Hugh Roberts (French) has been awarded a major AHRC grant for a project on ‘Notions of Obscenity in Renaissance France'. This project links researchers from the UK , USA , France and the Netherlands

For further information about this research project please see the following web site: http://www.groups.ex.ac.uk/obscenity/.

Dr Jane Whittle was engaged in a major research project on ‘The Housewife in Early Modern Rural England: Gender, Markets and Consumption', funded by the ESRC/AHRC 'Cultures of Consumption' programme, running from 2003-7. The project will result in a book on Consumption and Gender in an Early Seventeenth-Century Household: The World of Alice Le Strange .

Recent Research Leave Awards and Fellowships

The ceiling at St Peter and St Paul parish church, Muchelney, Somerset

AHRC Research Leave awards:
Dr Philip Schwyzer 2005-6;
Dr Marion Gibson 2006-7;
Dr Jane Whittle 2007-8.

Professor Andrew McRae has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2007-8 (‘Domestic Tourism in Early Modern England')

Professor Alex Walsham was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2002-3 (‘Holy Wells and Healing Springs in Early Modern England') and a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship for 2006-7 (‘The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Memory, and Legend in Early Modern Britain').