Find expertise

The Literature Department clusters literary research across different disciplines: Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Spanish and a number of Scandinavian languages. Its researchers also study comparative literature focussing on a number of topics such as book and genre studies, cultural memory, identity and interculturality, digital humanities, narratology and rhetorics.

Current research projects within the Centre for Urban History focus upon guilds in the early modern economy (c.14th-c.18th), the social history of cities in the late middle ages and the long sixteenth century (religion, society), material culture history (c.16th-c.18th), consumer culture, history of markets and retailing (middle ages-c.18th), book history (c.17th-18th). Research within the Urban History Centre focuses upon research methodologies ...