Reformation Studies Institute
As a group of scholars working on the Reformation and related studies, we are fortunate to be located in St Andrews: the historic heart of Scotland's Renaissance and Reformation. The University (founded in 1411) is the oldest in Scotland, and it was also, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a stage on which humanists and reformers acted out their parts in some of the great crises of European intellectual history. John Knox spent much of his later life here, and Andrew Melville, his successor as the dominant Scottish ecclesiastical figure of his era, was head of the University. In the centuries since the Reformation St Andrews has cultivated a tradition of excellence in Reformation studies. The foundation of the Reformation Studies Institute in 1993 reflected the university's commitment to enhancing St Andrews' established reputation in this field of scholarship. With its staff and research students, St Andrews now boasts one of the largest concentrations of scholars active in this field in any European university. The Institute has a distinctly international flavour, partly through our students, and partly through our partnership relationships with similar institutions in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. It sponsors a graduate seminar, conferences and visits from distinguished outside academics. The Institute also provides the editorial board for the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, a monograph series published by Ashgate.
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St Andrews University Library accessions major new digital resourcesSt Andrews University Library has subscribed to two major new digital collections to support advanced work in Reformation and Early Modern History. The TEMPO database is a large collection of 16th and 17th century pamphlets published by Brill. It offers complete accessed to some of the greatest surviving collections of early German and Dutch pamphlets: the Knuttel collection in the Royal Library in The Hague, the Van Alphen collection of Groningen library, and the Tübingen pamphlet project. These new accessions complement major collections of French, Swiss and German materials already available in St Andrews. These include a number of Reformation collections also published by Brill, which include the Huguenot pamphlets and Anti-Calvin series for which St Andrews academics Andrew Pettegree and Malcolm Walsby acted as editorial advisors. St Andrews Early Modernists have also welcomed the decision to subscribe to the digital version of the English 16th- and 17th-century State Papers. An ongoing venture of Gale / Centage, this will make available to scholars working in the field a vast amount of primary source material in a convenient digital format. It includes images of most of the manuscript records produced by central government in the Tudor period, and now preserved in The National Archives at Kew and the British Library. Soon the corresponding records for the post-1603 Stuart period will be added, allowing those working at St Andrews full access to the core government archive covering early modern English history, as well as the connections between English government, Scotland, Ireland, and continental Europe between 1509 and 1714. |
In 2010 we will commemorate the 450th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation. We are particularly pleased that three major conferences will be meeting in St Andrews, Scotland’s former ecclesiastical capital, that summer. Ecclesiastical History SocietyThe Ecclesiastical History Society will meet in St Andrews from 21st to 24th July 2010. The theme of the conference will be ‘The Church and Literature’. For further details click here http://www.ehsoc.org.uk/ European Reformation Research GroupERRG will meet in St Andrews from 6th to 7th September 2010. It is the UK’s principal forum for postgraduates and junior researchers working on all aspects of the religious history of early modern Europe, including the British Isles. From the group's inception a central aim has been to provide an opportunity for younger scholars, particularly postgraduate students, to discuss their research in its early stages. For further details click here http://www.errg.org.uk/
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University of St Andrews
St John's House
69 South Street
St Andrews
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KY16 9QW
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