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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New Grant for USTC projectThe Universal Short Title Project has now a new grant from the Wellcome Trust. The Wellcome grant will underwrite a pilot project to analyse all medical texts published in northern Europe before 1601: a corpus of around 5,000 items. In addition the grant will permit members of the project team to examine surviving collections of early medical texts in major British collections. The printing of medical texts, both for professional users and lay readers, was one of the most buoyant markets in the early print world. The project is delighted to have the partnership of the Wellcome Trust to push forward this important work. The grant (£30,000) will permit the appointment of a research analyst, who will have primary responsibility for the examination of copies and the creation of a public access database. We are also delighted to be able to call on the expertise of our collaborator, Professor Emeritus Iain Donaldson of the University of Edinburgh, who will work with the project team in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, one of the most important of the collections to be investigated. |
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
Fife
KY16 9QW
refinst@st-andrews.ac.uk
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