Medieval and Early Modern Studies have always played an important role in the School of Literature and Creative Writing at UEA and with a dedication to historical enquiry, critical and theoretical interrogation and transdisciplinary research, this field continues to be in a vibrant state at UEA.

Recent activity from group members

Joad Raymond has published Milton's Angels: The Early Modern Imagination (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010), and an essay, ‘The Restoration', in Milton in Context, ed. Stephen Dobranski (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010), pp. 460-74. Joad's essay ‘News' was published in The Elizabethan World, ed. Susan Doran and Norman Jones (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 495-510.

Peter Womack's essay on ‘The Writing of Travel' appeared in the two-volume New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. Michael Hattaway (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). 

Matthew Woodcock published Sir Philip Sidney and the Sidney Circle, Writers and Their Work series(Tavistock: Northcote House/ British Council, 2010), and two essays: ‘England in the Long Fifteenth Century', in A Companion to Medieval Poetry, ed. Corinne Saunders (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 501-19; and ‘Spirits of Another Sort: Constructing Shakespeare's Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream', in A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Critical Guide, ed. Regina Buccola (London: Continuum, 2010), pp. 112-30. Matthew published a journal article: ‘Shooting for England: Configuring the Book and the Bow in Roger Ascham's Toxophilus', Sixteenth Century Journal 44.4 (2010): 1017-38.