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Refashioning team workshop on documents in London

4 October 2018

Our Refashioning the Renaissance team is meeting in London for a two-day workshop on 4–5 October, and we are joined by our Advisory Board member Professor John Styles and Postdoctoral Scholar Sophie Pitman from The Making and Knowing Project. This ...

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A Taste for the Exotic Conference in Riggisberg, 27–28 September

26 September 2018

Dressing the Early Modern Network 2018 Conference A Taste for the Exotic: Cross-Cultural Influences in Early Modern Dress and Textiles is organised in Riggisberg, Switzerland on 27–28 September 2018. The aim of the conference is to focus on the cross-cultural influences in dress and textiles, and ...

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Paula Hohti in YLE Radio 1 interview

4 September 2018

Last spring our Principal Investigator Paula Hohti was interviewed for Finnish Boradcasting Company YLE Radio 1, and now the interview has been published! Paula talks with journalist Sini Sovijärvi about our research project, artisan fashions and sumptuary laws. YLE also published a ...

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Seminar on Fashion and Popular Groups, Padova 10 May 2018

4 May 2018

Refashioning the Rrenaissance project is pleased to invite everyone to a seminar Fashion and Popular Groups in Renaissance Europe, organised together with the University of Padova Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World on Thursday 10 May in Sala ...

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Our First Newsletter Is Out

11 April 2018

We have just sent the first Refashioning the Renaissance newsletter out to all our subscribers! In the newsletter we tell a little bit about our project and our future plans. If you want to keep up with the work we ...

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Refashioning the Renaissance Project Website Launches

13 October 2017

In December 2016, European Research Council  awarded Professor Paula Hohti a 2 million euro consolidator grant for her project Refashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups and the Material and Cultural Significance of Clothing in Europe 1550-1650. The project is hosted by ...

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