Research projects

Our research projects are undertaken in collaboration with other institutions. Close to home, we work with the John Rylands Research Institute, and further afield we run two initiatives with The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Golden calligraphy

John Rylands Research Institute and Library projects

Including 'The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Galen's On Simple Drugs and the Recovery of Lost Text through Sophisticated Imaging Techniques', and 'Syriac Epidemics'.
Gerhardi Blasii, Licetus de Monstris, fol. 298, John Rylands Library (R 51216).

Connecting Collections

A research and teaching project driven by the early European art collections of the Universities of Manchester and Melbourne.
Saint Augustine

Foreign Bodies

Exploring how images and objects in the early modern period (1400-1700) constructed the foreign, the exotic, the other.
The word 'sleep' stitched onto hanging sheets

How we used to sleep

An innovative collaboration with the National Trust's Tudor property, Little Moreton Hall.
Black and white photograph of a train exiting a tunnel, courtesy Tameside Archive

Medievalism

Ongoing research into the impact and legacy of the Middle Ages on modernity.