Professor Peter Davidson
Chair in Renaissance Studies
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272618 |
| Fax: | Fax: +44 (0)1224 272458 |
| E-mail: | peter.davidson@abdn.ac.uk |
Research Interests
His research focuses on the inter-relations of the arts in the early-modern period: symbols and emblems, festivals, gardens, the applied arts. He is particularly interested in baroque internationalism and in the literary and visual arts of the Counter-reformation.
He is Honorary Curator of Aberdeen University's Manuscript, Rare Book and Museum Collections from the Renaissance and Baroque periods and is writing the history of the collections for publication in 2008. He has supervised original research on those collections at Doctoral and Post-Doctoral levels.
Current Research
An edited volume of essays on 'The Festivals of the Defeated in Early-Modern Europe' is in press in the Wolfenbuettler Forschungen series.
An essay on 'John Talman and Catholic Antiquarianism' has been comissioned by Yale University Press for their forthcoming volume on Talman and his collections.
A monograph on Baroque internationalism, with particular focus on Scotland, Ireland, and Ibero-America, is in press with Manchester University Press.
Publications
- Davidson, PRKA. Distance and Memory, Book, 2013
- Stevenson, JB., Beavan, IM. & Davidson, PRKA. The Breviary of Aberdeen, Article, 2011, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 6, pp11 - 41, ISSN/ISBN: 1752-0320
- Beavan, IM., Davidson, PRKA. & Stevenson, JB. The Library and Archive Collections of the University of Aberdeen, Book, 2011
- Davidson, PRKA., Stollery, PJ. & Mealor, P. 74 degrees North, Composition, 2010
- Davidson, PRKA. Perceptions of the British Isles and Ireland among the Catholic exiles, Chapter, 2010, British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688, pp315 - 22
- Davidson, PRKA. Donec Templa Refeceris, Chapter, 2009, John Talman, pp77 - 96
- Stevenson, JB. & Davidson, PRKA. Ficino In Aberdeen, Article, 2009, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 1, 1, pp64 - 87, ISSN/ISBN: 1759-3085
- Davidson, PRKA. & MacCannell, DS. The 1707 Union, Europe and the Culture of Scotland, Chapter, 2008, Forging the State, pp175 - 91
- Stevenson, JB., Davidson, PRKA., Ellington, M. & Mccannell, D. The Lost City, Book, 2008
- Davidson, PRKA. The Palace of Oblivion, Book, 2008
- Davidson, PRKA. Recusant Catholic Spaces in Early Modern England, Chapter, 2007, Catholic Culture in Early Modern England, pp19 - 51
- Davidson, PRKA. The Collected Poems of St Robert Southwell, Scholarly Edition, 2007
- Davidson, PRKA. & Bepler, J. The Triumphs of the Defeated, Book, 2007
- Davidson, PRKA. The Universal Baroque, Book, 2007
- Davidson, PRKA. The Jesuit Garden, Chapter, 2006, the Jesuits II: Culture Sciences and the Arts, pp86 - 107
- Davidson, PRKA. Pope's Recusancy, Article, 2005, Studies in the literary Imagination, 38, 1, ISSN/ISBN: 0039-3819
- Davidson, PRKA. The Idea of North, Book, 2005