Professor Peter DAVIDSON

Professor Peter DAVIDSON The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Chair in Renaissance Studies work +44 (0)1224 272618 work fax Fax: +44 (0)1224 272458 pref peter.davidson@abdn.ac.uk

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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. 

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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. 

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Stevenson, JB., Beavan, IM. & Davidson, PRKA. (2011). 'The Breviary of Aberdeen'. Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, vol 6, pp. 11-41.
• Stevenson, JB. & Davidson, PRKA. (2009). 'Ficino In Aberdeen: The Continuing Problem Of The Scottish Renaissance'. Journal of the Northern Renaissance, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 64-87.
• Davidson, PRKA. (2005). 'Pope's Recusancy'. Studies in the literary Imagination, vol 38, no. 1.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Davidson, PRKA. (2010). 'Perceptions of the British Isles and Ireland among the Catholic exiles: the case of Robert Corbington SJ'. D Worthington (ed.), in: British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688. The Northern World, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Germany, pp. 315-22.
• Davidson, PRKA. (2009). 'Donec Templa Refeceris: John Talman and English Catholic antiquarianism'. CM Sicca (ed.), in: John Talman: an eighteenth century conoisseur. Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 77-96.
• Davidson, PRKA. & MacCannell, DS. (2008). 'The 1707 Union, Europe and the Culture of Scotland'. A MacKillop & M O Siochrú (eds), in: Forging the State: European state formation and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. Dundee University Press, Dundee, United Kingdom, pp. 175-91.
• Davidson, PRKA. (2007). 'Recusant Catholic Spaces in Early Modern England'. R Corthell, FE Dolan, C Highley & AF Marotti (eds), in: Catholic Culture in Early Modern England. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame/Notre Dame, Indiana, pp. 19-51.
• Davidson, PRKA. (2006). 'The Jesuit Garden'. in: the Jesuits II: Culture Sciences and the Arts. Toronto Univeristy Press/Toronto, pp. 86-107.

Books and Reports

Books

• Davidson, PRKA. (in press). 'Distance and Memory'. Carcanet Press, Manchester.
• Beavan, IM., Davidson, PRKA. & Stevenson, JB. (2011). 'The Library and Archive Collections of the University of Aberdeen: an Introduction and Description'. Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• Davidson, PRKA. (2008). 'The Palace of Oblivion'. Carcanet Press, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• Stevenson, JB., Davidson, PRKA., Ellington, M. (ed.) & Mccannell, D. (ed.) (2008). 'The Lost City: Old Aberdeen'. Birlinn, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• Davidson, PRKA. (2007). 'The Universal Baroque'. Unknown Publisher, Manchester University Press.
• Davidson, PRKA. & Bepler, J. (2007). 'The Triumphs of the Defeated: Early modern festivals and messages of legitimacy'. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 116, Harrassowitz in Kommission.
• Davidson, PRKA. (2005). 'The Idea of North'. Unknown Publisher, Reaktion Books, London.

Scholarly Editions

• Davidson, PRKA. (2007). 'The Collected Poems of St Robert Southwell'. Unknown Publisher, Carcanet/Manchester.

Non-textual Forms

Compositions

• Davidson, PRKA., Stollery, PJ. & Mealor, P., (2010). '74 degrees North'. , 2010, Composition.

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