Lucy Nicholas

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Name:
Lucy Nicholas
Qualifications:
PhD
Position:
Senior Lecturer in Latin and Greek Language and Culture
Institute:
Warburg Institute
Location:
The Warburg Institute Woburn Square London
Phone:
07714098552
Email address:
Lucy.Nicholas@sas.ac.uk
Website:
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/lucy-nicholas

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:
Classics, Early Modern, History
Regions:
England, Europe, United Kingdom
Languages:
Spoken Written
French Intermediate Intermediate
German Intermediate Intermediate
Latin - Fluent
Other: Classical/ Neo Greek
Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date Details
01-Jan-2025 ‘Hellenomania and the sixteenth-century Anglo-German axis’

Chapters

in Griechischhumanismus des. 16 Jahrhunderts: Lorenz Rhodoman im Kontext und digital ed. Stefan Weise )Franz Steiner Verlag), pp. 91-116

01-Aug-2024 ‘Roger Ascham’s Latin-Greek code-switching: a philosophical phenomenon’

Articles

In Journal of Latin Cosmopolitan and European Literatures, issue 9, eds. William Barton and Raf van Rooy.

17-Dec-2023 ‘The Sixteenth Century’s Revolution in Rhetoric and its Impact on the Baroque’

Chapters

in Baroque Latinity, eds. Jacquie Glomski, Gesine Manuwald and Andrew Taylor (Bloomsbury), pp. 13-30

01-Nov-2023 ‘The Latin Utopias’

Chapters

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia, eds. Cathy Shrank and Phil Withington

01-Oct-2023 Roger Ascham’s Themata Theologica

Monographs

01-Sep-2022 An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities

Edited Book

01-Nov-2021 Roger Ascham and his Sixteenth-Century World

Edited Book

01-Sep-2021 ‘New perspectives on Cambridge’s role in the religious Reformation: Roger Ascham and the early Edwardian religious debates at the University’

Chapters

The Cambridge Connection in Tudor England: Humanism, Reform, Rhetoric, Politics, eds. John F. McDiarmid and Susan Wabuda.

01-Sep-2020 ‘In Search of the Truth: Mid-Sixteenth Century Disputations on the Eucharist in England’

Chapters

In Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context, ed. Robert Seidel

01-Sep-2020 An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature

Edited Book

01-Sep-2020 Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities

Edited Book

01-May-2020 ‘“Amid the tears we sing”: Virgil and Humanity’

Articles

The Proceedings of the Virgil Society

01-Apr-2020 ‘Margaret Ascham, Wife and “Literary Agent” of Roger Ascham’

Research aids

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing, eds. Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith (Palgrave)

01-Sep-2017 Roger Ascham’s ‘A Defence of the Lord’s Supper’: Latin Text and English Translation

Monographs

01-Dec-2016 Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres,

Edited Book

co-edited with Svorad Zavarsky and Andrea Riedl (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek Poetry in the Age of Confessionalisation: Studies in Verse of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation

A co-edited volume 

Neo-Latin and New Ancient Greek writings of Tudor England

A monograph project

Thomas Nashe Project

Latin Editor

Contributing (a) a chapter to the OUP Handbook on Nashe and (b) an edition of Nashe's Latin verse

Current PhD topics supervised:

Dates Details
From: 01-Sep-2026
Until:
Neo-Latin of Thomas Chaloner

First supervisor: F/T (funded) student at the Warburg

From: 01-Sep-2026
Until:
The reception of Cicero in Early Modern Europe

First supervisor: F/T student at the Warburg

From: 01-Sep-2026
Until:
Early Modern Print and the Reformation

Second supervisor: P/T student at the Warburg

From: 01-Sep-2024
Until:
Neo-Latin of Abraham Fraunce

First supervisor: P/T (funded) student at the Warburg

From: 01-Sep-2022
Until: 30-Sep-2026
Early Renaissance Women's Neo-Latin

Second supervisor: F/T PhD at the Warburg 

From: 01-Aug-2026
Until:
Neo-Latin in the Age of Enlightenment

second supervisor: external F/T PhD student (Innsbruck University)

Past PhD topics supervised:

Dates Details
From: 01-Sep-2021
Until:
Early Modern Women's Neo-Latin

Second supervisor external student (UCL)

Available for doctoral supervision: Yes

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name Activity
Society of Neo-Latin Studies
International Society for Neo-Latin Studies
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