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TIDE is a 5-year European Research Council funded project (2016-2021) that aims to investigate how mobility in the great age of travel and discovery shaped English perceptions of human identity based on cultural identification and difference. The role of those marked by transcultural mobility was central to this period. Trade, diplomacy and politics, religious schisms, shifts in legal systems, all attempted to control and formalise the identity of such figures. Our current world is all too familiar with the concepts that surfaced or evolved as a result: foreigners, strangers, aliens, converts, exiles, or even translators, ambassadors and go-betweens. By examining how different discourses tackled the fraught question of human identity in this era, TIDE will open a new perspective on cross-cultural encounters.
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25 February 2023
TIDE’s ERC-funded phase has now come to an end, but we are delighted to announce TIDE’s next phase — Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in the Early Modern World, based at...
29 July 2022
It’s a delight and honour to introduce this blog post by Sara Pelham on our work. Emma Frankland, Andy Kesson and a group of performers and researchers are staging John Lyly’s play...
Announcing Lives in Transit in Early Modern England
19 April 2022
We are delighted to announce that the ERC-TIDE project’s second collaborative output, Lives in Transit in Early Modern England, is now available in print and online open access with...
Undergraduate Showcase: Curating Transculturality
9 March 2022
For two weeks in February 2021, undergraduate students on the third-year ‘Researching the Renaissance’ course at the University of York became honorary TIDE researchers. Lauren...