FOREWORD
PROFESSOR JULIAN GARDNER
Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis. This issue of the Renaissance Journal
marks the beginning of a new phase in the existence of both the Centre for
the Study of the Renaissance and the AHRB Centre for the Study of
Renaissance Élites and Court Cultures. On 1 April 2003 Professor Ronnie
Mulryne stepped down from the Directorships of both Centres. It was his
enthusiasm and dedication which built the former, and his powers of
persuasion, deployed on both his Warwick colleagues and the Arts and
Humanities Research Board, which gained the latter for the University. Our
debt to him is very considerable. We can be comforted by the thought that
his expertise will still be at the service of the Centre, and he will continue his
involvement with the Europa Triumphans project, the texts of which have just
been handed over to the publishers. Contemporaneously Dr. Margaret
Shewring relinquished the direction of the John Nichols project, one of the
three strands in the AHRB’s programme of research. To her also the AHRB
Centre owes much.
The new Director of the AHRB Centre and of the Centre for the Study of
the Renaissance is Professor Julian Gardner of the Department of the
History of Art. He will be assisted by two Deputy Directors, Dr. Elizabeth
Clarke of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, who will
also assume the leadership of the John Nichols project, and Dr. Steve
Hindle of the History Department, who will be responsible for research and
development.