Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies

The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) at Victoria University in the University of Toronto is a research and teaching centre with a library devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700. The CRRS supervises an undergraduate program in Renaissance Studies, organizes lectures and seminars, and maintains an active series of publications. The Centre’s collection of early editions of Erasmus in one of the strongest in the world. The library also holds a large non-circulating collection of important modern publications in most areas of early modern studies, and its fellows also have access to the extensive resources of University of Toronto library system more broadly. The CRRS is a quiet and comfortable working space, overlooking the beautiful quad of Victoria College in the University of Toronto, an ideal venue for research and writing. There are approximately eighty full-time faculty at the University of Toronto who study aspects of early modern culture in a wide variety of disciplines; the CRRS encourages contact with professors and graduate students through a yearly series of workshops, distinguished visiting speakers, and international conferences.