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Anisia Iacob
Anisia Alis Iacob is a PhD candidate at the University of Kent and King's College London as part of the Knowledge Orders Before Modernity program. She conducts research regarding the reception of the Reformation in early modern Transylvania. More specifically, she is interested in how the radical ideas of the Reformation created their own identity in the region, an identity expressed through craftsmanship. To investigate this, she takes an embodied and environmental approach which is informed by the early modern developments of natural philosophy. Her research interests include but are not limited to the history of early modern Europe, the history of ideas, material culture, reformation, print culture, early modern philosophy and sciences, and early modern art. In the past, she has been awarded two MAs from the University of Leiden and worked at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) on two projects.
Education:Leiden University, 2020-2023MA Arts and Culture, MA PhilosophyBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj, 2019-2020BA History, BA PhilosophyExpertise:Articles by Anisia Iacob
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