SRS 11th Biennial Conference

'Interconnections'

University of Bristol, 2-5 July 2025

Publications

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Renaissance Studies

Renaissance Studies is the Society’s quarterly multi-disciplinary journal, publishing articles and editions of documents covering all aspects of Renaissance history and culture. Latest Issue

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SRS Book Series

This series is dedicated to the exploration of the many cultures of knowledge, learning, reading and performing in the Renaissance and Early Modern world (c.1400-c.1700).

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Bulletin

The Bulletin is published twice a year and is issued free to members. It contains substantial articles relating to SRS events and reports on Society-funded projects and conferences.

Renaissance Studies Article Prize 2025

The Renaissance Studies Article Prize 2025 has been awarded to Tim Shephard and Melany Rice for ‘Giovanni Pontano hears the Street Soundscape of Naples’  Vol. 38, No 4, pages 519-540, September 2024 DOI 10.1111/rest.12913.   The judges were hugely  impressed by the quality and range of the articles in the 2024 issues of Renaissance Studies and…

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David Sanderson Chambers, 1934-2025

David Chambers was a loyal member of the Society for Renaissance Studies, contributed to its journal and served as its chairman. He matriculated at Wadham College Oxford in 1953 and achieved his doctorate in 1961. Encouraged by study and travel grants, he developed an interest in Italian Renaissance history and a knowledge of Italian sources….

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SRS Book Series Interviews: Ovanes Akopyan

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Ovanes Akopyan about his forthcoming book with David Rosenthal Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions, similarities between early modern and modern understandings of disaster, and how a decline in knowledge of ancient languages is shaping Renaissance…

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SRS Vice-Chair Nominations

The position of vice-chair of the Society will be vacant and open to nominations, for election at the summer AGM (5 July 2025). Nominations should be made on the formal nomination form (available in the Members’ Area of the website) and addressed to the Secretary of the Society, to arrive no later than 21 dats…

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SRS Book Series Interviews: Edward Holberton

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Edward Holberton about his forthcoming book Atlantic Circulations: Literature, Reception and Imperial Identities, 1650-1750, contemporary adaptations of early modern texts, and the instabilities of an unfolding British imperial identity in this period.   1. ​What drew you towards Renaissance…

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SRS Biennial Conference 2027 & 2029

Call for Expressions of Interest   The Society for Renaissance Studies seeks expressions of interest in relation to hosting the Society’s biennial conference in 2027 (our 60th anniversary year) or 2029. The conference has a strong reputation for collegiality, innovation and support of ECAs, and draws a large number of delegates from the UK, Ireland,…

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New editor and associate editor, Renaissance Studies

We are delighted to announce the appointment of John Gallagher (Leeds) as Editor of Renaissance Studies, together with Elizabeth Petcu (Edinburgh) as Associate Editor. John will take up his role in January 2026, while Elizabeth has recently taken up the post; their range and depth of disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise, from history and languages to…

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Playhouse Lab

Playhouse Lab is a play-reading group, which meets regularly in the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds to explore early modern plays in script-in-hand performances. It is co-convened by José A. Pérez Díez and Jane Rickard, and Brett Greatley-Hirsch manages the website. Our regular readers include members of academic staff; current undergraduate and postgraduate…

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Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, CC (1928-2023)

We are deeply saddened to learn that the historian Natalie Zemon Davis has died just shy of her 95th birthday. Her career spanned decades, encompassed early modern France, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean, and was never confined to or contented with the scholarly debate du jour but instead incorporated categories of analysis which…

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Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons

Although by 1681 Edmund Hickeringill could complain ‘that every Book-sellers Stall groans under the burthen of Sermons, Sermons’ (The Horrid Sin of Man-Catching, 1681 ‘Epistle to the Reader’), many more early modern sermons were preached than printed. Consequently, the print record tells an incomplete story of preaching in early modern Britain, one that generally favours…

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GEMMS Research Assistant Opportunities in the UK and the US

The Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS) project is seeking two PhD students, one in the northeastern US and the other in the UK, in a related field of study (including but not limited to early modern English literature, social, political, and religious history, theology, and book history) to assist with data collection. The…

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Early Modern German Shakespeare in Action: Creation Theatre’s Romio und Julieta

An online roundtable hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies on 4th May 2021   Participants: Maria Shmygol (University of Leeds), Harry McCarthy (University of Cambridge), Kareen Seidler (ex. Université de Genève), Lucy Askew (Creation Theatre), and Ryan Duncan (Creation Theatre)   This event brought together scholars, translators, and theatre practitioners for a discussion of…

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Events

Information about our own biennial conference, and other events around the world that may be of interest to those with an interest in the Renaissance period.