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.

SRS Book Series Interviews: Patrick Murray

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Patrick Murray about his recent book Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England, 1550-1700, the benefits of writing in small bursts and the breadth of cartographic thought in the early modern period.   1. ​What drew you towards…

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SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2024-25

The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that its 2024–2025 postdoctoral fellowships have been awarded to Jean David Eynard and Claire Turner for projects on the early modern senses. As always, we received an extremely high number of exceptional applications and we would like to congratulate all applicants on the quality of their…

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Renaissance Studies Latest Issue (June 2024)

The latest issue of Renaissance Studies (Vol 38, no. 3, June 2024) is now available online via the Wiley Online Library.   Articles Rachel White and Brett Greatley-Hirsch, ‘Ass-troll-ogical Nashe: Revisiting Two Dangerous Comets and A Wonderful Prognostication’, pages 335-362 Isabella Walser-Bürgler, ‘A question of genre: Philip Melanchthon’s oratorical debut at Wittenberg University’, pages 363-378…

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Statement on the Value of Renaissance and Premodern Studies

The UK’s Higher Education sector has made an alarming number of redundancy announcements in recent months and years. Taking place against a backdrop of negative and erroneous publicity about the value of the arts and humanities, these redundancies have disproportionately affected scholars in premodern studies. Redundancies are presented as a solution to the financial challenges…

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SRS Book Series: Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge – 2023 Book Round-Up and Looking Ahead to 2024

At the start of the new year, we want to take the opportunity to highlight some of the fantastic work being done in the field of Renaissance Studies by looking back at the books published with the Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge book series in 2023. We will also give a sneak preview…

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Reflections on SRS 2023

The Society for Renaissance Studies’ biennial conference, ‘Difficult Pasts’, organised by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University by Rebecca Bailey, Harald Braun, and Rachel Willie, enabled delegates to enjoy a varied and thought-provoking programme. Panels, roundtable discussions and workshops on an eclectic range of subjects were informed by current enquiry in Renaissance…

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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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Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty

Sir Keith Thomas on the fiftieth anniversary of his Religion and the Decline of Magic   A speech given at All Souls College on Friday 3 September 2021 by Sir Keith Thomas reflecting on the fiftieth anniversary of his ground-breaking Religion and the Decline of Magic, introduced by Alan Macfarlane. Due to a technical difficulty…

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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.