Duncan Frost

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Katie Bank and reflect on her book Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music which was published in 2021. We discuss the music’s affective power, the John Templeton Foundation project ‘Can Beauty Save the World?‘​ and the importance of […]

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Syrithe Pugh and reflect on her book Euhemerism and Its Uses: The Mortal Gods which was published in 2021. We discuss the difficulties of lost texts and fragments, acrostics found in the pseudo-Virgilian Culex and the importance of reading texts

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

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

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 2024. We will also give a sneak preview of

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

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

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Sjoerd Levelt, Esther van Raamsdonk and Michael D. Rose about their edited collection of essays Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World, unexplored Anglo-Dutch links, and the unexpected benefits of small word limits.   1. What drew you towards

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Sam Kennerley about his book Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean, how the book developed as he was writing and the ire of Guglielmo Sirleto.  

In our latest interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Angela Andreani about her book Meredith Hanmer and the Elizabethan Church: A Clergyman’s Career in 16th Century England and Ireland, the surprising nature of research and the importance of good networking.   What drew you towards Renaissance and