Rachel Willie

New documents reveal Servetus’s life as a student and teacher in Spain

Michael Servetus (c. 1511-1553) was a renowned polymath, who is an important figure in the history of many disciplines. His nontrinitarianism led him to being condemned by Catholic authorities in France and, upon fleeing to Protestant Geneva, he was burnt at the stake for heresy. Despite his significance, until recently, there were no documents about

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New SRS Postdoctoral Fellows Announced (2018-19)

The Fellowships Committee is pleased to announce Amy Lidster and Eleanor Chan as the winners of this year’s Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition (2018-19). Amy’s project is entitled ‘Challenging authorship and authority in early modern paratexts’ and Eleanor’s project is ‘Reading through style: Conscious lines in European vocal polyphony and visual culture c.1600’. We received an unprecedented

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Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800: Cultures of the Sea

Call for Proposals: Interdisciplinary in its approach, Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800: Cultures of the Sea welcomes books from across the full range of humanities subjects, and invites submissions that conceptually engage with issues of globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism, and the histories of science and technology. Series Editors Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, UK John McAleer,

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SRS@50

#SRSat50 We are pleased to announce three events to celebrate fifty years of the Society for Renaissance Studies. These are all based on the theme of the ‘Renaissance of the Senses’. There will be two public lectures on John Donne and the sense of smell in Dublin (13 September) and on Silent Shakespeare in York

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