Rachel Willie

“Plum pottage was mere popery”: the ups and downs of Christmas in the 17th century

Despite the persistent belief that Christmas was effectively invented by the Victorians and barely bothered with by anyone before the 19th century, a bit of a delve into the literature of the 17th century yields much in the way of interesting Christmas-related curiosities. Performance has a long association with Christmas, from medieval mummers plays to Henry […]

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Beyond Academia

The dissemination and interpretation of research outside academia is, or at least should be, high on the agenda of any academic researcher. For those of us working in early modern and medieval studies, sharing our research with a wider audience has some rather specific ups and downs. Interest in the period is rarely lacking: people

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SRS Book Prize 2016: Winner Announced

The 2016 SRS book prize was awarded to Kate van Orden for her Materialities: Books, Readers and the Chanson in Sixteenth Century Europe (OUP, 2015). One further book was highly commended, Helmer Helmers, The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere (CUP, 2015). As ever, the judges were impressed by the high standard of the books entered for

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Connected Histories in the Early Modern World

New Book Series from ARC Humanities Press and MIP SERIES EDITORS: CHRISTINA LEE Princeton University JULIA SCHLECK University of Nebraska, Lincoln ADVISORY BOARD: SERGE GRUZINSKI National Scientific Research Center, Paris MICHAEL LAFFAN Princeton University RICARDO PADRÓN University of Virginia ELIZABETH RODINI Johns Hopkins University KAYA ŞAHIN Indiana University, Bloomington

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Reflections on SRS2016

Blogpost by the British School in Rome: BSR in Glasgow – 2016 SRS Bienniel Conference SRS in Glasgow: taken from the Bulletin, April 2017 It was a great privilege to be invited to organize the Society for Renaissance Studies’ seventh Biennial Conference at the University of Glasgow. Planning for the event, which was held over

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