In the spring of 2017, Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) will publish its first issue. This new open access journal will appear in two installments every year, containing high-quality, original scholarship for an international readership on any aspect of the history and culture of the Low Countries between 1500 and 1800. The successor of […]
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New book series from Amsterdam University Press – proposals sought Editor-In-Chief G. Geltner, University of Amsterdam Editorial Board I. Alfonso Antón , CCHS Madrid T. Dean, University of Roehampton M. Korpiola, University of Turku C. Lange, Utrecht University
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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
Imagine a society where every single adult was trained in – and practised – composing short original texts, every single day. At the turn of the seventeenth century, changes in writing private prayers underlay major developments in drama. Required to pray independently, convinced their private prayers had an impact on the course of events, the
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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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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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Call for proposals for a new book series published by Medieval Institute Publications The series welcomes the submission of both monographs and essay collections that view cultures in Europe and the Americas between 1100 and 1700 through the lens of play. SERIES EDITORS BRET ROTHSTEIN (Chair) Indiana University ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI University of Verona CHRISTINA NORMORE
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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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