The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce the shortlist for its 2022 Book Prize: Sarah A. Bendall, Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England (London: Bloomsbury, 2021) John Christopoulos, Abortion in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021) Suzanna Ivanič, Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern […]
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The Fellowships Committee is pleased to announce James Misson and Julia Smith have been awarded Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2022-2023. We received 29 applications this year and, as ever, the field was exceptionally strong. James Misson, ‘Manuscript>Print>Code’ In the 1490s, the printer Richard Pynson and his team of compositors printed two books using Middle English manuscripts
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What is impact and how can we do impactful research? That’s the topic of this SRS Public Engagement Toolbox conversation with Dr Sara Read and Dr Catie Gill, both of Loughborough University, whose work with the National Civil War Centre in Newark was the basis for an Impact Case Study in REF
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[Book Launch] Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance 30% discount available until 30 June 2022. List price: £30 | 9780691211336 Order the book online and use the code MIC22 at the checkout. Postage and packaging costs will be added at point of purchase Being a
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The latest issue of Renaissance Studies (Vol 37, no. 2, April 2023) is now available online via the Wiley Online Library. It is a special issue on Aretino’s Cityscapes, guest edited by Kate De Rycker and William T. Rossiter. Articles Kate De Rycker and William T. Rossiter, ‘Introduction’, pages 153-165 William T. Rossiter, ‘”I
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The position of vice-chair of the Society will be vacant and open to nominations, for election at the summer AGM (6 May 2022). Nominations should be made on the formal nomination form (available in the Members’ Area of the website) and addressed to the Secretary of the Society, to arrive at least 21 days before
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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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The Renaissance Studies article prize 2021 goes to Clement Onn for ‘Circulating art and visual hybridity: cross-cultural exchanges between Portugal, Japan, and Spain’, Vol. 34 No. 4, pages 624-649, September 2020 (DOI: 10.1111/rest.12592). The judges noted that this was an ambitious article with the potential to influence future developments in Renaissance studies by proposing a re-centring
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The Society is delighted to announce the outcome of its inaugural competition for a three-month scholarship run in conjunction with the British School at Rome. From a strong field, the decision has been made to award the scholarship to Ana Howie (Cambridge) for her project ‘Rubens, van Dyck, and Women’s Dress in Genoese Portraiture, 1604-1627’.
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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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