The Renaissance Studies article prize 2024 has been awarded to Duncan Frost for ‘Songbirds and Social Distinction in Seventeenth-Century England’, Vol. 37 No. 4, pages 547-64, September 2023. DOI 10.1111/rest.12845   The panel was deeply impressed by the creativity, narrative range, and polished presentation of this article. While keeping songbirds at the centre of the…

The SRS is delighted to announce the Biennial Book Prize 2024 goes to Carla Roth for Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Past and Present Book Series 2022). The winner was announced at an online award ceremony, hosted by Ellie Chan and John Gallagher, which featured pre-recorded…

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…

The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that its 2024–2025 postdoctoral fellowships have been awarded to Jean David Eynard and Claire Turner for projects on the early modern senses. As always, we received an extremely high number of exceptional applications and we would like to congratulate all applicants on the quality of their…

The latest issue of Renaissance Studies (Vol 38, no. 3, June 2024) is now available online via the Wiley Online Library.   Articles Rachel White and Brett Greatley-Hirsch, ‘Ass-troll-ogical Nashe: Revisiting Two Dangerous Comets and A Wonderful Prognostication’, pages 335-362 Isabella Walser-Bürgler, ‘A question of genre: Philip Melanchthon’s oratorical debut at Wittenberg University’, pages 363-378…

The UK’s Higher Education sector has made an alarming number of redundancy announcements in recent months and years. Taking place against a backdrop of negative and erroneous publicity about the value of the arts and humanities, these redundancies have disproportionately affected scholars in premodern studies. Redundancies are presented as a solution to the financial challenges…

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…

The Society for Renaissance Studies’ biennial conference, ‘Difficult Pasts’, organised by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University by Rebecca Bailey, Harald Braun, and Rachel Willie, enabled delegates to enjoy a varied and thought-provoking programme. Panels, roundtable discussions and workshops on an eclectic range of subjects were informed by current enquiry in Renaissance…

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…

We are deeply saddened to learn the news that Professor Peter Mack died suddenly on Thursday 5th October. He was a longtime member of the SRS and of SRS Council, and served diligently and thoughtfully as Chair from 2013-2016. Peter graduated with an MA from Oxford, before earning his MPhil and PhD at the Warburg Institute…