The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that its 2023–2024 postdoctoral fellowships have been awarded to Natasha Bailey and Anna Parker for projects on indigenous human-food relationships in colonial Mexico and the experience of flooding and climate change in Renaissance Prague. As always, we received a high number of exceptional applications and we…

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Sam Kennerley about his book Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean, how the book developed as he was writing and the ire of Guglielmo Sirleto.  …

In our latest interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Angela Andreani about her book Meredith Hanmer and the Elizabethan Church: A Clergyman’s Career in 16th Century England and Ireland, the surprising nature of research and the importance of good networking.   What drew you towards Renaissance and…

In the first of our interviews with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series in 2023, we talk to Eleanor Chan about her book Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance, the difficulties of interdisciplinary research and advice to PhD students starting out in intellectual history.   1) What drew…

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 2022. We will also give a sneak preview…

Call for expressions of interest   The Society for Renaissance Studies seeks expressions of interest in relation to hosting the Society’s biennial conference in 2025 or 2027. The conference has a strong reputation for collegiality, innovation and support of ECRs, and draws a large number of delegates from the UK, Ireland, the rest of Europe…

The Renaissance Studies article prize 2022 goes to Erin Griffey for ‘”The Rose and Lily Queen”: Henrietta Maria’s fair face and the power of beauty at the Stuart court’, Vol. 35 No. 5, pages 811-836, November 2021. (DOI: 10.1111/rest.12724). The judges noted this was a beautifully-written and original piece in which a truly interdisciplinary range of sources…

The SRS is delighted to announce the Biennial Book Prize 2022 goes to Suzanna Ivanič for Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). In an exceptionally strong field, Sarah Bendall and John Christopoulos were highly commended for their Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body, and Women in Early Modern England…

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…

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…