Society for Renaissance Studies

Discount codes will be made available during the book launch for those who wish to purchase the books.

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#SRSlyGood BOOK LAUNCH! Join Marie-Louise Lillywhite & Giulia Zanon in conversation with @alexbamji.bsky.social & Philip Cottrell as they celebrate the publication of "Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice" & "Cittadini of Venice" 18 March 2026, 16.00GMT
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We are grateful to the magnificent ACMRS Press & their commitment to ethical publishing for enabling us to publish open access at no cost to authors.

Further details can be found by clicking the link. If you are interested in publishing with us, do get in touch!

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👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?

Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!

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👀 This looks like a CHALLENGE to crash @manchesterup.bsky.social’s website!! 🤭

A poster, background image is a copperplate engraving form a 16th century book, displaying a man that holds a heavy stone in his right hand and has feathers in his left hand. The right hand hangs down on his side, the left hand is raised to the sky, towards a representation of God, who appears in the top left corner, in-between clouds. The man has his back towards the viewer. The text of the poster is: Spring 2026 Seminar Series Designing women: the unillustrated moral devices of Perrault’s Fairy Tales Jennifer Taylor, University of Reading Thursday, 19 February 2026, 5 p.m. In-person: Archives and Special Collections Seminar Room, University of Glasgow Library (level 12) Online: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/h94mrxCSS02mfkQdhPGYkw A contemporary emblem book — wings and stones Ingrid Hoepel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Thursday, 05 March 2026, 5 p.m. In-person: TalkLab, University of Glasgow Library (level 3) Online: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/4Vdt43WFQd2fgh_aV6oaUg Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity: the Comics Art of Frank Quitely David John Boyd and Julie Briand Boyd, University of Glasgow Thursday, 12 March 2026, 5 p.m. (book launch) In partnership with Leuven University Press. In-person: University Bookshop, Fraser Building Online: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/mI2-cHm0S5iPKJk2kZxGeQ Various locations, click on each event for find out more. ALL WELCOME.

It's here, and it's live -- our Spring 2026 Seminar Series has just been announced. All welcome!
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📣 Still time to get your abstract in for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', a two-day conference to be held at Oxford on 18/19 June 2026. Generously supported by Corpus Christi, @oxfordcems.bsky.social, and @srsrensoc.bsky.social.

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News Dear Colleagues,   Nominations are now open for the 2026 Nischan Award. This award was established to honor the service and legacy of Dr. Bodo Nischan (Professor of History, East Carolina...

The due date this year is March 1, 2026, with the committee’s decision announced in May 2026.

Full information can be founds at: www.reformationresearch.org/news.html

📣Call for Applications📣
Applications are open for the Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Career Research Grant. This grant is designed to support advanced graduate students or early career scholars who need to go to Europe to do research.

Deadline: 28 Feb

The Society is now running its annual #bookprize, primarily aimed at early career researchers.

The prize will be awarded for the best first monograph on the history of Christianity published during the previous calendar year.

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Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700).
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#CfP 'Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the
Medieval and Early Modern World'

13-14 July 2026, St John’s College, @durham.ac.uk

With Keynotes by Dr Natalie Goodison (Durham), Dr Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam) and Professor Stuart Carroll (York) @durhammemsa.bsky.social

We invite 20-minute papers for our 2026 Summer Conference 'The Church and Race' #CfP #history

Keynote speakers:

▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social
▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu
▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams

Deadline: 15 April

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Thomas Middleton’s Theatre of War: The King’s Men and Political Performance in the Public Sphere, 1620-1624 This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politic...

My first monograph, Thomas Middleton's Theatre of War, will be published on 22nd July in the @srsrensoc.bsky.social book series! 🥳

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Book Symposium on Raphaële Garrod’s "Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention", Collette Bowe Room, Queen's Building, Queen Mary University of London (Mile End campus), February 25, 2026 #Skystorians www.rensoc.org.uk/event/book-s...

Clio Reframed aims to explore historical writing and historiography produced by women between the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, asking why, when and to what purpose and effect women chose different historical subjects as their focus; to situate these texts within their social, religious, political, and textual production contexts, with the aim of expanding our critical understanding of historical writing that often elides the participation of women; and to challenge narratives that homogenize women’s interests in history and their writing strategies. It proposes that women’s historical writing is not an essentially gendered or isolated space in which individual contributions and agendas are uniform. Rather, women’s historical writing is diverse, prevalent, and characterized by relational frameworks and networks, involving other writers, patrons, stationers, and readers.

#CfP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750. Oxford, June 18-19, 2026 Abstracts by Feb 28 '26. Featuring a quintessential quartet of keynotes: @rhetorician.bsky.social, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social, & Sue Wiseman www.rensoc.org.uk/event/clio-r... #SRS_Sponsored

New Publication: George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense The MHRA is delighted to announce the publication of the latest volume in our Critical Texts series, which may be of interest to this list: George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense, edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez. This is the first fully annotated, modern-spelling critical edition of two fascinating early poems by early modern poet, playwright and translator George Chapman. Full details at the link, along with the option to purchase copies direct from the MHRA. Please consider requesting a copy for your library. Journals interested in a review copy please contact mail@mhra.org.uk If you are interested in future announcements from the MHRA Critical Texts series, sign up to our mailing list by emailing texts@mhra.org.uk

New Publication: "George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense", edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez. #Skystorians www.rensoc.org.uk/event/new-pu...

Two paragraphs of text. First paragraph reads: Early modern epic poetry, it has long been felt, participated in the humanist drive toward a recognisably modern political consciousness. Northrop Frye influentially categorised early modern epics as ‘high mimetic’; this was an ‘encyclopedic’ as opposed to an ‘episodic’ mode, the mode of ‘the social spokesman’ as opposed to the ‘isolated individual’. In epics of this period ‘a centripetal perspective replaces the centrifugal one of romance. The distant goals of the quest, the Holy Grail or the City of God, modulate into symbols of convergence, the emblems of prince, nation, and national faith. The encyclopaedic poems of this period, The Faerie Queene, The Lusiad, Jerusalem Delivered, Paradise Lost, are national epics unified by patriotic and religious ideas.’. They are also, as critics foregrounded in the 80s&90s, imperial epics. There is no mention in Frye’s account of the mercantile trades (in spices, bullion, slaves etc.) that determined European imperial trajectories, & thence infused the early modern epic tradition. If Aristotle’s Politics had laid down an ideal separation of economic and political life, the realm of necessity & that of reason, early modern imperial culture troubled this separation in myriad ways. [The second paragraph of text is available: https://www.rensoc.org.uk/event/economics-and-politics-in-the-early-modern-epic/]

#CfP: Economics and Politics in the Early Modern Epic, Sussex, June 19, 2026. Abstracts by March 16, 2026 #Skystorians www.rensoc.org.uk/event/econom...

20th Annual MEMSA Conference With Keynotes by Dr Natalie Goodison (Durham), Dr Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam) and Professor Stuart Carroll (York) The Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) is delighted to present their 20th anniversary conference entitled: ‘Connection, conversation, contention: encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World’. Just as MEMSA is an association that connects different people, all kinds of connections took shape in the Medieval and Early Modern period through different means, such as the founding and spreading of major religions like Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. However, with connection also comes contention, such as the Arabic conquests, the crusades and the colonial conquests.

#CfP: Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval & Early Modern World @durhammemsa.bsky.social 20th Annual Conference, St John’s College, Durham University, July 13 - 14 2026. Abstracts by 9 March 2026 #Skystorians www.rensoc.org.uk/event/cfp-co...

Keep all your #SRSlyGood books coming!

Sorry @onslies.bsky.social; your #SRSlyGood reading has been usurped!

Census Fellowship in the Reception of Antiquity

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Bibliotheca Hertziana & @warburginstitute.bsky.social are pleased to announce a fellowship offered at either the predoctoral or postdoctoral level. Apply by 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians

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In this #SRSlyGood SRS Book Series interview, we talk to @spparkle.bsky.social and reflect on her "Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music" (2021). We discuss music’s affective power and the importance of understanding history through physical experience. www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser...

Heads up, #earlymodern #skystorians! Get your books in for the next SRS Book Prize. Always a marvel to see the wonderful work being produced by scholars of this period.

This concludes Day 4 and the conference! Thank you to all of our presenters, speakers, and team members who helped put on a fabulous conference! #MEMOsConf2025

Oooo, scintillating scholarship! Send your lovely books to not so scintillating me!

Society Biennial Book Prize The Society awards a biennial book prize of £500 to encourage original research on any aspect in the field of Renaissance studies and to recognise significant accomplishments by members of the SRS. The SRS Book Prize for the year 2026 will be awarded to the author of the best monograph in Renaissance Studies published (digital/hard copy) between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2025. To be eligible the monograph must be written in English by a current member of the SRS. The prize will be awarded for a book with a topic where the majority of material is within the chronological period 1300-1700. Books about Renaissance history, art, architecture, philosophy, science, technology, medicine, religion, music, the literatures and languages of Europe, and of the countries in contact with Europe during the Renaissance, are eligible. Books will be judged on the following criteria: contribution to Renaissance Studies; quality and originality of research; clarity and eloquence; thoroughness and accuracy in documentation; methodological skill and/or innovation.

Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026.

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HistoryLab+ presents ‘Christmas Connections @ York’ York city centre, December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025 Join the HistoryLab+ committee for our next Christmas Connections event in York on 17 December! There will be… Free hot drinks and comestibles at Sketch by Origin, York Art Gallery’s lovely café from midday A free, hour-long introduction to the history of print in York and traditional printing demonstrations at Thin Ice Press by the brilliant Prof. Helen Smith (University of York) and Lizzie Holling (Thin Ice Press) from 14:00 Some aimless wandering, enjoying York’s award-winning Christmas Market, historic pubs, and the beautiful Bar Walls together… Dinner with the exciting Spark* York project at 18:00 This is an opportunity for ECRs in and around York and North-East England to meet informally to support each other, build professional connections, and discover more about the HistoryLab+ network. Members from further afield are also more than welcome.

@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social presents ‘Christmas Connections @ York’, December 17, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/histor...

Plenary speakers: Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin), Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (Université de Rouen Normandie), Emilie Murphy (University of York), Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of London) CfP deadline: 28 February 2026 Early modern historical writing encompasses a wide range of subjects, approaches, and forms, including, to name a few, chronicle histories, verse narratives, drama, pamphlets, and biographical lives. While recent scholarship has paid attention to this variety and generic hybridity by looking beyond major chronicle and humanist histories, the contributions that women made to historical culture have often been overlooked. Women were, however, actively engaged in historical writing, producing a diverse range of texts that have not been adequately incorporated within our understanding of ‘history’ as a genre or mode of writing about the past. Clio Reframed aims to explore historical writing and historiography produced by women between the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, asking why, when and to what purpose and effect women chose different historical subjects as their focus; to situate these texts within their social, religious, political, and textual production contexts, with the aim of expanding our critical understanding of historical writing that often elides the participation of women; and to challenge narratives that homogenize women’s interests in history and their writing strategies. It proposes that women’s historical writing is not an essentially gendered or isolated space in which individual contributions and agendas are uniform. Rather, women’s historical writing is diverse, prevalent, and characterized by relational frameworks and networks, involving other writers, patrons, stationers, and readers.

#CfP: 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', Oxford, June 18-19, 2026, Abstracts by February 28, 2026

Featuring the quintessential quartet, @rhetorician.bsky.social, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Sue Wiseman as keynotes!

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