Society for Renaissance Studies

Ah. That will be the Church Militant.

WE ARE OFF!

If you're still on commute or school run, you should be able to pick this up later as it's recorded. But always lovely to be able to actually ask questions of our brilliant post-docs.
#SkyStorians #EarlyModern

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

I had a brilliant set of UG dissertation students last year.

One wrote an excellent blog on counterfactual history and the North Berwick witch-hunt: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-supe...

Have a read! I think counterfactual history is a tool that #earlymodern #hextag peeps should use more often. 😊

GREEN ROOM ABUZZ! Do join us to hear about all the brilliant work by our post-graduate fellows! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Thanks so much!

Absolutely! Thanks for spotting it, otherwise we may not have noticed and that would have been a problem! We are happy to confirm that there is now a full plain text version of the CFP that can be found on our website:

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TODAY!

Thanks so much, really appreciated! Sorry technology was unhelpful but great that now it hopefully can be solved :)

So looking forward to the book launch for this fantastic edition of Margaret Tudor’s letters tomorrow— @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social and I will be ‘in conversation about the book, the fascinating features of Margaret’s correspondence and what it reveals about the practice of queenship 👸

THIS WEDNESDAY! #EarlyModern #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents #SkyStorians

Should have remembered to add hashtags!
Here, have some: #BookHistory #EarlyModern #EarlyModernEvents #Skystorians #MaterialCulture

postdoctoral showcase Jean David Eynard, ‘Hearing Colours, Seeing Noises: Sensory Disability & Synaesthesia in Seventeenth-Century England’ Claire Turner, ‘Cancer, Identity, & the Senses in Early Modern England, c.1583-1699’

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE!

Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard.

25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Early Modern Scholars of Colour mentoring scheme with the Society of Renaissance Studies. Graphic with plumb, mint green and off-white.

SYMPOSIUM with the brilliant team of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network. Join us for an afternoon of exciting research papers as well as discussion of academia beyond the academy.

11 September, 12:45-17:15, Liverpool John Moores Uni
All info & programme: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/emsoc-...

Call for Papers This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for literary criticism. In a period best known today for its poetry and drama, practical texts such as Gervase Markham’s The English Husbandman were ‘almost literally read to pieces’, Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ‘led the market’ as ‘a Tudor best-seller’, and cookery books enjoyed a staggering 70% reprint rate. That these texts occupied such a prominent position in the publishing industry is testament to their importance in early modern life. Yet despite this, literary criticism has been slow to embrace such texts as more than merely contextual sources for canonical texts by poets and dramatists such as Shakespeare and Spenser. Critics continue to frame Tusser’s work as an agricultural manual or almanack rather than a book of poetry, for example, while literary scholars tend to note his significance in the same breath as they denigrate the quality of his verse: an ‘agrarian book of jingles’ or ‘collection of doggerel’. Other practical texts such as receipt books and surveying texts have been interrogated primarily as a means of understanding early modern culture and society. Less common are studies of practical texts as works of literature, studies that centre the practical text rather than positioning it as context for the work of more canonical writers. This symposium seeks to address this gap, and invites contributors to consider how studying non-traditionally canonical texts can help scholars to reassess established positions. It is designed to lead to an edited collection, provisionally aimed at Routledge’s Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series, so speakers are encouraged to propose papers suitable for extension into a 6000-8000 word chapter. Recent scholarship by Katarzyna Lecky, Jessica Rosenberg, and Kyla Tompkins has begun to demonstrate

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin...
#SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

machine-readable CFP on the webpage: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

hello! Thanks for this, looks exciting! Trying to maintain a policy of alttext or explicit links to accessible text. Is there a webpage with this CFP in an accessible format?

Call for Papers This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for literary criticism. In a period best known today for its poetry and drama, practical texts such as Gervase Markham’s The English Husbandman were ‘almost literally read to pieces’, Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ‘led the market’ as ‘a Tudor best-seller’, and cookery books enjoyed a staggering 70% reprint rate. That these texts occupied such a prominent position in the publishing industry is testament to their importance in early modern life. Yet despite this, literary criticism has been slow to embrace such texts as more than merely contextual sources for canonical texts by poets and dramatists such as Shakespeare and Spenser. Critics continue to frame Tusser’s work as an agricultural manual or almanack rather than a book of poetry, for example, while literary scholars tend to note his significance in the same breath as they denigrate the quality of his verse: an ‘agrarian book of jingles’ or ‘collection of doggerel’. Other practical texts such as receipt books and surveying texts have been interrogated primarily as a means of understanding early modern culture and society. Less common are studies of practical texts as works of literature, studies that centre the practical text rather than positioning it as context for the work of more canonical writers. This symposium seeks to address this gap, and invites contributors to consider how studying non-traditionally canonical texts can help scholars to reassess established positions. It is designed to lead to an edited collection, provisionally aimed at Routledge’s Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series, so speakers are encouraged to propose papers suitable for extension into a 6000-8000 word chapter. Recent scholarship by Katarzyna Lecky, Jessica Rosenberg, and Kyla Tompkins has begun to demonstrate

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin...
#SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

This'll be my first academic event in a long while so be gentle with me ;p Looking forward to supporting some incredible research by young scholars with vital perspectives on the field. I'll be the old bald one nodding furiously and trying to spread good vibes :)

Want a little bit of #MusicalBookHistory for your weekend? About #Plainchant arguments and problematic historiography and the value of musical sources? I wrote an accidental thread!

#BookHistory #EarlyModern #EarlyMusic

Come one, come all to lovely Liverpool to hear some fabulous scholarship!

Looking forward to hosting this terrific symposium. Come and join us!

Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), Durham (UK) | MEMOs Durham University, Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), Durham (UK):

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Are you thinking of applying to speak at our Winter Conference? Considering coming along to take part in the activities and enjoy the panels? If you do, you'll have a lovely time. Don't just take our word for it though...

Our Call for Papers is open until the 12th September!

but did you just post all your event notifications from a completely different collective account whose activist following might be a bit puzzled about the queens & history-of-smell, etc?

We take our chaos seriously, here at phoenix HQ

(and solidarity in the battle against the engulfing-by-tabs)

Prizes - Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize The Society is pleased to announce the next round of its annual book prize of £1,000, primarily aimed at early career researchers. The prize will be awarded for the best first monograph on ...

The EHS welcomes submissions for its 2026 Book Prize. Publishers, former supervisors and authors are encouraged to make nominations. The Society welcomes submissions from scholars of all backgrounds.

Deadline: 28 February 2026

For more information: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/prizes/

Islam in Medieval England | British Library Was Islam present in medieval and early modern England? What was premodern England’s relationship like with the wider Islamic Worlds? More than a faith sys

🕌Islam in Medieval England Event 🏰
Our expert panel explore the Islamic presence in England during the medieval and early modern period.
Thursday 6 November 18.30 Knowledge Centre, British Library, London.

Book tickets here:

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Don’t miss out! Seminar and workshop enrollment for #Shax2026 close in September 15. Submit your enrollment preferences today on our website, or by visiting linktr.ee/saaupdates

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