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This series is dedicated to the exploration of the many cultures of knowledge, learning, reading and performing in the Renaissance and Early Modern world (c.1400-c.1700). We invite high quality proposals for monographs and edited volumes from across the wide range of existing and possible future fields of Renaissance and early modern studies.

A dense work of early English prose, strewn throughout with serious and teasing marginalia from its author, might not be the most likely candidate for stage adaptation – but this project has just been undertaken by a team of artists and academics in Sheffield. William Baldwin’s "Beware the Cat", written in 1553, will be performed in September as part of the university’s 2018 Festival of the Mind.

Rachel Stenner and Frances Babbage discuss Baldwin's unique text.

The latest issue of Renaissance Studies (Vol 32, no. 4, September, 2018) is now available on-line via the Wiley-Blackwell website.

Miguel González Ancín & Otis Towns discuss thirteen documents they discovered that shed light on Servetus's early life.

The Society for Renaissance Studies warmly congratulates Dr Angela Andreani (Milan) on winning the Mariangela Tempera Book Prize 2018. This prize is awareded triennially by the Italian Association of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies for the best book published in the field of English Studies.

Jonathan Reimer is SRS Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-18. Here, he discusses the circulation of forbidden books in Tudor Cambridge.

The Fellowships Committee is pleased to announce Amy Lidster and Eleanor Chan as the winners of this year's Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition (2018-19). Amy's project is entitled 'Challenging authorship and authority in early modern paratexts' and Eleanor's project is 'Reading through style: Conscious lines in European vocal polyphony and visual culture c.1600'.