Welcome

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.

The latest issue of Renaissance Studies (Vol 32, no. 5, November, 2018) is now available on-line via the Wiley-Blackwell website.

John S. Garrison and Kyle Pivetti explore how Shakespeare's violent history plays can be read as advocating peace.

Wendy Wall (Northwestern University) and Leah Knight (Brock University) are pleased to announce a new open-access resource for exploring the fascinating verse of Hester Pulter (1605-1678): 

The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making http://pulterproject.northwestern.edu

The Society for Renaissance Studies has established a funding scheme for Public Engagement (‘Knowledge Exchange’ or ‘Impact-activities’). Bids can be made to support any form of public engagement for Renaissance studies, broadly construed. The Society’s understanding of public engagement is that a major effort to communicate beyond the academy can be demonstrated, and/or that the event will reach a public not consisting primarily of academics. This includes, but is not limited to Impact activities, under REF criteria. The deadline is 1 December each year.

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.