Rachel Willie

New Book Series: Renaissance History, Art and Culture

Call for proposals, for a new series from Amsterdam University Press     Series Editors: Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University, USA Samuel Cohn, Jr.,  University of Glasgow, UK Andrea Gamberini, University of Milan, Italy Geraldine Johnson, University of Oxford, UK Isabella Lazzarini, University of Molise, Italy   This series investigates the Renaissance as a complex […]

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New Book Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700

  Call for proposals, for a new series from Amsterdam University Press Series Editor: Dr. Allison Levy, http://www.allisonlevy.com/   A forum for innovative research on the role of images and objects in the late medieval and early modern periods, Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 publishes monographs and essay collections that combine rigorous investigation with critical

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New Book Series: Early Modern Literary Geographies

Oxford University Press Series Editors: Julie Sanders, Newcastle University and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, Pennsylvania State University.  Influenced by the work of cultural and human geographers, literary scholars have started to attend to the ways in which early modern people constructed their senses of the world out of interactions among places, spaces, and embodied practices. 

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The Life and Adventures of Meredith Hanmer, Anglican Divine

The project ‘Meredith Hanmer’, carried out at the University of Sussex, School of English (November 2014-November 2016) received funding from the Marie Curie Actions of the European Union FP7 as a project to reconstruct the life of this familiar yet elusive figure of early modern England.1 An Anglican divine of the Church of England, with

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Remembering Lisa Jardine

The Society for Renaissance Studies expresses its sorrow and regret at the death of Professor Lisa Jardine CBE on 25 October 2015. Colleagues and students reflect on Lisa Jardine’s legacy. Lisa Jardine was born in 1944, the daughter of the famous historian of literature and science Jacob Bronowski, and the sculptor Rita Coblentz. She was

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Reflections on SRS 2014

From the October 2014 edition of the Bulletin: The University of Southampton’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture hosted the 6th Biennial SRS Conference on the theme of ‘Performative Spaces’ between 12th and 15th July 2014. With lovely sunshine on all four days, and about 200 delegates in total, the whole event was a great

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