Rachel Willie

Call for expressions of interest   The Society for Renaissance Studies seeks expressions of interest in relation to hosting the Society’s biennial conference in 2025 or 2027. The conference has a strong reputation for collegiality, innovation and support of ECRs, and draws a large number of delegates from the UK, Ireland, the rest of Europe

The Renaissance Studies article prize 2022 goes to Erin Griffey for ‘”The Rose and Lily Queen”: Henrietta Maria’s fair face and the power of beauty at the Stuart court’, Vol. 35 No. 5, pages 811-836, November 2021. (DOI: 10.1111/rest.12724). The judges noted this was a beautifully-written and original piece in which a truly interdisciplinary range of sources

The SRS is delighted to announce the Biennial Book Prize 2022 goes to Suzanna Ivanič for Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). In an exceptionally strong field, Sarah Bendall and John Christopoulos were highly commended for their Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body, and Women in Early Modern England

The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce the shortlist for its 2022 Book Prize:     Sarah A. Bendall, Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)   John Christopoulos, Abortion in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021)   Suzanna Ivanič, Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern

The Fellowships Committee is pleased to announce James Misson and Julia Smith have been awarded Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2022-2023. We received 29 applications this year and, as ever, the field was exceptionally strong. James Misson, ‘Manuscript>Print>Code’ In the 1490s, the printer Richard Pynson and his team of compositors printed two books using Middle English manuscripts