SRS News

We are deeply saddened to learn the news that Professor Peter Mack died suddenly on Thursday 5th October. He was a longtime member of the SRS and of SRS Council, and served diligently and thoughtfully as Chair from 2013-2016. Peter graduated with an MA from Oxford, before earning his MPhil and PhD at the Warburg Institute […]

Is it a requirement of the Fellowship to be based in a particular location? Postdoctoral fellows need to hold a doctorate from a UK or Irish university but the fellowship may be taken up in any part of the world where you can undertake the research you propose. The Society is unable to sponsor visa

The Renaissance Studies article prize 2023 has been awarded to two outstanding authors:   Angelo Lo Conte, ‘A Visual Testament by Luca Riva, a Deaf and Mute Pupil of the Procaccini’, Vol. 36 No. 2, pages 222-51, April 2022. DOI 10.1111/rest.12730 This article takes an impressively interdisciplinary approach to a remarkable source that provides a

The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that its 2023–2024 postdoctoral fellowships have been awarded to Natasha Bailey and Anna Parker for projects on indigenous human-food relationships in colonial Mexico and the experience of flooding and climate change in Renaissance Prague. As always, we received a high number of exceptional applications and we

In this interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Sam Kennerley about his book Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean, how the book developed as he was writing and the ire of Guglielmo Sirleto.  

In our latest interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Angela Andreani about her book Meredith Hanmer and the Elizabethan Church: A Clergyman’s Career in 16th Century England and Ireland, the surprising nature of research and the importance of good networking.   What drew you towards Renaissance and

In the first of our interviews with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series in 2023, we talk to Eleanor Chan about her book Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance, the difficulties of interdisciplinary research and advice to PhD students starting out in intellectual history.   1) What drew

At the start of the new year, we want to take the opportunity to highlight some of the fantastic work being done in the field of Renaissance Studies by looking back at the books published with the Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge book series in 2022. We will also give a sneak preview

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