SRS News & Reports
SRS Book Prize Shortlist 2022
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…
SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2022-2023
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…
SRS Vice-Chair Nominations
The position of vice-chair of the Society will be vacant and open to nominations, for election at the summer AGM (6 May 2022). Nominations should be made on the formal nomination form (available in the Members’ Area of the website) and addressed to the Secretary of the Society, to arrive at least 21 days before…
SRS Book Series Interviews: Ian Campbell and Floris Verhaart
In our latest interview with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Ian Campbell and Floris Verhaart about their forthcoming book Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin, the appeal of early modern studies and advice to PhD students starting out in intellectual history. 1) What drew you towards Renaissance and Early…
SRS Book Series Interviews: Kaarlo Havu
In this, the first of our new series of interviews with authors from the Society for Renaissance Studies book series, we talk to Kaarlo Havu about Juan Luis Vives, Renaissance Studies and whether all early modernists need to be able to read Latin. 1) What drew you towards Renaissance and Early Modern studies in…
SRS Book Series: Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge – 2021 Book Round-Up
As the year draws to a close, we want to take the opportunity of looking back on the fantastic work being done in the field of Renaissance Studies and the books that have been published with the Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge book series in 2021. These authors cover a wide range…
Renaissance Studies Article Prize 2021
The Renaissance Studies article prize 2021 goes to Clement Onn for ‘Circulating art and visual hybridity: cross-cultural exchanges between Portugal, Japan, and Spain’, Vol. 34 No. 4, pages 624-649, September 2020 (DOI: 10.1111/rest.12592). The judges noted that this was an ambitious article with the potential to influence future developments in Renaissance studies by proposing a re-centring…
SRS/BSR Residential Doctoral Research Scholarship 2021-22
The Society is delighted to announce the outcome of its inaugural competition for a three-month scholarship run in conjunction with the British School at Rome. From a strong field, the decision has been made to award the scholarship to Ana Howie (Cambridge) for her project ‘Rubens, van Dyck, and Women’s Dress in Genoese Portraiture, 1604-1627’….
SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2021-2022
The Fellowships Committee is pleased to announce Duncan Frost and Luke Prendergast have been awarded Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2021-2022. We received 54 applications this year and, as ever, the field was exceptionally strong. Duncan Frost, ‘Songbirds and Social Distinction in the Seventeenth Century’ In the boom of consumer culture in the early modern period, objects…
Applying for an SRS Postdoctoral Fellowship
Michael Bennett, Kaye McLelland and Aislinn Muller share with us their experiences of, and advice for, applying to the SRS Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme. Michael Bennett Aislinn Muller I was awarded the postdoctoral fellowship to research the intersection of Catholic material culture and political engagement in post-Reformation England, ca 1570-1660. Specifically,…