Six copies of "Renaissance Studies" set out in the shape of a fan.

The latest issue of our #SRSlyGood "Renaissance Studies" is OUT! It's an extra special issue on 'Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print', guest edited by the distinguished duo, Mari-Liisa Varila and Sara Norja.

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Apply: Public Engagement Scheme | Society for Renaissance Studies Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967

Do you have a #SRSlyGood idea for activities aimed at the general public? Then why not apply to our Public Engagement Scheme? Apply by 1 April 2026 rensoc.org.uk/apply/public... #Skystorians

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#SRSlyGood BOOK LAUNCH! Join Marie-Louise Lillywhite & Giulia Zanon in conversation with @alexbamji.bsky.social & Philip Cottrell as they celebrate the publication of "Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice" & "Cittadini of Venice" 18 March 2026, 16.00GMT
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Keep all your #SRSlyGood books coming!

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SRS Book Series Interviews: Katie Bank – Society for Renaissance Studies

In this #SRSlyGood SRS Book Series interview, we talk to @spparkle.bsky.social and reflect on her "Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music" (2021). We discuss music’s affective power and the importance of understanding history through physical experience. www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser...

THIS WEDNESDAY! #EarlyModern #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents #SkyStorians

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Evenin' Campers! We're hosting a #SRSlyGood book launch on 10 Sept 2025, 17.00BST/12.00EDT/18.00CEST. Join former SRS Postdoctoral Fellow, @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social in conversation ŵ @ewoodacre.bsky.social to celebrate "The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots" shorturl.at/Z6zfN

'SRS Postdoctoral Fellowships' in Fell type with extreme ligatures to the right of the SRS Phoenix logo.

Congratulations to @nicolemaceira.bsky.social and @serinquinn.bsky.social, SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2025-2026! We look forward to working with you in the coming year 💫 🎉 🙌🎉 💫

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Feeling very lucky as always to work with these #SRSlyGood people 🐦‍🔥

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Thank you, Bristol, for a terrific #RenSoc25 & for being amazing hosts! It was fabulous to hear such erudite papers & talk with a brilliant bunch of people. Looking forward to seeing y’all at #RenSoc27, where @warburginstitute.bsky.social will be our hosts in our DIAMOND anniversary year! #SRSlyGood

We welcome to Council the magnificent @norajw.bsky.social &, as we wave a teary farewell to our amazing outgoing [in ALL senses of the word] Chair, Jane Grogan, we look forward to Hannah Murphy’s brilliant reign as Chair, ŵ @racheljwillie.bsky.social as her Vice Chair #SRSlyGood

SRS 11th Biennial Conference – Society for Renaissance Studies

Registration closes today!!! Who’s coming to Bristol for our #SRSlyGood biennial conference, 2-5 July? #RenSoc25

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6. What was the biggest obstacle to conducting your research? While this issue has not directly impacted my research, I find it unfortunate that Renaissance and early modern Latin sources are increasingly overlooked due to the language in which they were composed. Over the years, I have observed a dramatic decline in proficiency in ancient languages. Consequently, many fascinating works remain largely unexplored, while an increasing number of studies on Renaissance and early modern intellectual history rely exclusively on vernacular sources. While further exploration of vernacular traditions is certainly valuable, neglecting the Latin-based tradition risks distorting our broader understanding of the period.

Their book on Disaster in the #EarlyModern World is available from @routledgehistory.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Disaster-in-...

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Lethargic? Doomscrolling? Peccant? Try supplementing your day with our #SRSlyGood LOST special issue from September 1991, "Philosophical and Scientific Poetry in the Renaissance"

99.3% of readers* reported improvements in symptoms after reading

*apparently

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TAKE A LOOK AT TODAY'S LOST SPECIAL ISSUE of our #SRSlyGood journal #RenaissanceStudies

From painting in Padua to patronage and Pellegrini, our 1996 lost special issue, "Women Patrons of Renaissance Art, 1300–1600", still packs a punch!

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👀 Mornin' campers! Would you like to know who the new editor and associate editor of "Renaissance Studies" are going to be? #Teaser #SRSlyGood

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#EarWorm alert!

In June 1989, Soul II Soul are Top of the Pops with “Back to Life, Back to Reality,” but we prefer Back to Renaissance (as did Beyoncé!), releasing our chart-topping special issue, Forms of Eloquence in French Renaissance Poetry

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Screenshot of timetable: Society for Renaissance Studies Keynote Lecture at Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2025. “the Keynote lecture sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies, United Kingdom, will be delivered by Nandini DAs, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Oxford University”

Nandini Das, spied from afar, as she delivers her keynote to her admiring and expansive audience

👀 it’s the magnificent, terrific, erudite, wise, perspicacious, fabulous, bright, scintillating, ingenious, all round good egg @rentravailer.bsky.social delivering the #SRSlyGood SRS Keynote Lecture on “Ruins and Resilience: Ruderal Poetics and Matters of Belonging” at #RenSA25!

3.​ What are the key facts or arguments from your book that you would like people to take away? It’s a book about the transmission and reception of literary texts around the British Atlantic world during a key phase of imperial expansion: 1650-1750. I argue that these processes of textual transmission and reinterpretation allowed Atlantic world readers to reflect on the cultural continuities and differences that were shaping the English or British empire. As a result, the readings and new texts created through these processes can open up insights into the instabilities of an unfolding British imperial identity, particularly contests over the different forms, models and even centres that the empire adopted as it expanded and encountered other nations and peoples. One of the reasons why these questions became literary discussions is because the period of colonial expansion between 1650-1750 inherited a series of unresolved questions from the Civil War period: how sovereignty might be shared between the three kingdoms; how the relationship between empire and Protestantism might be organised.

and Edward Holberton's Atlantic Circulations:Literature, Reception and Imperial Identities, 1650-1750 is now available to pre-order from @routledgehistory.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Atlantic-Cir... #SRSlyGood #EarlyModern #SkyStorians 2/

4.​ How did your scholarly journey develop over the course of your research for this book? Did you end up where you always intended to? The scope of the project was potentially so vast that I wanted from the outset to adopt a case study approach, and to try to balance my case studies in time and space to see how key imperial crises looked from different perspectives. But the case study approach often showed me that in the texts that I was looking at, bigger imperial crises became complexly involved with more local problems too which I needed to understand, such as the legal controversies which prompted William Trail’s migration to the Maryland, or the issues behind debates in The Barbados Gazette.

In this SRS Book Series interview, we talk to Edward Holberton about his book Atlantic Circulations, contemporary adaptations of early modern texts, and the instabilities of British imperial identity.

Read the interview here www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser... 1/ #SRSlyGood #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

DEADLINE IMMINENT!!!!!

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR ALL THE THINGS!!!!!!! It’s going to be #SRSlyGood

The SRS has been proudly curbing enthusiasm since 1967!

If you would like to EXPRESS interest in participating in a #SRSlyGood seminar, here are the full descriptions: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...

Society for Renaissance Studies Conference 2025: 'Interconnections', 2-5 July 2025 Phoenix logo above an image depicting the 'North West Prospect of the City of Bristol' in the early modern period.

👀 OUR SEMINAR SIGN-UP IS LIVE!!! We've six scintillating seminars happening at #RenSoc25! To find out more & to sign up before 22 January 2025, see: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...

#SRSlyGood Seminars require pre-circulating a paper & participating in perspicacious conversation at the conference!

I was reviews editor for this fabulous journal under the most excellent, erudite & #SRSlyGood @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @kevinkilleen.bsky.social & enjoyed every minute of it. Do consider applying — if you’re half as good as the previous editors, you’ll be formidable! 🙌 🐦‍🔥 🔥

🤩 #RenSoc25 is going to be #SRSlyGood!!!

#nuntastic WONDERS AWAIT!!!!

Now excitedly awaiting all the other cool panel & paper announcements -- favourite day of the year. Who's joining us in Bristol? It will be #SRSlyGood!

Let's get that #RenSoc23 buzz.

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Stash of physical copies of “Renaissance Studies”

Congratulations to Duncan Frost, winner of the Article Prize 2024 for ‘Songbirds and Social Distinction in Seventeenth-Century England’, Vol. 37 No. 4, pages 547-64, September 2023 #SRSlyGood www.rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...