English Literary Renaissance
@elrjournal.bsky.social
Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current
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I'm looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Time and Money ( #earlymodern economic cultures) for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F: papers exploring the values, meanings, understandings of eco. exchange. Send me your proposal asap!
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
Renaissance Society of America
365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA
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July 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I'm looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Time and Money ( #earlymodern economic cultures) for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F: papers exploring the values, meanings, understandings of eco. exchange. Send me your proposal asap!
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
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CONFERENCE: Medieval & Early Modern Students Association (MEMSA) Conference 2025
#earlymodern #earlymodernevents #medieval
#durhamcastle #natureinfocus
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#earlymodern #earlymodernevents #medieval
#durhamcastle #natureinfocus
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CONFERENCE: Medieval & Early Modern Students Association (MEMSA) Conference 2025 | MEMOs
The medieval and early modern world was marked by a desire to understand the world and humanity’s place in it.
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July 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
CONFERENCE: Medieval & Early Modern Students Association (MEMSA) Conference 2025
#earlymodern #earlymodernevents #medieval
#durhamcastle #natureinfocus
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#earlymodern #earlymodernevents #medieval
#durhamcastle #natureinfocus
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This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!
5th June, 2-3pm: 'Race-making in Early Modern Civic Performance', Dr Lydia Valentine
Civic shows were sites of identity formation where the performance of different cultures constructed distinct racial and national identities. Lydia Valentine explores how these led to a collective 'London' identity.
Civic shows were sites of identity formation where the performance of different cultures constructed distinct racial and national identities. Lydia Valentine explores how these led to a collective 'London' identity.
Race-Making in Early Modern Civic Performance
Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, civic performance played a key role in shaping a collective identity for London’s residents.
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June 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!
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We are very excited to share the CFP for the Margaret Cavendish Society Conference which will be held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 17-19 June 2026!
Call For Papers: International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference 2026 17-19 June, Fredericton, Canada
Cavendish Conference PosterDownload Join us at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada!
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June 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We are very excited to share the CFP for the Margaret Cavendish Society Conference which will be held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 17-19 June 2026!
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We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life.
Items include…
Items include…
June 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life.
Items include…
Items include…
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Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Select tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College London
This year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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I wrote a thing about a book owned by Bathsua Reginald Makin that I found in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social whilst working on their early records. earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/h... Thanks to @martinevanelk.bsky.social and @tarallyons.bsky.social for hosting #herbook
May 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I wrote a thing about a book owned by Bathsua Reginald Makin that I found in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social whilst working on their early records. earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/h... Thanks to @martinevanelk.bsky.social and @tarallyons.bsky.social for hosting #herbook
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The joy of archive research #Livorno 🇮🇹 #earlymodern
May 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The joy of archive research #Livorno 🇮🇹 #earlymodern
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Read "Hal, Not Henry: Self-Determination as Aesthetic Negativity in Shakespeare’s Henriad" from Renaissance Drama and learn more about Hal's modes of self-determination and how he interacts with them as aesthetic objects. Find it here: ow.ly/Qvvw50VLyTr
May 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Read "Hal, Not Henry: Self-Determination as Aesthetic Negativity in Shakespeare’s Henriad" from Renaissance Drama and learn more about Hal's modes of self-determination and how he interacts with them as aesthetic objects. Find it here: ow.ly/Qvvw50VLyTr
Nicole Rice examines poems inscribed on a cabinet door, melding material, social, and literary histories.
From English Literary Renaissance, this article examines two unpublished poems by Thomas Chaloner. Discover how these obscure texts shed light on questions of service, patronage, and succession: ow.ly/nfrH50VJWCM @elrjournal.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Nicole Rice examines poems inscribed on a cabinet door, melding material, social, and literary histories.
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Really enjoyed this discussion of the Shakspaire story, not least for its headline: www.shakespearenews.com/p/shakespear...
Shakespeare Slightly Less of a Jerk Than Previously Believed (Maybe)
Plus: "10 Things I Hate About You: The Musical" and "Antony and Cleopatra: The Opera"
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May 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Really enjoyed this discussion of the Shakspaire story, not least for its headline: www.shakespearenews.com/p/shakespear...
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Next month in Lausanne: Renaissance Discernment, a one-day symposium to wrap up our four-year research project "Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England" (time truly flies!)
May 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Next month in Lausanne: Renaissance Discernment, a one-day symposium to wrap up our four-year research project "Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England" (time truly flies!)
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🥳New Podcast Episode!🥳
With Prof Liz Oakley-Brown!
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With Prof Liz Oakley-Brown!
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
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13: Shakespeare in Higher Education. Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Professor Liz Oakley-Brown
Shakespeare, Race and Pedagogy Podcast · Episode
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May 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
🥳New Podcast Episode!🥳
With Prof Liz Oakley-Brown!
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/11o6...
With Prof Liz Oakley-Brown!
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/11o6...
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Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6
May 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6
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I’m so excited to reveal the cover of Galileo’s Fame!
The @upittpress.bsky.social has done an amazing job with the design, showcasing a stunning seventeenth-century depiction of the goddess Fama.
I can’t wait to hold the book in my hands in just a few months.
The @upittpress.bsky.social has done an amazing job with the design, showcasing a stunning seventeenth-century depiction of the goddess Fama.
I can’t wait to hold the book in my hands in just a few months.
May 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I’m so excited to reveal the cover of Galileo’s Fame!
The @upittpress.bsky.social has done an amazing job with the design, showcasing a stunning seventeenth-century depiction of the goddess Fama.
I can’t wait to hold the book in my hands in just a few months.
The @upittpress.bsky.social has done an amazing job with the design, showcasing a stunning seventeenth-century depiction of the goddess Fama.
I can’t wait to hold the book in my hands in just a few months.
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📢 Please join Han Lamers & me for the first online session of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia!
✨ Simon Smets (KU Leuven) 'Between the Library and David’s Lyre', exploring learned aspects of New Ancient Greek psalm rewritings, Byzantine influences & their Latin literary context.
✨ Simon Smets (KU Leuven) 'Between the Library and David’s Lyre', exploring learned aspects of New Ancient Greek psalm rewritings, Byzantine influences & their Latin literary context.
April 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
📢 Please join Han Lamers & me for the first online session of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia!
✨ Simon Smets (KU Leuven) 'Between the Library and David’s Lyre', exploring learned aspects of New Ancient Greek psalm rewritings, Byzantine influences & their Latin literary context.
✨ Simon Smets (KU Leuven) 'Between the Library and David’s Lyre', exploring learned aspects of New Ancient Greek psalm rewritings, Byzantine influences & their Latin literary context.
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Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record
Hereford Cathedral Library holds a fragmentary seventeenth-century letter addressed to a ‘Mrs Shakspaire’, concerning her husband’s dealings with a fatherless apprentice named John Butte or Butts. ...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
April 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
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How come we can't buy desks like this any more
(1512)
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April 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
How come we can't buy desks like this any more
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Congratulations to WSG Member, Peter Radford, for this wonderful review of his book "They Run with Surprising Swiftness". Reviewed by @devoney.bsky.social for @emwjournal.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain. Peter Radford. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023. 314 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780813947938. | Early Modern W...
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April 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Congratulations to WSG Member, Peter Radford, for this wonderful review of his book "They Run with Surprising Swiftness". Reviewed by @devoney.bsky.social for @emwjournal.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Tell me about good work you have read that you like - bonus points if it is about early modern drama
April 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Tell me about good work you have read that you like - bonus points if it is about early modern drama
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Joseph Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises, a 17thC treatise on the printing press, is a delight.
A printing-house was customarily called a ‘chapel’. Workers who committed faults in the chapel—swearing, fighting, being drunk, leaving a candle burning at night, etc.—had to pay a fine called a ‘solace’.
A printing-house was customarily called a ‘chapel’. Workers who committed faults in the chapel—swearing, fighting, being drunk, leaving a candle burning at night, etc.—had to pay a fine called a ‘solace’.
April 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Joseph Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises, a 17thC treatise on the printing press, is a delight.
A printing-house was customarily called a ‘chapel’. Workers who committed faults in the chapel—swearing, fighting, being drunk, leaving a candle burning at night, etc.—had to pay a fine called a ‘solace’.
A printing-house was customarily called a ‘chapel’. Workers who committed faults in the chapel—swearing, fighting, being drunk, leaving a candle burning at night, etc.—had to pay a fine called a ‘solace’.
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It’s the final day to get abstracts in for our June colloquium on early modern war narratives! CFP linked here. Please repost and send your abstracts!
What ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract!
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Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.
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April 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
It’s the final day to get abstracts in for our June colloquium on early modern war narratives! CFP linked here. Please repost and send your abstracts!
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This year's @ihr.bsky.social #Medieval and #Tudor #London seminar has an astonishingly good line up! If you're around in London on 3rd July, please consider joining us to hear a bit about my latest project and to celebrate the seminar's 50th birthday! 🎂 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/med...
Medieval and Tudor London
This seminar series runs during Term 3 only.
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April 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This year's @ihr.bsky.social #Medieval and #Tudor #London seminar has an astonishingly good line up! If you're around in London on 3rd July, please consider joining us to hear a bit about my latest project and to celebrate the seminar's 50th birthday! 🎂 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/med...