📢 CFP: The Intersections & Influences of Legal and Political Authority in the European Renaissance

Seeking papers on the dynamic interplay between legal & political authority during the Renaissance (1300-1700) @ the 2026 RSA Annual Meeting!

My article on Jean Calvin's 1532 Seneca Commentary is now published at History of European Ideas. If you're interested in Calvin's political thought or the problem of counsel, take a look.

Link below, and DM me if you don't have access but would like to read it.

doi.org/10.1080/0191...

My article on Jean Calvin's 1532 Seneca Commentary is now published at History of European Ideas. If you're interested in Calvin's political thought or the problem of counsel, take a look.

Link below, and DM me if you don't have access but would like to read it.

doi.org/10.1080/0191...

In today's think piece, Truman Cunningham studies how Andrea Alciati's Emblematicum Liber bridged the elite literary culture of Erasmus and popular woodcut art to understand its explosive popularity across all levels of literate Europe through the sixteenth century.

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damn, Petrarch, just @ me next time.

Political theorists: @andpgibson.bsky.social and I are organizing a Renaissance political thought panel for SPSA this year and are looking for 1-2 faculty discussants willing to comment on grad student papers. Please reach out if interested! (nb786 [at] georgetown).

Hello world! Ph.D. student in political theory at Georgetown (early modern HPT), migrating and rebuilding follow lists.