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I may, just may, have written a #SRSlygood abstract about an impossible object biography. #nuntastic, too, of course.
September 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Join us on 18th September 2026 for our #SRSlyGood Festival! There are two sessions, The first, at 16:00 BST where our postdoctoral fellows will discuss their latest research and the second, at 17.00BST where the 2026 article prize and book prize will be announced! rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
SRS logo on burgundy background. 'Festival 2026. 18th September 2026, 8.00PDT/11.00EDT/16.00BST/17.00CEST. Register: https://crowdcast.io/c/festival2026' The image is from a detail of a piece of sixteenth-century needlework depicting a pastoral landscape with cottages, a river, tress, people dancing, and general merriment.
August 26, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Congratulations to our #SRSlyGood Book Prize 2026 shortlist: @jwscolley.bsky.social, Colby Gordon, Chloe Ireton, Jack Hartnell, & Tiffany Jo Werth! 🎊🎊🎊💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫 🥳🥳🥳💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫🎊🎊🎊 #Skystorians #EarlyModern

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A Banner of BEAUTIFUL BOOK Covers, detailing all the shortlisted books: John Colley, Humanism, English Literature and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025) Colby Gordon, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024) Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2025) Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Alantic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025) Tiffany Jo Werth, The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)
August 26, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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As you busily prepare your proposals for a #SRSlyGood conference in our DIAMOND year, why not read this write up by Anouska Lester of a fabulous roundtable on creating collaboration they participated in at #RenSoc25? performingartscollections.org.uk/stories/p/ar...
July 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Congratulations to our incoming SRS Postdoctoral Fellows, Evgeniia Ganberg & Emily Kent. We look forward to working with you next academic year. #SRSlyGood

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Header Image: SRS Phoenix with “SRS Postdoctoral Fellowships” in green to the right of the image. The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that its 2026–2027 postdoctoral fellowships have been awarded to Evgeniia Ganberg and Emily Kent for projects on mythologising race in early modern England and the travels of two French mendicant friars across the Atlantic World. As always, we received an extremely high number of exceptional applications and we would like to congratulate all applicants on the quality of their research projects.
July 20, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Here's a little teaser from our "Why Machiavelli Matters" Book launch. The terrific discussion is still available to watch! #SRSlyGood

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Watch this clip from Book Launch: Why Machiavelli Matters Now by Society for Renaissance Studies.
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June 26, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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🔥🔥🔥SRS Annual Lecture 2026🔥🔥🔥

"Historical fiction/Ficsean stairiúil: telling stories of early modern Ireland"

∞Marie-Louise Coolahan∞
∞Deirdre Serjeantson∞
∞Liam MacCóil∞

8 Oct 2026, 18.30-19.30, NLI, Dublin

All welcome!

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#EarlyModernEvents #Skystorians #SRSlyGood
SRS Annual Lecture 2026 Historical fiction/Ficsean stairiúil: telling stories of early modern Ireland Date: 8 October 2026, 6.30pm-7.30pm Location: Joly Theatre, National Library of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin 2. Price: Free Visit website → https://www.tickettailor.com/events/societyforrenaissancestudies/2275494 Image: detail of Dublin from Braun and Hogenberg, 1618, National gallery of Ireland, creative commons licence.
June 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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We have another #SRSlyGood book launch coming up! Join Renae Satterley & Stephen Hockman to celebrate the publication of "The Great Book of the World: The Formation & Use of the Library of Robert Ashley (1565-1641)"

13 July 2026, 10.00PDT/13.00EDT/18.00BST/19.00CEST
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Blue background, white text "Book Launch" vertical to the left of the book cover. To the right: The Great Book of the World: The Formation and Use of the Library of Robert Ashley (1565–1641) Join Renae Satterley in conversation with Stephen Hockman, KC ∞ 13 July 2026 10.00PDT / 13.00EDT / 18.00BST / 19.00CEST https://www.crowdcast.io/c/great-book Beneath, a thick yellow line running horizontally with the SRS logo to the right.
June 23, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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Book Launch: join @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, in conversation with @willtosh.bsky.social, in the Kitchen with Shakespeare at Brunch, Lunch, Tea & Suppertime!*

22 June 2026, 9:00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST

*other [meal]time zones available

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Image: sage green background, white text font to left, running vertically reads : Book Launch and uses a font that replicates early modern typography Next to 'Book launch' is an image of Nicosia's book. To the right of the book cover image is Shakespeare in the Kitchen [italicised] Join the author, Marissa Nicosia, in conversatio with Will Tosh ∞ 22 June 2026 9.00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST/18CEST [slightly smaller font] Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/shax-kitchen The font to the right of the book image is the elegant lovechild of a serif font and a sans serif font, flirtatiously gesturing towards a delicate serif stroke but never excessively drawing attention to itself, keeping firmly within the realm of decorum and respectability. Beneath the details of the book launch is a thick purple line, with the SRS logo in white on it, right aligned. The purple is the same tone as the purple circle containing the title and author's name on it, in the middle of the cover image of Nicosia's book.
May 27, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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🎶Mm-noom-ba-deh
Doom-boom-ba-beh
Doo-boo-boom-ba-beh-beh

Tension pushin' down on me
Pressin' down on yoo--🎶

Oh no, no, no

"Under Tension: Reconstructing the Hippocratic Bench from Antiquity to Today", 4 June 2026, online & BSR, 15:00 CET

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Under Tension: Reconstructing the Hippocratic Bench from Antiquity to Today Date: 4 June 2026 Price: Free Visit website → Historians have long used re-enactment to recover the experiential knowledge of early modern scientific practices, baking cakes using early modern recipes and recreating alchemical experiments. But what if we historicise re-enactment itself? This presentation explores how sixteenth-century physicians reconstructed the medical knowledge, techniques, and instruments of classical Antiquity. In the 1530s, the learned physician Guido Guidi obtained a tenth-century Byzantine manuscript containing ancient descriptions and illustrations of bandaging techniques and orthopaedic devices, including the so-called Hippocratic bench: a large machine designed to apply traction to limbs in the treatment of fractures and dislocations. After translating the text from Greek into Latin, Guidi worked with artists to reshape the Byzantine illuminations into Renaissance drawings that helped readers visualise the technical complexities of a wide range of surgical procedures. Drawing on Guidi’s manuscripts and printed works, Silvia Marchiori has been collaborating with the BSR’s Senior Maintenance Officer Fulvio Astolfi to reconstruct the Hippocratic bench and re-enact the medical practices associated with it.
May 27, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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DEADLINE TONIGHT (30th April)!!!! The application portal will remain open until the pumpkin hour, so send us your #SRSlyGood postdoctoral fellowship proposals.
srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Mar 26
The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April

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April 30, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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"Why Machiavelli Matters Now". Join Stephen Bowd and Alexander Lee, in conversation with Brian Maxson, as they celebrate the publication their new book with friends, colleagues and well-wishers.

18 June 2026, 12:00EDT/17:00BST/18:00CEST

#SRSlyGood #Skystorians

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Book Launch to the left of book cover. Text: "Why Machiavelli Matters Now" Stephen Bowd & Alexander Lee Join the authors in conversation with Brian Maxson 18 June 2026, 12:00EDT/17:00BST/18:00CET Register: https: www.crowdcast.io/c/machiavelli
April 30, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Morning campers! We have a #SRSlyGood book launch coming up on 2nd June at 17.30BST.

Join @drwillgreen.bsky.social in conversation with @tracelarkhall.bsky.social as they discuss their man Tommy Middleton's Theatre of War #EarlyModernEvents #Skystorians

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Picture of "Thomas Middleton's Theatre of War: The King's Men & Political Performance of the Public Sphere, 1620-1624" book cover with 'Book Launch to the Left" and details of event to the right: 'Join the author, William David Green, in conversation with Tracey Hill, 2 June 2026, 9:30PDT/12:30EDT/7:30BST/18:30CET https://www.crowdcast.io/c/theatre-of-war
April 30, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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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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Six copies of "Renaissance Studies" set out in the shape of a fan.
March 28, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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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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March 26, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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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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Burgundy background with pale blue/grey strip at the bottom with the pheonix logo in white on it, right aligned. To the left, 'Book Launch' in sans serif lettering is positioned vertically with the book covers to the right of it - Lillywhite positioned directly above Zanon. Text to the right reads: "Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice by Marie-Louise Lillywhite • • Cittadini of Venice: Shaping Identities between Networks and Patronage (c. 1530-1690) by Giulia Zanon • Join the authors in conversation with Alex Bamji and Philip Cottrell Wednesday 18th March 2026, 09.00 pdt / 12.00 edt / 16.00 gmt / 17.00 cet Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/lillywhite-zanon" The book titles are in an italicised serif font and the author's names are in the same serif font, without italics. The rest of the text is in a sans serif font that gestures towards a serif font. All text is in white.
March 4, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Keep all your #SRSlyGood books coming!
Piles of books submitted for the SRS Book Prize
January 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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Sorry @onslies.bsky.social; your #SRSlyGood reading has been usurped!
annelouiseavery.bsky.social Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · Dec 9
Wonderful, exciting news – my Reynard the Fox is now an audiobook! Completely unabridged and read by the perfect narrator, Joseph Edward Degnan. It's available now at all the usual places, see below for links and a clip!
theaudioagency.bsky.social The Audio Agency @theaudioagency.bsky.social · Dec 9
Sometimes the Maleperduys kitchens were cold and bare,
with only potage and pea soup and coarse dark bread and lean
scraps of bacon and dull, cheap dishes like peas-on-a-stick...

The new #audiobook of #folktale Reynard the Fox, by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 🦊

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December 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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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...
SRS Book Series Interviews: Katie Bank – Society for Renaissance Studies
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December 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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THIS WEDNESDAY! #EarlyModern #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents #SkyStorians
srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jul 28
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
Banner: Book Launch: "The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), Author Helen Newsome-Chandler in Conversation with Elena Woodacre, 10 September 2025, 12.00EDT, 17.00BST, 18.00CEST https://www.crowdcast.io/c/holograph-letters Burnt red background, white text. Book cover to the left of the text, phoenix logo below.
September 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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
Banner: Book Launch: "The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), Author Helen Newsome-Chandler in Conversation with Elena Woodacre, 10 September 2025, 12.00EDT, 17.00BST, 18.00CEST https://www.crowdcast.io/c/holograph-letters Burnt red background, white text. Book cover to the left of the text, phoenix logo below.
July 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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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'SRS Postdoctoral Fellowships' in Fell type with extreme ligatures to the right of the SRS Phoenix logo.
July 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Feeling very lucky as always to work with these #SRSlyGood people 🐦‍🔥
srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jul 5
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
July 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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
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July 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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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
July 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM