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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Héctor Linares traces the advance of a Black man from slavery to knighthood, and Teresa Soley describes the impact of contact with Africa on Portuguese sculpture in the latest RQ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/s...

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Soley & Linares in the Fall 2026 RQ

Renaissance Quarterly 79.2 (2026) has some articles for us: Teresa Soley, “Visualizing Africa in Iberian Stone: The Monument to Diogo de Azambuja.” Héctor Linares, “Black Knightho…

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

heraldic beasts continue. this is the amphiptere. simple, but effective. 🐍 #monstrosilist #ttrpg #bestiary

sketchbook page photo with a black and white pen drawing of an amphiptere, a heraldic beast comprised of a serpent-like creature with bat wings with feathers.

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

An essay from Renaissance Quarterly uses marginalia in Roger Ascham’s Greek Isocrates to reveal how this sixteenth-century humanist influenced court politics of the Tudor period. ow.ly/f61950ZNAaM. Renaissance Society of America

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 08/09/2026

And if you are interested in slime molds, Matt's Cambridge Element is essential reading for learning more about their life cycle, unique physiology, morphology, and behavior, and why this organism is so fascinating for philosophers too! 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Book cover of “Slime Mould and Philosophy” by Matthew Sims in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

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Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Join me, won't you, in boycotting the place with bad coffee and worse labor practices!

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Extremely excited to announce an article co-authored by myself and Aaron Hyman on the visual and material cultures of Dutch piracy in the early modern Caribbean is now out in Renaissance quarterly @rsaorg.bsky.social , and open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Recasting the Silver Fleet, or The Propaganda of Piracy in the Dutch Caribbean | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 3

In 1628, the Dutch West India Company captured a Spanish silver fleet off the shore of Cuba. A broadside by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652) celebrated the event, illustrating the battle and providing...

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Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New issue of Renaissance Quarterly—articles on: Afro-Portuguese artistic exchange; Black knighthood; Michelangelo, race, and “moresche” dancing; altarpiece politics; piracy in the Dutch WIC; and disability in West Central Africa. Incredible issue!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current

The piece depicts Saint Maurice in a full set of highly adorned plate armor, while wielding a golden sword, with a dagger and banner by his side. He wears a red ostrich feather frilled cap atop his head as well as a pendant upon his chest.

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Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📣 We are excited to announce that the Fall 2026 issue (79.3) of Renaissance Quarterly has been published online and is now available to view. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current #earlymodern #rentwitter @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Cover of Fall 2026 Issue of Renaissance Quarterly: Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop (German, Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar). Cranach’s work shows the Black Saint Maurice in a regal bearing, dressed in exquisite silver armor and a large plumed hat. His figure epitomized contemporary ambitions to expand Christian rule and represented the virtues of the perfect Christian warrior.Saint Maurice, ca. 1520 –25. Oil on linden, 137.2 × 39.4 cm. Artwork in the public domain. Image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An essay in Renaissance Quarterly draws new connections between consumption, gluttony, and Eve’s large belly in Hugo van der Goes’s small panel painting "Fall of Man" (ca. 1475): ow.ly/l3w450ZETq3 Renaissance Society of America

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Passing Through · 2020

A digital illustration depicting a girl watching a giant, looming creature rise above a shadowy tree line. Below the illustration reads "PASSING THROUGH".

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Perfection 👌

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Exciting new book series! #EarlyModern Maritime Humanities. With @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer at the helm and published by @dgb-mem.bsky.social all info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #MaritimeHistory #SkyStorians

New book series - Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800
Deadline: 28 August 2028

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Full series title: Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History and Culture
Series editors: Professor Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, UK, and Dr John McAleer, University of Southhampton, UK

Interdisciplinary in approach, Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History and Culture invites submissions that seek to transform traditional land-based histories of states and nations by focusing on early modern oceans and seas. The series welcomes proposals for monographs and edited collections from across the full range of humanities subjects that place seascapes in dialogue with history and culture. It encourages submissions that reflect on issues of transculturalism, globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism, and the histories of science and technology.

The series is centred on a period of history marked by increased exploration, travel, and trade. Early modern oceans and seas were cultural spaces and contact zones where established centres of control and the dictates of individual national histories held less sway over cultural connections, circulations, and exchanges. Proposals that focus on coastal zones, ports, and rivers are welcome.

The editors are happy to discuss a book at idea stage as well as at later points in its development. The series welcomes proposals from authors, both new and established, who seek to shape the field of maritime humanities by emphasising the historical and cultural significance of oceans and the sea in their work.

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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

still thinking about proposing a special issue or essay cluster for /postmedieval/? there's still time! we're accepting proposals for guest-edited collections until 15 september. find the full #cfp on our website: sites.google.com/view/postmed... #MedievalStudies #PremodernStudies #CallForPapers

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Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I would add to this: keep checking in with yourself over the course of your PhD--journaling, therapy, artmaking--about *why* you are pursuing the degree. Why are you here? What does it mean to you to complete this milestone? The answer does not have to end with "so that I can become a professor."

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim. Fucking. Curry. I've said it before and I'll say it again...he played every single role like it was the role he'd been waiting his entire life to play. Brilliant and weird and sexy and hilarious. There'll never be another. RIP to a true (see pic) legend.

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Katt @sarcastickatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We gotta get gaudier for Dolly, and weirder for Tim.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i can't tell you what Rocky Horror alone meant to me as a young queer freak

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Congratulations to our #SRSlyGood Book Prize 2026 shortlist: @jwscolley.bsky.social, Colby Gordon, Chloe Ireton, Jack Hartnell, & Tiffany Jo Werth! 🎊🎊🎊💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫 🥳🥳🥳💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫🎊🎊🎊 #Skystorians #EarlyModern rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

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)

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Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Book announcement!! 🎉 CREATURES OF STORY AND SONG looks through Britain’s stories and poems to rediscover our lost species. It’s time to remember what people thought about wolves, lynxes, great whales, great auks, sturgeon & more when they were all still here! 🐺🦫🐳💚 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Book cover - Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing Britain's Lost Species by Lee Raye. The cover is a dark turquoise or teal. At the top there is a picture of people and wolves walking together through a wood. They seem to be talking with each other. At the bottom there is a long spiky fish. This flier offers 20% off at www.reaktionbooks.co.uk - code is CSS26

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Miranda Dubner @mirandadubner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And some of those giants were pirate kings, professional pirates, butlers, King Arthur... god. I grieve in awe.

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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 25/08/2026

Boycott Starbucks, if you aren't already. You can get better coffee pretty much anywhere, anyway.

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Miranda Dubner @mirandadubner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have walked the earth with giants, and some of those giants wear rhinestones. I am going to miss knowing that dazzling lighthouse of kindness and creativity was shining on the planet at the same time as me.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Tiny books function as a mild anti-depressant

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Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have nearly twenty of Tales of the Weird books on my shelves, and I'm running out of room, but I am definitely adding this one to the collection! I love Tales of the Weird @blpublishing.bsky.social and I love Yorkshire.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

everyone wants to wax nostalgic about their ancient ancestors’ supposed war and hunting conquests and we should really be enthusing over how every one of us across hundreds of millennia wanted to poke through pebbles and find the shiny one and find a way to make our garments the color of flowers

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Currently reading the diary of a French 11 year old in 1793 & loving it Summary: Hate having my portrait done, so boring Went to the palace and saw a really mangy rabbit, YUCK My tutor tells me I've got to stop picking my nose Also Marat has been murdered

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20/07/2026

The only useful mnemonic device for "continually" vs. "continuously" is to remember to look them up every single time, and you still won't know which one is which.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In 1638, Artemisia Gentileschi paints herself as the allegorical figure of Pictura. Bold! But justified. Today is her day.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fund schools, universities, public infrastructure. Pay/fund experts: writers, artists, editors, educators. Don't let Silicon Valley diminish the category of the human: what most people can learn; what experts can do; what people enjoy. Don't enable the worst futures. My latest on this: 2/

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Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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Kent State University Press @ksupress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Congrats to @docsthilaire.bsky.social, whose book "The Art of Pity," new from KSUP, is reviewed in "Renaissance Quarterly"! "This book will matter to Renaissance scholars, affect theorists, moral philosophers, aesthetic theorists, and literary critics": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Renaissance Quarterly. Cover illustration: Bronzino. Portrait of a Young Man, ca. 1530s. Oil on wood, 95.6 × 74.9 cm. Artwork in the public domain. Image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is not surprising in the least: I used to attend Quaker meetings regularly and it's still very important to me though I am no longer practicing!

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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Read "The Gentildonne of Fabriano: Forging Women’s Voices in Sixteenth-Century Italy" @lauraingalli.bsky.social (ISPLAS / CMS) in 'Renaissance Quarterly' Volume 79, Number 2. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Question for #academicsky: What is the best way to donate/recycle old hard copy academic journals? I really, truly do not have space for them and cannot justify keeping more than a few sentimental issues. I'm in New England, for context, so I doubt any nearby universities need them.

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Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Summer 2026 issue (79.2) of Renaissance Quarterly has been published online and is now available to view. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current #earlymodern #rentwitter @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Oil painting of a young man dressed in black with one hand on his hip. Portrait of a Young Man, Bronzino, ca. 1530s.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Tulips, carnations, lilies, roses -- all sorts of flowers gathered to be painted by Rachel Ruysch, who was born on this day in 1664.

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 02/06/2026

Hahahahahah salon is back and we're marking 5 years of LittlePuss what the fucking fuck every person in the NYC region should come to this obvs

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Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚨The summer issue of RQ is now live! Articles on: Eve's gluttony, Petrarchan chapel paintings, Roger Ascham & Elizabeth I, forgeries of Italian women poets, the magical-monastic-theatrical Andreini family, & remixed maxims after La Rochefoucauld. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current

Cover of Renaissance Quarterly features an oil painting of a young man, by Bronzino in the 1500s.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2027 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press for Rice University, invites submissions of original scholarly essays for upcoming issues. We seek work that offers fresh, rigorous contributions to the study of British literature across four historical fields:

• English Renaissance Literature

• Tudor and Stuart Drama

• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

• Nineteenth-Century Literature

We welcome literary scholarship at any career stage—especially work that brings historically excluded or underrepresented perspectives. SEL values methodological variety, archives both familiar and newly uncovered, and arguments reflecting enduring or emergent subjects of literary interest. Essays should be intellectually ambitious while remaining accessible to a broad scholarly readership.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Submissions for @medievalgender.bsky.social postgraduate essay prize now open! medievalgender.co.uk/prizes-bursa... #MedievalSky 🗃️

The Debbie White Gender and Medieval Studies Student Essay Prize 2026
The Gender and Medieval Studies Group offers a postgraduate student essay prize, which is awarded at the GMS conference in January each year. The competition is open to students at all levels of graduate study including those who will be completing their degree in the coming year.

Essays should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. This word limit is inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of the bibliography. Entries should engage with questions of gender and/or sexuality in the Middle Ages and follow a recognised academic referencing system (such as MHRA). A full bibliography should be included, and all images should be captioned.
Submissions from postgraduates working within any discipline in the field are encouraged.

prize gives free conference fee registration to the GMS conference (held every year at a different UK institution) for two years (2026 and 2027).

The winning essay will also be considered for publication in the academic journal Medieval Feminist Forum, run by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS).

There may be years when no prize is awarded, depending upon submissions in any given year.

Electronic submissions should be submitted to Dr. Laura Kalas (L.E.Kalas@swansea.ac.uk), by the student themselves, by Friday 31 July 2026. In submitting an entry to this competition, entrants declare that the essay represents their own, original work.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

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Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I'm blasting this #CFP again for #bookhistory authors, #jewishhistory people, #middleeasthistory people, and more! Hannah and I would love to get a wide variety on how people in the past used letters in their book collections/books, so the more we get, the better! #earlymodern #emhist

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Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Grateful to Anne Bobis for giving Shakespeare's Tragic Art an extremely generous write-up in the new issue of Renaissance Quarterly.

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gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

my article on George Herbert and trans studies is out in Renaissance Quarterly. It's really only about one poem, but it is THE poem you're thinking of, so you should check it out -- www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

2/2 Mary has extensive library of romances & adventure novels hidden in her cupboard. When guests come, she ostentatiously reads Serious Literature.

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