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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Two of our Revellers presenting at this conference today!

Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We’re shocked by the proposed cuts at the University of Exeter, targeting the Arts and Humanities departments in a hugely unfair way. If you haven’t already, please sign the petition and make our voices heard! c.org/DTcBbvqxn6

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Who's not signed this petition yet? Please help us out! The official line is that this is not targeting Arts and Humanities. So why are 85% of cuts in these subjects? #DefendExeterUni c.org/DTcBbvqxn6

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📣 #CallforPapers 📣 Working on how Central and Eastern Europe participated in #EarlyModern global exchanges? Check the #CfP for the conference Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500-1800) 👉 loom.ly/68-mKyU ⏰ Submit your proposal by 15 June 2026

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The new BRILL book series keep coming from the brill @erikagaffney.bsky.social! "Genders and Sexualities in the Early Modern World" rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern

New book series: Genders and Sexualities in the Early Modern World

Deadline: 20 June 2028

Visit website → https://brill.com/page/forthcoming_gndr

Series Editors:

Elizabeth Rhodes, Boston College,

James Daybell, University of Plymouth

Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Genders and Sexualities in the Early Modern World is a peer‑reviewed series that provides a dedicated venue for advanced research in the late medieval and early modern periods. The series supports scholarship in a range of disciplinary perspectives that enhances our understanding of how genders and sexualities shaped and were shaped by social, cultural, political, and intellectual developments, as well as studies that examine these through the lives of individuals. The series aims to foster high‑quality scholarship that advances current debates and contributes to a deeper appreciation of the complexities and diversities of the early modern world. The editors welcome proposals for both single‑author monographs and edited volumes that address the period between 1400 and 1800.

Authors are cordially invited to submit book proposals and/or full manuscripts to the Publisher at Brill, Erika Gaffney.

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm so pleased to announce this new book series with @dgb-mem.bsky.social - Genders & Sexualities in the Early Modern World Series Editors: Elizabeth Rhodes, James Daybell & Merry Wiesner-Hanks brill.com/page/forthco... Image: The Concert, 1623, by Gerrit van Honthorst; National Gallery of Art

A colorful C17th painting of men and women gathered around a table, playing instruments and singing. In the background are revelers, including a man holding up a glass.

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🌟On Monday we have a very special event - @drshirleybell.bsky.social will be talking to us about her new book ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’! 🌟 Join us to celebrate Shirley’s wonderful achievement🤩She’ll also be talking to us about the process of talking her thesis into a book🤍

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🚨 Opportunity! 🚨 Want to come to York for up to a month this June, July or August? Apps are now open for our Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowships based in our glorious #earlymodern Heslington Hall (1/2) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship scheme (SIRF) Humanities Research Centre, Heslington Hall, University of York Overview The Humanities Research Centre at the University of York invi...

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We’re very pleased to share news of this research fellowship position, working with our wonderful CECS / English Literature colleague Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social on the collected works of Mary Wollstonecraft: 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

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Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We’re so excited to have you speak to us, Shirley! 🤩

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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

📢UPCOMING CONFERENCE: 'Daphne and Her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence in Early Modern Literature and Art' | Durham University | 10-11 June 2026 📅Register now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti... @durham.ac.uk

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Jonathan G. Heaney @jonathangheaney.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Emotions & Society is looking for book reviews (500-750 words). Perhaps yourself or your PhD students might be interested in reviewing one of the titles below? If so, pop Maja an email! #sociology #emosoc #socialtheory @bupjournals.bsky.social @bsa-emotions.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

Emotions and Society is looking for book reviews (500-750 words) of the following titles:
If you are interested in reviewing any of these or would like to suggest a different book for review in the journal, please get in touch with Maja Sawicka, Book Reviews Editor (m.sawicka@is.uw.edu.pl).

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

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Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today we have our first Reading Group of the year, led by the wonderful Kristen Vitale Engel! Meeting link has been circulated by email and prompts for discussion are available on our website - hope to see you there! 🤍

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A reminder that the deadline for submissions is in one week!

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#CfP: Annual @cemskcl.bsky.social "Periodizing the Early/Modern", KCL, 11 June 2026. Abstracts by 7 April 2026 This year’s colloquium is on ‘Periodizing the Early/Modern' & organised by Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis, Lucy Munro, & @hsmurphy.bsky.social rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians

CfP: When does early modernity begin and end? How do we understand the relation between the early modern & the historical periods that precede and follow it? Is it important to how we construe of early modernity that it be thought of as a boundaried entity, complete in itself? Or might the early modern be less a historical period & more a mode of thought? Much has been written about periodization in relation to the early modern. The Medieval/Renaissance divide (or lack of divide) has been theorized by a range of scholars, most notably perhaps Margreta De Grazia. But this symposium will consider the question of periodizing the early modern in a more forward-looking way, situating this temporal and theoretical construct in relation to our own contemporary moment. Global and postcolonial approaches by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Carlos Garrido Castellano, David Scott, Sanjay Subrahmanyam & others have challenged the spatial & temporal period boundaries, demanding a rethinking of early modernity from a variety of points of view.

This symposium will likewise rethink the various positions from which early modernity is construed, aiming to engage scholars from a range of disciplines including contemporary literature & theory, post-colonial studies, history, music, and philosophy, law, medicine, classics & war studies. We will explore the differing ways in which early modernity is & has been periodized within these fields, as well as considering how these different disciplines understand the early modern engagement with (or rejection of) periodisation itself. We will also ask what role periodization has played in enabling the oppressive power structures founded in early modernity to persist into our own present, & what periodizing the early modern can mean for the deconstruction & dismantling of these systems.

We invite proposals for 20-minute talks on the topic of ‘Periodizing the Early/Modern.’ Submissions from early career scholars & graduate students are particularly welcomed

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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 rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...

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Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)

College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)Vacancy Ref: 195373Salary, Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum The School of Critica...

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Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

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Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature | University of Sheffield

This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for lit

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Our March meeting on the 30th will be a Bring A Problem session🌟 Come and chat about anything that’s bothering you about your research/thesis/PhD lifestyle - no problem is too big or too small! If you’re a PGR/ECR and you’d like to join the Revels Office, get in touch at revelsoffice@gmail.com

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

You may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference
Improvement
Degeneration
Stagnation
University of Montpellier
3-4 September 2026 Paul-Valery

We invite proposals for papers for this year’s collaborative Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference between the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles and the Société Française d’Études du XVIIIe siècle, held at the University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry.

Topics considering improvement, degeneration and stagnation could include, but are not limited to:

· The materiality of any of, or all, these terms
· Social, economic, moral and physical wellbeing
· Medical perspectives, including the development of psychiatric and psychological medicine and alternate (pseudo-)scientific endeavours such as alchemy or spiritualism
· Ideas around taste, attitudes, values and class, both in the social and literary domains
· Debates and evolutions regarding language
· National identities and comparisons
· The pace of improvement and/or degeneration
· Science, innovation and the improvement of knowledge
· Colonisation and slavery
· Religion, secularisation and Enlightenment thought
· Gender, sexuality and the perception of the female body
· Conceptions of improvement or degeneration in art, design and architecture; as well as in literature and philosophy
· The notion of change and teleological narratives of progress
· The ambiguities surrounding the notion of progress and the uncertain boundaries between improvement, stagnation and degeneration All submissions should be sent to montpellierconference2026@gmail.com for consideration. Submissions can be in either French or English. For individual papers, please send abstracts of 250 words and a short biography. For fully formed panels, (3-4 speakers), roundtables or workshops please send abstracts of 250 words for each paper along with brief details of the proposed theme, biographies of speakers, and proposed chair. CFP opens 7th January 2026 and closes 13th March 2026.

En lien avec le rôle joué par Montpellier dans le développement des connaissances médicales en Europe, le colloque de cette année étudiera les notions de progrès, de dégénérescence et de stagnation.

Nous invitons les participants à interpréter les termes de progrès, de dégénérescence et de stagnation de façon large, sans restrictions géographiques, étymologiques ou conceptuelles. Les propositions pourront s’intéresser aux questions suivantes:

· La matérialité de ces termes
· Le bien-être social, moral et économique
· Les perspectives médicales, incluant le développement de la médecine psychologique ou psychiatrique et des (pseudo-)sciences comme le spiritualisme ou l’alchimie
· La question du goût, des mentalités, des valeurs et des distinctions entre groupes, tant dans le domaine social que littéraire
· Les débats et évolutions concernant le langage
· Les identités et comparaisons nationales
· Le rythme du progrès et/ou de la dégénérescence
· Science, innovation et développement des savoirs
· Exploitation coloniale et esclavage
· Religion, sécularisation et pensée des Lumières
· Genre, sexualité et perception du corps féminin
· Conception du progrès et de la dégénérescence dans l’art, le design et l’architecture
· La notion de changement et la vision téléologique du progrès
· Les ambiguïtés autour de la notion de progrès et les frontières incertaines entre le progrès, la dégénérescence et la stagnation

Les propositions de communication, en français ou en anglais, sont à envoyer à l’adresse montpellierconference2026@gmail.com, sous la forme d’un résumé de 250 mots assorti d’une courte biobibliographie. Les propositions d’ateliers, de tables rondes ou de séances complètes (entre 3 et 4 intervenants) doivent être accompagnées d’un résumé pour chaque proposition et d’une courte présentation du thème, des intervenants, et du/de la président.e de séance pressenti.e. Les propositions sont à envoyer avant le 13 mars 2026.

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is sure to be a fantastic event! A deep dive into ‘Sir Thomas More’ - get your tickets 🎟️🌟

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Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Check out all of the beautiful books published by members of @saaupdates.bsky.social since our 2024 meeting! If you will be in Denver for #Shax2026, I hope you'll join us for a celebration on Friday, April 3rd, from 10:30-11:00am in the Centennial Foyer! sites.google.com/trinity.edu/...

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SAA Book Celebration 2026

The following books were published by members of the Shakespeare Association of America since our 2024 meeting. Please click on the book covers to visit the publishers' websites. Any discount codes pr...

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Really interesting opportunity - take a look!

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🔊Latest early access release for our patrons, it's a chat with @ellierycroft.bsky.social and @gregmw4.bsky.social about their new book Predramatic Theatre - championing the dynamism of early English theatre forms. Coming to the pod further down the line. #discussing www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

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Discussing: Predramatic Theatre (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Our new Queer and Trans Histories series is seeking proposals for works that expand the field, uncover overlooked topics, and reimagines how these histories are told. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer... #LGBTQHistoryMonth

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Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June? Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

📣Meeting TONIGHT at 4pm! See you there 🥳📣

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🌟Our February meeting will be the first in our Thesis Lab series, where we'll de-mystify the thesis-writing process together bit by bit🌟 🥁First up: Introduction to Introductions🥁 🤝Bring your expertise, advice, experience, questions, suggestions, or worries - let's help each other 🤝

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

💘Latest early access release, and it's a chat about Tancred and Gismunda (and its variants!) with Isobel Strevens and @robertcrighton.bsky.social It's a play we've been weirdly obsessed about for a while, so join us for a dive into a house with some issues. #drama www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The #CfP for our Summer Conference 2026 on the theme 'The Church and Race' is open now. You can find more information on the theme, how to apply, and bursaries here: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/ #historians Deadline: 15 April 2026

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Issue 43.4 features work from Revels Office member Laurie Higgins! 👏👏👏

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

📢Call For Session Leaders📢 If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you! The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟 Get in touch with us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Just a reminder that our January 'Bring A Problem' session will take place at 4pm tonight! Hope to see you there :)

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The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🌈📚 Announcing our winter and spring reading group dates and readings! 📚🌈 📚 sign-up to the reading group: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/... 🥬 enter Vin's raffle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Our January meeting will take place on Monday 26th and will be a 'Bring A Problem' session! Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶

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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Grants! We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026. Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/

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Previous grant recipients If you would like to help us support early career scholars in bibliography, please email our Treasurer (treasurer@oxbibsoc.org.uk) to discuss how you can help. Any donatio…

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Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🎺 We have some more big news: our 20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE THEME! We are proud to present Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World, coming on 13 and 14 July, 2026!🎺 Keep an eye out for more information on how to get involved in the coming days....👀

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

🎄☃️Merry Christmas from the Revels Office!☃️🎄 We hope you’re having a lovely day whatever you’re up to🌟🤍

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Reminder that we have our December meeting at ❗4pm❗ today! Meeting link has been sent out by email - looking forward to seeing you there 🎄☃️🎁

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026. www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...

Society Biennial Book Prize

The Society awards a biennial book prize of £500 to encourage original research on any aspect in the field of Renaissance studies and to recognise significant accomplishments by members of the SRS.

The SRS Book Prize for the year 2026 will be awarded to the author of the best monograph in Renaissance Studies published (digital/hard copy) between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2025. To be eligible the monograph must be written in English by a current member of the SRS. The prize will be awarded for a book with a topic where the majority of material is within the chronological period 1300-1700. Books about Renaissance history, art, architecture, philosophy, science, technology, medicine, religion, music, the literatures and languages of Europe, and of the countries in contact with Europe during the Renaissance, are eligible. Books will be judged on the following criteria:

contribution to Renaissance Studies;
quality and originality of research;
clarity and eloquence;
thoroughness and accuracy in documentation;
methodological skill and/or innovation.

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Our 🎊festive🎊 meeting of the Revels Office will take place on the 22nd December and will be a 'Bring A Thing' session! This is an opportunity to share any object/text/picture/anecdote that you've come across in your research and think is cool 🖤 Are you an early modern PGR or ECR? Get in touch!

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟 If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍

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