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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join us in congratulating Jack Hartnell, whose book Wound Man has been shortlisted for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social’s Book Prize! This work sheds light on the entwined histories of art & medicine, exploring the fascinating history of an enigmatic surgical diagram. Learn more: buff.ly/du8GbPf

Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✨ How about a trip to Zurich next year? Join us at #REFORC2027, where scholars from around the world come together to explore themes of identity, alterity, and much more within the context of Early Modern Christianity. 📢 Registration and short paper submissions are open! tinyurl.com/3x7zdyra

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Calling #Historians 📢 We're looking for academics & PGs to be authors for our winter blogpost series (Jan, Feb, Mar 2027)! If you would like to write for our blog on any topic of #churchhistory, please send a 100-word abstract to eccleshistsoc@gmail.com by 30 October. We hope to hear from you!

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stuart courtiers, worldly women, libertinism, and feminist archival methodologies... join us for an exciting evening conversation on the women in the court of Charles II. 22nd October @ 17:00. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...

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Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for a conversation on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Come one, come all! Shower us with your lovely abstracts!

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#CfP: The Church and Race Join the EHS as we hold our online Winter Meeting on 9 January by submitting a proposal for a paper. You could join our fantastic speakers and have the potential for publication in our journal, Studies in Church History! ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/27wintermeet...

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Submission is now closed. And the conference committee will have quite the gargantuan task ahead of them, though made more fun thanks to reading about all that exciting early modern research. Amidst the pressures of the sector, it’s buoying to see earlymodernists still asking exciting questions.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✏️ Mark your diaries! Next month @cemskcl.bsky.social, Kerry Apps, Hannah Dawson, Catharine MacLeod, & ME will be talking about Restoration women, their libertinism, their consumerism, & their contact with the expanding world. Book here & spread the word 🌍 kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...

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Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for a conversion on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that the deadline for proposals for @srsrensoc.bsky.social is TODAY folks! So get your #earlymodern abstracts in! rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our panel proposals on 'Women, Memory and Authority in #EarlyModern English Religious Cultures' have been submitted for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social in 2027! Asking how women made the past authoritative, and how remembrance shaped confessional identities

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

At noon!

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

JUST OVER TWO HOURS! (in case you, too, were as alert as this wing of the Phoenix and may or may not have been thinking of a different 12 o' clock...)

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow is the day! Get those abstracts submitted post haste! #earlymodern #skystorians

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s got to be a second best bed joke in this somewhere. #earlymodern #Shakespeare @srsrensoc.bsky.social

A white lorry with "SHAKESPEARE Beds", "POCKET SPRUNG BEDS", and various contact details in blue on the side; the stem of the "K" in "SHAKESPEARE" is a quill.

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just submitted a panel proposal on 'Early Modern Documents, Digitisation, and Editing' for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference next year! Fingers crossed it is accepted!

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to alarm anyone, but it is now 23 September 2026.

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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another well-deserved accolade for @chloeireton.bsky.social Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic was awarded the 2026 Biennial Book Prize from the Society for Renaissance Studies: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri... Big congrats Chloe! @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SRSly excited! And 👀 looking for a third panellist on Renaissance texts - English or otherwise - in 18th and 19th century dispersals. We are esp interested in global educational contexts (broadly conceived) and new archives of book/textual history. If this is you be in touch!

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Renaissance Beyond Borders--proposals due in 3 days, 9/25! #earlymodern

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join us in a few hours to discuss Dr. Mira 'Assaf's (@miramiraculous.bsky.social) work in progress! If you need the paper/Zoom details, please send us an email and we can send it over!

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛 Time is ticking! Abstracts are due THIS FRIDAY, 25 September. Get scribbling those 200 words about your exciting research, #earlymodern #skystorians 🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've put in my proposal and hope to be there next summer. #earlymodern

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

DEADLINE COMING UP! Don’t forget to send your abstracts in by this Friday 25 September! It’s going to be a brilliant gathering, you don’t want to be suffering all the FOMO in July! #earlymodern #skystorians

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Allow us to continue to celebrate these five brilliant books. Here's a thread with short videos of our stellar shortlisted authors explaining their book and its intervention. Get to know the excellence of #earlymodern scholarship in five short videos 🧵 #SkyStorians

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The winner of the article prize is 🥁 🥁 🥁 Jessica Maratsos!! For her article ‘From Asia to Iberia: The Mobility of #EarlyModern Reliquaries’. Congratulations Jessica! We award this prize annually to the best article that appeared in Renaissance Studies. rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...

The Renaissance Studies article prize 2026 has been awarded to Jessica Maratsos for ‘From Asia to Iberia: The Mobility of Early Modern Reliquaries', Vol. 39 No. 5, pages 547-64, November 2025. DOI 10.1111/rest.12969

Exceptional for its geographical, linguistic, and methodological breadth, this article impressed for its ability to capture the many different mutations that these reliquaries undertook in the course of global movement. With clear and precise prose, Maratsos shows at many scales the way that meaning was generated, disputed, and again re-formed across the early modern period. Challenging and enlightening at once, it resonates with many of the themes that drive current Renaissance scholarship. Amidst a very strong field of scholarship, the Article Prize Committee were unanimous in awarding this year's prize.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And the winner of the biennial book prize is 🥁 🥁 🥁 Chloe Ireton and her book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic! 🎉 Congratulations @chloeireton.bsky.social!! Find authors’ videos and our judges’ comments for all shortlisted books here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Rigorously researched, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is a model for how to excavate the archive and how to find and reanimate the lives and hidden voices latent in letters, trials and petitions. It uncovers the rich and varied experiences of those whom European legal codes racialised as Black in the Iberian world. Ireton attends sensitively to the violence and trauma of the history of slavery while unearthing how those with African heritage negotiated the legal ecologies of enslavement and liberation in Spain, its colonies, and other Atlantic colonised spaces. The book brilliantly uncovers a conceptual and intellectual history of Black thought in the evidence of these legal and logistical documents. Its command of materials is impeccable and its blueprint for approaching archival research will be felt across disciplines for many years to come. The committee were unanimous in its decision to award this book the prize.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thread with all the author videos WITH SOUND! For those from whom I somehow stole the audio last night... 🧙‍♀️ Really neat way of getting to know this exciting scholarship -- tempted to give some of these to my students both for info and sense of how to pitch your ideas.

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Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is such amazing news! Thank you @srsrensoc.bsky.social and many thanks to the judges for their hard work on this prize, and thank you for writing such a generous citation about the book. Many congratulations to fellow shortlisted authors. What a stellar line up! @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

permit me to be the last to congratulate you on this splendid, well-deserved news @chloeireton.bsky.social ! 😁

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The thing is - imo - research and teaching are inextricably connected At least, they were UKHEI's cuts to Humanities' UG/BA programmes (leading to generic, team taught courses) effectively cut academic research ties too

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Can't believe I'm the first to get to this.

The picture of St Joseph levitating before the cross, with a basketball hoop crudely added in to make it look like St Joseph is using his miraculous gifts to perform a sick dunk.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Half an hour to go and we celebrate our brilliant post-doctoral fellows! Join us and get to hear all about the work of these colleagues: Nicole Maceira Cumming on Animals, the environment and the "Protestant" worldview and Serin Quinn, on Foods as Aphrodisiacs #earlymodern #skystorians

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And there's so much more, from superb research articles across a host of disciplines to our amazing special issues and acres of book and exhibition reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1477...

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Renaissance Studies

Click on the title to browse this journal

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Domenico Lovascio @domlovascio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can definitely confirm that Renaissance Studies, guided by the expert hand of @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social, offers rigorous review, efficient turnaround times, and a swift route from publication to acceptance -- even in August! It was one of the best publication experiences I've ever had.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And while you luxuriate in our superb back catalogue, you should also consider submitting your next article to Renaissance Studies. We offer expert review, efficient turnarounds, and a swift route to publication after acceptance. Any questions, get in touch!

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TODAY IS THE DAY! Come and join us in celebrating these five glorious shortlisted authors as well as the winner of our article prize! Join us here: www.crowdcast.io/c/festival20... #earlymodern #SkyStorians

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

The winner will be announced at a star-studded* online event on Friday 18th September 2026. 17.00BST, hosted by the distinguished, dazzling & divine duo @jillburke.bsky.social & @onslies.bsky.social #Skystorians rensoc.org.uk/announcement... * get your desktops set to show images of the galaxy

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TWO SLEEPS! And then we get to hear about so much exciting research and celebrate extraordinary achievements! Do join us! #earlymodern #skystorians

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join us on Friday for this celebration of all the exciting #earlymodern research that’s being done! Your joyful way to get to know 5 excellent books, 2 brilliant post-doctoral projects, and the exciting articles we’re publishing in Renaissance Studies. Get some champagne and join us! #SkyStorians

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A thread! A thread! 🧵 Get a load of all that #RenaissanceStudies juiciness! 🥰 💫 #Skystorians

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

👀 is @pennpress.bsky.social looking to crash its website with this sale? Come on #Skystorians, you know what to do!

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