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Renaissance Studies

Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies

Edited by:
Andrew Hadfield

Renaissance Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal which publishes articles and editions of documents on all aspects of Renaissance history and culture. The articles range over the history, art, architecture, religion, literature, and languages of Europe during the period.

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Exploring the Renaissance
The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce the following series of free public lectures at venues around the UK and Ireland. These will address the state of studies in the Renaissance across a range of disciplines. For further information, please click here.

'British Enthusiasm for the Italian Renaissance in the "Long" Nineteenth Century'
Tuesday 2nd December 2008 at 5.00 pm
John Law (Department of History, Swansea University; Chair, Society for Renaissance Studies)
Research Beehive, Room 2.22, University of Newcastle

'Renaissance Encounters: The Invention of Printing and the Crisis of the Renaissance'
Monday 2nd February 2009 at 5.15 pm
Andrew Pettegree (Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews)
Arts Faculty, Lecture Room 3, 17 Woodland Road, University of Bristol

'Touching the Renaissance'
Friday 6th February
Evelyn Welch (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
(The event is free but tickets must be pre-booked. Please visit www.vam.ac.uk)

The winning article of the Renaissance Studies
2008 Essay Prize is now online
Each year, the Renaissance Studies Society appoints a panel to select the best essay published in Renaissance Studies. The winner of the 2008 Essay Prize was:
'From jellied seas to open waterways: redefining the norther limit of the knowable world' by Margaret Small
To read the abstract, please click here.

The winner of the 2007 Essay Prize was:
'Three pounds and fifteen shillings; the inconsiderable salary of Judas': seventeenth century exegesis, cultural histiography and Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica by Kevin Killeen
To read the abstract, please click here.

Online Content Now Available Back to Volume 1
All back issues of this journal are available online.  Click here to browse contents and abstracts.  For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.

Discount for SRS Members
Members of SRS can now receive a 20% discounts on Wiley-Blackwell and Polity Press books and journals. To do so please click on the link below, complete the form and return with payment to:
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Cumulative Index Online
For access to the full cumulative index and abstracts to Renaissance Studies, going back to its first issue in 1987, please click here.

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