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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 4d

Ah. That will be the Church Militant.

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4d

3 Oct 1642: Henry Ferne Bishop of #Chester rides through the night #otd to Cawood to warn Archbishop John Williams of #York of the approach of a parliamentarian raiding party from #Hull (BM)

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 13d

WE ARE OFF!

If you're still on commute or school run, you should be able to pick this up later as it's recorded. But always lovely to be able to actually ask questions of our brilliant post-docs.
#SkyStorians #EarlyModern

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE!

Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard.

25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

postdoctoral showcase
Jean David Eynard, ‘Hearing Colours, Seeing Noises: Sensory Disability & Synaesthesia in Seventeenth-Century England’

Claire Turner, ‘Cancer, Identity, & the Senses in Early Modern England, c.1583-1699’

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15d

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 15d

I had a brilliant set of UG dissertation students last year.

One wrote an excellent blog on counterfactual history and the North Berwick witch-hunt: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-supe...

Have a read! I think counterfactual history is a tool that #earlymodern #hextag peeps should use more often. 😊

Would the North Berwick Witch Trials have happened without King James VI? A Counterfactual History (Lucy Martin)

Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.

blogs.cardiff.ac.uk

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 13d

GREEN ROOM ABUZZ! Do join us to hear about all the brilliant work by our post-graduate fellows! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE!

Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard.

25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks so much!

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · 27d

Absolutely! Thanks for spotting it, otherwise we may not have noticed and that would have been a problem! We are happy to confirm that there is now a full plain text version of the CFP that can be found on our website:

memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 28d

TODAY!

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

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks so much, really appreciated! Sorry technology was unhelpful but great that now it hopefully can be solved :)

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Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social · 29d

So looking forward to the book launch for this fantastic edition of Margaret Tudor’s letters tomorrow— @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social and I will be ‘in conversation about the book, the fascinating features of Margaret’s correspondence and what it reveals about the practice of queenship 👸

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

THIS WEDNESDAY! #EarlyModern #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents #SkyStorians

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

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 9

Should have remembered to add hashtags!
Here, have some: #BookHistory #EarlyModern #EarlyModernEvents #Skystorians #MaterialCulture

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 6

CFP: @rebpaf.bsky.social’s “Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” With keynote speakers @wynkenhimself.bsky.social @renskehoff.bsky.social and Aditi Nafde

Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 23-25 June 2026
Deadline: 15 December 2025

All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/re-med...

Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) is a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network coordinated by the University of Galway, which focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market. It also explores the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world.

The network will be hosting an international conference at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin from 23-25 June 2026. We invite papers or posters on late medieval and early modern book culture, broadly conceived.

Selection. What shapes a book producer’s choices in form or language? How do physical features reflect meaning or ideology? How do design and content choices reveal cultural values—and how are these reimagined in modern editions?
Value. What determines the cultural or monetary value of certain texts over others? How do producers, sellers, and collectors influence these shifting values? How can citation, adaptation, or performance reshape a book’s worth? What is the role of canonicity, and how has it changed? Why and how do we reevaluate texts over time?
Accessibility. How does changing a text’s medium—manuscript, print, or digital—affect its reading? How do material or linguistic changes interact with content? How does greater access reshape how readers interpret texts? What are the ethical issues around accessibility and cultural ownership? Can re-mediation serve as critique or recovery? How can we open historical texts to new audiences?
Survival. Why do some texts survive while others do not? How do past choices shape their transmission today? What meanings are tied to survival, loss, or rediscovery? How do texts respond to fragility? What roles do preservation or adaptation play in ensuring their future?

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE!

Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard.

25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

SYMPOSIUM with the brilliant team of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network. Join us for an afternoon of exciting research papers as well as discussion of academia beyond the academy.

11 September, 12:45-17:15, Liverpool John Moores Uni
All info & programme: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/emsoc-...

Early Modern Scholars of Colour mentoring scheme with the Society of Renaissance Studies. Graphic with plumb, mint green and off-white.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin...
#SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

Call for Papers

This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for literary criticism. In a period best known today for its poetry and drama, practical texts such as Gervase Markham’s The English Husbandman were ‘almost literally read to pieces’, Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ‘led the market’ as ‘a Tudor best-seller’, and cookery books enjoyed a staggering 70% reprint rate. That these texts occupied such a prominent position in the publishing industry is testament to their importance in early modern life. Yet despite this, literary criticism has been slow to embrace such texts as more than merely contextual sources for canonical texts by poets and dramatists such as Shakespeare and Spenser. Critics continue to frame Tusser’s work as an agricultural manual or almanack rather than a book of poetry, for example, while literary scholars tend to note his significance in the same breath as they denigrate the quality of his verse: an ‘agrarian book of jingles’ or ‘collection of doggerel’. Other practical texts such as receipt books and surveying texts have been interrogated primarily as a means of understanding early modern culture and society. Less common are studies of practical texts as works of literature, studies that centre the practical text rather than positioning it as context for the work of more canonical writers. This symposium seeks to address this gap, and invites contributors to consider how studying non-traditionally canonical texts can help scholars to reassess established positions. It is designed to lead to an edited collection, provisionally aimed at Routledge’s Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series, so speakers are encouraged to propose papers suitable for extension into a 6000-8000 word chapter.

Recent scholarship by Katarzyna Lecky, Jessica Rosenberg, and Kyla Tompkins has begun to demonstrate

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

machine-readable CFP on the webpage: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

hello! Thanks for this, looks exciting! Trying to maintain a policy of alttext or explicit links to accessible text. Is there a webpage with this CFP in an accessible format?

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin...
#SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

a picture of two minions with the words welcome back

ALT: a picture of two minions with the words welcome back

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Dr Stephen Curtis @earlymodernhorror.bsky.social · Sep 7

This'll be my first academic event in a long while so be gentle with me ;p Looking forward to supporting some incredible research by young scholars with vital perspectives on the field. I'll be the old bald one nodding furiously and trying to spread good vibes :)

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

SYMPOSIUM with the brilliant team of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network. Join us for an afternoon of exciting research papers as well as discussion of academia beyond the academy.

11 September, 12:45-17:15, Liverpool John Moores Uni
All info & programme: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/emsoc-...

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · Aug 30

Want a little bit of #MusicalBookHistory for your weekend? About #Plainchant arguments and problematic historiography and the value of musical sources? I wrote an accidental thread!

#BookHistory #EarlyModern #EarlyMusic

Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is a very famous gradual and an #AbsoluteUnit: Graduale Romanum (Rome: Medicea 1614/15)!

Want to learn more about it? Check out my articles "Retrofitting Plainchant" (Journal of Musicology 2019) or "Editorial Endeavours" (Plainsong & Medieval Music 2020):

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · Aug 25

Nothing like a hefty liturgical volume to make your Monday!

Oversaw the digitization of this chunky boy, a folio-format gradual, printed in 1617 and with an #earlymodern binding bearing the date ‘1629’.

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · Aug 30

Come one, come all to lovely Liverpool to hear some fabulous scholarship!

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

SYMPOSIUM with the brilliant team of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network. Join us for an afternoon of exciting research papers as well as discussion of academia beyond the academy.

11 September, 12:45-17:15, Liverpool John Moores Uni
All info & programme: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/emsoc-...

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RILCH at LJMU @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social · Aug 30

Looking forward to hosting this terrific symposium. Come and join us!

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

SYMPOSIUM with the brilliant team of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network. Join us for an afternoon of exciting research papers as well as discussion of academia beyond the academy.

11 September, 12:45-17:15, Liverpool John Moores Uni
All info & programme: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/emsoc-...

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Aug 25

Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), Durham (UK):

memorients.com/news/assista...

Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), Durham (UK) | MEMOs

Durham University, Assistant Professor

memorients.com

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Are you thinking of applying to speak at our Winter Conference? Considering coming along to take part in the activities and enjoy the panels? If you do, you'll have a lovely time. Don't just take our word for it though...

Our Call for Papers is open until the 12th September!

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