Journal of the Northern Renaissance (JNR)

'Reading is more a process of filling in the blanks than of confronting what’s “really” there on the page.' Georgina Wilson (@GeorginaEMW) on filling in the blanks of early modern literature #Echobox=1720620996" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the-tls.co.uk/literature/lit…

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Love me some early modern deviance!

We are delighted to announce our next in-person lecture (you can also watch online): Caroline Dodds Pennock will speak on 'Cannibals, Curiosities or Catholics? Indigenous peoples in early seventeenth-century France'. 13 Sep 2024. Register for free here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/cannibals-cu…

The happiest days are when the postie brings the latest and greatest in #royalstudies scholarship to your door! Congratulations @Lucy_HS_Dean great to see your fantastic book with @boydellbrewer in print! 👏🎉❤️

Curated by yours truly over the course of the last year and featuring a manuscript edited in the hand of Elizabeth I, books commissioned by Margaret Beaufort, and, best of all, three gorgeous Syon manuscripts (just a fraction of the Lambeth collections!) Come visit!

So excited that our Call for Papers for the ‘Understanding King James VI & I 400 Years On’ Conference is now live! 👑 We are really looking forward to reading your proposals! #UnderstandingKingJames2025

All of this is worth reading/sharing; I particularly nodded at: 'It’s as though the point of publishing were to cement academic careers, rather than disseminate information' and 'It is deeply dispiriting to see everyone clamour for BPCs as supposedly the only way to proceed'

Just over a week until our 'First Academic Article' Panel. Friday 28th June @ 4pm. Sign up below. buytickets.at/centreforearly…

Our second Summer Loeb Draw! All five volumes of Plautus' comedies, containing 21 plays edited by one of the great Classicists of our age. To enter, just retweet this message and we'll draw a random follower from the list on Friday 21 June! Anyone can enter, so good luck to all.

Great (free!) opportunity for Scotland-based poets to work with @atarbuck, @SebMacV, and Library curators (including a JNR editor!) to engage with medieval and early modern poetry about Scotland's places, and with the National Library's collections.

Discover the secrets behind the Library’s 1531 copy of one particular #Machiavelli text in this blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/anatomy-a… #behindthescenes #library #librarytwitter #rarebooks #earlyprintedbooks #renaissance

Now accepting applications for 2025-2026 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships on the research topic of "Truth." Apply by November 3, 2024. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc

📣 Apply for the 2024-25 Quentin Skinner Lectureship You will spend one term as a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH and are invited to give a lecture on a subject of your choosing in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 ⏳ Deadline 24 June 2024 bit.ly/3js4P7Z

Just a few days to go until @nemnetwork_'s Fourth Annual Conference, taking place 11-12 June at @EdinburghUni! Our final programme has a fascinating mix of panels PLUS a keynote by @InmaNSanchez (University of Edinburgh). To sign up, follow the link: forms.gle/Pn9TWVYXjsS3NU…