Read "The Gentildonne of Fabriano: Forging Women’s Voices in Sixteenth-Century Italy" @lauraingalli.bsky.social (ISPLAS / CMS) in 'Renaissance Quarterly' Volume 79, Number 2.
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This is not surprising in the least: I used to attend Quaker meetings regularly and it's still very important to me though I am no longer practicing!
A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty questions, thirty types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?
Important essay by @danvitkus.bsky.social
“The Weight of this Sad Time”: Presentism, Eco-Politics, and Early Modern Studies |
Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 1 share.google/BXlDZ1n3JmmJ...
🚨The summer issue of RQ is now live!
Articles on: Eve's gluttony, Petrarchan chapel paintings, Roger Ascham & Elizabeth I, forgeries of Italian women poets, the magical-monastic-theatrical Andreini family, & remixed maxims after La Rochefoucauld.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current
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How should scholars writing about early modern culture respond to our present and future eco-crisis? Given the current impasse in the struggle against ecocidal forces, new materialist anti-anthropocen...
Hahahahahah salon is back and we're marking 5 years of LittlePuss what the fucking fuck every person in the NYC region should come to this obvs
Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900.
Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2027
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
There are also some wonderful books reviewed here, including featured (free to access) reviews of books by @badinfinity2.bsky.social, Roseen Giles, Elizabeth S. Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, and some great translations.
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Question for #academicsky: What is the best way to donate/recycle old hard copy academic journals?
I really, truly do not have space for them and cannot justify keeping more than a few sentimental issues. I'm in New England, for context, so I doubt any nearby universities need them.
