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Journal of the Northern Renaissance A peer-reviewed, open-access online journal dedicated to the study of both the cultural productions

We place a special emphasis upon questioning the Southern European derivation of our inherited paradigms and upon exploring alternative conceptualisations, geographies and periodisations of the Renaissance. While our principal focus is on the written word, we are interested in the full variety of cultural practices, including the visual arts, costume and other forms of material culture, philosophy

, theology and the art of politics. Similarly, although most of the work we publish deals with Northern Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. we are especially interested in attempts to challenge existing periodizations of the Renaissance in the North, and to establish continuities with earlier and later epochs.

13/06/2019
» Thomas More’s Utopia and the Early Modern Travel Narrative

Just published: Jason Gleckman, ‘Thomas More’s Utopia and the Early Modern Travel Narrative’ http://www.northernrenaissance.org/thomas-mores-utopia-and-the-early-modern-travel-narrative/ …

[1] For all the many different ways in which Thomas More’s Utopia has been interpreted over the centuries, critics have generally agreed that the text constitutes a stellar example of Northern Renaissance humanism. Not only is Utopia accompanied by prefatory letters written by notable European hum...

13/06/2019
» Staging Kingship in Scotland and England, 1532-1560

Just published: Just published: Eleanor Rycroft, ‘Staging Kingship in Scotland and England, 1532-1560’, http://www.northernrenaissance.org/staging-kingship-in-scotland-and-england-1532-1560/ …

[1] ‘Quhat is ane king?’ asks Divine Correctioun in David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis before supplying the answer ‘Nocht bot ane officiar’ (1613),[1] thereby articulating a commonplace of medieval Scottish literature on kingship that the monarch’s duties were owed as much ...

15/04/2019
» 9: Early Modern Voices (Autumn 2017)

If you haven't seen it already, a reminder of our special issue dedicated to Alison Thorne, which you can find here:
http://www.northernrenaissance.org/issues/issue-9-2017/

Contents:

Introduction: Alison Thorne and her legacy
Dermot Cavanagh and Rob Maslen

‘He is a better scholar than I thought he was’: debating the achievements of the Elizabethan grammar schools
Helen Hackett

The Voice of Anne Askew
Jennifer Richards

Nicholas Breton and Early Modern Explorations of the Mind
Douglas Clark

Slanderisation and Censure-ship: When Good Texts Went Bad in Early Modern England
Steven Veerapen

Shakespeare’s DNAs and the daughters of his house
Rene Weis

Afterword
Susan Wiseman

17/10/2017
Bodies and Maps: Personification of the Continents | UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

We'd like to draw your attention to an upcoming conference on Bodies and Maps: Personification of the Continents at UCLA
Friday, January 12, 2018 - Saturday, January 13, 2018

Personifications of the continents of Europe, Africa, Asia, and America abounded in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. The continents, depicted as female (and sometimes male) figures, appeared in political processions, court performances, ceiling and wall frescos, maps, atlases, frontispieces, poe...

17/07/2017

Dietrich Ulsen: "Speculator" (broadside), ca. 1496/98

03/07/2017

Hans Baldung: "The Bewitched Groom" (ca. 1544)

26/06/2017

Lucas Cranach the Elder: "Judith with the Head of Holofernes," 1530

15/06/2017
Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses

Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses

Amongst the assorted curiosities described in Olaus Magnus' 1555 tome on Nordic life was the morse — a hirsuite, fearsome, walrus-like beast, that was said to snooze upon cliffs while hanging by its teeth. Natalie Lawrence explores the career of this chimerical wonder, shaped both by scholarly image...

15/06/2017

Hans Leinberger: Figure of Death (memento mori), ca. 1520

14/06/2017

How to catch a unicorn from the "Tudor Pattern Book" (Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1504).

30/03/2017

Journal of the Northern Renaissance's cover photo

29/03/2017

Rogier van der Weyden: Crucifixion, 1457–1464.

26/03/2017

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Misanthrope, 1568

26/02/2017

Ligier Richier: Effigy of René de Chalon, ca. 1545-1547

07/02/2017

Meister des Stettener: "Legendary transplantation of a leg by Saints Cosmas and Damian, assisted by angels," 16th c. (Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Inv. 989)

Cosmas and Damian, twin patrons of medicine, amputate the diseased leg of a man and replace it with a healthy limb taken from a recently-deceased Ethiopian. The operation takes place in a dream state known as incubation, induced by days of fasting and praying in the saints’ shrine. On waking the man discovers his new leg and is shocked to find that “he is not himself, but another” (As described by the Dominican hagiographer Jacobus da Voragine). While this story circulated as early as the 13th century it achieved its greatest popularity in the 16th century and was frequently featured in the saints’ iconography.

20/01/2017

"Antichrist riding Leviathan." From Lambert of St. Omer, Liber Floridus (Lille and Ninove; 1460). The Hague, KB, 72 A 23

05/01/2017

Meow!

Conrad Gessner:
Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum, 1560

01/01/2017

Middle English word of the day: "Adawen" v. to rise from sleep, also, to arouse.

E.g. "I could barely adawen this morning after a New Year's Eve given to dronkenesse."

28/12/2016

Jean Fouquet: Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, Melun Diptych, ca.1450.

21/12/2016

Happy winter everyone!

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Return of the Hunters, 1565.

19/12/2016

Hendrick Avercamp: Colf Players on the Ice, 1625.

16/12/2016

Journal of the Northern Renaissance

16/12/2016

"The Fool's Cap World Map," ca. 1590. Inspired from the French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé’s cordiform, or heart-shaped projection of the Earth.

A quote from Pliny the Elder at the top of the map: “For in the whole universe the earth is nothing else and this is the substance of our glory, this is its habitation, here it is that we fill positions of power and covet wealth, and throw mankind into an uproar, and launch wars, even civil ones.”

27/11/2016
Open-rank position (assistant professor / associate professor / professor) in British Literature at Bilkent University

JOBS ALERT! Bilkent University Department of English Language and Literature is currently looking to recruit up to three new faculty members, at any rank. Come and work alongside a JNR editor - or, better, don't let the prospect of doing so put you off! Informal enquiries via the email address in the advert are very welcome.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AVS954/open-rank-position-assistant-professor-associate-professor-professor-in-britishliterature/

View details for this Open-rank position (assistant professor / associate professor / professor) in British Literature job vacancy at Bilkent...

23/11/2016

Albrecht Dürer: Three Studies of a Tree Bullfinch, 1543

09/11/2016

Birth of the Antichrist, Anonymous woodcut, 1475

28/10/2016

Hieronymus Bosch: Death and the Miser, ca. 1485/1490

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