Welcome to the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. JNR is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal dedicated to the study of both the cultural productions and the concept of the Northern Renaissance.
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.
2.1 Memory and the Northern Renaissance
We are now accepting submissions for Issues 4 and 6, please see the calls for papers below.
We publish book reviews on a rolling basis. Our latest reviews are listed below:
• Vaughan Hart, Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings (Yale University Press, 2011) - Reviewed by R. Malcolm Smuts
• Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein (eds.), The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2009) - Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
• Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté and Harry Schnitker (eds.), Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c. 1300–c. 1550 (Brill, 2010) - Reviewed by Stella Fletcher
• Carl van de Velde (ed.), Classical Mythology in the Netherlands in the Age of Renaissance and Baroque – La mythologie classique aux temps de la Renaissance et du Baroque dans les Pays-Bas, Travaux de l'Institut Interuniversitaire pour l’Étude de la Renaissance et de l’Humanisme, 14 (Peeters, 2009) - Reviewed by Demmy Verbeke
• Erik Butler, The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (Ashgate, 2010) - Reviewed by Nicola McLelland
• Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610-1620 (Ashgate, 2009) - Reviewed by Jeremy Wood
• Brian Cummings and James Simpson (eds.), Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2010) - Reviewed by Mike Rodman Jones
JNR gratefully acknowledges the support of the universities of Glasgow, Stirling, and Strathclyde.
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Submission deadline: March 2012. Expected date of publication October 2012
This special issue of JNR will seek to explore the slippery notion of the ‘will’ and its various semantic permutations in the context of such issues as subjectivity, power, logic, desire, freedom, volition, wit, wisdom, theology and metaphysics. One of its main purposes is to investigate what power and signifying force ‘the will’ possesses, as well as its limitations, and to locate this concept within the aesthetic, political, theological, philosophical and ideological traditions that informed early modern literature and culture.
The issue builds on a symposium held at the University of Strathclyde, and will be guest-edited by Alison Thorne; however, for this issue JNR also welcomes further submissions around this theme.
Submission deadline: March 2013. Expected date of publication October 2013
We invite submissions for our sixth issue on any aspect of the cultural practice of Northern Europe in the period 1450-1650, including literature, visual culture, philosophy, theology, politics and scientific technologies. We are particularly interested in studies exploring alternative cultural geographies, challenging existing conceptualizations and periodizations of the Renaissance in the North, and/or establishing continuities and ruptures with earlier and later epochs. Part of our intention, however, in having an open, unthemed issue, is to gauge where the most interesting work is being done and what questions are being asked by scholars working on Northern Renaissance culture across a wide range of disciplines.
Potential contributors are advised to consult the submissions page of our website for details of the submissions procedure and style guidelines. We also welcome initial enquiries regarding possible contributions, which can be sent to us at northernrenaissance@gmail.com.
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