now reading Het late leven, part 2 of De boeken der kleine zielen, by Louis Couperus (available in English transl. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos), and there's much that I don't remember, and it's all wonderful. @bookstodon
NB while the SRS is UK-based, your submission does not need to be Anglocentric, nor do you need to be an established scholar to make a chance - and “early modern / renaissance” is interpreted generously. I submitted my PhD-turned-into-a-book on late medieval and EM Dutch chronicles from a Dutch publisher, and the jury took it seriously, between submissions from much more esteemed colleagues in much more established subdisciplines https://www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-prizes/society-biennial-book-prize/
a while back I asked on here for recommendations for books that are fun to read yet feel somehow significant - thank you @ferngirl for recommending Yan Ge’s Strange Beasts of China and Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon; each in its own unique way perfectly fit the bill, and each will stay with me I am sure
The Medieval Chronicle 15: Essays in Honour of Erik Kooper
A Festschrift of The Medieval Chronicle series published by Brill was recently published, with essays dedicated to Erik Kooper. Before his retirement, Kooper, who specialised in medieval literature, was a lecturer in the English programme at @utrechtuniversity
clearing out old boxes I stored in my mum’s attic when I emigrated, so now I can show you that I really did first read the Lord of the Rings in the edition with those cover illustrations. #bookstodon@bookstodon
"The Middle Dutch Brut is a telling example of the international, multilingual
dynamics of the Anglo-Dutch relations of the printing culture of the later Middle Ages.
For those interested in these aspects, The Middle Dutch Brut is a welcome addition and edition."
@slevelt@medievodons@histodons As someone who served a term as a review editor for Speculum (some years ago and in a different area), I think you may be overthinking this. It's usually hard enough to identify a competent specialist who is willing to review. Often it takes several tries. One rarely has the luxury of caring what nationality people are. If your edition was well and competently reviewed, I'd take that as a W.
@aristofontes@medievodons@histodons you seem to be suggesting I don't know my field. What you say is parallel to the justifications people give for all male, all white panels, etc. As I said in my post, I do take the W, but there are disciplinary issues here at play that replicate siloes which are harmful to the field.
arrived in the mail today! we surprised Erik with it at the International Conference of the Medieval Chronicle this summer, an instance of a series of conferences instigated by Erik in the 1990s. the thickest (380 pp.!) volume in the series The Medieval Chronicle, with the most (28!) authors, the only one with an index, and the one I had the largest responsibility for (as co-editor of the series which Erik established, he always did more than I did). @medievodons@histodons