The Journal of the Northern Renaissance (JNR) is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of both the cultural productions and the concept of the Northern Renaissance. There you'll find essays on subjects as diverse as the civic portrait in Nuremberg, poetry and painting in late medieval and early modern Scotland, how Gabriel Harvey read his Castiglione, texts and textiles among the elite of Renaissance England, and evolutionary experiment in the work of the Hungarian lyric poet, Bálint Balassi.
Sebastiaan Verweij and I founded JNR in 2009 while graduate students in Glasgow, with the support of the Scottish Institute of Northern Renaissance Studies, and many very supportive senior colleagues. Since then I have been either its editor or co-editor. The journal has grown dramatically in size and scope, and now includes Polaris, which hosts conference reports, podcasts and short blog articles.
While initially focussing upon the deployment of the written word, JNR is now alert to the full variety of early modern cultural practice, publishing articles that relate to early modern visual culture, philosophy, theology, politics and the scientific technologies 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 periodizations 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.
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