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Volume XXIX, Number 2 ...October 2012 Volume XXIX, Number 2 . October 2012 Typeset by Archétype Informatique, Camplong d’Aude 11200 France Web site: www .archetype-it .com © The Society for Renaissance Studies, 2012 All rights reserved ISSN 0264-8671 CONTENTS Letter from the Honorary Chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies 1 JUDITH BRYCE ANNUAL LECTURE Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture 2012: The Lost Years of 3 Edmund Spenser ANDREW HADFIELD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, University of 24 Manchester LIAM HAYDON AND NAYA TSENTOROU CONFERENCE REPORTS Opening the Vaults: Researching Welsh families and their Archives, 30 circa 1500–1850, Gloddaith Hall, Llandudno MARY CHADWICK AND SHAUN EVANS The Gascoigne Seminar, Lincoln College, Oxford 31 GILLIAN AUSTEN Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500–1700, Chawton House Library 33 RO B E RT F . W . S M I T H Space on the Elizabethan Stage, 1576–1599, University of Leeds 35 CHLOE KATHLEEN PREEDY AND LAURENCE PUBLICOVER Popular Fiction and the English Renaissance, Newcastle University 37 KATHERINE HEAVEY Louis XIV, Outside In: Reactions and Responses to the Sun King Outside 39 France, Maison Francaise d’Oxford ANTHONY MICHAEL CLAYDON Art in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Context, Practices, Developments, 40 University of St Andrews LAURA MORETTI Religious Lives: Catholic Culture in Early Modern Europe, 42 St Edmund Hall, Oxford VICTORIA VAN HYNING Working with Neo-Latin Sources: A Postgraduate Workshop, 45 Wellcome Library, London GESINE MANUWALD [ i ] Early Modern Merchants as Collectors, Ashmolean Museum 47 CHRISTINA M . A N D E R S O N Renaissance Old Worlds: English Encounters from the Levant to the Far East, 49 The British Library MARIA SHMYGOL The Fairfax 400th Anniversary Conference, University of Leicester 51 ANDREW HOPPER AND PHILIP MAJOR Reading Early Modern Studies Conference, University of Reading 52 CHLOË HOUSTON BOOK REVIEWS Gordon Campbell, Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611–2011 54 J A N M A RT I N Suzanne Gossett, ed ., Thomas Middleton in Context 57 ANDY KESSON Linda McJannet, The Sultan Speaks: Dialogue in English Plays and Histories 60 about the Ottoman Turks PETE MITCHELL Laurie Nussdorfer, Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome 62 C A RO L M . RICHARDSON Kristen Poole, Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare’s England: 65 Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama KIRSTY ROLFE Sharon T . Strocchia, Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence 67 ANNA DRUMMOND Lina Perkins Wilder, Shakespeare’s Memory Theatre: Recollection, Properties, 70 and Character RAPHAEL LYNE REPORTS AND NOTICES Fellowship Reports 74 News and Announcements 78 [ i i ] BULLETIN of the Society for Renaissance Studies EDITORS Dr Ruth Ahnert, Dr Joanna Craigwood, School of English and Drama, Sidney Sussex College, Queen Mary, University of London, University of Cambridge, Mile End Road, Sidney Street London E1 4NS Cambridge CB2 3HU Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5836 Tel: +44 (0)1223 338 839 Email: r .r .ahnert@qmul .ac .uk Email: jeie2@cam .ac .uk EDITORIAL BOARD The Hon. Chairman of the Society The Hon. Secretary of the Society The Hon. Treasurer of the Society The Editors he Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies publishes articles, notes and reviews of general interest to the members of the Society . Members who Tare interested in writing articles (of approximately 2000 words) and notes should send proposals and typescripts (preferably via e-mail attachment) to the editors at the above addresses . Copy for the next issue should reach the editors by 15 February 2013 . Contributions should be prepared in accordance with the MHRA style guide but please contact the editors with any queries concerning the length, format and style of contributions . Publishers who wish to have books considered for review should send copies to Ruth Ahnert . Further information about the Society for Renaissance Studies can be found on the Society’s website at http://www .rensoc .org .uk/ [ i i i ] The Society for Renaissance Studies Founded 1967 HON. CHAIR Prof . Judith Bryce, School of Modern Languages (Italian), University of Bristol, 17 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TE HON. VICE CHAIR Prof . Peter Mack, The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB HON. SECRETARY HON. TREASURER Dr Gabriele Neher, Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw, The Department of Art History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Nottingham, Oxford Brookes University, University Park, Headington Campus, Nottingham NG7 2RD Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP BRANCH OFFICERS Ireland: Dr Daniel Carey Scotland: Dr Alison Thorne Wales: Prof .Andrew Hiscock embership of the Society is open to anyone interested in Renaissance studies and to institutions . All members receive issues of the Bulletin, Mwhich is published twice yearly, in April and October .The Society and its branches organize a full programme of events including an annual lecture, symposia and sixth-form conferences . Individuals and institutions interested in joining the Society should contact Dr Chloë Houston, Department of English and American Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading RG6 6AA . Email: c .houston@reading .ac .uk . The annual subscription is £20 for individual members, £35 for institutions, £25 for overseas members, and £15 for students . Copies of back issues of the Bulletin are available to members from the editors at £2 each . [ i v ] Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies (October 2012) Prof . Judith Bryce, The Warburg Institute, (Hon. Chair) Woburn Square, School of Modern Languages (Italian), London WC1H 0AB University of Bristol, peter .mack@sas .ac .uk 17 Woodland Road, Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Bristol BS8 1TE (Hon. Treasurer) j .h .bryce@bris .ac .uk School of Arts and Humanities, Dr Gabriele Neher, Oxford Brookes University, (Hon. Secretary) Headington Campus, The Department of Art History, Gipsy Lane, University of Nottingham, Oxford OX3 0BP University Park, jane .stevens-crawshaw@brookes .ac .uk Nottingham NG7 2RD gabriele .neher@nottingham .ac .uk Prof . Peter Mack, (Hon. Vice Chair) Dr Ruth Ahnert, Dr Harald Braun, (Editor, Bulletin) School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, School of English and Drama, University of Liverpool Queen Mary, University of London, Liverpool, Mile End Road, L69 3BX London E1 4NS H .E .Braun@liverpool .ac .uk r .r .ahnert@qmul .ac .uk Dr Jill Burke Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey, (Associate Editor, Renaissance Studies) Department of French, Department of History of Art, Trinity College Dublin, Minto House College Green, 20 Chambers Street Dublin 2 Edinburgh, EH1 1JZ salynsta@tcd .ie jill .burke@ed .ac .uk Dr Piers Baker-Bates, Dr Caroline Campbell, (Acting Hon .Treasurer) (Museum & Galleries Officer) Department of Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, Faculty of Arts, Somerset House, The Open University, Strand, Walton Hall, London WC2R 0RN Milton Keynes MK7 6AA caroline .campbell@courtauld .ac .uk p .baker-bates@open .ac .uk [ v ] [ v i ] COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY Dr Daniel Carey, Dr Chloë Houston, (Irish Representative) (Membership Secretary) Department of English, Department of English & American Literature, National University of Ireland, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Room 504, Tower 1, University of Reading, University Road, Whiteknights PO Box 218, Galway, Ireland Reading RG6 6AA daniel .carey@nuigalway .ie c .houston@reading .ac .uk Dr Joanna Craigwood, Prof . 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Heal, (Exhibition Reviews Editor, North) Harriet Knight, Department of Modern History, (Schools Representative) University of St Andrews, The Henrietta Barnett School, St Katherine’s Lodge, Central Square, The Scores, Hampstead Garden Suburb, St Andrews, London NW11 7BN Fife KY16 9AL harriet_knight@yahoo .com bmh7@st-andrews .ac .uk Dr Claire Norton, Prof .Andrew Hiscock, School of Theology, Philosophy, and History, (Welsh Representative) St Mary’s University College, School of English, Waldegrave Road, Bangor University, Strawberry Hill, Bangor LL57 2DG Twickenham TW1 4SX els408@bangor .ac .uk COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY [ v i i ] Dr Liz Oakley-Brown, Prof .William Sherman, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Lancaster University, Studies, Bowland College, University of York, Bowland A33a, York YO10 5DD Lancaster LA1 4YD ws505@york .ac .uk e .oakley-brown@lancaster .ac .uk Prof . 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