EDITORIAL
This is the last issue of The Renaissance Journal with which Dr Elizabeth
Goldring will be associated as co-editor, though by no means the last, we
hope, to which she will contribute. Elizabeth has been for three years a
most active and scholarly co-editor, going well beyond the usual editorial
duties of receiving and correcting copy, and preparing the Journal for
distribution (though these activities are onerous enough in all
conscience). She has stimulated contributions, contributed herself, and
fully participated in the Journal’s development of policy. We owe her a
great debt. Now that Elizabeth has been appointed to a prestigious
Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London,
we wish her every success with her future life and scholarship.
Readers will see from the current issue that Elizabeth’s enthusiasm
(and my own) for the inclusion of brief scholarly articles has been
vindicated by the acceptance of four pieces on topics related to the work
of the AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court
Cultures. To some extent, this is an especially home-grown issue. The
lead article, it is true, is written by H. Neville Davies, for many years a
lecturer at the University of Birmingham, but we may claim him too,
perhaps, as one of our own, as a member of the Steering Group of Europa
Triumphans, and a valued adviser and participant in John Nichols. Jayne
Archer is post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Nichols project,
Amanda Penlington gained her doctorate at the Centre a year or so ago
(and is off to a lectureship at the University of the West of England) and
Ben Spiller returns to us this year to undertake postgraduate research,
after completing his MA with distinction. Other members and associates
are among those who have written book reviews. The success of the
AHRB Centre in stimulating interdisciplinary Renaissance scholarship is
well demonstrated by the make-up (and I'd say the quality) of the
research represented in the Journal. But the last thing we want to be is
parochial. The conferences, our own and others, prefigured in this issue
represent the continuing wish of the Centre to be inclusive and
international. If any reader would like to have a contribution considered
for the Journal, please write to me at the Centre.
Since we have to keep afloat financially (and have overspent our
AHRB subsidy), could any reader who is not already a subscriber please
join us now? We have once again included a form with this issue. The
cost is very modest!
Ronnie Mulryne
University of Warwick