The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) is an academic membership association founded in 1954 to promote study of the world during the Renaissance period, 1300–1700. The RSA brings together scholars from many backgrounds in a wide variety of fields of inquiry from North America and around the world. RSA has thousands of members at universities and colleges as professors, instructors, and graduate students; at museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions; independent scholars; and many others interested in Renaissance studies. Its headquarters are in New York City; the annual meeting takes place in changing cities within North America and in Europe.

With Cambridge University Press, the RSA publishes the Renaissance Quarterly (ISSN 0034-4338) a peer-reviewed publication which began in 1948 as Renaissance News and was renamed beginning with volume 20 in 1967. It subsumed a separate publication, Studies in the Renaissance, in 1975;[1] Studies was published by the University of Chicago Press from 1954 to 1974 (ISSN 0081-8658, vols. 1-21) and is indexed by JSTOR. The RSA also publishes an e-newsletter (Renaissance News), and the Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series with Brill.

The Society offers a number of awards for members, including the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award, the Digital Innovation Award for websites presenting research in the Renaissance, the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for the best book published in Renaissance studies, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Book Prize for the best book published in Renaissance Venetian studies, and the William Nelson Prize for the best article in Renaissance Quarterly.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Renaissance Quarterly". Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Awards". Renaissance Society of America. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
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