The Renaissance Society of America
The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) is an academic association founded in 1954. It is dedicated to the Renaissance , which it delimits in time from 1300 to 1650. The focus is on art history and history. Its headquarters are in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York , but the annual meeting takes place in different locations in North America.
The management is held by an Executive Board , supported by permanent employees. There is also a council made up of representatives from the various disciplines and associated institutions. Elizabeth Cropper was president from 2010 to 2012, Edward Muir until 2014 , and Joseph Connors until 2016. Clare Carroll succeeded him in office. From 2008 to 2010 William J. Kennedy held the presidency. The first president was John H. Randall, Jr. (1954–1956). He was followed by Paul Oskar Kristeller (1957-1958) in office.
The Society publishes the Renaissance Quarterly as a quarterly magazine , alongside the Renaissance News & Notes as a newsletter for members or as a newsletter . The Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series serves as a series for the publication of monographs and, above all, sources .
The Society also awards the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for the best book in the field of Renaissance studies.
Renaissance society has built up a wide network of associated organizations. These include numerous research and higher education institutions, such as the American Cusanus Society , the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies , the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Sociéte canadienne d'études de la Renaissance , the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies in California State University , the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University, the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland , the Center de Recherches Epistéme at the Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, as well as the Center for Early Modern Studies at the University of Aberdeen or the Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto . In addition, there is the Center for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies , Queen Mary, University of London, the Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance in New York, the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society in The Hague , the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo or The Italian Art Society , the Medieval & Renaissance Studies Association in Israel at Haifa University , the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society in Calgary , Canada , Princeton Renaissance Studies at Princeton University , Roma Nel Rinascimento in Rome , the Society for Renaissance Studies at the University of Nottingham , the South African Society for Medieval & Renaissance Studies in Johannesburg and the University of California Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies . In total, over 90 organizations were associated at the beginning of 2011, most of them in North America and Great Britain, but also in France, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Spain and Italy.
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