The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) is a research and teaching centre with a library devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700. The CRRS supervises an undergraduate program in Renaissance Studies, organizes lectures and seminars, and maintains an active series of publications.

Located in Room 301 of the E. J. Pratt Library, Victoria College, CRRS is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday during the Fall and Winter terms. The CRRS observes the holiday schedule of the University of Toronto.

Every other month, CRRS Fellow Scott Schofield will showcase a rare book from our collection. Our first book to be showcased is Francesco Filelfo's Epistolae [Basel; before July 1496]. See the description of this exciting new project or go directly to our January 2010 Rare Book of the Month page.

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View our online exhibits of CRRS rare books.

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The CRRS has partnered with the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to run a competition for an English translation of one of two poems by the noted sixteenth-century painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572). For more information, check here. Deadline: 30 May 2010.

Check out the Fall 2009 Newsletter.

The CRRS is pleased to host the international conference Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture. Check the conference website. Conference dates: October 22-24, 2010.

New issue of Early Theatre is out. Check out the table of contents.

Fresh off the press!

CRRS Publications is pleased to announce the arrival of Faith and Fantasy in the Renaissance: Texts, Images, and Religious Practices, edited by Olga Zorzi Pugliese and Ethan Matt Kavaler, the most recent volumen in our Essay and Studies series.

Also, Love in the Mirror , thesecond volume of our newest series, The Other Voice has just arrived.

Both books are available at a terrific 20% introductory discount.

Upcoming Events

Check our full calendar of events.

Upcoming Calls for Papers and Fellowships:

The Forgotten Ferrara and her Cultural Legacy - an international and interdisciplinary conference to be held 25-27 May 2011. Deadline for paper proposals: 20 December 2010. For more information see the CFP.

Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (ongoing)
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (ongoing)

CRRS Publications is pleased to announce a new series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, which succeeds the University of Chicago Press print series. For more information, click here.

Desiderius Erasmus’s Opera Omnia published at Leiden in 1703–1706 by Jean Le Clerc (Joannes Clericus) are now available on the website of the Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies at Rotterdam.