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Welcome to the Society’s website
Aims
The Society for European Festivals Research brings together established and early-career scholars, including archivists and curators, from across Europe, the United States and more widely, engaged in Renaissance and Early Modern Festivals research. It promotes shared activities including conferences and publications and disseminates information about research developments.
Publications
The Society’s Series, European Festival Studies 1450–1700, initially published by Ashgate (2013-2017), then appeared under the Routledge imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group (2017-2018) and from 2019 is published by Brepols. The Series includes both monographs and edited collections stemming from SEFR conferences. The current General Editors are Margaret Shewring (Warwick), Marie-Claude Canova-Green (Goldsmiths, London) and Richard Cooper (University of Oxford).
Membership
Membership of the Society is available without fee to interested scholars via this website, or by entering ‘Society for European Festivals Research’ in your browser. We currently have more than 200 members across a range of countries and academic disciplines.
For further details about the Society, click here
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News
Professor Sydney Anglo (d. October 2025)
It is with great sadness that we write to let you know that Professor Sydney Anglo died during the night of 13th-14th October, aged 91 years. He never really recovered from the loss of his late wife Margaret M. McGowan and worked tirelessly to edit her posthumous monograph, fulfilling his promise to her when she died as well as also trying to complete his own monograph.
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Collections
Substantial collections of Renaissance and Early Modern festival books
Collections