Hannah McClain, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin and 2025-26 Renaissance Society of America-Virginia Fox Stern Center Visiting Research Fellow, will give a talk titled "Wards of Christ: Women and Custodial Institutions in Early Modern Italy" for the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance.
Stern Center lectures are directed toward Hopkins graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.
To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please email sterncenter@jhu.edu. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance was established with a permanent endowment in 2017 to support lectures, fellowships, master classes, symposia, and publications related to the Sheridan Libraries' premodern and early modern rare book and manuscript collections. The center’s focus encompasses the historical reception of classical and medieval thought and the culture and influence of the Renaissance throughout the early modern period.