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Erika Gaffney

@erikagaffney.bsky.social

Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com

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Folger Shakespeare Library@folger.edu · 4d ago

Now on the blog, curator @heatherwolfe.bsky.social shares heavily annotated books in the Folger collection from early modern readers who knew the power of underlining words, adding notes in the margin, and even putting the occasional doodle in what they were reading. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Marginalia Maxxing, Early Modern Style | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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DailyArt Magazine@dailyartmagazine.bsky.social · 4d ago

Bologna, in northern Italy, fostered more women artists in the early modern period than any other European city. Nowhere else matched the number, the range of skills, or the degree of public recognition that women achieved. www.dailyartmagazine.com/hidden-gems-... by Kitty Perring

Hidden Places to See Celebrating Women Artists in Bologna

Bologna fostered more women artists in the early modern period than any other European city. Let's discover this city!

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German Historical Institute London@ghilondon.bsky.social · 3d ago

Read the full blog post now: ghil.hypotheses.org/... #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #colonialhistory #utopia #ecology #skystorians 3/3

Life Squared: Early Modern Utopian Ecologies

How can people and animals live alongside each other? How should land and resources be distributed in society? People searched for answers to these questions in both literary and built utopias from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and utopian projects were ways of developing and testing out alternative models for society. The new designs…

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Molly Warsh@mwarsh.bsky.social · 3d ago

Iberianists, job alert! Hong Kong University’s History Department is hiring a specialist in early modern global Iberian Empires. Check it out below. #earlymodern #iberianists #globalhistory #skystorians

Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI)@feegiconference.bsky.social · 4d ago

CHECK IT OUT - The HKU history department is excited to be launching a search for a new open rank position in early modern global Iberian empires. See the HKU listing here: jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53696...

Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies@winstonblack.bsky.social · 3d ago

Linked: a fun post on cloves in Early Modern England. Dr Soon mentions Chaucer as an earlier example, but cloves were valued in England well before that: Henry of Huntingdon (ca.1140) wrote a poem in praise of cloves, in food and medicine, in his #herbal "Anglicanus Ortus":

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@memorients.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dr Emily Soon takes the tiny treasure that is the clove and examines its impact on early modern English literature in today's new blog post. memorients.com/articles/tin...

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 3d ago

#earlymodern grad students in the US: the @rsaorg.bsky.social Public Engagement Fellow will receive $20,000 plus travel and accommodation expenses to attend RSA 2027 in Philadelphia. Deadline August 15! 🗃 1/

Renaissance Society of America@rsaorg.bsky.social · last wk.

⏰ Several August deadlines approaching at the RSA! Get those submissions and applications in before it's too late: www.rsa.org/page/rsacale... #RenSA27 #earlymodern #RenTwitter 🏃‍♂️

Website screen shot of upcoming deadlines at the RSA. Those include: August 15: RSA Philadelphia Call for Papers submission deadline August 15: Nonprofit Governance Fellowships application deadline August 15: Virtual Symposium submission deadline August 17: Public Engagement Fellow application deadline August 24: RSA Governance Nominations submission deadline
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2w ago

‘A public engagement ethos informs Lauren Working’s book in its attempt to counter “the near total erasure of Native peoples from English history”.’ Clare Jackson on an account of American influence on English material culture in the Renaissance. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Clare Jackson · Jaguars over the Seine: Early Modern Americana

The ‘incredible iridescence’ of American feathered headdresses, artworks, shields and wall hangings attracted...

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MEMRN@memrn.bsky.social · last wk.

We invite abstracts of up to 300 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme).

We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference, including: * History and politics  * Philosophy and theology  * Literature, drama, performance culture and music  * Latin and vernacular languages  * Art history, architecture and archaeology  * Manuscript studies and book history  * Museum & heritage studies * MEMs in the modern world We invite abstracts of up to 300 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme). 
Fabula, la recherche en littérature@fabula.org · last wk.

Contested Positions: Women Across Early Modern Networks, 1500–1700 (RSA Philadelphia 2027) https://www.fabula.org/actualites/135852/contested-positions-women-across-early-modern-networks-1500-1700.html

Contested Positions: Women Across Early Modern Networks, 1500–1700 (RSA Philadelphia 2027)

Christine de Pizan opens The Book of the City of Ladies answering back directly to Mathéolus and to the Roman de la Rose, texts that cast woman, through the shadow of Eve, as the origin...

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