Ben Bernard
@drbernard.bsky.social
Historian of early modern France; postdoctoral associate at Yale https://history.yale.edu/people/benjamin-bernard
Some cool news: my last article was recognized with the Honorable Mention distinction for the Koren Prize, just awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for the “most outstanding article on any period of French history” in the previous calendar year by a scholar based in the USA/Canada:
*small embarrassed voice* A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s. doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
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Yale has announced our upcoming visiting speaker series as well as my spring seminar on the history of institutional legitimacy in higher education: news.yale.edu/2025/10/06/c...
Committee on Trust in Higher Ed launches speaker series
After months of research and discussion, the committee is launching a series that aims to advance campus dialogue and explore creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing higher education.
news.yale.edu
Yale has announced our upcoming visiting speaker series as well as my spring seminar on the history of institutional legitimacy in higher education: news.yale.edu/2025/10/06/c...
Committee on Trust in Higher Ed launches speaker series
After months of research and discussion, the committee is launching a series that aims to advance campus dialogue and explore creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing higher education.
news.yale.edu
🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:
The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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Enjoyed reviewing this interesting and important book on the Wars of Religion by Thierry Amalou, *La Sorbonne entre en guerre de religion: autorité universitaire, censure et pouvoir royal en France (v. 1551–v. 1589)* academic.oup.com/fh/article-a...
La Sorbonne entre en guerre de religion: autorité universitaire, censure et pouvoir royal en France (v. 1551–v. 1589)
‘It is the Sorbonne on which the entire school of theology depends, where the most prominent members of the faculty are sourced, where all cases concerning
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FYI, here's what I ultimately came up with: samuelrutherford.com/wp-content/u... Thanks to everyone who shared their own resources!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him)@echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 2y agoHas anyone made a student-facing handout or similar about how to read academic texts (esp challenging/dense theory, but also 'ordinary' academic historical writing) that they wouldn't mind sharing? Going to create something but always nice not to reinvent the wheel if possible!
Buchtipp: Ulrich L. Lehner, »Inszenierte Keuschheit. Sexualdelikte in der Gesellschaft Jesu im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert« (Open Access)
Inszenierte Keuschheit
This study investigates sexual offenses that were committed in the early modern Jesuit order against school pupils, students, confessants, and other Jesuits. It reveals patterns of sexual violence tha...
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Incunable-Stravaganza?! In case, (like me), you missed both the early printing shows at the #BnF (2023) and Princeton Libraries (2018), here's a handy dual(ish) review... europenowjournal.org/2023/11/20/i...
First bsky post! Here to share my co-written review essay, out today in EuropeNow, about the BnF's exhibition on Gutenberg this past summer: www.europenowjournal.org/2023/11/20/i... Where are book history / rare books / cultural exhibitions people on here?
Impressions from France: A Review of the Exhibit "Imprimer! L’Europe de Gutenberg, 1450–1520" at...
Bibliophiles exist on a spectrum, and scholars who study books tend towards one of two
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