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Eloise Davies

@eloisedavies.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Humanities, Hamilton School, University of Florida / religion & political thought in early modern England & Venice / distinctive hair

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Abigail Swingen@abigailswingen.bsky.social · last wk.

Upcoming symposium in New Haven next week on Hogarth, in tribute to the late literary scholar Ronald Paulson. #18thc #earlymodern

Lewis Walpole Library@lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social · last wk.

Symposium HOGARTH: HIS ART, LIFE, AND TIMES. A Tribute to Ronald Paulson. 14-16 October at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Free and open to the public. walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/hog... #Hogarth #18thc #YaleLibrary #YalecenterForBritishArt #YCBA

Detail from plate 4 of Harlot's Progress. A scene in Bridewell Prison with the harlot and other prisoners shown beating hemp, the warder standing over her, prodding her. They stand under a sign that reads "Better to work than stand thus."
Engelsberg Ideas@engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 6d ago

Best known as a saint and mystic, Catherine of Siena was also an influential political thinker who sought to reshape civic life in the Italian city states. Catherine of Siena, saint and stateswoman | Eloise Davies engelsbergideas.com/portraits/ca...

Catherine of Siena, saint and stateswoman

Best known as a saint and mystic, Catherine of Siena was also an influential political thinker who sought to reshape civic life in the Italian city states.

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Celeste McNamara@celestemcnamara.bsky.social · 2w ago

Would you like to learn about the strange and scandalous way some 18th-century Venetians got out of dysfunctional marriages? Read my new article (open access!) about annulments for affinity by fornication! #earlymodern #18thcentury doi.org/10.1017/S073...

Keeping It (Too Much) in the Family: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in Eighteenth-Century Venice | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core

Keeping It (Too Much) in the Family: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in Eighteenth-Century Venice

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Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s the 400th anniversary of a book being discovered in a Cambridge market, which would be unremarkable except it was found in the belly of a fish (which had been caught off King’s Lynn and gutted that morning), and consisted of three essays by a Protestant martyr (and was republished. Obviously) 🧵

Frontispiece and title page of Vox Piscis, or the Book-Fish, containing three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge Market, on Midsummer Eve last, Anno Domini 1626. Frontispiece is a woodcut of a fish lying on its side with its belly cut open and a small book pictured inside it
Harry Spillane@harryspillane.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For American friends, I am pleased to announce that 'Selling the Word of God' is being distributed by the University of Chicago Press ($40) Do pre-order your copy from: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Selling the Word of God

The fascinating commercial history of the Bible’s first English printings.The Bible is the most published text in history, and the story of its publication in the English language is extraordinary. Se...

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Harry Spillane@harryspillane.bsky.social · 5mo ago

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW: 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25 A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller, charting the innovations, errors, rivalries and bankruptcies behind the 'book of books' Coming September 2026 tinyurl.com/2p3cdmwp

History of Parliament@histparl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Professor Eloise Davies will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on 'the politics of Convocation in early Stuart England'. 📍 Online - Zoom 🗓️Tuesday 2 June 2026 ⏱️5:30-6:30pm Find out more about the paper and how to attend below:

Between Parliament and king: the politics of Convocation in early Stuart England - The History of Parliament

Professor Eloise Davies of the University of Florida, will be discussing the politics of convocation in early Stuart England.

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Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · 6mo ago

Delighted to be able to share a first teaching and research resource relating to The Firearm Revolution: a compilation of links to primary sources - visual, objects and translations of texts that I cite in the book #academia #earlymodern #skystorians

Primary sources for The Firearm Revolution

Are you teaching with The Firearm Revolution? Or perhaps you’re an independent researcher with an interest in the history of firearms. With the help of my PhD student Guy Reynolds, I’ve …

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Ecclesiastical History Society@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This month's blogpost is about a medieval Swedish woman who left her mark on English religious texts. How? 🤔 Arielle Jasiewicz-Gill explores: wp.me/p7o0HV-sT #History #ChurchHistory #SkyStorians

Encountering Bridget: A Swedish Saint in English Prayerbooks

Arielle Jasiewicz-Gill is a PhD student in Medieval History at Durham University. Her research explores the cult of St Bridget of Sweden in late medieval England, focussing particularly on evidence…

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Engelsberg Ideas@engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Against a backdrop of war in Europe and the Middle East, and fraying Anglo-American relations, Charles would do well to emulate the canny diplomacy of his predecessor. What King James can teach Charles III about diplomacy | @eloisedavies.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/wha...

What King James can teach Charles III about diplomacy

Against a backdrop of war in Europe and the Middle East, and fraying Anglo-American relations, Charles would do well to emulate the canny diplomacy of his predecessor.

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John Gallagher@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · last yr.

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time

After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

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History of Parliament@histparl.bsky.social · last yr.

#OTD 1752, Britain went to bed like usual. But when they awoke, it was ‘eleven days later’ on Thursday 14 September. Find out why...👇 @georgianlords.bsky.social

‘Time, that great discoverer of truth and falsehood’: the calendar change of 1752 and the dating of Easter - The History of Parliament

As Easter weekend - late this year - approaches, Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the House of Lords 1660-1832 section, discusses the timing of

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Dr Laura Flannigan@lflannigan17.bsky.social · last yr.

Beyond thrilled and honoured to see my book on the shortlist for this year's @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!!! Thanks to the prize panel for this recognition, and congrats to the other shortlisted authors

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last yr.

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

Image of the eight titles shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize for early career historians, 2025. Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press) Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press) Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press) The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan) Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press) The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press) Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press) Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)