#EarlyModern

CEU Review of Books@ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6d ago

In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025), Richard Calis offers a portrait of Martin Crusius, an early modern scholar who never set foot in Greece yet dedicated his life to the study of Greek history. Paul Csillag reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/ottom...

"... quique aethera carpere possent credidit esse deos." www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

👇 #EarlyModern #BookHistory #ArabicStudies #BiblicalStudies

Paul Babinski@paulbabinski.bsky.social · 4d ago

Paris copy of the 1516 polyglot Genoa Psalter, in which a sixteenth-century reader has added the Lord’s Prayer and Sūrah al-Fātiḥah in Arabic and Latin, both copied from Guillaume Postel’s Grammatica Arabica (ca. 1538). BnF - Arsenal FOL-T-188

#Event | The Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem invites applications for a workshop on Textual Innovations in the Study of Sabbateanism | October 4-5, 2026 in Jerusalem | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #Workshop Deadline for applications: August 20, 2026

El "Acta de abjuración", uno de los documentos más importantes de la historia constitucional y política de la #HistoriaModerna, fundamental para la historia española y sin traducción ni edición crítica, que yo sepa, al español. Esa omisión explica muchas cosas. #EarlyModern

Vincenzo DM@vincenzodm.bsky.social · 2w ago

#OTD in 1581 werd het Plakkaat der Verlatinghe aangenomen waarbij Filips II als vorst v/d Habsburgse Nederlanden werd afgezet. Vaak vergeten, maar dit document was ook voor het Zuiden belangrijk: Brabant, Vlaanderen & Mechelen tekenden ook en een Antwerpenaar stelde de tekst

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American Medieval Podcast@americanmedieval.bsky.social · 2w ago

New episode Wednesday!!! @profgabriele.com talks with Sarah Davis-Secord about medieval SICILY, how it hides its history of Jews, Muslims, and various Christians. Listen —> pca.st/episode/24d7...

There is a new Cambridge elements out today, _ Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible_ by Ilan Peled. It is free to read for the next two weeks, so get reading. 🪄 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible - Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

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"full-time tenure stream position in Ancient Greek Literature at the rank of Assistant Professor."

tenuretracker.info@tenuretracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

University of Toronto (@utoronto.ca) is hiring: Assistant Professor - Ancient Greek Literature #assistantprofessor #ancientgreekliterature #classics

Research position in Syriac. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSI645/r...

Research Associate (Syriac) at The University of Manchester

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate (Syriac) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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#JewishHistory #SocialHistory #WorkHistory

Karl Galle@karlgalle.bsky.social · 2w ago

New open-access book for #MedievalSky on Jewish craftspeople in the European Middle Ages, with chapters on weavers, book binders, metal workers, and more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #HistSTM @dgb-mem.bsky.social

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Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2w ago

For students, AI is a de-skilling issue. As someone else noted, for faculty, it’s uncompensated additional labor with little guidance from Admin.

👇 #BiblicalStudies #JewishStudies #MasoreticBible #BiblicalPhilology

Joshua Alfaro@joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Idan Dershowitz has just launched two new websites: 1. Etnachta - for biblical cantillation study with syntactic parsing & advanced searches: etnachta.org 2. Masoretica - locate any biblical verse in manuscript images and compare them: masoretica.org

#BookHistory

Dr Helen Williams@drwilliams.bsky.social · 3w ago

Printing Historical Society have lots of free books to go out to reviewers. We ask for 5-800 words, and you'd have up to a year for the task. Let me know if anything takes your fancy! www.printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk/society-publ...

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Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today, Nolan's The Odyssey opens in the cinemas. The poem is close to my heart. I grew up with Robert Graves and Irving Stone, with visits to the Pergamon museum. Un 2009, in an archive in Tel Aviv, I stumbled across a poem that sounded familiar: "Tell me, o Muse, the place where I made my home"

«Quelques Hébraïsmes Non-Israéliens»: www.academia.edu/145625881/Qu... #HebrewLanguage #ModernHebrew #LinguisticZionism #LanguagePlanning #Sociolinguistics #LanguageIdeology

h/t @sebastiagiralt.bsky.social: "L'ICE “Dolors Condom” de la @univgirona.bsky.social acaba de publicar el Nou Diccionari Llatí‑Català amb participació d'una 20na d'altres professors. Destinat a ESO i Batxillerat segons 3 criteris: modernització, simplificació i claredat." seec.cat/nou-dicciona...

"Les contributions montrent comment, dans la première #modernité, les savoirs occultes – de l’hermétisme à la magie naturelle – constituent des ressources épistémologiques nourrissant des positions sceptiques, naturalistes ou ouvertement irréligieuses, sinon athées." www.droz.org/europe/97826...

"The Board of the Union Académique Internationale has launched the #EarlyCareer Researchers Awards (ECRA) to reward early-career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences. Worth 6,000 euros (€) each, are awarded every 2 yrs" sites.google.com/unionacademi... 👇

UAI - ECRA

To mark its centenary celebrations (2019), the Board of the Union Académique Internationale has launched the Early Career Researchers Awards (ECRA) to reward early-career researchers working in the hu...

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One of those days when you come across a 650-page long, manuscript, unpublished Hebrew grammar written in Latin, probably dating from the 16th century and certainly of Iberian origin. #EarlyModern #ChristianHebraism

#CfA 📢 Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the humanities, arts, sciences, and professions, Michigan Society of Fellows 🏫 University of Michigan (USA) ⏰ Application deadline: 14 September 2026 🔗 jobs.chronicle.com/job/38011689... #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EarlyCareer #Humanities

Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Ann Arbor, Michigan job with University of Michigan | 38011689

U-M Michigan Society of Fellows invites recent Ph.D.s to apply for 3-year postdoctoral fellowships with teaching and research.

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#EarlyModern

Christine Kooi@christinekooi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Well, that was the Battle of Pavia all over again.

"Experiments on our dataset show models are still far from providing a generalizable solution, but provide a good foundation to fine-tune robust models when used in combination with a carefully curated dataset." www.academia.edu/169688456/Ev... #Paleography #DH #MedievalSky #HistòriaCatalunya

Evaluating Handwritten Text Recognition in Medieval Notarial Manuscripts: A New Dataset and Comprehensive Analysis [2025]Founding Editors

Vast amounts of medieval notarial documents have been preserved and digitized in Catalan archives. These collections provide invaluable insights into life in the Middle Ages. To harness their full pot...

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33 #Manuscripts from #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... A lot more 17th C stuff about the inside of the Church, Martinus Polonus' Chronica, Petrarch, Pisan history, Gospels in Italian, and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 27 of 2026

A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this week, the bulk of them coming in on Friday. Surprisingly the largest contributor, adding sixteen, was Barb.lat. This has been an active Fond fo...

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Forgotten Paths to Modernity. Isaac #Abravanel, New #ImperialThinking, and #CriticalHistoriography, forthcoming next year by Cedric Cohen-Skalli from @pennpress.bsky.social #EarlyModern #ImperialHistory #JewishStudies share.google/W3SA0xwHZ0VT...

Forgotten Paths to Modernity – Penn Press

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FEATURED JOB: Frances and Laurence Weinstein Chair in Modern European Jewish History, University of Wisconsin - Madison networks.h-net.org/jobs/70115/u... #jobguide #education #academia #highered #history

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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Kristof Selleslach@kristofselle.bsky.social · last mo.

The #manosphere ruled the Plantin Press in Antwerp: Printer Jan Cornet insulted his fellow printer Peter Baron in September 1630 by saying he’d be well suited to a monastery, where he could give the monks a blow job. #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians #plantinpress 1/

Hebrew Curator at the British Library (2-year fixed term) Wonderful opportunity for a scholar of #Hebrew and Jewish #bookhistory to spend 2 years in the Promised Land of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social with its invaluable collection. Deadline: 12 July. ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference at the Warburg. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interwoven process that transcends the geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Learn more ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/announcement...