Kipling authored a version of Hippocrates' oath for engineers. How more nineteenth-century can you get? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling...

Enzo Traverso on Hobsbawm. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ce...

The Century of Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm’s enduring power lay in his ability to synthesize vast historical processes into compelling narratives that made the modern world legible. Yet, argues Traverso, the celebrated Marxist hi...

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So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

A year ago today, on July 29, Machiel Kiel passed away. Here is my small tribute to his remarkable legacy. 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/machie... #OttomanHistory #MachielKiel

Machiel Kiel and the Ottoman Heritage in the Balkans: Why His Scholarship Still Matters

A year ago today, on July 29, 2025, Machiel Kiel passed away. Few scholars have done more to document, interpret, and preserve the Ottoman heritage of the Balkans.

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An interesting paper by Georgios Liakopoulos et al.

Emerging capitalism and sociocultural niche construction in early modern Greece

Sociocultural niche construction is a key mechanism behind the current planetary crisis. Its causal drivers in past societies remain poorly understood due to a lack of data and modeling complexities. ...

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Very happy that my chapter was Nilab Saeedi's choice for the summer "What we're reading" post of the JHI blog! www.jhiblog.org/2026/07/22/w... www.jhiblog.org/2026/07/22/w...

A Tsinghua University Delegation Visits FORTH 🎓 FORTH was delighted to welcome the "Qianzai Tongxi" Student Practice Delegation from Rixin College,Tsinghua University,to Heraklion & Rethymno on 20–21 July. 👉 bit.ly/44DvFhB @sariyannis.bsky.social @imsforth.bsky.social #InternationalCollaboration

Jane Hathaway on the Cairo Genizah's Forgotten Ottoman Centuries open.substack.com/pub/ottomane...

Jane Hathaway on the Cairo Genizah's Forgotten Ottoman Centuries

What a neglected archive tells us about Ottoman Egypt's Jewish community and the empire around it.

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - Sign the Petition! c.org/k75nHxBjSn

Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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A book to look forward to! brill.com/display/titl...

Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Carlo Ginzburg

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Trespassing — Sidecar

Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026).

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There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026). progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/02/s...

Some of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026…

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Favourite photo

Marinos Sariyannis@sariyannis.bsky.social · last mo.

Tombul mosque in Shumen (1744) is considered a baroque specimen. To me it seemed more influenced by local Bulgarian art. See these painted wooden ceilings!

Tombul mosque in Shumen (1744) is considered a baroque specimen. To me it seemed more influenced by local Bulgarian art. See these painted wooden ceilings!

Amazing how Mevlevi imagery dominates even Balkan ideas about Sufism. This is the türbe of Akyazili Baba in Balçik, near Varna - nothing to do with Mevlevis!

Thrilled to be part of a magnificent panel in the CIEPO with Aslihan Gürbuzel (who assembled and led it), Eda Özel and İklil Selçuk on Ottoman perceptions of moral economy!

👏 Warm congratulations to Prof.Hülya Canbakal, Affiliated Member of the Inst.for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) at FORTH, on being awarded funding through the highly competitive European ERC Advanced Grant 2025! 👉 bit.ly/ERC_Advanced... @erc.europa.eu @imsforth.bsky.social #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch

Congratulations to Hülya Canbakal, affiliated member of the IMS, who has been selected for funding by the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant) with her project “Gender inequality in the Eastern Mediterranean: From early modern to modern, 1650-1900” (GINIE)!

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · last mo.

The results of the Advanced Grants 2025 are here! Out of 3,329 applicants, 319 leading researchers have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. Congratulations to all! 🎉 Curious to know more ? 👉 buff.ly/uiU9x5K #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch

@ercanakyol.bsky.social and I have put together a wonderful summer school program, with contributions from wonderful colleagues representing Habsburg and Ottoman history.

QhoD Projekt@qhod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dear colleagues, @ihb-oeaw.bsky.social hosts the fourth edition of the Intensive Summer School on Comparative Habsburg-Ottoman Paleography in Vienna, between 6 and 17 July 2026. As in every year, we have a wonderful line-up of scholars.

You can read all pieces by and about Carlo Ginzburg from the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 archive here: www.lrb.co.uk/contributors...

Carlo Ginzburg

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‘Carlo Ginzburg has many claims to be considered the outstanding European historian of the generation which came of age in the late Sixties. Certainly few have equalled him in originality, variety and audacity.’ Perry Anderson on the microhistorian, from 1990: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...

Perry Anderson · Witchcraft

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It is not natural to write your own language; historically most literate people have just used 'writing' unrelated to what they spoke at home, whether Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit or Babylonian. The creation of written vernaculars is where script engages politics and space. Africa is interesting here...

Isaac Samuel@rhaplord.bsky.social · 2mo ago

By the 16th/17th century, African scholars began producing written compositions exclusively in their languages: Harari; Tashelhiyt-Berber; Fulfulde; Hausa; Atemoro-Malagasy and Swahili www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-histor...

Un retour de Carlo Ginzburg sur son propre parcours dans le cadre d'une masterclasse de @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Carlo Ginzburg : "Trouver ce qu'on cherche ne suffit pas, il faut chercher l'inattendu"

Et si l'histoire s'intéressait aux mythes et à l'imaginaire ? Au micro d'Aurélie Luneau, l'historien et philosophe Carlo Ginzburg, à l'origine de la "micro-histoire", raconte son parcours de recherche...

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Carlo Ginzburg est mort cette nuit. Son intelligence, sa virtuosité historienne, son inventivité, son regard sur le monde, les mots et les anomalies vont beaucoup nous manquer. Des loups garous aux Caffres, de la microstoria à Piero Della Francesca, son œuvre est immense.

Very cool: there's a 14th-century #Greek translation of some biblical books including Daniel that switches to a (pseudo-)Doric dialect for the #Aramaic section!

Something very early modern-esque about following up a disastrously executed war with massive festivities celebrating the glory and honor of the ruler who couldn't win the conflict but was able to put on a big show

Thanks reviewer two, I respond in a footnote, Like shoots under snow.

今年はイェニチェリ廃止の200周年記念だった International Symposium: The Cultural Impact of Janissaries in the Ottoman Periphery 14 June 2026 · 11:00 (Turkey Time, UTC+3) Live on YouTube forumtauripress.com/janissary-sy...

Janissary Symposium - Forum Tauri Press

14 June 2026 · 11:00 (Turkey Time, UTC+3)

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論文　ミュニーリーイ・ベルグラディーの一人称叙述 Nihad Dostović. TRACES OF THE SELF: SCATTERED FIRST– PERSON NARRATIVES IN THE WRITINGS OF MÜNĪRĪ–İ BELĠRĀDĪ (D. CA 1620–1628). Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju 74 (2025): 216-255. otmn www.ceeol.com/search/artic...