Stefan Hanß
@stefanhanss.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester #materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Interested in the history of women's anger and Chinese medical cultures? Read our latest fascinating blog post by our very own Zhaokun Xin, which spotlights two new articles. sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
Two new articles on the literary exploration of emotions in Ming China
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Read our latest blog post on Dr Ingrid Rembold's research on churches and virtue signalling in the Carolingian World. sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
New article 'Widows, orphans and churches: protection and virtue signalling in the Carolingian world'
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I'm having a book launch on 9th June 6-8pm for my book 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' 🎉 I will be discussing the book alongside Profs. Lyndal Roper and @stefanhanss.bsky.social. It would be great to see you there (in person and online)!! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ias-book-l...
IAS Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany
Author Holly Fletcher overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon.
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New special issue on Imaging Heritage Science Innovation by members of our Collective! sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
New Special Journal Issue on Imaging Heritage Science Innovation at Manchester
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Read our latest blog post about groundbreaking proteomics research on early modern medical and cosmetic recipes, by @stefanhanss.bsky.social and colleagues sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
Global News Echo of New Proteomics Research on Early Modern Medical and Cosmetic Recipes
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Join us celebrating the launch of our new @manchesterup.bsky.social special issue on cutting-edge heritage imaging science @thejohnrylands.bsky.social 25th March! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-is...
Special Issue launch of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Imaging Heritage Science Initiatives at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Many thanks to wonderful @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social @arstechnica.com for this piece on our @historians.org AHR article on the proteomics analysis of Renaissance recipes. I really enjoyed our conversation!
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 5mo agoThanks to @stefanhanss.bsky.social for chatting with me at length via zoom for this article. (I stumbled on the paper via BlueSky, which continues to be a useful resource for me.) arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Wonderful to see my “Situating Early Modern Translators: A Mediterranean Epilogue” out in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social ‘On the Move: Mobility and Early Modern Translation’ Massive thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social eds Giancarlo Casale & Ann Thomson! 👉🏽 shorturl.at/TX4wb
Thrilled to start this year’s #affectiveartefacts seminar series with @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social! @bemccollective.bsky.social
In “Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes,” @stefanhanss.bsky.social and his research team show how scientific analysis and historical contextualization of biochemical information of early modern recipes reveals new insights into early modern medicine and material practices. #AHR
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
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Now also in French @france.theconversation.com: doi.org/10.64628/AAK...
Soin des cheveux, des dents… Ce que les traces biochimiques laissées par les lecteurs de la Renaissance disent de la médecine de l’époque
Les marges et pages des livres médicaux révèlent des pratiques surprenantes : utilisation de lézards, de plantes oubliées ou même de déchets humains, confirmant une logique médicale spécifique à l’épo...
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Wonderful to see our research receiving such wide attention
Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 7mo agoResearchers are now using proteomics analysis on historical books, discovering all sorts of proteins people left on them centuries ago. 🏺🧪
This sounds like an unmissable exhibit, but the phrase "defence of museums with global collections" is doing a huge amount of work as a justification for clinging on to "collected" (stolen) Hawaiian heritage.
Hawaii: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans review – a feather-filled thriller full of gods, gourds and ghosts
This retelling of Captain Cook’s death and the merging of two cultures is a trove of miraculously preserved wonders – but beware of the shark-toothed club!
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oh! The latest issue of Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis 🥰 and what a wonderful-looking tribute it is: contributions from @vreinburg.bsky.social @anakroniks.bsky.social, Penny Roberts, Hilary Bernstein, @paulecohen.bsky.social, & many more! #NZD4Eva #EarlyModern
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History Volume 116 Issue 1
Volume 116, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History was published in 2025.
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If you ever wondered what biochemical traces of past users of medical recipes may tell us about early modern haircare, see @uk.theconversation.com's discussion of our @historians.org article: doi.org/10.64628/AB.... Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social
What Renaissance readers left behind in haircare books
New biochemical techniques offer unmatched insight into early modern medicine, as traces of plants, animals and even human waste have been sampled from pages.
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By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025) pims.ca/publication/... Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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Christmas comes early! NEW open access @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Bulletin spec issue on how imaging science transforms our understanding of heritage! www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal... Co-edited w/ @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social @nhsf.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize - University of Liverpool News
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
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Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. 📍Birkbeck, University of London 🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026 ⏱️14:00-18:00 Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. Tea, coffee and a drink will be provided.
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New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research. Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
Just got my contributor’s copy! Stay tuned for this wonderfully powerful Jan 2026 volume w/ Disobedience Press, celebrating the legacy of Chandler Davis for the current struggle for academic freedom. Pre-order here: disobediencepress.com/in-the-spiri...
Wonderful to see our @historians.org article on "The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance" on top of the "most read" AHR articles! It is available open access here: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
...and we have many of these manuals @thejohnrylands.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk! Wonderful to see our @historians.org American Historical Review article sparking wider discussions across disciplines! @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social
Laura Howes@laurahowes.bsky.social · 8mo agoDo you have recipe books with annotations and stains on the most popular pages? Me too, and so does the University of Manchester. Except their recipe books are medieval medical manuals. @bethanyhalford.bsky.social for @cenmag.bsky.social 🧪 #chemsky cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
“The originality and innovation of the study cannot be overstated.” Wonderful to see @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Pamela Smith commenting on our @historians.org article in @cenmag.bsky.social news release by @bethanyhalford.bsky.social! Massive thanks!
Bethany Halford@bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 8mo agoJust as the page of a preferred pie crust recipe bears traces of flour and butter, the pages of two German medical manuals from 1531 hold traces of the ingredients used by medicine makers, a proteomic analysis from @stefanhanss.bsky.social and coworkers reveals cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
Wonderful to see this new @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social article by @uomsalc.bsky.social's very own @tibetcurator.bsky.social!
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
NEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
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This is just so grim. Students deserve to be taught by experts, not be expected to settle for AI. It is so disheartening to add this to the list of ways in which staff expertise is devalued, undermined or sidelined by institutions across the sector. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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We had to decide to switch off the respiration machine of my grandfather on a 1st Jan as the hospital had run out of machines for patients with better chances of survival “Too little, too late” is true for the UK & other countries,like Germany.I am beyond relief to hear it being said.Finally.Loudly.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo ago‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
🔊 JOBS ALERT! Two vacancies at the #InternationalSlaveryMuseum in #Liverpool! Join the wonderful team of curators reimagining this unique museum! Curatorial fellow: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/... Project facilitator: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...