My book has a release date (15 Oct) and page on the publisher's website now: uolpress.co.uk/book/prostit... 🎉🎉🎉

Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence - University of London Press

From the fourteenth century, prostitutes in Florence were encouraged to leave their profession and spend their lives in repentance at the monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite. Many did over i...

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📌12 May 2026 🕞15:00 Don’t miss the presentation of Federico Barbierato’s latest book on libertinism, book circulation, religious dissent, and the Inquisition in 17th-century Venice. 🪑Alessandra Celati and Luca Addante 🏫 Università di Torino | 💻 Online: unito.webex.com/wbxmjs/joins... #EarlyModern

📢 CFA - 3 Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History (35 months) within the project ‘Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy’ at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Deadline: 8 May 2026. jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs... Please circulate widely!

📖 What can popular literature reveal about gendered boundaries between public and private life in #earlymodern cities? Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article co-authored by @mboluferp.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/4NvC5aY 📚 #FridayReads #GenderHistory #Literature

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award For more info &/or to nominate a work, see docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: May 25, 2026

Society or the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender 2026 Awards Nominations

The Society seeks nominations for awards for English-language scholarly work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2023 and May 2026. Items pr...

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📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR member Umberto Grassi, What God Kept for Himself (Harvard U. Press, 2025). A study of Inquisition trials revealing the links between sexual nonconformity and religious dissent in Renaissance Italy 🔗 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #HistoryOfSexuality

I can take no credit here - congratulations to @racheljwillie.bsky.social and @spparkle.bsky.social! If you work on #earlymodern sound in any capacity do consider Sonance for your article projects! And if you'd like to review any recent books in the field please do give me a shout! 🗃️

Rachel Willie@racheljwillie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern

Brett Rushforth@brettrushforth.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ginny Reinburg's essay changes how we think about--and teach--Menocchio's story (and more). She shows that the conflict originated in, and was shaped by, clerical sexual abuse, institutional protections for abusers, and a broad struggle to resist. #earlymodern @vreinburg.bsky.social

UPDATED DUE DATE! 📣✨ Two funded postdoc positions✨📣 Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers. (1/5)

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

📖Book presentation: Silvia Cinnella della Porta, "Traduttori e mercanti: la scoperta inglese del Nuovo Mondo" (Firenze University Press, 2025). 📍La Colombaria (Florence) | 📆 25 February 2026 | ⌚16:00 #EarlyModern #BookLaunch

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AMEND - eArly Modern European NeuroDivergence@amendproject.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Early Modern European Neurodivergence: Call for Papers is now live! August 3rd and 4th 2026 at Swansea University. See the link in our bio for the submission form or scan the QR code in this post🤩🎉

📌Wednesday, 4 Februrary 2026 ⌚11:00 📖 Germano Maifreda will present his book "Io sono una strega (Einaudi, 2025)" as part of the seminar series “Voices from the Margins: Women, Religion, and Othering.” 🌍Università degli Study di Firenze |💻Online: meet.google.com/kxd-mmcg-xno

Updated CfP: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation’ @ Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026. Please do check out and share our #CfP. Deadline: 27 February 2026. #Earlymodern #Communication #History

@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/postal-intel...

CfA 📢Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowships for 2026-2027 @folger.edu 🏦Folger Shakespeare Library |🌍Washington DC ⏰Deadline: 15 January 2026 🔗 www.folger.edu/research/the... #callforpapers #Fellowships

Short-term Fellowships | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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#Reclutamento L’École française de Rome seleziona un(a) assistente scientifico(a) 📆 Termine ultimo per la presentazione delle candidature: 8 gennaio 2026, ore 12.00 ➡️ Inizio del rapporto di lavoro: 1° febbraio2026 ➕Consultare l'offerta di lavoro: https://ow.ly/j6Gb50XKpB2 #EFR #emploi #recherche

L'EFR recrute un.e assistant.e scientifique

Date limite de candidature : 8 janvier 2025, 12 h (heure de Rome)

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Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

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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The International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources” is offering 3 fully funded doctoral positions, starting 1 Sept 2026. Projects in history of science, global history, media studies, DH, and related fields are welcome. Details: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

📢Recently published! 📑Duval, Harvey, Sancho Fibla (dirs.) « Le projet Sorores », Chronica Mundi, 18 (2024). Contributors explore the diverse experiences of non-cloistered religious women (12th–18th c.). 📩 Request a free copy via the email listed here: www.chronicamundi.org/en/readers.h...

SEAL OF SAPIEXCELLENCE 2025 – Postdoc Fellowships (€50,000) Sapienza University of Rome is offering 4 annual postdoc positions linked to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 – Seal of Excellence. ⏳ Deadline: 13 February 2026, 11:59 More details and other calls: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...

For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...

TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025

TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…

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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History

Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...

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Domani ci tuffiamo nella Venezia magica d’età moderna… univr.zoom.us//88658895932 #magic #magia #witchcraft #stregoneria #modernhistory #storiamoderna #venice #venezia #santainquisizione #inquisition @stmoderna.bsky.social

✨Out now! Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series. 🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-... #EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory

New on Stmoderna Call for papers | Violenza economica. Dominazione, sfruttamento e disuguaglianze di genere nel lungo periodo 📍 Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” 📅 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 A conference on the history of economic violence and gender inequalities across time and space.

Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin. Waiting list now activated. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog

Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

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📌Friday, 24 October Presentation of “Chimere: Research Network on Cultural Histories of Magic”, launching a new seminar series on magic, folklore, and esotericism. 📍 University of Verona |🕚 11:50 💻Join on Zoom : univr.zoom.us/j/82097215327 Details on the speakers 👇

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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