@ecsssstir2025.bsky.social are accepting nominations for the Richard B. Sher First Book Prize (awarded early 2027). The prize recognizes authors whose first scholarly book contributes significantly to the field of eighteenth-century Scottish studies. #skystorians #18thC #ScottishHist

"Sixteenth-century doctors were much less specialized than today’s medical professionals...Nancy followed them into these areas, and studied their polymathy with her own deep learning and equally profound humility." Today's #histSTM & #histmed lunch read: Andrew Berns's éloge for Nancy Siraisi 🗃️📜

Losing a Teacher— Professor Nancy Siraisi

Two days after the Rome Prize ceremony one of my most cherished teachers and mentors died.

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#CfP 📢 The latest EMoDiR american meeting has barely concluded, and we are already excited to announce the theme of our next gathering at #RSA2027! Please circulate widely 🤗 #EarlyModern #ReligiousMinorities #MigrationHistory #ReligiousDissent #Transgression #MobilityStudies @rsaorg.bsky.social

#CfP 📢 "Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies", eds. Mary Katherine Newman and Rana Banna Seeking chapter proposals on how language and the senses shaped evidence in the #earlymodern world (c.1492–1700). ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 12 April 2026 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #HistoryOfKnowledge

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies

Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.

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Wherein I review Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg's tremendous recent volume, Johann Buxtorf, Impresario of Hebrew and Jewish Books (2025). Find it here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #EarlyModern

Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Library | Volume 27, Issue 1 The first issue published with LUP on behalf of @bibsoc.bsky.social contains contributions from @tamarajatkin.bsky.social, @saranorja.bsky.social, @brandonwhawk.bsky.social, @samlemley.bsky.social & @tntwining.bsky.social. ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/Library-27-1

Long in the making….here’s my new article about second-hand books and the Bodleian www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

The Bodleian Daybook and the Purchase of Second-Hand Books | The Library

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Library Records e. 9 (the Daybook) is a ‘Book of Accompts for the Librarie’ that covers the seven-year period following the death of Sir Thomas Bodley. It contains details of two consignments of second-hand books purchased by ...

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Great to see that the video of Imogen Peck's recent talk @long18thsem.bsky.social on 'Family Archives in England, 1650-1838' is now available online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Family Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History

British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar

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**Call for Bids for The Making of the Humanities conference 2028** The Society for the History of the Humanities has opened a Call for Bids to host the 13th Making of the Humanities conference in 2028. Deadline: 15 September, 2026 For more info: www.historyofhumanities.org/2026/03/19/c...

📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR members Inquisitions, Iconography, and Memory (13th–19th Century) (Viella, 2025). The volume explores how visual culture shaped the memory and representation of inquisitorial institutions across centuries. 🔗 www.viella.it/libro/979125... #EarlyModern #Inquisition #VisualCulture

We are delighted to announce that booking is now open for the fifth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism conference - details and a draft programme can be found here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... #skystorians #EMHistory #nuntastic #recusantsbaby #history #Catholicism

The fifth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism conference - EMBIC V - Durham University

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Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️ Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840 Apply by 1 July 2026 👇 #PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp

Jeroen Puttevils@jeroenputtevils.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Vacature doctoraatsproject (4 jaar)! www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

✨Join Han Lamers and me for the next #EarlyModernHellenism Colloquium. We will be hosting Alexander Batson 'Recovering a Usable Past: The Renaissance Reconstruction of Ancient Athenian Law, 1546-1650' 📍 Via zoom (link below) 📆 12 March, 15:00-16:00 CET 👉 Register: nettskjema.no/a/hellenism#...

Does anyone have a pdf of Heller's The Mother's Legacy in #EarlyModern England? #CanIHazPdf #HistGender #SkyStorians www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

The Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England | Jennifer Heller | Taylor

Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice

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Reposting this. I have two scholars for this panel so far and need a third. If you're doing work work on the 1570s and want to be in Chicago next October, please send me a DM. #reformazing

Christine Kooi@christinekooi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm hoping to propose a panel for the SCS on the 1570s, that most pivotal decade in the later Reformation. If you're interested in joining me, send me a DM. #reformazing

Looking forward to sharing some research from my Marie Curie postdoc at TCD tomorrow in the convivial surroundings of UCD’s Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminar series: www.ucd.ie/history/rese... Do come along if you’d like to learn more about James Ussher & the Samaritan Pentateuch! #earlymodern

⏰ 9:00 #RSA2026 EMoDiR’s first panel this morning explores the PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY OF EVIL in the early modern period. 🔊 Speakers: Giulio Greco, Jakob Moser & Christine Jane Kooi |🪑Stefano Villani 📍 Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Tower 3, 4th floor 14:30 👋

Sadly, I won't be able to join the @rsaorg.bsky.social this year due to teaching commitments in Paris, but you'll find @emodir.bsky.social members around such as @stefanovil.bsky.social, @tntwining.bsky.social and more! If you are not a member yet, do not hesitate to ask questions and join us!!!

I’m delighted to share that my colleague Francesco Quatrini (Università di Firenze) and I (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) have been elected co-directors of @emodir.bsky.social (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) at the latest General Assembly.

Thrilled to chair and co-organize three EMoDiR panels at RSA San Francisco 2026 on The Devil and Dissent: from demonology and Reformation polemic to political demonization and gendered stage representations #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenTwitter #earlymodern

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...

Seeking an Assistant Librarian - Marsh's Library

We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Librarian for Marsh’s Library in central Dublin. Location: St. Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8 Reporting to: Assistant Director, Marsh’s Library Salary: €40,000 – €45,...

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On my way to Cambridge now! Very much looking forward to the #earlymodern @emodcam.bsky.social seminar tomorrow, especially as Cambridge has been such a hub for early modern Catholic studies!

Cambridge Early Modernists@emodcam.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Early Modern World History Seminar – Lent Term 2026 Programme 🌏

📣 Appeal to all! Have a new book, CFP, fellowship, or event to share? Let us know by the end of February to feature it in our March Newsletter! ✉️ Write to: newsletter@emodir.net #EarlyModern #Newsletter

Congratulations @janmachielsen.bsky.social on the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Counter Reformation Sanctity! Great to see this come out! #earlymodern #history #skystorians

Check it out, we're planning a special issue of @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the 700th anniversary of the advent of the Valois dynasty! Details and timeline at the link below, but don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions 😊

Call for Papers: The Valois (1328–1589): Governing France between Medieval and Modern

French History is an international forum for major new articles covering all aspects of the histories of France and the Francophone world, from the early M

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Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI... I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.

Dr. Ann Blair - How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books

YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center

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Out now! Open access in current issue of Renaissance Quarterly thanks to @ucdlibrary.bsky.social my thanks to everyone who helped me with this - but a special mention of the late Bríd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.

You still have over a week to get your abstracts in!

Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period@emgscam.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!

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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Oh look! Now it has a cover

Morgan Golf-French@zenothankyou.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My book has a webpage! In case you want to pre-order a copy (or, more probably, request that your library does so). global.oup.com/academic/pro...