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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON! 📢 Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rd COMLAWEU conference in St Andrews Deadline: 1 December 2026 #CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians #USTC27

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Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It's been long in the making, so I'm thrilled to see this article on Louis XV's medical body out in print in the latest issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Got an email this morning to say a piece I co-authored with Christophe Gillain is one of the most viewed articles published by Renaissance Studies. It feels hard being an ECR right now but news like this is a real boost to morale ✨. It’s open access - link below

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St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The call for papers for the second COMLAWEU conference, on the dissemination of the law in Early Modern Europe, is now open! The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2025. Any inquiries can be directed to Dr Arthur der Weduwen.

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals! #CfP #bookhistory #skystorians

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Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thanks for a brilliant paper @wadehistory.bsky.social! Really enjoyed chairing this session.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Greatly looking forward to speaking at St Andrews' Early Modern and Reformation Seminar on Thursday! I'll be asking the question everybody in the French Mediterranean was asking in 1685: how do you solve a problem like Anne-Marie?

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Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Really enjoyed writing this blog, which gives an idea of some of the things I've been working on lately!

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So happy to see this published & out in the world! Our Special Issue explores displacement & innovation, interrogates the term 'exile', & foregrounds interdisciplinarity as a method especially apt for exile studies where border-crossings converge... Thank you to all our contributors ✨

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A little thread introducing the articles in this issue which we’ll build gradually over the week: 🧵

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE! And it’s a beautiful one: on Exile and Innovation in the #EarlyModern World Find the full issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658... #SkyStorians

screenshot of RENAISSANCE STUDIES VOLUME 39 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2025
Introduction: Exile and Innovation byAnnalisa Nicholson and Christophe Gillain
Exiles and innovators: a survey of heretics in sixteenth‐centuryEurope by Peter Burke
Returning home from exile? Arnold Cornelisz’s ministerial networks and the religious landscape of the liberated Netherlands by Silke Muylaert
Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O’Sullivan Beare’s Zoilomastix (c. 1626) by Kevin Gerard Tracey
Exile in Barbary: English‐speaking expatriates, biblical theology, and mercantile ethics in the seventeenth‐century Maghreb by Nat Cutter
‘A child who implores your clemency from his mother’s womb’: emotion, inclusion and the unborn Condé child (1656) by Jim Coons
The Jesuit and the ‘false princess of China’: a contested exile narrative in 1690s Paris by Sean Heath
Drafting an image of success: the Russian patronage of émigréElisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun by Erin Wilson

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Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Delighted to see our SI of Renaissance Studies out in the world now!

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

🗃️ So excited to post the call for papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on incarceration (broadly defined—eg prisons, asylums, penal colonies, detention camps etc) in French & francophone histories. Co-edited by Sophie Fuggle and me. Papers are due 15 Aug 2024. Please share!!

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Deeply sorry to learn of the death of Natalie Zemon Davis, the most brilliant early modern historian of our time, influence on every one of us, and my teacher and mentor for my whole life as a historian. She was extraordinary.

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Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Such an enormous loss. Reading The Return of Martin Guerre and The Rites of Violence as an undergraduate made me want to become a historian of early modern France.

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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

1/ So much to celebrate about the life of Natalie Zemon Davis - a long life well lived to the end & an extraordinary impact over decades that secures a long legacy. She loomed large in my career from when I decided not to do a PhD with her a Princeton but follow my boyfriend to Hopkins instead:-)

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

In perpetuity, WWNZDD (What Would Natalie Zemon Davis Do), remains the most consistently human, caring, curious, integer way of approaching life, teaching, and research. What a loss, yet what a gift to have had us with us for so long. [NZD, A Passion For History, p. 12.]

A page from NZD, A Passion For History, p. 12.
Underlined sentence:
Very often the past offers us the memory of possibilities -- not models, not possibilities to imitate, but simply other possible world, other ways of living that we humans sometimes had here or elsewhere on our globe.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

deeply saddened to announce that Natalie Zemon Davis has passed away her work on early modern European cultural history profoundly shaped the thinking of successive generations of scholars her warmth & generosity touched the lives of so many family, friends, students, colleagues, and comrades RIP

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

We are saddened to learn of the death of the inimitable Natalie Zemon Davis www.rensoc.org.uk/natalie-zemo...

Natalie Zemon Davis in her home office. Photo by Michael Graydon. Source: https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/becoming-natalie-davis/

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