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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

First visit to Verona and for an #earlymodern conference - a great way to go places you’ve never been before. #history #renaissance

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

First week of post-grad school teaching done! Gonna go lie down now #academia #earlymodern

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Something I'm trying to emphasize in my history classes this semester is exploration, discomfort, and imagination as part of the analytical process. acknowledge the blank spots, speculation and narrative grounded in evidence. The central theme: history is FUN! #earlymodern #Renaissance

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Canvas stuff completed and published - finally accomplished

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Looking for a third presenter (or respondent) for a panel on health and illness and em/Ren diplomacy for RSA 2027 in Philly. #Renaissance #earlymodern #diplomacy If interested contact at: fishc@miamioh.edu. Especially open to any papers about travel, intrastate diplomacy, non-European contexts

Description of panel proposal for Renaissance Society of American 2027 Conference. Health and Illness in the Early Modern Embassy. Describes how common complaints and experiences with illness and physical maladies were in Renaissance diplomatic missions as well as the contemporary relationship between politics, illness, and health.

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I will be joining the Department of History at Miami University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in August, teaching medieval and early modern history! Move to Ohio imminent #academia #earlymodern #Renaissance #medievalhistory

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A fantastic time (as always) at #RenSA26 San Francisco. Heard some great papers, saw friends and colleagues, and met interesting people. Exhausting + invigorating? Possible. #earlymodern #Renaissance #womenshistory #diplomacyhistory #earlymodernwomen

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

And immediately after the roundtable join us for an exciting panel on elite women's practices, examining material culture and exchange, equestrian practices and communication of royal majesty, and the roles of ambassadorial daughters in Spanish embassies! #RenSA26 #Rsa2026 #earlymodern

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Join us today at #RenSA26 #RSA2026 for a roundtable on #earlymodern materiality, material culture, and emerging methodologies! What am I going to talk about? Diplomacy and women (what else?) but questioning how transportability and movement impacted gift-giving.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Legit, who wants to work on a women-through-prehistory timeslip computer game with me? I HAVE IDEAS 🏺🎮

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Just revisiting a friend from my undergrad days - from a class i took in 2015 😳 #earlymodern #renaissance #queens

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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

For all those #skystorians hispanohablantes (please excuse my Spanglish 😉) interested in #earlymodern diplomacy, here the CfP for the workshop "Más allá de los embajadores" iehm.uib.es/actividades/... 2026 - Seminario diplomacia - Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad

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Tudor Times @thetudortimes.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Tudor Times Royal Marriages summit, a three-part series bit.ly/45piHEd in which historians will talk about key marriages of 16th century, Tudor & European. The summits will be live, with Q & A, available to purchasers until 31 December. Individual or combined tickets.

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Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey Tulsa & #JaneAusten in OK friends, won't you join me on September 10th at 7 p.m. at the fab Magic City Books? I'll be talking #WildforAusten in conversation with some guy named @georgejustice.bsky.social . Anything could happen!

Promotion poster with photographs of Devoney Looser and George Justice and of the book cover of Wild for Austen for event on Weds, Sept. 10th at 7 p.m. at Magic City Books.

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

#CFP #CallforPapers Still seeking a third panelist for "Women’s Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World" panel for #RenSA2026. Networks broadly defined: patronage, material, economic, social, political, etc. DM if interested. #womenshistory #medieval #earlymodern #Renaissance #skystorians

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Last day (Aug 4) to submit proposals for Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World panel, RSA 2026! Economic, familial, social, political - global and transnational. #RenSA2026 #medieval #earlymodern #womenshistory #digitalhumanities #dh #renaissance #CFP #SNA #skystorians #Callforpapers

rsa.org

Renaissance Society of America

365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

draft writing challenge of the day #1 - 1,222 words remaining or 4 pages. Based on the number of graph figures I want to include, the page limit will probably bite me first.

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Five days left (!) to submit proposals for Women’s Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World panel, RSA 2026! Networks broadly conceived - econ, familial, dynastic, political. Submit by Aug 4! #RenSA2026 #earlymodern #medieval #CFP #digitalhumanities #womenshistory #Renaissance #dh

rsa.org

Renaissance Society of America

365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Panel CFP: Women's cross-border networks. Engaging with network construction and maintenance, economics, diplomacy, politics, familial, gendered. Digital Humanities and global perspectives! Deadline for abstracts August 4! #earlymodern #RSA2026 #medieval #DigitalHumanities #womenshistory

rsa.org

Renaissance Society of America

365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Welcome to the archives.

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

#16thC #16thcentury #CFP extended! We are still looking for a panelist/roundtable discussants #Renaissance #medieval #earlymodern #skystorian for the 16th C Conference in Portland in Oct/Nov - #womenshistory and #diplomatichistory #queens #Europeanhistory #worldhistory #academicsky

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#CFP #CallforPapers LAST CALL #skytorians: Still looking for panelists/roundtable about women + diplomacy for #16thc #16thCentury Society 2025 in Portland! #Renaissance #earlymodern women and poli strategy in practice and in the archives. proposals: fish9@purdue.edu #digitalhumanities #dh

Proposal for the Sixteenth Century Society 2025 conference in Portland. Locating early modern women and diplomacy in the archives; methodology and approaches.

Proposal for Sixteenth Century Society 2025 conference in Portland. Early modern women and diplomatic strategy.

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns

Call for Papers: History panel on women, strategy, and diplomatic practice in the early modern world for the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 Conference in Portland.

Call for Papers: History roundtable on methodological approaches to locating diplomatic women in the archive and examining documents to identify and examine their agency, contributions, and challenges. For the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 conference in Portland.

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"The Nobility My Children Will Inherit: The 1604 Testament of Seraphina de Braganza," RSA 2025 Boston, MA, March 22, 2025 #Renaissance #skystorians #RSA2025 #earlymodern #digitalhumanities

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Any fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skytorians of women's #diplomatichistory interested in participating in a panel on diplo strategy or a roundtable on methodologies and approaches to women and EM diplomacy in archives and documents at #16thCentury Society in Portland? Details below

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Interested in testaments, inventories, and women’s agency? Well why not?! There will be art, networks, cool documents… Join us at 11:00 at the Westin, 7t floor Parliament Room. #Ren2025

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

#Renaissance #skystorians putting together a proposal for a roundtable on methodologies and approaches to women and diplomacy in #earlymodern for SCS #16th Century in Portland 2025. Foci include royal women, diplomats, unofficial agents, brokers, health, etc. Leave a comment if interested - cfp tba

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Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Anne Curry's fascinating essay turns to 'the highest level of diplomatic exchange' in the middle ages: the rare face-to-face meetings of #kings. Focusing on Henry V and Charles VI, she sets out their tense political importance during the Hundred Years' War 👑 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #BookSky

Anne Curry: Henry V and Charles VI in Troyes, 1420: The Meetings of Kings and Medieval Diplomacy.

Detail of an illuminated miniature from a medieval manuscript. A king (Henry V), crowned and wearing a floor length blue robe receives a red, clasped book from a kneeling man wearing a reddish-pink robe. They stand on grass, and on the other three sides are enclosed by a red border. The background is finely decorated with pink and gold foliage patterns. British Library, Arundel MS 38.

A detail of a miniature from a medieval manuscript. Charles VI of France reclines in a bed wearing black robes lines with fur and decorated with gold embroidery; bright green sleeves peek out at his cuffs. He also wear a black hat with a jewel and a gold chain. The bed is covered in voluminous blue fabric decorated with gold fleur-de-lis. He is gesturing to another man, kneeling on one knee on the floor next to the bed, who is dressed in modest grey robes. Ms. Français 165, f. 4, Biblioteca di Ginevra.

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Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

CfP! With Natasja Peeters, Jasper van der Steen, and Ton van Strien, I am organising the one-day Seventeenth-Century Society's conference on Family, Kinship, and Dynasty in the Early Modern Low Countries on 5 September 2025. zeventiendeeeuw.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#Renaissance #earlymodern colleagues going to RSA next month? Sarah Dyer and I are very excited about our panel testaments and women's agency that Sat; business history, material culture, patronage, social networks, diplomatic. #RSA2025 #research #DigitalHumanities

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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've just learned about kumu.io, and I am really liking it! Browser-based, clear documentation, intuitive UI, easy annotation and metrics. A quick google turned up an easy way of doing dynamic time slices. Here is an example with the networks in Venetian spy reports🕵️ #digitalhumanities #dh 🗃️

Screenshot showing a force-directed network graph on the right and an open panel for calculating degree centrality on the left

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

So much time this week was spent thinking about the #Renaissance politics of biscocho, bread, and grapes. Household accounts are some of my favorite #earlymodern diplomacy #archival sources #17thcentury

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Join us at Durham History! It's a friendly department in a lovely part of the world, with a wonderful bunch of early modernists across the university. I'm happy to discuss informally and feel free to get in touch with any questions if you're interested in applying.

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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We're recruiting for the role of Assistant Professor in Early Modern History, and seek to appoint a historian working on any aspect of the early modern world, excluding the Anglophone world (deadline 17 March 2025): durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

This image shows an aerial view of Durham Cathedral

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Call for Papers now open for BAVS 25th Anniversary Conference in Oxford. Papers, panels and roundtables are invited on any aspect of the long nineteenth century. 23-25 July, with an ECR event on 22 July – for more details and to submit, see english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 @engfac.bsky.social

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I scrapped the reading my #history class was going to do for Monday; as a treat for taking their first exam, we're going to have some fun with #earlymodern #Renaissance #paleography. Chat about hands, scripts, ink, paper parchment; there are some easier ones and then some challenges 😆

Will of an English widow, Agnes Hasselwoode, from sixteenth-century England (1587), held by the National Archives.

List of foodstuffs and goods for meals during Christmas including items, weights, amounts, and costs, household account, the National Archives State Papers collection, early seventeenth century.

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Contrary to popular belief, comps are in fact not the “best times of your phd”

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Anton Jansson @antnlj.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Are you a PhD student interested in the history of knowledge? Apply for the Lund summer school this August. Under the guidance of @bjornlundberg.bsky.social and others. I taught it in 2020 and 2021, great fun. newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/01/28/2...

newhistoryofknowledge.com

2025 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge

Lund Centre for Knowledge History (LUCK) invites applications for the sixth annual Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge, to be held at Lund University, August 19–22, 2025. The Su…

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Went to a talk on clustering and mapping piracy and now I want to play around with my social network data sets instead of writing this dissertation chapter 🫣 #earlymodern #skystorians #digitalhumanities

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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

US (and Puerto Rico) graduate students: Would you like to participate in a 8-9 week paid summer internship working in archives in Puerto Rico? This program is for you. Organized by Aldo Lauria Santiago, from Rutgers. More information here: prac.rutgers.edu/archival-int...

prac.rutgers.edu

Archival Internship – The Rutgers Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC)

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Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A preview of what my students will be covering this week. #teaching #skystorians #earlymodern

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