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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The #ERCCoG project PARISH is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study #earlymodern parish politics in the Diocese of Vienna!

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Our first meeting with Radka and Staszek in beautiful Košice, 8 June ❤️ Was amazing occasion, talking through several topics

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The PARISH #ERCCoG project is now on Bluesky, dedicated to #earlymodern parish communities! Please follow the project’s BSky account! We are recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call!

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Cynthia Cyrus @scholarfarmer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Lichtenstein (OCist) Altarpiece commissioned by abbess Margaretha von Stein, 1465 #art #nuntastic #Stuttgart #Staatsgalerie

Big winged altar with a central scene as carving and gilt

The annunciation, top of the feast-day wing: angel scroll and boom, and pillows of robes on the floor

The whoooooole thing showing how impressive these things are. So much glitter! So many things to ponder!

The back of the wing showing its three panels, somewhat damaged

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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

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Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano

Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari

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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Proofs have arrived! I'm both absolutely thrilled and gripped with typo-phobia. In any case, the book is almost real! #NUNTASTIC

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I gave a presentation at the 24th My-Parish Symposium titled A Confessional Demographic Model? Parish Records, Historical Demography, and Recatholisation in Eighteenth-Century #Hungary. This year’s theme was #Parish & Data. #earlymodern

A man is giving a presentation in front of two projection screens. Maps are displayed on the screens.

The interior of the Faculty of Arts Building at the University of Warwick.

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

April 2018, Toledo. In the enormous Renaissance Palace of the Hospital de Tavera, the Ducal Archives of Medinaceli. The archivist left me alone in a small reading room with huge piles of #earlymodern documents, reports, and letters from The 9th Duke of Medinaceli, Spanish ambassador to Rome.

The Hospital de Tavera in Toledo, Spain.

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The first short summary in English about my new #ERCCoG project on the parish politics in #earlymodern East Central Europe 1650-1800, examining the role of popular politics on late Catholic confessionalization and early modern state building. tti.abtk.hu/en/news/new-...

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New ERC Consolidator Grant at the Institute of History

Béla Vilmos Mihalik, Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Secretary of the Institute of History at ELTE RCH, and Assistant Professor at the Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History, ELTE Faculty o...

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I’m deeply moved: I’ve been awarded an #ERCCoG for my project on early modern parish politics in East Central Europe. Biggest lesson of 2025: the people around me believed in me and my success more than I ever believed in myself. Thank you all. @erc.europa.eu

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

An unlikely place to find my late grandfather’s second cousine, Renata Baldauf’s grave, and also meet her wonderful family, incl. my fourth cousins. A complex Eastern European family history from the small Hungarian town of Békéscsaba through Transylvania to Schöneiche bei Berlin. #familyhistory

Old village church of Schöneiche bei Berlin

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Ready for a German-American(-Hungarian) family reunion in Berlin this weekend

Family tree and family history of Antonie Weisz

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A precious addition to my private archive: a kind note of appreciation from Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Jesuits, regarding my book on the Hungarian Jesuits. I was genuinely touched — it really meant a lot to me.

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Finally I have my own copy from the book, which was so inspiring for me. #earlymodern

Book “Bringing the People Back in” on a desk.

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

My new book“The Court of Chameleons” has been published this summer. It explores the transformation of Holy See–Habsburg diplomatic relations during the papacy of Innocent XII (1691–1700) and the liberation of Hungary from the Ottoman rule – for now, only in Hungarian. #earlymodern

The cover of the Hungarian language book “The Court of Chameleons”.

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Speaking about parish politics is 18th-century Hungary at the Central European History Convention on this Wednesday in Vienna #earlymodern #habsburgs #parishes #vienna

Discussion after our panel at Central European History Convention

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Orange is the colour of the summer 🧡

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#AcademicFreedom at Risk in #Hungary A damaging restructuring of the Hungarian Research Network has been announced without consultation. Our trade union call for international solidarity. Please read, share and circulate the petition below. chng.it/fP5YdLDMSS

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This campaign needs you now

We protest the dismantling of the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN)

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In 2013 in Rome, the Pentecost Mass. Requiescat in pace, Papa Franciscus!

Pope Francis in Rome in the Piazza San Pietro with the crowd during the Pentecost Mass in 2013.

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Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

#OTD in 1726, Joseph Jean François, Count de Ferraris was born. He created one of the coolest maps in 18th c. Europe: the Ferraris map depicting the Habsburg Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

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Brepols @brepols.net · 16/04/2025

𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 Edited by Brendan Dooley & Paola Molino More info: bit.ly/3Er8oG7 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 #History #Media #EarlyModern #News #Newspapers #Historysky

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New post: The resignation of Howard Louthan from the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. The provost had a 2022 statement about the invasion of Ukraine taken down, and suggested instead that the center offer "differing views" on Ukraine. Full resignation letter attached.

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Public Speech by Historians about History

A troubling decision by the administration of the University of Minnesota

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

One of the highlights from my first trip to Belgium: Brugge and the tombs of Charles the Bold and his daughter, Mary of Burgundy.

The canal in Brugge, which is called as “Venice of the North”, with pretty early modern buildings on both banks.

The Sint-Salvatorskatedraal’s tower from distance in a street of Brugge

The golden tombs of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and his daughter, Mary of Burgundy in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Brugge

A stained glass circle with a depicted saint in its middle.

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Excited to see that Voices of Thunder is available for pre-order in the US on the University of Chicago Press website! 🌟 #earlymodern

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

So it begins, or continues. After 32 years, the Department of Germanistic at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary has ceased to exist… #university #academia #humanities

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today’s 🧵 is about race, nations, and a type of artwork: casta paintings. For more, preorder my forthcoming HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (out Feb. 4 US / Mar. 4 UK, @ucpress.bsky.social) from anywhere books are sold! 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #18thCentury #HAMH 1/9

This painting is divided into sixteen sections, each containing an illustration of a man, a woman, and a child. Each picture has a label. The figures wear distinctive clothing and carry household items such as foodstuffs and musical instruments.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Was there ever an #EarlyModern TikTok? If so, any of those exiles can rebuild via three starter packs here. I think Facebook did have some functioning earlymodern groups, and exiles equally welcome... 📜 go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 📜 go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 📜 go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The Prize Papers contain hundreds of letters that are still sealed. Marc Vermeulen, Head of Heritage Science at The National Archives, explains in the new episode how they were recently able to reconstruct hidden text in these letters – without even opening them! #earlymodern 🗃️ pod.link/1460242815

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Ágnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic champion, #Holocaust survivor and a magical person, has died at the age of 104. In 1952 (Helsinki) and 1956 (Melbourne) she won 5 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals in #gymnastics for #Hungary. May her memory be blessed!

Photo portrait of Ágnes Keleti (1921-2025), the world’s oldest Olympic champion. She won 5 gold medals in 1952 and 1956. She is over 100 on this photo, telling a story as she laughs.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Ooh, highly appropriate for the first day of the year... A new article by Erika Kuijpers, @judithpollmann.bsky.social et al. on more than 200 local chroniclers. Who were these people recording the passing of the years? #EarlyModern #OpenAccess 🗃️: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

#OTD 75 yrs ago, 1 Jan 1950 Greater #Budapest was created after 16 villages and 7 towns were annexed to the capital city of #Hungary. #20thcentury

The map of Greater Budapest after 16 villages and 7 towns were annexed to the capital city 1 Jan 1950.

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas with Krtek, my childhood Czechoslovak hero mole!

Krtek, the Czechoslovak cartoon’s mole celebrating the Christmas with his mouse friend.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1

A faint writing, the text is in Latin and it reads: Domina magistra felhin date mihi licenciam in hac nocte vigilare cum magistra adalu et ego vobis ambabus manibus confirmo atque iuro ut per totam noctem declinare volo aut legere aut pro seniore nostro cantare Valete et ut peto facite. (Abbreviations have been resolved in this transcription).

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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It was not easy to carve the tree into the hol der, but it’s finally done.

A tree carved into its holder in a living room, in front of the bookshelves, ready to be turned into a Christmas tree.

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New Special Issue of Church History and Religious Culture: "Religious Practices, Boundaries, and Institutions: Historiographical Debates and New Perspectives in Early Modern Italian History." Ed. by Sabina Pavone and @stefanovil.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... #earlymodern

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

CFP: Communication & Exchange in the Early Modern - Far From Home Will surely be of interest to @bsecs.bsky.social members? #18c #18thC #18thCentury

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