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Mario Graña Taborelli

@mgrana.bsky.social
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PhD. Research Fellow. Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. Frankfurt. Germany. He/Him Political and legal cultures. Frontiers. Globality, locality, and their tensions. Early Modern Iberian Worlds. Husband to @andrewgrana.bsky.social

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Christophe Giudicelli @cgiudicelli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
La Maison de l'Amérique latine est menacée de disparition. On va bien voir ce qui reste du "en même temps" macroniste: l'État déroule en ce moment même le tapis rouge pour Milei et toute sa troupe d'extrême droite, venus pour faire des affaires avec la France. c.org/ppYDbmXZrx
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La Maison de l'Amérique latine ne doit pas disparaître !
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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fragments of medieval Hebrew text on parchment, used to reinforce spine on Botero, Relationi Universali. Venice, Perin, 1595. Any help? (I know they're very small). Thanks! #paleography #medieval #medieval_hebrew #fragmentology #medieval_manuscripts #medieval_paleography
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Upcoming conference at Columbia University on Thursday, September 24: "Animals Across Borders." Free and open to all, but you need to register ahead of time. Details on poster below.
A n i m a l s Across B o r d e r s
A Multidisciplinary Conference
L o c a t i o n
The Lehman Center
for American History
Columbia University
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9 am - s pm EST
Thursday
September 24, 2026
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New in the Proceedings of the British Academy, 'The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures' explores the role of innovative, network-based research methodologies in humanities research as applied to late medieval court studies bit.ly/3ULr4bo
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Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy to have contributed to this issue with a review of Bragagnolo's wonderful compilation on Azpilcueta.
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New series announcement! Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History & Culture Series Editors: @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer Publisher: @dgb-mem.bsky.social brill.com/page/forthco... Feel free to DM me with questions, or email me at Erika.Gaffney@degruyterbrill.com
A series announcement designed to look like the front cover of a book. The featured image is a painting in which two storm-tossed ships appear (a small one at left, a larger one at right).
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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨CFP: SRS, London, 30 June-3 July 2027 #EarlyModern friends, I am once again asking for your abstracts! @jenmcfarland.bsky.social and I are delighted to be organising a panel on 'The Indian Mediterranean' for the 2027 SRS (@srsrensoc.bsky.social) Conference at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social! 👇
Call for Papers for the Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies which will be held in London from 30 June to 3 July 2027. Abstracts from researchers of all career stages (including independent scholars and graudate students) are invited for a panel on 'The Indian Mediterranean'. The panel explores both the presence of people from India in the early modern Mediterranean (1400-1700) as well as the use of the descriptor 'Indian' or 'from the Indies' when describing migrant, displaced, and captive people. If you are interested in applying, please send us a 200-word abstract, a provisional title, and a 100-word bio by 10 September 2026. We are hoping to get back to you with a final decision on 15 September 2026. If you'd like to receive an accessible, B&W, Word-verison of this document, please feel free to DM me.
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Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is a new link to the book with all details corrected now by the publisher, exciting! #earlymodernhistory #festivalculture #publicrituals #portugueseempire www.routledge.com/Public-Ritua...
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Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire, 1498–1822
Public Rituals charts the study of public rituals in the Portuguese Empire between 1498 and 1822 approximately, with a view to introducing both new and seasoned readers to the contexts, sources, probl...
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
From the current issue: "Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work" by Nuala Zahedieh (‪@camhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work*
Abstract. The Caribbean, with its focus on cash crop production, played a major role in the rise of England’s Atlantic trading system and the making of mod
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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference at the Warburg. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interwoven process that transcends the geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Learn more ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
Image credit: 'A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent’ (detail), by John Mottley (London: J. Read, 1734-5). With thanks to Senate House Library for the image.
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Joseph Ford @drjoeford.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts
Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils
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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️
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Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...
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Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Compartiendo una charla muy interesante de lo que se hace aquí en el Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
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EP.9. "SUPERSTICIONES" Y DERECHO CANÓNICO: EL PODER DE LOS HÍBRIDOS - Pilar Mejía y Karla Escobar
¿Qué tienen en común las "supersticiones" y el derecho canónico? En este episódio de Chispa, Karla Escobar (Transmedia Historytelling) conversa con Pilar Mejía, investigadora del Instituto Max Planck de Historia y Teoría del Derecho, sobre antropología y, sobre todo, sobre el derecho canónico como un campo fundamental para pensar la producción histórica de normas, valores y formas de regulación en América Latina. A partir de procesos inquisitoriales y tratados de teología moral, el episodio muestra cómo el derecho canónico no solo remite a un universo eclesiástico o doctrinal, sino también a debates sobre sexualidad, pecado, cuerpo, conciencia, saberes médicos y prácticas cotidianas. La conversación recorre además el proyecto del Diccionario Histórico de Derecho Canónico en Hispanoamérica y Filipinas, desarrollado en el Instituto Max Planck de Historia y Teoría del Derecho, y reflexiona sobre cómo este trabajo colectivo permite releer conceptos, conflictos y lenguajes normativos que siguen dialogando con preguntas del presente.
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ATLANREX @atlanrex.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
21ª SESIÓN II EDICIÓN CICLO DE CHARLAS "Historia Dialogada: Clío ante el espejo" 🗣️ Manuel Herrero Sánchez (@pablodeolavide.upo.es) 📅 12 de junio ⏰ 11:00-13:00 🏛️ Sala de Juntas de Historia Moderna, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, @uam.es m.es 📺 Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/83995104161
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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The 30th volume of the Journal of Early Modern History critically examines the term “early modern”. What exactly should the concept stand for and what has it stood for in the past? Check out the special issue “Reflections on the Global Early Modern” at brill.com/view/journal... #earlymodern
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
👀 @erikagaffney.bsky.social is launching a new book series: this time it's BRILL* 🥁 'Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures', with Allison Levy as the series editor rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #Skystorians
New book series: Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures

Deadline: 20 May 2027

Visit website → https://brill.com/page/forthcoming_vmc

General Editor: Allison Levy, Brown University
Brill acquisitions editor: Erika Gaffney

Casting a critical eye on images and objects from the early modern period, authors of monographs and edited volumes published in this series advance new interrogations marked by rigorous research and compelling narratives. Contributions offer multidisciplinary perspectives on a broad range of topics from a variety of methodologies, deepening appreciation of the complexities of visual and material cultures across early modern worlds.

Authors are cordially invited to submit book proposals and/or full manuscripts.

For more information, visit: https://brill.com/page/forthcoming_vmc
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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Cover image of This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England, showing a version of the Armada portrait of Elizabeth I, but with the focus on the globe rather than the English queen.
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
⚓ #MyPhDPitch: @maximemorel.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social studies how naval ceremonies between 1500–1700 turned salutes and flags into powerful political rituals that could even spark wars.
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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So excited to participate in this conversation on Thursday at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide! 🗃️
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Lauren MacDonald displaces the Franciscans in favor of the Mercedarians and their practical savvy in the conquest of Mexico emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/m...
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Jérémie Foa @anakroniks.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
En poche en septembre
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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Protecting What Matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR
Protecting what matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/04/2026
We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 11 May & 27 July. Fellowship is open to those who have made a scholarly research contribution to #history. Fellows work in all sectors (within & outside HE) and in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
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Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 11 May and 27 July 2026   Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through the authorsh...
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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 24/04/2026
🎨📣 CALL FOR PAPERS — CAA 2027 Painted Statuary and Statue Paintings in the Global Iberian World (1400–1800) 🗓 February 3–6, 2027 📍 New York 🔗 siga.spainculture.us/projects/sig... SIGA’s panel at CAA 2027—chaired by Dr. Ilenia Colón Mendoza & Dr. Jessica Weiss—is now accepting submissions! (1/6)
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Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New open access article by the Centre for Empire Studies, Universität Münster associated researcher Raquel Gil Montero on Labour Relations and the Persistence of Servitude in Seventeenth Century Charcas doi.org/10.1080/0268...
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Labour relations and the persistence of servitude in Seventeenth-Century Charcas (present-day Bolivia)
This study investigates the enduring presence of serfdom-like servicios personales imposed on indigenous populations in seventeenth-century Charcas, present-day Bolivia. Due to its characteristics,...
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Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Este viernes, únanse a nosotros en París para charlar sobre las "fronteras conectadas" de la Monarquía hispánica en el Nuevo Reino de Granada y Charcas en el siglo XVI
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Harvard University Press @harvardpress.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The remarkable power of... paperwork? The Radical Spanish Empire is a new, groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World— A world where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through paper politics. Keep reading: bit.ly/46CYw73
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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
👀 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.
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 27/02/2026
Looks really fun, but sadly, it's only for the duration of the project...
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Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is just amazing! Love it!
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 26/02/2026
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:
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
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Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!
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Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A great loss. Have very fond memories of my time as a post doc in IAS.
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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost? uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go... #earlymodern #Tudors
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
For excellent history podcasts try “The Medieval Podcast“ by @5minmedievalist.bsky.social -Danièle Cybulskie “Gone Medieval” by @goingmedieval.bsky.social -Eleanor Janega “Betwixt the Sheets” by @k8lister.bsky.social -Kate Lister BBC Radio 4’s “In Our Time” The @historyextra.bsky.social podcast
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Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Have just noticed that Google is offering an inaccurate AI summary of my first monograph. I never referred to the expeditions that I cover as diplomatic. Neither did I use the term Statist to define the late 16th century Catholic Monarchy. Assumption and oversimplification do not work.
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Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
📢 Open Call: Thijssen-Schoute Fellowship 2027 Are you an early career reseracher working on the history of science, art & ideas, with a focus on the 17th century & the Dutch Republic? Apply before 15 May '26 🔗 tinyurl.com/ydfeujjc @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) is now published @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 20/02/2026
This podcast developed from a five-part series of articles recently published in the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. 1. 'Locating Geological Agency in a ‘Small’ Early Modern Anthropocene' by @ellydezateux.bsky.social
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Locating Geological Agency in a ‘Small’ Early Modern Anthropocene
Abstract. What can anthropogenic interventions – set in a wetland backwater of England, long before the industrial era – tell us about the Anthropocene? Ho
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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
François Soyer, "Imperfect Sodomy: The Lisbon Inquisition and the Repression of Heterosexual Anal Intercourse in Portugal, 1580–1800." Journal of the History of Sexuality 35, no. 1 (2026), pp. 1-27. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A volume of essays I edited some years ago on news in #earlymodern Europe is now available open access 📖 Featuring chapters by @lenaliapi.bsky.social, @emmawhipday.bsky.social, among others! brill.com/edcollbook-o...
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Elly Robson Dezateux @ellydezateux.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England is out now with Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v... This watery, riotous book has been more than a decade in the making, and I'm delighted to see it out in the world to live its own life!
Front cover of Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England by Elly Robson Dezateux. Blurb of Violent Waters:
How were environments and politics remade by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during wetland improvement projects in early modern England? Violent Waters examines flagship ventures which promised to transform unruly fenland fringes into orderly terrain at the heart of national power and productivity. In practice, these projects sparked constitutional controversy, new floods, and huge riots. The first state-led project in Hatfield Level brought local, national, and transnational interests into contact and conflict for almost a century. Elly Robson Dezateux traces the environmental politics that emerged as water and land were constructed and contested, both mentally and materially. These disputes pivoted on urgent questions about risk and justice, which became entangled in civil war conflict and exposed the limits of central authority and technology. Ultimately, improvement was destabilised by a lack of legitimacy and the dynamism of local custom as a method of environmental management and collective action. Wetland communities, as much as improvers and sovereigns, remade the terrain of politics and the future of the fens.
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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Deadline: 28 Feb The Society is now running its annual #bookprize, primarily aimed at early career researchers. The prize will be awarded for the best first monograph on the history of Christianity published during the previous calendar year. ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/2026-book-pr... #ECR
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/11/2025
Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup: - ancient & medieval history and/or - histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com 🤗🤗🤗
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CaliopeSRBHP @caliopesrbhp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Felices de compartir esta convocatoria. Happy for sharing this call for a fellowship!
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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...
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Four footprints, two languages, one tile
hn. sattiieis. detfri segnatted. plavtad herennis. amica signauit. qando. a- ponebamus. tegila(m)   Detfri of Hn. Sattis signed with a footprint. Amica of Herens signed when we were laying out…
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Booking is now open for my @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social talk on 16 February, examining Elizabethan Law and Litigation in light of the new catalogue descriptions available on The National Archives online catalogue. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives
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Department of Historical Studies at CEU @historicalstudies.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Gerd Bucerius Scholarship, funded by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS in partnership with CEU, supports outstanding MA students in Historical Studies. The scholarship includes: 1️⃣ 100% tuition waiver 2️⃣ monthly stipend 3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000 www.linkedin.com/posts/zeit-s...
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Apply now for Bucerius History Scholarship at the Central European University in Vienna    Are you passionate about history, interested in pursuing a Master’s degree, and speak fluent English? Then… |...
Apply now for Bucerius History Scholarship at the Central European University in Vienna    Are you passionate about history, interested in pursuing a Master’s degree, and speak fluent English? Then se...
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