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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16/05/2025

We're delighted to welcome today 337 new Fellows & Members who've been elected to the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/3FfrjEb Our new Fellows practice history in 11 countries, our Associate Fellows promote history across many sectors & our PGR Members study at 68 universities worldwide #Skystorians

Image of page from the Royal Historical Society's website announcing the election on 16 May of 337 new Fellows and Members to the Society.

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just received the incredible news that I’ve been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org! It’s a real honour—and a deep source of pride—to receive this recognition. Heartfelt thanks to Andrew @apettegree.bsky.social for his generous support! This means a lot! #skystorians

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Prof. Domenico Cecere gives an intriguing talk about natural #disasters and emotions in 17th-century Mediterranean at the 4th session of the Universiof Alcalá's international seminar on the history of written culture #bookhistory #emotions #writing #writtenculture #disasters #print #manuscripts

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Honored to be awarded a Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship from the Renaissance Society of America for my research on Novohispanic readers of Italian books! Thank you so much for such a fantastic privilege! #BookHistory #Renaissance #Mediterranean #ColonialMexico www.rsa.org/page/RSAGran...

Title page of a copy of Petrarch's poetic works (Venice, 1538) held at the Biblioteca Nacional de México, censored by the inquisition of New Spain.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Do you fancy getting started working with Transkribus? We're hosting a @transkribus.bsky.social in person workshop in Edinburgh, Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00 - 17:00. @jnockels.bsky.social will demistify automatic text recognition as well as its context, as part of @edcdcs.bsky.social training ☺️

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Getting Started with Transkribus

A workshop on automatic text recognition and the transcription tool Transkribus, led by Joe Nockels from the University of Sheffield.

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Celeste McNamara @celestemcnamara.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Very excited that Hidden Venice, a new smartphone walking tour app from History City, is now available for (free) download. Three historical trails from the 16th-18th century, written by historians (myself, Fabrizio Nevola, David Rosenthal, and Rosa Salzberg). youtu.be/HU4nx6CZp-U

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Hidden Venice

HistoryCity apps bring the streets to life with immersive trails on geolocated historic maps. Available for: Venice, Copenhagen, Florence, Valencia, Exeter, Hamburg, Trento, Deventer, Landshut and Tours. https://historycityapps.org/

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Now Esther Borrego Gutiérrez (Universidad Complutense) walks us through the fascinating world of the religious "villancico", a mixed genre of popular music and verses developed in early modern Spain. #writing #popular #music #religious #navidad #textualstudies #comedy #emotions

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The inaugural lecture by Diego Navarro Bonilla (Universidad Carlos III) focuses on how calligraphy generates emotions and develops creativity . #calligraphy #writing #historyofemotions #writing

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Ready to start this fantastic seminar, "Corazón, de ti me quejo...", on emotions and writing (15th-21th centuries) ath the Department of Philosophy and History at the University of Alcalá! #writing #writtenculture #emotions #archives #paleography #history #manuscript #reading

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 02/01/2025

Le dernier numéro des #Annales est désormais publié sur Cambridge Core (@cambridgeup.bsky.social). À lire, l’intelligence des gestes techniques au XVIIIe s., l'histoire et l'anthropologie des populations amérindiennes, les Juifs, l’antisémitisme et le capitalisme 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dernier numéro | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 23/12/2024

Au sommaire du prochain numéro des #Annales, l’intelligence des gestes techniques au XVIIIe siècle, histoire et anthropologie des populations amérindiennes, les Juifs, l’antisémitisme et le capitalisme

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The whole Mediterranean region was out of fashion among academic historians during the formative century of modern academia. I talk a fair bit about this in the opening sections of my new book “Inventing the Renaissance” forthcoming February www.amazon.com/Inventing-Re...

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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age

Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age [Palmer, Ada] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Love this scheme! Take note lovely DH friends, that it is a VIRTUAL fellowship.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Shall we call him Scroogewell? Croogewell? Scromwell?

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

How to organize your books in true #earlymodern style by following 3 simple steps. Here is an advice from 1504: Step 1: lay them on top of each other. Step 2: book spines facing up. Step 3: Have a few boxes within your book collection. #bookhistory #skystorians

Detail from [Gregor Reisch] AEPITOMA OMNIS PHYLOSOPHIAE ... (1504). Two men in a room with a book collection in the back.

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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Reminder as you consider holiday gifts that REUSE is even better than RECYCLE, and thrift shops and eBay are full of wonderful things loved ones might want, including a million jillion stuffed animals of every species imaginable waiting to be loved.

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It’s official! 🤩Starting next year I’ll be joining the University of Alcalá as a Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Professor. I’m beyond excited and deeply grateful for this opportunity and can’t wait to begin this new chapter!🥳📚 #goodnews #newjob #professorship #happiness #sun #skyacademic #skystorians

The main building of the University of Alcalá in Alcalá de Henares, one of the most ancient universities in Spain

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Nouvel épisode de podcast en ligne : 359, la fabrique des Annales (2), avec un grand format consacré à la colonisation et à sa dimension économique, autour du livre majeur de D. Cogneau, Un empire bon marché. Sommaire ci-dessous. Bonne écoute, retours bienvenus ! parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

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Introduction et table des matières du numéro 79/2 (00:00)
Grand format (4:18) : entretien avec Denis Cogneau, professeur à PSE, pour Un empire bon marché, histoire et économie politique de la colonisation française XIXe-XXe siècles (Seuil, 2023), discuté avec David Todd, professeur à Sciences Po (lien sur Cairn)
Coulisses (36:45) : traduire des sources en français vers l’anglais, avec Chloe Morgan, éditrice (à propos de l’article de Renaud Morieux, « Lettres perdues : Communautés épistolaires, guerres et liens familiaux dans le monde maritime atlantique du xviiie siècle », Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 78/2, 2023. p.333-373) (lien sur Cairn)
Archives (47:00) : Marc Ferro, « Y a-t-il « trop de démocratie » en URSS ? », Annales, 40/4, 1985, p. 811-827,commenté par Jean-Yves Grenier (lien sur Persée)
Contacts et crédits

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Leo van Snippenburg @leo.vansnippenburg.nl · 11/12/2024

Biblioteca Angelica, Rome 🇮🇹

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Francesco Algarotti, Venetian polymath, champion of Newtonianism, born #OTD 1712; friend of Voltaire & Émilie du Châtelet, patron of Tiepolo, commissioned Panini’s View of Pantheon c.1734 & owned Liotard’s La belle Chocolatière c.1744 National Gallery of Art Rijksmuseum Dresden State Art Collections

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

As the holidays draw near, a gentle reminder: my #shortstories #book "Il Karma della Rosa" has been out for a year now on Amazon. 🙂📚 The English translation will be available soon, bringing these stories to an even wider audience. Thank you for your support—it means so much to me! amzn.eu/d/0iptJDJ

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern

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Early Modern Female Book Ownership

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Thank you so much to everyone who attended the Turning Page(s) workshop! What has been striking throughout this day is the balance between pioneering #innovation and the revisitation of traditional themes with fresh, critical approaches. 🧵

Federica Coluzzi's paper on women and their reception and recreation of Dante's works

Stefano Cassini talking about Aldus Manutius' letters

Maria Vittoria Comacchi's project on European readers of Arabic manuscripts in the early modern age

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Time to take the stage! I'm presenting my paper on how we can track the migrations of popular books using the #rare book market as our map. It's like being a detective, but for small ephemeral books. Let’s see if I can convince the crowd that #rarebooks have their own travel stories worth telling!

The picture of the first page of La Sancta Croce, printed by Benali and now at the Indiana University library

The page of William H. Robinson catalogue (1968) listing the Benali edition of La Sancta Croce

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The third session began with Anders Toftgård who talked about a fascinating unpublished manuscript by C. Bruun on the history of private libraries in Denmark and Norway in the early modern age. #rarebooks #bookhistory #libraries #skystorians

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Matilde Malaspina closes the second session of our workshop talking about her projects on the library of Hernando Colón.

The structure of the COLIBRI project which will begin in 2025

The stages of the BOB and collateral projdcts

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Maria Vittoria Comacchi fascinated the audience with a talk on reading and annotating Arabic manuscripts in Early Modern Europe and how those books travelled among the Mediterranean. #mediterranean #intellectualhistory #bookhistory #manuscriptstudies #Arabicstudies

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Let's begin the second session of our workshop with a fascinating paper of a very promising project on libraries and 18th-century travel guides by Fiammetta Sabba. #bookhistory #grandtour #libraries #italy #travelguides #travel

The data collected by the unities of the project

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

René Hernández Vera gave an enlightening paper on the new methodology to study, analyze and understand medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies. And now Q&A time! #manuscripts #bookhistory #medievalsky #history #writing #materialstudies

René Hernández talks about the past and the future of manuscript miscellanies studies

How can we actually understand the human agency behind the creation of miscellanies?

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Ray Schrire just gave a spectacular paper on the new horizons of marginalia in books and cognitive studies. #bookhistory #marginalia #cognitivestudies #reading #earlymodern #printedbooks #skystorians

Marginalia studies and their development

An example of how schoolboys in early modern England used to read and annotate their schoolbooks

Other examples of cognitive mechanisms of reading and annotating in the early modern age

Some guide on the developing field of marginalia and cognitive studies

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The first speaker of the Materiality session @zannavanloon.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk about the collaboration between Christoph Plantin and the bookbinders in 16th-century Antwerp. #bookhistory #bookbinding #Antwerp #books #Plantin #earlymodern

Zanna Van Loon explaining the craft of bookbinding

What a bookbinding order looked like in early modern Antwerp

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Now our Keynote speaker, Edoardo Barbieri, talks about the connection between events and communication tools in early modern Tuscany. #bookhistory #earlymodern #rarebooks #religiousstudies #printculture #Tuscany

Edoardo Barbieri talking about ephemeral publications

Professor Barbieri gives examples of fake news from early modern Italy (the case of Simon of Trent)

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Here we are! The "Turning Page(s)" workshop officially started! 😃 You can follow us here👇 ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/64912158792 #bookhistory #skystorians #libraries #books #earlymodern #medievalsky #rarebooks #manuscripts #print

The director of the Arnamagnæan Institute inaugurated the workshop "Turning Page(s)"

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

TOMORROW is the day! Join us for Turning Page(s) at the Arnamagnæan Institute or via Zoom. A full day of engaging discussions awaits, exploring books, libraries, and their rich histories. Don’t miss it! Program & details 👇 #bookhistory #libraries #skyhistory #skystorians #earlymodern #medievalsky

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Monks did, from time to time, hide in letters. Like here, on a page of Hrananus Maurus’ ‘De Laudibus Sanctaen Crucis’ printed in 1503. #skystorians

A page full of letters features a small monk in the upper part, and a cross in the middle.

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The decision to take this offline was made as a precaution following a change in the University's cyber policy, at short notice. It is not our intention to lose the resource, but to put it on a more sustainable, safe and secure technological platform - we don't have a timeline as yet.

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If you are bored, I have taken to producing absurd content on tiktok about rare books. Today's joke video is on Giuseppe Rosaccio's 1598 Viaggio da Venetia a Costantinopoli www.tiktok.com/@devinfitzra... (also on my IG, but they cut the vids a bit devinfitzrarebooks)

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My caveat for all social media content is this: I do it for fun. I make mistakes in videos. I talk off-the-cuff based on whatever strikes my fancy. I spend exactly 5-7 minutes from filming to editing. These are outreach, not scholarship.

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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

SHAKESPEARE’S LADY EDITORS is now available in paperback! And even more insanely affordable at £23/$30! #bookhistory www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Paperback copies of the book Shakespeare’s Lady Editors

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Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New group to meet people who love libraries and their immortal charm. Again, if you want to be added, just let me know! #libraries #bookhistory #historyoflibraries #booksky go.bsky.app/ThXvW7V

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

📣Applications are open for Week 1 of the London Rare Books Summer School: 16-20 June 2025 📣 A 🧵 on all the exciting courses available this year! Register, and find out more here: buff.ly/4ejU2mT Bookings close on 23rd May 2025. #RareBooks

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Today, our Backstage Sociability on the Book and Art Market conference is quicking off, supported by #SHARP, @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social and AMU university Poznań at @ Campus Condorcet

Backstage Sociability programme - all names and titles in the thread

Backstage Sociability programme - all titles and names in the thread

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