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James Russell

@profjrussell.bsky.social
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Medieval and Early Modern Book Historian, (Print Culture and the History of Reading) Adjunct at Rio Salado College, Improviser, (he/him)

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ACMRS is hiring! We are seeking a program manager to join our ongoing Mellon Foundation-funded RaceB4Race initiative. Find the full position listing below and apply today! asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ASU…
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Program Manager
Job Profile: Administrative Operations Specialist 3 Job Family: Administrative Operations Time Type: Full time Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved. Job Profile Summary: Supports and instructs those served by the department with complex queries, applies specialized knowledge of multiple standards, policies...
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Are you interested in pursuing a career in the antiquarian book trade? Apply to the @abaararebooks.bsky.social Diversity Initiative Discovery Program! 📚 You’ll gain insights from ABAA members, get in-depth tours of the Boston fair, a $2500 stipend, and more: www.abaa.org/general-cont...
Antiquarian books in a display case
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Rest in peace John Crowley. I am currently reading The Solitudes, the first book of the Aegypt cycle, on the way to reading his third book Love & Sleep which parallels the Hypnerotomachia. The otherworldly, intertwining plot is marvelous.
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SF in SF Events @sfinsfevents.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lost a towering figure in literature today - RIP John Crowley. Little, Big changed my life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cr...
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John Crowley (author) - Wikipedia
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨Job alert!🚨 Salary's terrible, but you do get to hang out with Beowulf and Lindesfarne...
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Carlo Ginzburg’s work on micro history and magic inspired generations of scholars: 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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Buffalo & Erie County Public Library @buffalolibrary.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What do the Vatican Library, British Library, and Buffalo & Erie County Public Library have in common? The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili! Did you miss the lecture on this mysterious and rare book last month? Catch Dr. James Russell’s lecture here: youtu.be/7GMitopMrws
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Exploring the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili with Dr. James Russell
YouTube video by Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Buffalo Library on Instagram: "On Saturday, Dr. James Russell took patrons on a tour through the beautiful and mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - a love story dating to the Renaissance, and one of...
66 likes, 1 comments - buffalolibrary on April 28, 2026: "On Saturday, Dr. James Russell took patrons on a tour through the beautiful and mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - a love story dating to ...
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Yesterday I had the opportunity to share some of my research at Arizona State University’s Melikian Center on the Baha’i translator and medieval scholar Marzieh Gail. I presented on how Gail’s work in translating texts such as the ‘Seven Valleys’ interacted with her research on the Avignon Papacy.
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Giambattista della Porta’s Natural Magick at the Grosvenor Rate Book Room in the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Buffalo & Erie County Public Library @buffalolibrary.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Among the many treasures of the Grosvenor Room is an exceptional early printed book combining a love story and an alchemical treatise. Join us on Sat., April 25 at 12 pm at Central Library to explore the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili with rare book researcher Dr. James Russell!
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The Ben Jonson 1616 and 1640 folios at the Grosvenor Rare Book Room, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library #B&ECPL
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
On April 25th 12-2 I’ll be sharing my research on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in a public presentation at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Libra and they kindly made a reel about it! www.instagram.com/reel/DXNG7b-...
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Buffalo Library on Instagram: "Among the many treasures of the Grosvenor Room is an exceptional early printed book combining a love story and an alchemical treatise. Join us on Sat., April 25 at 12 ...
27 likes, 0 comments - buffalolibrary on April 16, 2026: "Among the many treasures of the Grosvenor Room is an exceptional early printed book combining a love story and an alchemical treatise. Join ...
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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Less than a week to go until our virtual conference! Full programme here ceraejournal.com/programme/ #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #ancientsky
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Programme 2026
All of the session times have been provided below in UTC time. Please consult the pdf version of the programme for a detailed breakdown of each paper presentation time according to the timezones of…
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I do think this is true. I'm often guilty myself of underplaying what the work I do looks like or how much time and effort it takes. Research isn't 'just reading' or a question of sucking up summaries others have created. It's knowledge creation. So let me go through the process with an example 1/
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
On April 25th 12-2 I’ll be sharing my research on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in a public presentation at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Libra and they kindly made a reel about it! www.instagram.com/reel/DXNG7b-...
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Buffalo Library on Instagram: "Among the many treasures of the Grosvenor Room is an exceptional early printed book combining a love story and an alchemical treatise. Join us on Sat., April 25 at 12 ...
27 likes, 0 comments - buffalolibrary on April 16, 2026: "Among the many treasures of the Grosvenor Room is an exceptional early printed book combining a love story and an alchemical treatise. Join ...
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A joyful event - the city of Mesa is opening a new library today! This is a hope-giving investment in literature and learning to celebrate. There is an accompanying farmers market too. Yeah for the humanities!
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
#SundayReads — @DemetraVg on Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, one of the strangest and most influential books of the quattrocento, at once a story of lost love and a fever dream of antiquity: publicdomainreview.org/essay/hypner…
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A recipe for creating the elixir from Raymond Lull #alchemy #LindaHall
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The skeletons are shown most frequently, so here is the nervous system from the 1453 first edition of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica at the Linda Hall Library.
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A poem by John Dee in the 1623 2nd edition of Robert Record’s “Ground of Arts”, a guide to arithmetic.
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“One cannot at the same time affirm and negate”, taken from the chapter “On Rhetoric” in Martianus Capella’s “On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury” at the Linda Hall Library
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Illuminated initial capital in the 1472 Jensen edition of Pliny’s Natural History at the Linda Hall Library
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
1515 first Aldine printed edition of Lucretius’ De rerum natura at the Linda Hall Library
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’m excited to start a fellowship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, working on alchemy.
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I’m glad to share that I will be traveling to Kansas City this week as one of the fellows of the Linda Hall Library. www.lindahall.org/research/lin...
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Linda Hall Library – Meet Our Fellows
Read about current and former Linda Hall Library research fellows.
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 19/06/2025
Happy Juneteenth! Do you know about pioneering Black Shakespearean Ira Aldridge? Born in NY in 1807, he acted with the African Grove Theatre, but with limited US opportunities, he moved abroad and found great success. This 1852 German playbill notes his starring role in Macbeth.
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I just had my first visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library. The warm welcome and excellent research support were wonderful. Many thanks to the great team at the Library.
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Is in DC for the Summer Teachers Institute of the American Bar Association.
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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is an excellent paper. 'We teach our students to see the things that are human, to appreciate the unexpected, and to see the variation that breaks the pattern rather than repeats it.' The value of education is precisely opposite to the outputs of LLMs.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Talk to the hand
Letterpress marginal "No." with a hand drawn manicure below.
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
So it turns out that there is a Proto-Shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham (a major medieval and contemporary site of pilgrimage in the UK) at an Episcopal church in Sheboygan, WI!
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
At Green Acre in Maine for the conference of the Corinne True Center for Baha’i History. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a paper on Medievalism in the Baha’i sacred Writings and historiography.
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james-c-oneill.bsky.social @james-c-oneill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A fantastic time at the #RenaissanceSocietyofAmerica conference in Boston, presenting with Dr. James Russel! Already looking forward to next year's conference in San Francisco. And a special thanks to @routledgehistory.bsky.social for exhibiting my book at the Conference Book Exhibition!
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Foolish Fish @foolishfishbooks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Join me for a closer look at the new BLP editions (HC, PB) of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili youtu.be/v6bkU1Mg9BI
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (BLP Hardcover & Paperback) [Esoteric Book Review]
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james-c-oneill.bsky.social @james-c-oneill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I am thrilled to say my book on the Hypnerotomachia has gone to paperback and is available in Waterstones and on Amazon: Routledge: shorturl.at/LJL50 Amazon: shorturl.at/rN2F3 Waterstones: shorturl.at/iFOch #Routledge #paperback #Hypnerotomachia #ItalianRenaissance #PhilosophicalDreamNarratives
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Join me, Beth Morrison, and 700 #Voynich fans for this Zoom conversation on June 13: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...
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Art Break: Cracking a Medieval Code | Getty Events
Attempt to decode the unknown alphabet and mysterious drawings of this centuries-old enigmatic manuscript with our experts.
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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Our conference ended 2 weeks ago, but registered participants can now view the recordings on our website. Read our review for more dreamy details. Didn't have time to register and attend? You can still register with a reduced rate of $10 AUD until the end of June. #medievalsky #earlymodernsky
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I Dream of Ceræ: The Second Annual Conference, April 2025
Just over a fortnight ago, over the last weekend of April, the second annual Ceræ conference was conducted online with attendees and presenters from sixteen countries across eleven different timezones! Repeating our unique format from last year with a continuous single-stream over 32 hours, our presenters not only came from a multitude of institutions, but also represented the spectrum of career stage from distinguished professor to junior graduate student, and everyone in between.
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m grateful for the opportunity to be interviewed on the Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast about the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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James Russell on the Hypnerotomachia in Esoteric Tradition
Podcast Episode · Oddcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP) · 05/07/2025 · 41m
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
On my way to the Renaissance Society of America conference in Boston
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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I’m glad that my paper on references to the Middle Ages in the Baha’i Writings and historiography has been accepted to the Green Acre Baha’i Studies conference this June corinnetruecenter.org/james-russel...
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James Russell, Medievalism in the Bahá’í Writings and Historiography – Corinne True Center for Baha'i History
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We're particularly interested in works in progress, burgeoning research questions, quirky archival finds that you're not sure what to do with, or broad methodological questions that others might have also encountered. This is a space for informal discussion rather than finished and polished talks!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'm organising a series of flash talks on 26th March for Print Exchanges: a global research network for anyone working on early(ish) print culture, broadly conceived. If you'd like to join the network, come to the event, or share your work do get in touch at printexchanges@gmail.com
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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Happy UK publication day to the first of many amazing New Oxford Shakespeare plays! Here’s Julius Caesar (with my intro) pictured @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social! Thanks to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for her brilliant work as general editor and to Sarah Neville for her precise editing of the text.
photo of paperback of Julius Caesar sitting on wood stage floor. The book odd read with the image of a lion, the spqr crest, the Roman Capitol and six hands with bloody knives.
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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 08/02/2025
Hey friends, did you know we publish a free informational series called The Collector's Counsel? It's got a glossary of book terms (300+), a list of first edition points by publisher, a map of rare book fairs in the U.S., and more. Check it out! eveninglandbooks.com/collectors-c...
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Collector’s Counsel
The Collector’s Counsel The Collector’s Counsel is an informational series hosted by Evening Land Books. Using our knowledge of print history, bibliography, and culture, Matthew and Kristina …
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Early Modern How-to Books @howtobooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
How does one learn practical skills from a book? Why were how-to books so popular in the early modern period, who used them and how, and can they even be considered a clearly defined genre? Find out the answer to these and other questions in our edited volume: brill.com/display/titl...
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Tracts of Action
"Tracts of Action" published on 21 May 2024 by Brill.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
📢16th-CENTURY WILLS HAVE ARRIVED!📢 You can now help us transcribe wills from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI on our Zooniverse site. I found money being left for the marriage of poor maidens dwelling with honest men - what will you find? www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... #EarlyModern 🗃️
Extract from a 16th-century will with one line underlined in red. Beneath is a transcription of the line - the testator is leaving money for the marriage of poor maidens dwelling with honest men within the parish of Alhalowes
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨 Lost & Found! A 19th-century Irish translation of Paradise Lost by poet Tomás ‘an tSneachta’ Ó Conchubhair has been rediscovered in the University of Illinois collection! 🎉 Believed lost for decades, it's now live on ISOS. 📜 🌍 👉 Explore: www.isos.dias.ie/collection/u...
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