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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"We often think of #alchemy as something distinct from science, but as historians of science, we’re really interested in the continuities..." Today's #histSTM (& #histsci, #histchem, etc.) lunchtime read: @whyy.org's preview of @sciencehistory.org new art & alchemy exhibit ("Fire & Gold"). 🗃️📜🎨

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New Philadelphia exhibit explores connection between alchemy and modern science

A new permanent exhibit at Philadelphia’s Science History Institute looks at the contributions of alchemists from the 15th to 19th centuries.

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Today we're launching Friends of Ceræ, a new initiative for our wonderful supporters and readers around the world! Check out all the benefits. We're also announcing a newly expanded essay prize! We'd love for you to be a friend of Ceræ!❤️ ceraejournal.com/2026/07/14/s... #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

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Support our journal and become a Friend of Ceræ

We’re pleased to introduce our Friends of Ceræ supporter program, a new initiative designed especially for our wonderful supporters and readers all over the world! Established in 2014, Ceræ is comm…

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are you an early career researcher looking for experience on the operations of an award-winning academic journal? We're calling for applications for Vol. 14 committee members. Applications close 27 Oct. Read the details👉 ceraejournal.com/2026/10/06/c... #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

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Call for Committee Members

Ceræ is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early career researchers. We are united in our commitment to open ac…

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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Excited to find the first town library card catalog at the Gilbert Museum at HDSouth

The first card catalog for the town of Gilbert with James standing in front of it.

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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...

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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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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thanks for sharing! I was interviewed in the second of these episodes and happy to help with any questions about the Hypnerotomachia.

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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Hypnerotomachia and its allegorical nymphs has an extensive early modern reception history as found in its marginalia, which are featured in this presentation which may be of interest 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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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

Hi would you be able to share the call number for this item? My wife is preparing a PhD proposal on embroidered books and this binding would be great to include.

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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Thank you Julie for your support!

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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

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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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 · 22/04/2026

This is indeed one of the best things to do and I totally get it, a seminar sparked my interest in the Hypnerotomachia and I ended up writing my doctoral thesis on it

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James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Thank you for listening to the podcast! I’m happy to help with any questions.

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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 · 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 · 23/08/2025

I wrote my PhD on the Hypnerotomachia I can relate to

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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]

YouTube video by Foolish Fish

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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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