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Timothy Twining

@tntwining.bsky.social
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Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. MSCA post-doc at Trinity College Dublin. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MPIL Heidelberg, and KU Leuven.

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@ecsssstir2025.bsky.social are accepting nominations for the Richard B. Sher First Book Prize (awarded early 2027). The prize recognizes authors whose first scholarly book contributes significantly to the field of eighteenth-century Scottish studies. #skystorians #18thC #ScottishHist
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Sixteenth-century doctors were much less specialized than today’s medical professionals...Nancy followed them into these areas, and studied their polymathy with her own deep learning and equally profound humility." Today's #histSTM & #histmed lunch read: Andrew Berns's éloge for Nancy Siraisi 🗃️📜
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Losing a Teacher— Professor Nancy Siraisi
Two days after the Rome Prize ceremony one of my most cherished teachers and mentors died.
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#CfP 📢 The latest EMoDiR american meeting has barely concluded, and we are already excited to announce the theme of our next gathering at #RSA2027! Please circulate widely 🤗 #EarlyModern #ReligiousMinorities #MigrationHistory #ReligiousDissent #Transgression #MobilityStudies @rsaorg.bsky.social
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#CfP 📢 "Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies", eds. Mary Katherine Newman and Rana Banna Seeking chapter proposals on how language and the senses shaped evidence in the #earlymodern world (c.1492–1700). ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 12 April 2026 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #HistoryOfKnowledge
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Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Wherein I review Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg's tremendous recent volume, Johann Buxtorf, Impresario of Hebrew and Jewish Books (2025). Find it here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #EarlyModern
Title page of Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg's recent book, Johann Buxtorf, Impresario of Hebrew and Jewish Books
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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Long in the making….here’s my new article about second-hand books and the Bodleian www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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The Bodleian Daybook and the Purchase of Second-Hand Books | The Library
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Library Records e. 9 (the Daybook) is a ‘Book of Accompts for the Librarie’ that covers the seven-year period following the death of Sir Thomas Bodley. It contains details of two consignments of second-hand books purchased by ...
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Great to see that the video of Imogen Peck's recent talk @long18thsem.bsky.social on 'Family Archives in England, 1650-1838' is now available online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Family Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
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Rens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
**Call for Bids for The Making of the Humanities conference 2028** The Society for the History of the Humanities has opened a Call for Bids to host the 13th Making of the Humanities conference in 2028. Deadline: 15 September, 2026 For more info: www.historyofhumanities.org/2026/03/19/c...
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Call for Bids for The Making of the Humanities conference 2028 – Society for the History of the Humanities
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR members Inquisitions, Iconography, and Memory (13th–19th Century) (Viella, 2025). The volume explores how visual culture shaped the memory and representation of inquisitorial institutions across centuries. 🔗 www.viella.it/libro/979125... #EarlyModern #Inquisition #VisualCulture
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History of Catholicism @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We are delighted to announce that booking is now open for the fifth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism conference - details and a draft programme can be found here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... #skystorians #EMHistory #nuntastic #recusantsbaby #history #Catholicism
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The fifth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism conference - EMBIC V - Durham University
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Kristof Selleslach @kristofselle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️ Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840 Apply by 1 July 2026 👇 #PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp
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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
✨Join Han Lamers and me for the next #EarlyModernHellenism Colloquium. We will be hosting Alexander Batson 'Recovering a Usable Past: The Renaissance Reconstruction of Ancient Athenian Law, 1546-1650' 📍 Via zoom (link below) 📆 12 March, 15:00-16:00 CET 👉 Register: nettskjema.no/a/hellenism#...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Does anyone have a pdf of Heller's The Mother's Legacy in #EarlyModern England? #CanIHazPdf #HistGender #SkyStorians www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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The Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England | Jennifer Heller | Taylor
Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Reposting this. I have two scholars for this panel so far and need a third. If you're doing work work on the 1570s and want to be in Chicago next October, please send me a DM. #reformazing
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Looking forward to sharing some research from my Marie Curie postdoc at TCD tomorrow in the convivial surroundings of UCD’s Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminar series: www.ucd.ie/history/rese... Do come along if you’d like to learn more about James Ussher & the Samaritan Pentateuch! #earlymodern
Title page for a Seminar:

From Damascus to Drogheda, London, Oxford ... and Paris? 
James Ussher of Armagh and the Samaritan Pentateuch
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The Mícheál Ó'Cléirigh Institute
University College Dublin
6 March 2026
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
⏰ 9:00 #RSA2026 EMoDiR’s first panel this morning explores the PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY OF EVIL in the early modern period. 🔊 Speakers: Giulio Greco, Jakob Moser & Christine Jane Kooi |🪑Stefano Villani 📍 Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Tower 3, 4th floor 14:30 👋
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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Sadly, I won't be able to join the @rsaorg.bsky.social this year due to teaching commitments in Paris, but you'll find @emodir.bsky.social members around such as @stefanovil.bsky.social, @tntwining.bsky.social and more! If you are not a member yet, do not hesitate to ask questions and join us!!!
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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I’m delighted to share that my colleague Francesco Quatrini (Università di Firenze) and I (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) have been elected co-directors of @emodir.bsky.social (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) at the latest General Assembly.
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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Thrilled to chair and co-organize three EMoDiR panels at RSA San Francisco 2026 on The Devil and Dissent: from demonology and Reformation polemic to political demonization and gendered stage representations #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenTwitter #earlymodern
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...
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Seeking an Assistant Librarian - Marsh's Library
We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Librarian for Marsh’s Library in central Dublin. Location: St. Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8 Reporting to: Assistant Director, Marsh’s Library Salary: €40,000 – €45,...
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
On my way to Cambridge now! Very much looking forward to the #earlymodern @emodcam.bsky.social seminar tomorrow, especially as Cambridge has been such a hub for early modern Catholic studies!
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
📣 Appeal to all! Have a new book, CFP, fellowship, or event to share? Let us know by the end of February to feature it in our March Newsletter! ✉️ Write to: newsletter@emodir.net #EarlyModern #Newsletter
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Paul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Congratulations @janmachielsen.bsky.social on the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Counter Reformation Sanctity! Great to see this come out! #earlymodern #history #skystorians
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Check it out, we're planning a special issue of @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the 700th anniversary of the advent of the Valois dynasty! Details and timeline at the link below, but don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions 😊
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Call for Papers: The Valois (1328–1589): Governing France between Medieval and Modern
French History is an international forum for major new articles covering all aspects of the histories of France and the Francophone world, from the early M
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI... I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.
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Dr. Ann Blair - How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books
YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Out now! Open access in current issue of Renaissance Quarterly thanks to @ucdlibrary.bsky.social my thanks to everyone who helped me with this - but a special mention of the late Bríd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.
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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
You still have over a week to get your abstracts in!
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
oh! The latest issue of Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis 🥰 and what a wonderful-looking tribute it is: contributions from @vreinburg.bsky.social @anakroniks.bsky.social, Penny Roberts, Hilary Bernstein, @paulecohen.bsky.social, & many more! #NZD4Eva #EarlyModern
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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History Volume 116 Issue 1
Volume 116, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History was published in 2025.
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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Oh look! Now it has a cover
Cover of Morgan Golf-French, Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815, due out with Oxford University Press in early 2026 (I'd be really stoked if you could recommend it to your library plz)
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I'm giving a #monkabulous talk next week Friday at the Sapienza on the flying friar Joseph of Copertino. And it just occurred to me... What better place to share the details than :: hum :: BlueSky? Everyone is very welcome!
“Volare oh oh”: Giuseppe da Copertino and the Miracle of Flight
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Grateful to Felix Schlichter for scrutinising my book, in this, its first review. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Find the book itself here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... #earlymodern
First page of Felix Schlichter's review of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024).
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A fantastic opportunity to work with a very special collection! #earlymodern
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Brepols @brepols.net · 26/09/2025
𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿, 𝗺𝗮𝗶̂𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗱'𝗵𝗼̂𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝘂 𝗿𝗼𝗶 (𝟭𝟲𝟰𝟴-𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟳) 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗩 (𝟭𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟰 - 𝟯𝟭 𝗱𝗲́𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟱) Édité par Philippe Mauran Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/3Wa4EOm #History #France #EarlyModern #Historysky
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩 And more excitement to come in 2026 as well. I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today' Paris, 10-12 June 2026 Please send proposals to daniel.fulda@germanistik.uni.halle.de by the 26 October Link to the full CFP here: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ @isecs-sieds.bsky.social
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Call for Papers: Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today / Le défi des Lumières. Enjeux intellectuels et politiques - BSECS
Please see the file linked below for information on the ISECS coordinated conference Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today, to be held in Paris, 10-12 June 2026. Early...
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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
ICYMI - still some time to register! #bookhistory
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Scholars of Jansenism take note. #earlymodern
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a... #skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistory
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Autumn Seminar Series @LUCK
LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre A…
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Who was the most influential pragmatist political thinker in the opening decades of the twentieth century? In this paper, I argue that it was H. G. Wells "Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism" bit.ly/4gcheoe
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Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism - Volume 112 Issue 2
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📣Out now on #firstview! Timothy Twining (@tntwining.bsky.social) (KU Leuven) on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible' #Religion #Scholarship #Translation #Catholic #French 17thc 📙🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Richard Simon has long presented an enigma for historians, as his status as a pathbreaking textual critic and the opposition his work engendered from contemporary ecclesiastical authorities has sat uncomfortably alongside his consistent advocacy of his Catholic credentials. This article approaches this problem via an analysis of two hitherto understudied parts of his scholarly corpus. It first elucidates Simon’s distinctive plan for a new polyglot Bible in the mid-1680s before shifting attention some fifteen years to consider his work in French vernacular biblical translation, bringing out how the confessionally inflected content of his work in that field contrasted with his earlier critical scholarship. By revealing how Simon negotiated the relationship between scholarship and religion during his working life, the article foregrounds the continued import of confessionalized erudition at the turn of the eighteenth century while also interrogating the limits of its explanatory power as a historical category.
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Now out in The Historical Journal, my new article on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible'. Find it Open Access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #earlymodern #skystorians
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles! #earlymodern #Skystorians
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🎉 Congratulations to our member, Timothy Twining, on his nomination for Best Monograph for the 2025 EHS Book Prize! We look forward to hearing the results in January 2026. @tntwining.bsky.social @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social #EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles! #earlymodern #Skystorians
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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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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
📢 CfP | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on #EarlyModern Christianity 🗓️ May 19–21, 2026 | 🏛️University of Wrocław 🔍Theme: Early Modern Christian Materiality ⏰Deadline: Feb 15, 2026 🔗 More info: reforc.com/events/fifte...
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