Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Gissing, New Grub Street or Tressell’s Ragged Trousered Philanthropists show other slices of life. 130
Reposted by Timothy TwiningBSECS @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 157
Reposted by Timothy TwiningBen 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 🗃️📜newwineoldvessels.substack.comLosing a Teacher— Professor Nancy SiraisiTwo days after the Rome Prize ceremony one of my most cherished teachers and mentors died. 1148
Reposted by Timothy TwiningEMoDiR @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 1109
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 01/05/2026It's John Selden: www.npg.org.uk/collections/... 020
Reposted by Timothy TwiningEMoDiR @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... #HistoryOfKnowledgeucl.ac.ukCall for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident BodiesLanguage, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026. 069
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Wherein 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 060
Reposted by Timothy TwiningTamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Long in the making….here’s my new article about second-hand books and the Bodleian www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukThe Bodleian Daybook and the Purchase of Second-Hand Books | The LibraryOxford, 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 ... 1338
Reposted by Timothy TwiningTim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Great 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/...history.ac.ukFamily Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of HistoryBritish History in the Long 18th Century Seminar 11710
Reposted by Timothy TwiningRens 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...historyofhumanities.orgCall for Bids for The Making of the Humanities conference 2028 – Society for the History of the Humanities 053
Reposted by Timothy TwiningEMoDiR @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 0122
Reposted by Timothy TwiningHistory of Catholicism @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social · 13/03/2026We 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 #Catholicismdurham.ac.ukThe fifth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism conference - EMBIC V - Durham University 0109
Reposted by Timothy TwiningKristof Selleslach @kristofselle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Ever 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 03123
Reposted by Timothy TwiningNatasha 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#... 083
Reposted by Timothy TwiningLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Does anyone have a pdf of Heller's The Mother's Legacy in #EarlyModern England? #CanIHazPdf #HistGender #SkyStorians www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...taylorfrancis.comThe Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England | Jennifer Heller | TaylorUsing 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 005
Reposted by Timothy TwiningChristine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Reposting 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 11618
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Looking 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 121
Reposted by Timothy TwiningEMoDiR @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 👋 032
Reposted by Timothy TwiningMartina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Sadly, 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!!! 132
Reposted by Timothy TwiningMartina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I’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. 2161
Reposted by Timothy TwiningStefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Thrilled 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 0164
Reposted by Timothy TwiningMarsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 13/02/2026We 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...marshlibrary.ieSeeking an Assistant Librarian - Marsh's LibraryWe 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,... 15444
Reposted by Timothy TwiningJan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026On 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! 1152
Reposted by Timothy TwiningEMoDiR @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 033
Reposted by Timothy TwiningPaul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Congratulations @janmachielsen.bsky.social on the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Counter Reformation Sanctity! Great to see this come out! #earlymodern #history #skystorians 35811
Reposted by Timothy TwiningDr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Check 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 😊academic.oup.comCall for Papers: The Valois (1328–1589): Governing France between Medieval and ModernFrench 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 04329
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I’d recommend Anna Nilsson Hammar’s Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community (2025). 110
Reposted by Timothy TwiningDuncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...cambridge.orgPolitical Economy from Pufendorf to Marx | Cambridge University Press & Assessment 14718
Reposted by Timothy TwiningAaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026If 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.youtube.comDr. Ann Blair - How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of BooksYouTube video by Harry Ransom Center 211656
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Might be a long shot, but could potentially be Niccolò del Benino, discussed in Andrea Miroglio "Niccolò del Benino. L'avventura di un mercante-imprenditore fiorentino in America" and, more briefly, here: historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/5... 120
Reposted by Timothy TwiningDanielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Out 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. 84917
Reposted by Timothy TwiningCambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 27/12/2025You still have over a week to get your abstracts in! 095
Reposted by Timothy TwiningLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 20/12/2025oh! 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 #EarlyModerndegruyterbrill.comArchiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History Volume 116 Issue 1Volume 116, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History was published in 2025. 13515
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Dominica Rogationum? I.e. fifth sunday after Easter? 130
Reposted by Timothy TwiningMorgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Oh look! Now it has a cover 2245
Reposted by Timothy TwiningJan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I'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! 1203
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Grateful 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 041
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 13/10/2025A fantastic opportunity to work with a very special collection! #earlymodern 030
Reposted by Timothy TwiningBrepols @brepols.net · 26/09/2025𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 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 031
Reposted by Timothy TwiningLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 27/09/2025WOULD 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 0287
Reposted by Timothy TwiningBSECS @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.socialbsecs.org.ukCall for Papers: Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today / Le défi des Lumières. Enjeux intellectuels et politiques - BSECSPlease 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... 02521
Reposted by Timothy TwiningNatasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 23/09/2025ICYMI - still some time to register! #bookhistory 093
Reposted by Timothy TwiningJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I'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...cambridge.orgHistorical Journal Call for Special IssuesWelcome to Cambridge Core 07673
Reposted by Timothy TwiningChristine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Scholars of Jansenism take note. #earlymodern 032
Reposted by Timothy TwiningDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a... #skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistorynewhistoryofknowledge.comAutumn Seminar Series @LUCKLUCK’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… 0118
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Thank you--that's kind of you to say. It's always v welcome to learn a book's finding its readers! 000
Reposted by Timothy TwiningTimothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 13/09/2025What 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 14813
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 13/09/2025What 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 14813