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IHR Italy 1200-1700 @ihritaly.bsky.social · 3h

We're excited to announce the first IHR Italy 1200-1700 Seminar of the year Hannah Lloyd (Yale) will be speaking on "Transformations in the Visual Role of Food in the Elite Dining of Late Medieval Italy" 5:30pm Thursday 15 October in person at the IHR in Wolfson NB01 and online

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

3 November: Laura Cesco-Frare (University of Milan), 'Forms and Degrees of Divination: Girolamo Cardano on Predictive Disciplines'

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

13 October: James Poskett (University of Warwick), 'Worlds Reborn: Science and the Global Renaissance, 800–1500'

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We kick off tomorrow 6 October with George Woudhuysen (University of Nottingham), 'Hunting for Manuscripts and Reading Symmachus in Sixteenth-Century Europe'.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Warwick STVDIO series is back this term with papers on manuscript hunting, global science and divination in the Renaissance! Talks start at 5pm UK time. More details of what’s on and how to join us in the link and below 👇🏼 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren... #medievalsky #EarlyModern #BookHistory

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Studio; Stvdio; Renaissance; research; seminars

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✨ How about a trip to Zurich next year? Join us at #REFORC2027, where scholars from around the world come together to explore themes of identity, alterity, and much more within the context of Early Modern Christianity. 📢 Registration and short paper submissions are open! tinyurl.com/3x7zdyra

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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨CFP, #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture Workshop! Early-career scholars, don't forget to apply to present your work on Early Modern Material Culture in Bern (19-20 Nov 2026)! Deadline: 2 Oct 2026 👇

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funded PhD Opportunity!

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Alberto J. Campillo Pardo @albertocampillo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm delighted to prresent "Privilege and Power Printing Privileges and the Regulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" from the @be4copy.bsky.social project and edited by Marius Buning, @andreaottone.bsky.social and me. #Printingprivileges #Bookhistory #OpenAccess www.scup.com/doi/book/10....

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Privilege and Power | Books

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ali and I have been working on this essay cluster on antiquarianism and literary history-- with wonderful contributions from @bkadams.bsky.social, David Landreth, @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social, and Jane Raisch-- for a really REALLY long time, and it is finally out! read.dukeupress.edu/modern-langu...

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Criticism, Antiquarianism, and Literary History

If a literary historian knows one piece of antiquarian writing from early modern England, it is likely Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, Thomas Browne’s fascinating and fascinated 1658 catalog of ancient fu...

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Nicholas Scott Baker @renhistorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is a boardgame (nearing production) about the Italian Wars developed around some of Machiavelli's ideas and language about rulership (eg. sentiment runs from Hated to Feared). Just pre-ordered my copy. This is not a drill! www.gmtgames.com/p-1229-foxes...

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Foxes and Lions: Renaissance City-States in the Age of Machiavelli

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Talk, coming up 24 Sep 2026 - Moveable Type and the Early Modern Imaginary Image reproduction and the Early Modern mental universe Lecturer: Stephanie Leitch Sponsor: American Academy in Berlin www.americanacademy.de/program/move...

This printed image is a German colored woodcut, artist unknown, from c. 1505. It depicts in the foreground dark skilled people - men, women and children - standing on land wearing skirts and feathered headdresses, and in the background a body of water on which ships are visible.

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Looking forward to speaking about mantises, tricksters, and misunderstandings across the 18th-century Cape of Good Hope's colonial frontier at the Global Intellectual History Seminar at All Souls @ox.ac.uk (I should note that the flyer has promoted me to a higher position)

flyer for the Global Intellectual History Seminar at Oxford. There are 7 events, and a QR code on the bottom left for further information and registration. On the bottom right there is the coat of arms of All Souls College, University of Oxford

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bore Sul (Sunday morning), 1950, painting by John Elwyn, Welsh artist, 1916-97 (National Museum Cardiff).

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm also enjoying the fact that Niccolò Perotti had to write a letter to Poggio apologising for sending an assassin to kill him. These Italian humanists HATED each other.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Apparently George of Trebizond accused Poggio Bracciolini of sending assassins to kill him in 1453. Poggio wrote back saying 'I never thought about you'. Ouch! #skystorians #Medievalsky #EarlyModern

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

One of the rarest things in the profession - an intellectual history job at a US university that is not attached to a right wing civic center!

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New in the Proceedings of the British Academy, 'The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures' explores the role of innovative, network-based research methodologies in humanities research as applied to late medieval court studies bit.ly/3ULr4bo

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#CfA 📢 *Founders’ Prize*, Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Supporting early-career scholars publishing their first book in early modern studies (1450–1750). ⏰ 15 September 2026 🔗 sixteenthcentury.org/prize/founde... #EarlyCareer #EarlyModern #FirstBook #BookPublication

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Reformation and Participation

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@nicolemaceira.bsky.social and I are delighted to share the final programme for our online colloquium “Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World” - 30th September* (forgive my date error on previous now deleted post 🤦🏼‍♂️) Register Below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen...

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Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World, 1500-1800

Online colloquium

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I confess i haven't read this latest book so will reserve judgement. I thought the Book at War was pretty good. I suspect running USTC means you are just awash in data! When I spoke to him several years ago he wanted to push people to keep history in the national conversation/bookshops.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Even crazier when more and more scientific evidence suggests the clean air zones are helping to limit damage to children’s lungs from car pollution. Cleverly’s position basically equates to poisoning kids 👇🏼 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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London’s clean air zone benefits child health

Children’s lung function growth has accelerated since the introduction of London’s ultra-low-emission zone, which addresses a critical evidence gap and supports wider adoption of this approach.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A great looking conference for #EarlyModern peeps!

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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨CFA PhD: #EarlyModern Grad students, come and join our amazing History Department at Bern!!! What a wonderful opportunity to pursue your own project in early modern history! 👇

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There are innumerable issues with Pinker (e.g. his association with Epstein), but I want to highlight how all the experts on history of violence wrote a special issue in Historical Reflections specifically because Pinker was perpetuating numerous falsehoods www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

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How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Very fortunate for Newton that he floated entirely above politics and society so that he could do all that thinking

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Excited for people to learn about the social history of knowledge any day now

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The library at St Gall was just as amazing as promised with awesome mss and bindings on display. The church is an absolute wedding cake monstrosity. I feel like I need to scrub my eyeballs after seeing all that bling #skystorians #MedievalSky #reformazing

Abbey library of St Gall with wooden bookcases and elaborate painted ceiling

Abbey church of St Gall with painted ceiling

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ERC PARISH @erc-parish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We're recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for our ERC #ERCCoG project PARISH to study #earlymodern parish communities, confraternities and poor relief in the Archdiocese of Vienna & the Viennese Officialate of Passau. Please share with your colleagues! www.abtk.hu/images/allas...

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think he would have chuckled at one of the museum cases which displayed fragments from his ‘alleged’ coffin. Apparently the whereabouts of his body is also subject to debate after various exhumations so he continues to have the last laugh with relic hunters

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Seriously, please watch this. And make your non-academic friends and family and neighbours watch it. Only 45 minutes, free, and SO revealing about the people making money off squandering what is a public good.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Finally went on a little pilgrimage to Basel to see all the Erasmus sites, including his tomb and the beautifully carved cabinet commissioned after his death to preserve his collection of coins and plate. I found his little knife kind of charming for some reason! #EarlyModern #skystorians

Tomb of Erasmus of Rotterdam in Basel Cathedral

Side panel of wooden chest with medallion portrait of Erasmus

Museum cabinet displaying Erasmus’s small knife and a box with gilt lettering

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John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I never thought that I would have to write this piece about my university. But after weeks of demonstrating privately to senior managers that their case is based on a false prospectus, that their data are inaccurate and their claims misleading, there was little choice. substack.com/@lucasamin/n...

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Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

not sure how anyone can stay on an app thats fighting in court for the right to generate non consensual nudes of people, including children

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I suspected this is what has been happening with our backlist recently, seems I was right. We’ve sold an unusually high number of very old titles in the past few months, including old journal back issues with poor metadata www.news.com.au/technology/o...

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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Looks like there is a John Raxter in the diocese of Worcester in 1597 too: theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/...

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CCED: Person Display

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I think the bottom line of 1 reads: ‘Woss: 1597’ which presumably refers to the ‘Wosseter’ of 6. PS this looks like an amazing source for sermons!

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