Mark Empey

A fantastic book history project!

Book Launch! Early Modern Women's Writing and the Future of Literary History: August 13 11:00 CST

Register here: tinyurl.com/DoddsandDowd

But isn’t this the best thing about book history and social networks?? My stuff on the Irish side of manuscript and book networks completely undermines age-old tropes of social, cultural and ethnic divisions in #17thc Ireland

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This #earlymodern #bookhistory conference looks amazing and hosted in the glorious @ria.ie in the heart of Dublin city

I presume this also includes those in a certain neighbouring western island whose work is overlooked because they employ a seemingly incomprehensible version of the English language. Oops, I fear I’ve said too much but it’s ok as I’m writing in the same incomprehensible style

Lovely #HerBook penmanship skills on show with artistic flourishes below. Shame about the later strike through from presumably a later owner @martinevanelk.bsky.social

The CCS' James Kelly's article 'Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800' has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social #firstview #nuntastic #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism Read here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Thinking of setting up a related business now: the complex male experience. The opportunities here are endless featuring dealing with challenging concepts like, getting up, making one’s breakfast, and EVEN how to prepare cleaning the table afterwards. That’s just stage 1 of a 5 state process

I’d be pretty confident that this is Sammuell too

Have you read Felicity Maxwell’s thesis on servants from #16thc? She’s published more recently on the subject but her thesis is still pertinent to the current historiography theses.gla.ac.uk/5257/

Make no mistake, Galway is the best place to be for summer festival fun: Film Fleadh, followed by International Arts Festival, followed by Race Week

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants' War The the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of religious houses during the German Peasants' War (1525-26).

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists.

Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk

#skystorians

Galway project using tech to study ancient manuscripts Researchers are gathering in Galway this week for a 'hackathon' exploring how technology can be used in the study of ancient manuscripts.

Researchers are gathering in Galway this week for a 'hackathon' exploring how technology can be used in the study of ancient manuscripts

A stone medieval effigy of a woman in a tall headdress

The tomb effigy of Honoria Grace (d.1596) in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny.

Honoria's elaborate headdress, the rings on her fingers, and the voluminous sleeves all show that she was a wealthy woman and a bit of a fashionista.

Or maybe a batman fan.

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It’s a fabulous place. Always better to see it after Pompeii because latter is bigger yet everything is better preserved at Herculaneum meaning you get a greater perspective of stuff that hasn’t survived Pompeii

😂😂 I think the designs were supposed to be closely aligned with St George's church (still one of my favourite buildings in the Dublin skyline) which was, of course, more spikey at the top 😳

One for @bridmcgrath.bsky.social. Would be great to have an Irish (and very different) perspective in what would likely be an Anglo-centric audience...

⏳ Just a few days left to submit your paper for the Women’s History Scotland Conference!

If you're working on women's or gender history, don’t miss this chance to share your research.

Share widely!

🗓 Deadline: 1st July
📍 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Manuscript from Mont-St-Michel rediscovered. Something for everyone in this codex!

Rather fitting that staff at one of Liverpool’s universities is going on strike today @ucu.org.uk. Perhaps some hope (excuse the pun) can be taken from the result in 1911
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1402...

The Bull of Urban VIII founding St Isidore’s Irish Franciscan College Rome. 20 Oct 1625 - the 400th anniversary is very near.

And the letter of the Franciscan Minister General to the Irish Province concerning the foundation #otd 13 June 1625.

In association with ‘Ghosts in Britain and Ireland’, explore spooky Limerick at the Hunt Museum, 25 June, from 5.30. View some supernatural objects from the Hunt and Limerick Museums and hear some short talks on the items. Free. Tickets limited: www.eventbrite.ie/e/spooky-lim...

Have some flat 7Up and you’ll be fine

IHR Tudor & Stuart seminar news: it's time for our annual call for papers! If you'd like to speak to us in the coming academic year, full details below. Get in touch with any questions or if you would like to be on our mailing list. Please RT.

And then on your return with fresh pints, spill them over the people sitting in front as you get to your seat

Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer book...

Our #prayticipate colleague Dr Anna Dlabacova (Leiden University) is running a conference on prayer books as object and practice 1300-1800 on 1-3 July 2026- details of the CFP are below! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Lord Deputy Arthur Chichester's signed copy of a manuscript of Edmund Spenser's 'View of the Present State of Ireland'. Before its print debut in 1633, Spenser's work was already influential on English thinking about Ireland. (British Library, Add Ms 22022, f 1r)