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historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices | «Τὸ 'χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά' δοκῶ μοι εἰδέναι». https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734
As Google Books starts to sink, it's worth remembering how Google organised a separate class of employees to do the actual labour of the book scanning, and kept them in a separate building on the Google campus with none of the privileges of regular Google staff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0RT...
Assuming it's 'in forma folii' I believe it just indicates the size of the paper.
04.02.2026 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0[also, this is why building your own digital archive of secondary literature is very important!]
03.02.2026 21:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was good while it lasted.
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We often think of book censorship as denying access to texts. Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman consider cases where censorship of information was used as a way to preserve access to books, altered to hide their affiliation with Martin Luther: hmml.org/stories/series-books-sandwiching-a-forbidden-text
01.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1Since I first listened to Noel talk about Llull years ago, I've been waiting for this book to come out. Very excited it's here!
29.01.2026 23:28 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]
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Palampore (India); cotton; H x W: 289.6 x 137.2 cm (114 x 54 in.) Repeat H x W: 40.6 x 78.7 cm (16 x 31 in.); Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund; 1959-146-1; Cooper Hewitt Museum. Public Domain.
Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#MaterialCulture #History
A reminder that applications for this post close this Sunday 1 February. @ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
30.01.2026 09:53 — 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Feest in Brussel 🎊
De collectie (handschriften, boeken, prenten etc.) van de Bollandisten 📖
Het oudste wetenschappelijke genootschap van België 🇧🇪
Gesticht door jezuïeten ❤️🔥
Voor studie naar heiligenlevens 😇
Het eerste deel van de 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙖 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙪𝙢 verscheen in 1643 📚
Is erkend als UNESCO Werelderfgoed 💫
"But I am done with apple-picking now"
30.01.2026 00:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...
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Senior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in Medieval and Scholastic #Theology- Faculty of Theology and #Religion and Black Friars Hall- University of Oxford #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG876/s...
29.01.2026 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0JOB: Academic Assistant, The Polycentric Renaissance, KHI Florence
https://arthist.net/archive/51603
Early Modern World History Seminar – Lent Term 2026 Programme 🌏
29.01.2026 13:09 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3I hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.
29.01.2026 10:34 — 👍 379 🔁 160 💬 8 📌 4Muy buena noticia que comparten mis queridos amigos del @irht-cnrs.bsky.social :
A website dedicated to #GreekManuscripts in Terra d'Otranto (Southern Italy). Currently under development, but you can already find manuscript descriptions, links to images, digitized papers etc.
#manuscritosGriegos
W. H. Auden.
25.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
*Call For Papers*
“Entangled Histories in/of the Mediterranean: Ottoman and Wider Perspectives, 14th–18th Centuries” invites research on Ottoman–Mediterranean interactions, connectivity, and cross-cultural dynamics.
11-12.09.26, Lesvos, Greece
Deadline: 15.02.26
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
We are excited to host Samet Budak (Princeton) next Thursday 29 January at 5PM CET (note the unusual timeslot!).
The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
A diamond-shelled “treasurer” tortoise that dispenses money and predicts the future?
Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli explores Paolo Ramusio’s fifteenth-century visionary text on the Warburg blog.
In February, the IHR is hosting a 2 day intensive Short Writing Course for PhD Students designed for researchers in the humanities. The aim of this in-person training is to help you with your writing skills & craft with a particular emphasis on style and structure. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The birds are singing at dusk, the busy roads are now quiet, and this feels very fitting.
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IHR programme for the Europe & the World Seminar 12 January: Yahya Nurgat: The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf 9 March: Sheilagh Ogilvie: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid 23 March: Pablo Gómez: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality
Winter Programme 2025-26 for our seminar on Europe & the World @ihr.bsky.social !
Mondays, 17:30 (UK time).
Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
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Pforzheimer Lecture How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books w/Dr. Ann Blair Wednesday, January 21 at 6 p.m.
The most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week!
Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small!
Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime...
#booksky 🗃️📜📚
Will do! I'm waiting to hear about some funding I applied for, but I should know in a couple weeks!
14.01.2026 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0La semana pasada escribí la carta, y estoy ahora pidiendo las recomendaciones. Además estoy esperando a ver si me dan unos leuros para ir a Roma y Addis pero claro, está la cosa mu malamente que diría mi abuela.
14.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication.
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
📢 Call for Papers 📢
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
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