Brett Rushforth

The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic

NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes

doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Wait, why isn't the post you were quoting showing up? This makes no sense now! (Open the pod bay doors, HAL.)

Claude already knows...

Were you tweeting about this, you'd be doing it in a sub way.

a person wearing a costume with a basket completely obscuring their face under a large light gray hooded bathrobe. if you zoom in there are weird fragments of Flemish on the hem of the robe. the person is holding a weird object and wearing a conference name tag. the background is one of those anonymous conference rooms but the subterranean style lighting enhances the creepiness of the costume

the drawing of Bruegel's Beekeepers that is the basis for the costume. doughy looking humans in robes with faces blocked by basketlike masks interact with basketlike beehives. someone shady is climbing a tree and there's a cut off Dutch proverb in the lower left

upper half of the same person in a costume where it is clearer that the object they are carrying is a beehive, and somewhat artificial bees are crawling all over the hive and over the basket face mask of the person, who would be in three quarter view but it's too creepy to really call it that

how I navigated my simultaneous commitment to the sixteenth century (society conference) and Halloween: I submit these images

in which I experience alienation from humanity and identification with the materials of my labor

(photos of me by Raz Chen-Morris and Stephanie Leitch)

Brilliant! I was in an elevator with you today and was both amazed and uneasy. Well done!

A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.

"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...

A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.

"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...

The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.

Share widely!

We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!

The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!

frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Congratulations, Holly!!

That's amazing!

Nice!

You're not wrong! But her dog doodle is epic.

Ros Smith has an article coming out in the HLQ in a few weeks that discusses a similar example: Rosalind Smith, "Errant Marks: Misreading, Marginalia, and Early Modern Women's Book Use."

Isabel Robinson, "'The Anagrammatic Method': Titus Oates and Satiric Wordplay in Post-Restoration England." muse.jhu.edu/article/970060
#earlymodern #PopishPlot #skystorians

John Saillant, "Fictions of Freedom: An English Antislavery Novel and the Art of Jean-Étienne Liotard, 'Le Peintre Turc.'" muse.jhu.edu/article/970059
#skystorians #abolition #arthistory

Loved this book - congrats to Jack (and @yalepress.bsky.social)!

Ha, what's funny is that she's exactly who I had in mind when making the guess. Paul, I don't think she's on here so tell her hello! As for feline Bertie, how could he possibly compare?

Great opportunity to get supportive feedback!
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chatte GPT

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

"A major shift in how we understand colonial growth in the early Caribbean, colonial-Indigenous relations, the origins of slavery in the Caribbean and North America, and the connections between piracy, privateering, and colonization." Greg O'Malley nails it. Congrats @csschmitt.bsky.social!

A collection of eight historical images from nineteenth-century Britain illustrating a collection of essays titled "Paintings, Peepshows, and Porcupines: Exhibitions in London, 1763-1851"

Haha, on it! The previous issue was a bunch of art historians, so their images were fun to play with (great essays, too).

Well thanks, my friend. It turns out--as with everything else at the journal right now--that's me. It's amazing what a few tutorials on Adobe Express can do!

Thanks, Molly!

New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians

Morteza Lak, “Print Culture and the Composition of a Visual Anthology: The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare (1783-1787)"
muse.jhu.edu/article/970063
#shakespeare #bookhist #printculture

And who hasn't lamented (and celebrated) the indeterminacy of the shit-ton?