Philippa Carter

"It’s not your job to be resilient, it’s your employer’s job to provide you with decent working conditions. The purpose of your hobbies and your free time is your enjoyment and fulfilment, not recuperation from work stress."

A paper astrolabe attached to the page of a bound book. The instrument is coloured with yellow green and red washes over the rete and limb; the lettering and symbols are handwritten. The instrument is supported on the page by two Atlas-Hercules figures: bearded, with leaf-crowns in their hair, and furry animal skin for clothes.

I know Sebastian Muenster's Kollegienbuch (1514-1515) has been studied by historians of cartography and geography. Does anyone know if it has been studied by historians of astronomy, instruments, and practical mathematics? Because... (a picture thread).

We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts!

#earlymodern #history

beeees

Ah yes, all the classic signs of love... the full-body twist away, the did-I-just-smell-a-rat face...

Screenshot of article by Ian Atherton in The Seventeenth Century, entitled '‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: early modern English parish registers and the memories of local communities' Abstract: English parish registers listing baptisms, marriages, and burials are commonly source mined for curiosities, but are rarely examined holistically. Building on recent work that has seen sixteenth-century registers as records of memory, this article analyses registers across the long seventeenth century (c.1580–1720) to show how the memories they contained – of individuals, communities, and the nation – were produced and understood. Registers were often local chronicles showing the continued vibrancy of the chronicling tradition. Where, however, scholars have argued that communal memories were designed to create a ‘usable past’ focussed on preserving economic rights, this article argues that such a past needs to be seen much more expansively. Parish registers existed in multiple schedules of time and hence a register as chronicle was a means not merely of fixing memories in calendrical time, but of making sense of the place of individuals and communities in the divine order of creation.

'a parish register is to be understood not narrowly as a list of vital events, but expansively as a record of parish memories'

Ian Atherton has a new #OpenAccess article on #EarlyModern parish registers, attending to their archival and social context. #WrittenWorlds 🗃️
doi.org/10.1080/0268...

The bitter irony

I had this exact same moment yesterday. Did they fail to consult educators before rolling this out, or did a panel of educators give its blessing... don't answer that, I don't want to know, lalala

Nooo how did I miss this?! Drat! Hope you can get some proper rest over Easter!

Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.

Teaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series!

CEMS will be hosting three online sessions on teaching practices and strategies. We'll have three sessions through the spring: 23rd April, 29th May, and 19th June. Full details below!

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...

@kingsartshums.bsky.social

ooh! I'm sold!

And this beaut! Admittedly it hasn't hit the shelves yet, but soon... soon...

Excuse me while I get all excited about books that have appeared in my absence... but I remember when this book was but a twinkle in its author's eye! Congrats Kristof!! Can't wait to read it! @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social

fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my
@leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!

Call For respondents: Exploring the history of accessibility at the University of Cambridge If you - studied at Cambridge From 1970-2000 - considered yourself a disabled person/person with disabilities Then you are qualified to participate in our study! Email fm607@cam.ac.uk for more information!

Please share this call for respondents! I am researching the history of disability at Cambridge, looking at how the uni did/did not adapt for disabled students.

This coming Monday at 11am I'll be giving a talk at KCL's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, entitled 'Unshared perceptions: a historical perspective'. All welcome! @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #histmed #histpsy

I didn't realise how much I'd missed this little corner of the internet! Thank you for rebuilding it #SkyStorians

'Enjoyed all the milk and mould': the best review ever. Thank you Xinyi!

Enjoyed all the milk and mould in this article (as well as the nod of the ‘doctrine of signatures’)

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🗃️ #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistMed

Ohh this is too kind! Thank you Liesbeth. Late to the party as ever, but very happy to be here!