Caitlín Rankin-McCabe

Thank you, Jo!

@racheljwillie.bsky.social I am hoping you might know of the other one?

Thank you! @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social and @neilayounger.bsky.social!

I have a question for the Bluesky hive-mind: does anyone know which two 'Alchemical' books this inventory is referring to? #earlymodern #palaeography

You're Dead to Me - Leonardo da Vinci (Live) - BBC Sounds Comedian Dara Ó Briain joins Greg Jenner to learn about Leonardo da Vinci.

This reminds me of the Leonardo da Vinci YDTM podcast www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

CSMBR Online Lecture Series

𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄
𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 (𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞) 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥
𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Shahrzad Irannejad

To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../between-...

#CSMBR #IslamicMedicine #Brainanatomy #Ventricles

Reminder
𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐎 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇
Deadline: 𝟑𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
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#CSMBR #SantorioAward #Grants #FundingOpportunities

YouTube video by UKRI Stories Nature’s fix to microplastics l Future Makers Ep 2

🚨 Premiere alert! Episode 2 of our series Future Makers is out now.

We’re showing how research and innovation are really improving people’s lives.

This episode explores how innovators are tackling microplastics in everyday products like paint and skincare: youtu.be/5MSU239d5QM?...

Looking forward to listening to this at 5pm today! Here's the link if anyone fancies joining late: www.rsa.org/news/716279/... 🗺️ 🧭

Senior Research Officer at University of Essex An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Officer is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Saturnalia Natalie Haynes celebrates Saturnalia with guests André Vincent and Llewelyn Morgan.

IO SATURNALIA! It’s time to celebrate this Roman winter festival. Here’s our special episode all about it 🥂🎩

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Excited to be contributing an essay on Byron and Shelley, human potentiality, and the politics of the ocean to this edited collection! 📖🌊

Conference Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture An international and interdisciplinary conference July 1-3, 2026 University of Hull This conference explores the prevalence, fun…

“Many hands make light work” – and many papers make a great conference.
CFP now open for Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Hull, 1–3 July 2026.
Abstracts due 30 Jan → proverbs@hull.ac.uk
More info: earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...

Pandora’s Jar, now in simplified Chinese! I love seeing my books travel the world.

This edition published by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press 📘

The Devil’s Trill: Tartini and Paganini in a Disenchanted World Hag-ridden dreams, pacts with the devil, demonically-inspired music, diabolical skill, rumours of murder – the world of witches, magicians and demons still fascinated artists and writers after the end...

There is still time to register for our free lecture this evening on The Devil’s Trill www.history.org.uk/events/calen...

A photo of a partially uncovered skeleton, showing the skull, neck and part of the shoulder. The skeleton is lying on its side, and in its eye socket is a large, round prosthetic.

This prosthetic eye made from a mixture of natural tar and animal fat is nearly 5,000 years old. It was found near the city of Zabol in Iran in 2006. Archaeologists believe that the prosthetic eye, which was once painted gold, was worn by an ancient priestess who stood 6’ tall.

Haha - yes! And the 'Schalg' in the pomander!

YouTube video by V&A Up Next Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel Get 💘 Bromantic💘 Over Shakespeare Treasures ⚔️ Unexpected Item

Loved this little exploration put on by the V&A - especially Bluemel's dagger message translated as: 'don't have a drag of the vape, you will regret it'. 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-t7...

Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-13 In his article ‘Milton’s “Genial Angel”’, Russell M Hillier argues persuasively that the ‘genial Angel’ whom Milton’s epic narrator briefly mentions in Par

Interesting note on Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-13 url: academic.oup.com/nq/article-a...
Thanks David Urban!👼

Leathercoat Russet apple is mentioned in 1598 by Shakespeare in his play Henry IV when Davy tells Bardolph in Shallow’s Orchard that “There’s a dish of leather-coats for you” #HeritageOrchard #heirloomFruit

Now @rankinmccabe.bsky.social on the heretical cartography of Marlowe's Tamburlaine. I love the mappae mundi, so this one is great fun.

🎤 Looking forward to an early start this Saturday at Perth's Tyrants and Dictators online conference. Here's the link if anyone fancies joining: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
I'll be chatting about Marlowe's Tamburlaine 🍴👑🍴

Abraham Ortelius's 1590 map of Iceland surrounded by sea monsters

Workshops: Early Modern Maps #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

Just two weeks until Voices of Thunder is published! If you’re interested in hearing the stories of a dozen radical seventeenth-century women, it can be pre-ordered now ⚡️#earlymodern #womenshistory

The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

The horned helmet of Henry VIII, part of a full suit of armour made by Konrad Seusenhofer between 1511 and 1514. The armour was a gift from the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. The helmet includes a face piece with protruding eyes, a toothy grimace and a stubbly chin with ram's horns rivetted to its upper part.

Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...

Liverpool University Press Launches LUP Open Languages: A New Subscribe to Open Initiative Liverpool University Press (LUP) is pleased to announce the launch of LUP Open Languages, a new Subscribe to Open (S2O) initiative designed to make high-quality research in languages, literatures a…

🎉 We’re proud to have launched LUP Open Languages
A #SubscribetoOpen initiative aiming to make research in languages, literatures & cultures #OpenAccess. Thanks to partners & editors for their support.
Find out more ⬇️
#S2O @frenchstudies.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

Bog Fashion by Nicole DeRushie.

Oh my, I think this is the most beautiful book I have bought for a long time.
Just come out , #BogFashion by Nicole DeRushie.
#IronAge #BronzeAge

YouTube video by Elias M. W. I wrote a theme for Brave New World

Enjoying Elias M. W.'s newest theme - for Brave New World www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-R5...

Slowly making the move over to Bluesky and it has been lovely to see so many names and profile pictures from the twittering olden days! Here's a sunny Melbourne morning at Trinity College for those of you waking up to spring in the northern hemisphere: