Emma Smith

If you're someone planning to teach Middle English next year please consider my book, which might be helpful for your students!

Hear, hear

@profcarolyne.bsky.social this is selling v well in Edinburgh, apparently.

Home "A Night-time Gathering" Muhammad Zaman (1664-1665)

So looking forward to speaking at @memorients.bsky.social first conference taking place in Cape Town this December. And what an excellent programme! 🔥
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The Deborah Harkness books? Unless I’ve completely misunderstood this genre, which is quite possible

She lives on!

Jul 25, 1603: King James VI of Scotland is crowned as King James I of England. #OTD
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Dear blue sky friends this is a v long shot, but please repost :
my mother-in-law has lost a small purse containing her hearing aids in Chalons en Champagne. Probably dropped in the road last night. Small, beige purse. Tiny but pricey h aids — making huge difference to her quality of life.

I love this!

Doesn’t it look glorious!

We have a Christmas tradition of drinking warmed redcurrant shrub - cook the berries in season with some orange peel. Strain, add a bottle of brandy , a bit of sugar snd some grated nutmeg. Leave it until the holidays.

Thank you, CN.

Not being cute - genuinely learnt about binding from historical actresses playing Hamlet, because I was a theatre kid in the 90s.

Trans kids exist, even when you don't give them the safety, words, or tools to know themselves.

Shakespeare encouraged me to question my gender.

Ditto Nashe!

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All three books of the series (so far) are available in paperback and on Kindle here, if you fancy them:

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Highly recommended. I just read the 3rd one first so now following up with 1 and 2. Thanks, Adam.

In other words: this is a regular occurrence, and you/we should all be more careful about written matter which is presented as true. I save time on this front, by reading Fiction. I don't expect to be redeemed or uplifted or anything, I just like a good sentence.

Hello Bluesky, in September I'll be out of contract and would be grateful to hear of any potential teaching (early modern lit) or research (with archives, rare books, humanities data) work. I'm based in SW England. Thank you!

Happy birthday to the novelist Elizabeth Taylor (1912-75) & a plea to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social to get around pls to republishing Palladian (1946): it's SO good, so cool & detached, as Taylor reworks Brontëan passion and the Brontëan "governess-in-mysterious-country-manor" narrative. I'd teach it!

Absolutely loved this. Enjoy!

The ‘then and now’ part of our title asserts the long lives of books, the fact that these objects index shifting ideas about knowledge, power and authoritative or non-conformist reading, a history in which our readings and encounters continue to play a part. The production processes foregrounded in this special issue of JEMS span from the initial printing of early modern texts to their reprinting, circulation and archiving in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century institutions; the articles that follow account not only for texts’ first editions but for their longue durée both analogue and digital. The politics of book history are continuously being remade just as our objects of study are reshaped by the catalogues and critical essays that frame them. The aim of The Politics of Book History: Then and Now is to account for the longer timelines of books’ politics, broadly conceived: to acknowledge both the structures (of patronage, of paid labour, of enslavement) in which books were written, printed, edited, and sold and the intellectual and material frameworks in which these books are read and written about today.

Here's a bit from our intro that explains the title of the special issue:

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

8 men sitting in a room, in the back is a library. The drawing is from a Latin manuscript from Reginbald Moehner "Epitomae rerum Suevicorum" that is nowadays in the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (2° Cod. 371). The image is from page 13r and maybe shows the Nuremberg Humanist Willibald Pirckheimer.

a detail of the drawing: the small library.

Here is a cool drawing from an early seventeenth-century manuscript showing 8 guys (with great hats and wild beards) discussing.

Also there is a typical #earlymodern private library in the back, #bookhistory nerds! A few bound books, some with clasps, stored in many ways, including #backwardsbooks

A flyer that describes the content of my book, The Will in English Renaissance Drama.

Happy to share the flyer for my book 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', which is out this August with @universitypress.cambridge.org.

Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance

Thank you!

Is there anything we can do for the future, do you think? Bluesky is all nice and virtue signalling (mine!), but is there actually a way to effect change?

And she is an ex premier, which is a pretty small group!

Honorary degree recipients for 2025 announced | University of Oxford Nine people will receive honorary degrees from Oxford University this year.

Congrats to all getting honorary degrees … but …. Is it just me or does it look as if the bar is higher for women? www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

Not Just the Tudors <p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definite...

Thanks to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social for having me on the Not Just The Tudors podcast on Shakespeare’s Women: podfollow.com/not-just-the...