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Mario Graña Taborelli

@mgrana.bsky.social

PhD. Fellow. Centre for Empire Studies. Universitat Munster. Germany. He/Him Political and legal cultures. Frontiers. Globality, locality, and their tensions. Early Modern Iberian Worlds. Husband to @andrewgrana.bsky.social

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Looks really fun, but sadly, it's only for the duration of the project...

27.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

This is just amazing! Love it!

26.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

26.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 707    🔁 208    💬 32    📌 32
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We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️

The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May.

Please circulate widely!

23.02.2026 10:14 — 👍 9    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 5

A great loss. Have very fond memories of my time as a post doc in IAS.

23.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost?

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

#earlymodern #Tudors

23.02.2026 10:43 — 👍 137    🔁 30    💬 10    📌 3

For excellent history podcasts try

“The Medieval Podcast“ by @5minmedievalist.bsky.social -Danièle Cybulskie

“Gone Medieval” by @goingmedieval.bsky.social -Eleanor Janega

“Betwixt the Sheets” by @k8lister.bsky.social -Kate Lister

BBC Radio 4’s “In Our Time”

The @historyextra.bsky.social podcast

21.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 3

Since AI collects and classifies the data, it will start assuming that my area of interest is diplomatic history, when it is much wider than that... this is just a small example of the issues surrounding the use of AI...

22.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Have just noticed that Google is offering an inaccurate AI summary of my first monograph. I never referred to the expeditions that I cover as diplomatic. Neither did I use the term Statist to define the late 16th century Catholic Monarchy. Assumption and oversimplification do not work.

22.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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📢 Open Call: Thijssen-Schoute Fellowship 2027
Are you an early career reseracher working on the history of science, art & ideas, with a focus on the 17th century & the Dutch Republic?
Apply before 15 May '26
🔗 tinyurl.com/ydfeujjc
@mariekehendriksen.bsky.social @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social

19.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) is now published @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

08.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 90    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 2

This podcast developed from a five-part series of articles recently published in the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.

1. 'Locating Geological Agency in a ‘Small’ Early Modern Anthropocene' by @ellydezateux.bsky.social

20.02.2026 08:22 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

François Soyer, "Imperfect Sodomy: The Lisbon Inquisition and the Repression of Heterosexual Anal Intercourse in Portugal, 1580–1800." Journal of the History of Sexuality 35, no. 1 (2026), pp. 1-27. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

20.02.2026 00:30 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 3
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A volume of essays I edited some years ago on news in #earlymodern Europe is now available open access 📖
Featuring chapters by @lenaliapi.bsky.social, @emmawhipday.bsky.social, among others!
brill.com/edcollbook-o...

13.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 51    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 3
Front cover of Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England by Elly Robson Dezateux.

Front cover of Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England by Elly Robson Dezateux.

Blurb of Violent Waters:
How were environments and politics remade by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during wetland improvement projects in early modern England? Violent Waters examines flagship ventures which promised to transform unruly fenland fringes into orderly terrain at the heart of national power and productivity. In practice, these projects sparked constitutional controversy, new floods, and huge riots. The first state-led project in Hatfield Level brought local, national, and transnational interests into contact and conflict for almost a century. Elly Robson Dezateux traces the environmental politics that emerged as water and land were constructed and contested, both mentally and materially. These disputes pivoted on urgent questions about risk and justice, which became entangled in civil war conflict and exposed the limits of central authority and technology. Ultimately, improvement was destabilised by a lack of legitimacy and the dynamism of local custom as a method of environmental management and collective action. Wetland communities, as much as improvers and sovereigns, remade the terrain of politics and the future of the fens.

Blurb of Violent Waters: How were environments and politics remade by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during wetland improvement projects in early modern England? Violent Waters examines flagship ventures which promised to transform unruly fenland fringes into orderly terrain at the heart of national power and productivity. In practice, these projects sparked constitutional controversy, new floods, and huge riots. The first state-led project in Hatfield Level brought local, national, and transnational interests into contact and conflict for almost a century. Elly Robson Dezateux traces the environmental politics that emerged as water and land were constructed and contested, both mentally and materially. These disputes pivoted on urgent questions about risk and justice, which became entangled in civil war conflict and exposed the limits of central authority and technology. Ultimately, improvement was destabilised by a lack of legitimacy and the dynamism of local custom as a method of environmental management and collective action. Wetland communities, as much as improvers and sovereigns, remade the terrain of politics and the future of the fens.

Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England is out now with Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

This watery, riotous book has been more than a decade in the making, and I'm delighted to see it out in the world to live its own life!

12.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 52    🔁 25    💬 6    📌 4
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'Working with Early Modern Letters' has arrived! ✍ 💻

Our newest online short course is an introduction to early modern letters and a guide to their use as historical sources, designed to be taken at your own pace.

Join us and book your place for just £100:
imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...

12.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Deadline: 28 Feb

The Society is now running its annual #bookprize, primarily aimed at early career researchers.

The prize will be awarded for the best first monograph on the history of Christianity published during the previous calendar year.

ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/2026-book-pr... #ECR

12.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗

03.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 132    🔁 83    💬 9    📌 6
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Felices de compartir esta convocatoria. Happy for sharing this call for a fellowship!

06.02.2026 17:49 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Four footprints, two languages, one tile hn. sattiieis. detfri segnatted. plavtad herennis. amica signauit. qando. a- ponebamus. tegila(m)   Detfri of Hn. Sattis signed with a footprint. Amica of Herens signed when we were laying out…

Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...

05.02.2026 02:52 — 👍 39    🔁 19    💬 4    📌 0
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Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives

Booking is now open for my @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social talk on 16 February, examining Elizabethan Law and Litigation in light of the new catalogue descriptions available on The National Archives online catalogue. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

14.01.2026 12:56 — 👍 23    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2
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Apply now for Bucerius History Scholarship at the Central European University in Vienna    Are you passionate about history, interested in pursuing a Master’s degree, and speak fluent English? Then… |... Apply now for Bucerius History Scholarship at the Central European University in Vienna    Are you passionate about history, interested in pursuing a Master’s degree, and speak fluent English? Then se...

The Gerd Bucerius Scholarship, funded by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS in partnership with CEU, supports outstanding MA students in Historical Studies.

The scholarship includes:
1️⃣ 100% tuition waiver
2️⃣ monthly stipend
3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000

www.linkedin.com/posts/zeit-s...

29.01.2026 08:20 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online “Cartography was not born full-fledged as a science or even an art,” wrote map historian Lloyd Brown in 1949. “It evolved slowly and painfully from obscure origins.” Many ancient maps made no attempt ...

The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online

26.01.2026 20:17 — 👍 44    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0
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📌Rappel 📍Séminaire #GRHEN : grhen.ehess.fr/%F0%9F%93%8D 2025-2026 : "Pratiques environnementales des sociétés médiévales et modernes" Mickaël Wilmart et Raphaël Morera
▶️ enseignements.ehess.fr/2025-2026/ue...
@ehess.fr .@cnrsshs.bsky.social @crh.ehess.fr

26.01.2026 20:47 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610) In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Alan Durston's "Teaching Spanish in the Universal Monarchy" examines Pinpin's Grammar for Tagalogs as "an opportunity to broaden understandings of early modern colonial translation & linguistic description by stressing the creations of native collaborators"
doi.org/10.1111/hith...

22.01.2026 20:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The University of Vienna
@univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

20.01.2026 14:28 — 👍 33    🔁 26    💬 0    📌 1

Gracias!

20.01.2026 12:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fronteras conectadas y espacios comparados: el linaje de los Rodas y la construcción del poder político en el noroeste del Nuevo Reino de Granada y el sudeste de Charcas durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVI | Revista de Indias Aguilar Rodas, Raúl. 2007. Gaspar de Rodas, c. 1520-1607: gran gobernador de Antioquia: inicios de la construcción social de Antioquia. Medellín: Panibérica.

Es un honor para mi anunciar la publicación de mi primer colaboración académica con un colega muy querido, el Prof y Dr Juan David Montoya Guzmán. Por muchas más colaboraciones con colegas! revistadeindias.revistas.csic.es/index.php/re... este es un trabajo de historia comparativa de fronteras.

20.01.2026 09:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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TALLER SEMINARIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN HISTORIA MODERNA DE AMÉRICA
🗣️ Mariana Ladrón de Guevara Zuzunaga: "Estudiar a los médicos de cámara de los virreyes del Perú: retos, fuentes y metodología"
📅 28 de enero
⏰ 17:30
Acceso a través de Google Meet

19.01.2026 20:27 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"

by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

19.01.2026 12:50 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0