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Wonderful to see my “Situating Early Modern Translators: A Mediterranean Epilogue” out in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social ‘On the Move: Mobility and Early Modern Translation’

Massive thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social eds Giancarlo Casale & Ann Thomson!

👉🏽 shorturl.at/TX4wb

It has been a real joy to welcome you, Eva - and what a great paper! Thank YOU!

Thrilled to start this year’s #affectiveartefacts seminar series with @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social!

@bemccollective.bsky.social

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

In “Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes,” @stefanhanss.bsky.social and his research team show how scientific analysis and historical contextualization of biochemical information of early modern recipes reveals new insights into early modern medicine and material practices. #AHR

Soin des cheveux, des dents… Ce que les traces biochimiques laissées par les lecteurs de la Renaissance disent de la médecine de l’époque Les marges et pages des livres médicaux révèlent des pratiques surprenantes : utilisation de lézards, de plantes oubliées ou même de déchets humains, confirmant une logique médicale spécifique à l’épo...

Now also in French @france.theconversation.com:

doi.org/10.64628/AAK...

I think meat stains are rather unlikely given the appearance of the stains, but still worth testing!

Wonderful to see our research receiving such wide attention

Benjamin Arbel, “Jews in International Trade: The Emergence of the Levantines and Ponentines.” In The Jews of Early Modern Venice, edited by Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 73–96, here 84.

David Jacoby, “Camlet Manufacture, Trade in Cyprus and the Economy of Famagusta from the Thirteenth to the Late Fifteenth Century.” In Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta, edited by Michael J. K. Walsh, Peter W. Edbury, and Nicholas S.H. Coureas (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), , 15–42

For specific questions, see also mhistories.hypotheses.org/1630, or the wider research on the Veneto-Ottoman trade in zambellotti, i.e., cloths made of goat or camel wool, at times blended with silk or cotton, via Levantine or Eastern European trading routes:

@evelynwelch.bsky.social’s Renaissance Skin, of course, and there is a lot on early modern furriers (check the history of crafts and artisanship), and on furs mentioned in inventories (e.g., Zander-Seidel’s Textiler Hausrat).

Hawaii: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans review – a feather-filled thriller full of gods, gourds and ghosts This retelling of Captain Cook’s death and the merging of two cultures is a trove of miraculously preserved wonders – but beware of the shark-toothed club!

This sounds like an unmissable exhibit, but the phrase "defence of museums with global collections" is doing a huge amount of work as a justification for clinging on to "collected" (stolen) Hawaiian heritage.

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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History Volume 116 Issue 1 Volume 116, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History was published in 2025.

oh! The latest issue of Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis 🥰 and what a wonderful-looking tribute it is: contributions from @vreinburg.bsky.social @anakroniks.bsky.social, Penny Roberts, Hilary Bernstein, @paulecohen.bsky.social, & many more! #NZD4Eva #EarlyModern

Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence. In this innovative cultural history, hair is the portal through which Emanuele Lugli accesse...

I thought so :)
That quote is from here,
www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

What Renaissance readers left behind in haircare books New biochemical techniques offer unmatched insight into early modern medicine, as traces of plants, animals and even human waste have been sampled from pages.

If you ever wondered what biochemical traces of past users of medical recipes may tell us about early modern haircare, see @uk.theconversation.com's discussion of our @historians.org article:
doi.org/10.64628/AB....

Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social

Wonderful to have you here, Theo!

By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025)
pims.ca/publication/...

Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Thank you, Julie, it's great to hear you liked the article!

Christmas comes early!

NEW open access @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Bulletin spec issue on how imaging science transforms our understanding of heritage!
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

Co-edited w/ @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social
@nhsf.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize - University of Liverpool News Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize

🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. Tea, coffee and a drink will be provided.

Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.

📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00

Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...

New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb

Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.

Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Just got my contributor’s copy!

Stay tuned for this wonderfully powerful Jan 2026 volume w/ Disobedience Press, celebrating the legacy of Chandler Davis for the current struggle for academic freedom.

Pre-order here:
disobediencepress.com/in-the-spiri...

Wonderful to see our @historians.org article on

"The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance"

on top of the "most read" AHR articles!

It is available open access here:

doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

...and we have many of these manuals @thejohnrylands.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk!
Wonderful to see our @historians.org American Historical Review article sparking wider discussions across disciplines!
@uomhums.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social

“The originality and innovation of the study cannot be overstated.”

Wonderful to see @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Pamela Smith commenting on our @historians.org article in @cenmag.bsky.social news release by @bethanyhalford.bsky.social!

Massive thanks!

Wonderful to see this new @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social article by @uomsalc.bsky.social's very own @tibetcurator.bsky.social!