Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)

7 Oct: one of 2 feasts #otd of Osgyth, d. c.700 abbess of Chich, St. Osyth's #Essex is named for her #(SDawson) #nuntastic

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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#SkyStorians, I'm looking for #MedievalSky and #EarlyModern paintings, engravings & other visual sources that depict screws.
(N.B. I'm not looking for depictions of screws in technical sources on this topic).
If anyone has come or comes across them, I'd love to know! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

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We've got a stellar set of speakers this term at @ihr.bsky.social. Come along an immerse yourself in the latest early modern history research! #EarlyModern 🗃️

#earlymodern

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30. 6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule 10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea 17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️

My colleague’s @ogewilliams.bsky.social’s book with @hopkinspress.bsky.social is out! Order a copy for your library! @ubuffalo.bsky.social @womenalsoknowstuff.bsky.social @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social @ubhonors.bsky.social #skystorians #booksky #blacksky #womenshistory

New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians

It's a very special 'Will of the Month' post over at @materialwills.bsky.social - transcribed & researched by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year History student @ @uoearchhist.bsky.social

Dylan shares some really nice reflections about the process of researching the will of a C17th London gentleman #EarlyModern

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

Cover of the book The Word made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600-1720 by Karin Sennefelt. The over image shows an etching of a young woman in a dress but bare foot flying through the air during a lightning storm.

The Word made Flesh is out today! I've not seen it in the flesh myself yet, but this is a happy day after many years of work.
#EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory

Sunday morning writing session.

More often than not, even once they arrived in the town/city where they were making a new foundation, these #earlymodern reforming nuns ended up in temporary lodging, thus prolonging the challenge of preserving stability and monastic discipline.

A #nuntastic read! Highly recommend.

just sent you something!

I have some citations, but I'll need to do a little digging.

Fabulous! I regularly teach the Black Death and my classes are deeply informed by Dr. Green's research and pedagogy in this field. What a wonderful resource to have this all in one place.

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

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For all those #skystorians hispanohablantes (please excuse my Spanglish 😉) interested in #earlymodern diplomacy, here the CfP for the workshop "Más allá de los embajadores" iehm.uib.es/actividades/... 2026 - Seminario diplomacia - Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad

Folks who are also on historians.social on Mastodon - the instance is shutting down at the end of October, so you'll want to migrate or whatever the appropriate verb is. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern

yes--I think that's definitely part of the dynamic here

And I'm not denigrating that fascination--I'm just curious about it's source.

And I'm suggesting we should step back and think about what we can learn from these stories about cultural ambivalences about women who choose to live together, separate from men, and separate from the world.

Yet because these women are also supposed to be paragons of virtue and obedience, their protection of these communities gets read as "transgressive" by authorities and in turn, fascinating by public observers.

(See Lauren Groff's Matrix and Catherine Coldstream's Cloistered)

I think this is part of why the cloister is so appealing and fascinating even in the modern world.

And convents are a distinctive environment in this regard. Not many other formal, institutional spaces where women can do this.

Have been thinking more about why so many love this #nuntastic story so much.

Yes, defiant nuns are always fun, but I think there's something deeper going on here about women and community--and a cultural tension around women having the "audacity" to choose to live together but apart from men.

Unsurprisingly, I love this #nuntastic story--especially at a moment when I'm deep into a project about #earlymodern convent households and how the nuns *themselves* define and structure community.