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Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

enjoyed this long read about the renaissance + this weird "debate me" guy who thought debate could literally transform him into an angel (via @edwinet.bsky.social )

Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

Pico! Tall, gorgeous, great hair, a genius, arrogant af.

Had so much fun with this piece.

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Issue 47.18 is now online, featuring:

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Pico della Mirandola
Conor Gearty on human rights and the law
Thomas Laqueur on the cello
Jessica Olin on Amanda Knox
Colin Burrow on Muriel Spark
and David Runciman on the road to Brexit.

Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

‘Pico della Mirandola’s 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think of the Renaissance this way partly because of a centuries-long misreading of it.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the philosopher: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Erin Maglaque · Frog-Free: Conception Stories I can take a home pregnancy test only eight days after ovulation and discover that I have conceived, the wondering...

If you want more on amphibians and reproduction (who does not?), read @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the long history of frog-based pregnancy testing.

‘I had assumed that the relationship between pregnant women and frogs went out with the Enlightenment. I was wrong.’

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objectively the worst!!!

ahhh thank you so much! I think this is right. I'm so grateful!

Erin Maglaque · At the National Gallery: Painting in Siena Sienese painters adopted forms so distinct from those of their better-known Florentine neighbours that their work was...

‘There is no single-point perspective, no study of human anatomy, little movement. Instead there is silk, gold and suspended emotion – an embrace of mystery that feels archaic and alien.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on medieval Sienese painting, at the National Gallery: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

always ;-)

(NZD cites her case in her wonderful 'Boundaries and the Sense of Self in EM France' article, but doesn't give her name).

A palaeography challenge. This woman told the Geneva consistory court in 1568: 'Paris belongs to the king and my body belongs to me.' But what was her name? I have 'Jehanne du Nuyes' [?] but v v uncertain. Please help!! (And thank you!!)

I'm closing in on a final draft of my book manuscript, on the history of the female body. Here's a paragraph from the introduction – about women wanting.

Erin Maglaque · At the National Gallery: Painting in Siena Sienese painters adopted forms so distinct from those of their better-known Florentine neighbours that their work was...

‘Sienese painters adopted forms so distinct that their work was not always appreciated for its idiosyncratic qualities. There is no single-point perspective, no study of human anatomy, little movement.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social at the National Gallery: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It was very crowded when I went the first time, shortly after it opened, and then much better about a month later...maybe worth another try!

It was very crowded when I went the first time, shortly after it opened, and then much better about a month later...maybe worth another try! And I'll watch the doc, thank you!

Erin Maglaque · At the National Gallery: Painting in Siena Sienese painters adopted forms so distinct from those of their better-known Florentine neighbours that their work was...

I reviewed the National Gallery's extraordinary exhibition of Sienese painting for the @lrb.co.uk

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This is easily my favorite-ever letter from a reader 🐸

I'm teaching Saidiya Hartman's LOSE YOUR MOTHER tomorrow. I still think this passage is some of the best writing on what history can and should do. Why do we conjure the ghosts? Why do this at all?

"This is the intimacy of our age with theirs – an unfinished struggle."

Erin Maglaque · Frog-Free: Conception Stories I can take a home pregnancy test only eight days after ovulation and discover that I have conceived, the wondering...

‘It is one of those unaccountable facts of modernity: Nasa launched a chimpanzee into space before women had access to reliable, frog-free home pregnancy testing.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I love your book!

giving out all the 🔥🔥🔥 tips on the pod

Podcast: Erin Maglaque and Thomas Jones · Conceiving Pregnancy

On the podcast: @erinmaglaque.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to discuss how the understanding of conception has changed since the early modern period, what knowledge has been gained but also what may have been lost. Listen wherever you get podcasts, or here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Erin Maglaque · Frog-Free: Conception Stories I can take a home pregnancy test only eight days after ovulation and discover that I have conceived, the wondering...

‘A woman “should turn her eyes towards heaven”, Lodovico Domenichi wrote in 1549, not towards the earth “as beasts do”. If her orgasm was required for conception, she ought to be looking at God when she came.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Erin Maglaque · Frog-Free: Conception Stories There was the prosaic business of making a baby – everyone knew about that – and then there was the essential...

‘People in the past were more comfortable with doubt, and we should be too. But I wonder if we can really imagine ourselves back into that older way of being a body.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social
on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I love this so much - more mystery!!

Such a wonderful book! 🐸

Erin Maglaque · Frog-Free: Conception Stories There was the prosaic business of making a baby – everyone knew about that – and then there was the essential...

‘There aren’t any frogs involved in making a baby now. But there isn’t much mystery either, or much room to express doubt, and it’s not clear that this certainty has been an unequivocal gift.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Erin Maglaque · Frog-Free: Conception Stories There was the prosaic business of making a baby – everyone knew about that – and then there was the essential...

I wrote about the history of conception for the @lrb.co.uk – about doubt and certainty, bubbles and frogs and fairytales, and why I'm so over plot:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...