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The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling!

The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026.

For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/

Signboard for a Schoolmaster from 1516 by Ambrosius Holbein.
I think the child on the right is a girl.
The sign talks about teaching boys and girls German reading & writing and promises money back when unsuccessful.
sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMP/eMuseumP...

Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Duels, violence and conflict

This podcast provides further statistical evidence and explains why, contrary to what we’re all told, elite violence reached its peak in England in the period, 1660-1720. #earlymodern #skystorians

York History Department - Academic Jobs Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Image of Luther and his text insulting Latomus as dumber than a block of wood.

Review 2 arriveth:

ergofabulous.org/luther/

You can follow my Marie Skłodowska-Curie project SOCRESTA on plebeian feuds in #earlymodern Germany at @socresta.bsky.social (and help my metrics for reporting :))

Plebeian feuding in the #earlymodern Prince-bishopric of Würzburg was a male affair. Of the over 150 pardons for declaring or conducting a feud from the 1520s-70s, only one was issued to a woman, while three men were also pardoned for issuing defiances over claims of their kinswomen. (1/11) 🧵

I love this 1662 drawing in a legal document involving a dispute over a ditch.
So detailed!
And look, a well full of clean water and a stream nearby.
The 3 story building still exists.
www.archive.nrw.de/landesarchiv...

Letting an AI-generated image through in a print publication needs to be treated as seriously as inadvertent publication of a libellous or pornographic image - it should have grave reputational consequences for the publication

YouTube video by Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Third Thursday Lecture - Samurai, Knights, and Nationalisms: The Middle Ages in Modern Japan

I was very fortunate to have the chance to speak at @sainsbury-institute.org in Norwich last week, and the recording is now online. I really appreciate the invitation, and all of the great questions and comments following the talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDGo...

Samurai This major exhibition reveals the real story of the samurai, from medieval battlefields to modern blockbusters.

From 3 February 2026, the special exhibition "Samurai" will be at the British Museum. I've had a lot of fun working on this together with the brilliant Rosina Buckland. If you happen to be in London, and feel that you need more samurai in your life, do drop by!
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Amanda G. Madden, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" (Cornell UP, 2025) by New Books in Italian Studies

Recently I took a break from research, course prep, and *gestures around* to have a lovely conversation about my recently published book with Miranda Melcher at @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social You can now listen here! megaphone.link/NBNK8414335727

Strokovnjaki in nevladniki pisali premierju glede umetne inteligence: Prekličite naročilo Več kot 70 strokovnjakov in nevladnih organizacij je premierja Roberta Goloba pozvalo, naj prekliče javno naročilo za nacionalno platformo za generativno umetno

Slovenia is preparing to provide universal access to genAI and has opened a tendering process to support this initiative.

I too signed the open letter by Danes je nov dan, opposing such plans for the following reasons:

n1info.si/novice/slove...

CHR Book Launch, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" by Amanda Madden Friday, November 21, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST

The Center for Humanities Research at GMU is hosting a hybrid book talk for my monograph Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy this upcoming Friday from noon-12:30. Register at this link: chr.gmu.edu/events/17595

The decline of violence UK since the 1990s is unheralded social progress. More evidence that overall rates of violence have little to do either with policing or inequality. #skystorians

Graph showing the number of remissions (pardons) for feuding in the Prince-bishopric of Wurzburg in the 1500s.

The Würzburg data provides the thus far richest proof that plebeian feuds (Fehden) and their mediation by the state continued well after the practice was banned in the Holy Roman Empire in 1495, as is demonstrated by princely remissions (Landshuldung) or ‘pardons’ for feuding. (1/3)

My Marie Skłodowska-Curie project SOCRESTA has its own Bluesky account and now even a few posts @socresta.bsky.social

Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence, May 22, 2026 - May 22, 2026 Deadline for submission/application: December 20, 2025 Call for Papers Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts the gender roles in a society firmly on records. Although we can never fully grasp the motives behind past acts of violence, through them we can gauge what was tolerated or sanctioned in any given society. Historical violence can suggest which meaning early modern people had of assault and abuse, whether physical, verbal or psychological. This brings us to the fundamental methodological question of how modern categories can capture past social realities. In this regard, the aim of the workshop is to offer a more precise picture of gender violence, with a quantitative study on survivors, their witnesses, and the negotiating process. This gathering aims to promote a discussion on how to defy certain stereotypes around gender-based violence by investigating how women and men in the past viewed and talked about their roles within the abusive act. While some treated the violence suffered as an intimate matter, charged with shame and danger and therefore difficult to articulate, others saw it as a matter to be publicly outed and put into words. This workshop invites proposals for short papers (4,000-5,000 words) on any aspect of gender and violence in early modernity. Papers that investigate the possibility to offer significant input for the study of what we would regard as psychological/physical trauma; dynamics of power; for understanding responses to assault; to investigate the status and forms of victims and perpetrators. The past can share its feelings as violent acts are always initially expressed through language and shaped by specific social and cultural norms.

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social

Deadline: 20 December 2025
Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

AI experts in higher ed aghast at higher ed’s embrace of AI apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire"

Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into

Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered. Evidence, Cri...

cool new stuff from cool historians but also me hah take that #16thC #17thC #earlymodern #spain #italy #skystorians #iberia
www.routledge.com/Evidence-Crime-and-Forensics-in-the-Early-Modern-Mediterranean/Homza-Scott/p/book/9781032781464

Another book I'm very much looking forward to this year. Congrats, Amanda! #earlymodern #vendetta

Join us for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history, hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento! With Louise Bonvalet, Robert Kendrick, Antonio Chemotti, Umberto Cecchinato, Laura Righi, @amandamadden.bsky.social, and @massimorospocher.bsky.social #skystorians

Criminal Justice and Peace-making in Early Modern Italy An exceptional study of private peace pacts in early modern Italy that challenges earlier notions of the place of these private agreements in the development of the courts and state.

Really excited that this book is getting an English translation - congrats, Paolo! #earlymodern #peacemaking #vendetta

The 56th edition of the Austrian History Yearbook has officially been published! For now you can read its 10 research articles and 58 book reviews online while we eagerly anticipate the journal's physical publication.

#History #AcademicSky #Austria #Vienna #Europe

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ranting on elite violence in early modern Styria at this fine conference on violence in Warsaw in September. Really looking forward to it!

Late to the show, as always, but still honoured to having this paper published in the Austrian History Yearbook.