Dr. Sarah Joan Moran

Excited to be in San Francisco for #RenSA26. In a roundtable on minor poets tomorrow and a panel on Dutch women on Saturday with @lindevde.bsky.social @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and Amanda Pipkin #earlymodern

Coming up in a few days!

I am very excited for #RenSA26 and to get to talk about Isabella Clara Eugenia.

Steeling myself for the long flight.. 😮‍💨 😅

See you in San Francisco!

This is a good read.

New book by Prof. Jessica Barr, who I’m lucky enough to have in my dissertation committee.

Just a reminder that I’ll be on Channel 5 tonight on Holyroodhouse: A Royal Residence #holyrood #holyroodhouse #holyroodpalace

Tomorrow, Feb 11!

Online seminar "Beguinal Echoes in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve by Dario Capelli (University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’)", Elisa Ramazzina

17:00 CET

🔗Zoom link: tinyurl.com/aumv88jz

"As AI trans­forms academic labor, much more is at stake than the terms & conditions of our employment. At stake is the very integrity of the teaching & learning process & the notion that all humanity—not just a few individuals—should benefit from the production of knowledge at our universities."

Brepols - «Sicut in caelo» Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of…

Very excited about this new edited volume from @Brepols!

"Sicut in caelo": Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy
Eds. Galliano Ciliberti, Thomas Neal

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🧳 🇮🇹 We are awarding travel grants for early-career researchers funded by the Ursula Nilgen Hertziana Foundation for stays in Italy for projects on medieval art.
💶 Grant coverage of up to €3,000
📍 Research location: Italy
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Massachusetts Historical Society: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN, GENDER, & SEXUALITY SEMINAR Visit Overview

CFP: The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society 2026-2027

This Seminar series involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress. Focus on history of women in the USA.

Deadline 15 April.

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Deadline Approaching!

CFP: Conference, In Two Voices: The Patron Couple in the Late Middle Ages (14th–16th Centuries)

University of Lausanne, 19-20 Oct 2026

Partial funding available

Deadline 2 Feb

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What Caused the Viking Age? Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 01/27/2026 · 1h 10m

I was on Gone Medieval!

#vikingsky #medievalsky #history

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CFP!

Special issue of the journal Religions

"Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"

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CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026

Deadline: 28 February 2026

Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.

A red hardback volume resting on a red sofa. On the front of the book it says "Miscellany of the Scottish History Society Volume XVII" and published by Scottish History Society in 2025.

Contents page of the book, including 9 edited contributions by different historians. Here is the full list. 1 Account of George Wishart of Drymme, 1563-1565 Edited by Michael Pearce 2 Essay on Resistance to Magistrates, c.1637-1638 Edited by Karie Schultz 3 Observations on the Divine Right of Kings, 17th century La. III 737 Edited by Calum S. Wright 4 Two Protestations, October 1681 Edited by Laura Doak 5 A Strange Truth: A Poem about the Appointment of a Court Judge at Melrose, 1682 Edited by Vivienne Dunstan 6 The Justiciary Court of Argyll, 1694 Edited by Allan Kennedy 7 Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Archibald Pitcairne and His Critics Edited by Alasdair Raffe, translations by Juan Lewis 8 Constructing the Steeplehouse: The Dumfries Midsteeple Minute Book, 1703-1709 Edited by Robert Athol 9 ‘Practical Patriotism’: The Sutherland Reclamations, 1868-1893 Edited by Annie Tindley Index

Yay! Just got my latest academic publication in hand. An annotated transcript of a historical poem about events at Melrose in 1682 plus an accompanying essay. So very many Dundee University linked historians in this one volume. #skystorians

Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe II: Habsburg Networks, 1530–1640 This two-session panel investigates how Catholic women of the Spanish and Hapsburg ruling class interrogated patriarchal conceptions of sovereignty by imagining, embodying, and enacting alternative…

Hey #RenSA26 conference peeps! Maria Prendergast & I have a 2-session panel "Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe."

*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia

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Hope to see you!

This is a great conference. Please circulate!

I'll be there with bells on 😁😇

Whitekirk and the Great Michael One Latin household books survives from the reign of James IV, (National Records of Scotland, E32/1). It covers dates from 1511 to 1512, giving daily expenses of food for the households of James IV…

Margaret Tudor's 1511 pilgrimage to Whitekirk, somewhat revised, vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...

Call for Papers – Special Issue of Art Journal
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700

Deadline March 1.

Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A

Utterly charming devotional portrait at the Lier Augustinian (Zwartzusters) convent. The patron, Magdalena de Backer, included her name and the date of 1690 in an inscription. Photo via the KIK-IRPA. #nuntastic

The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in the Park at Mariemont | AGENART AGENARTPieza del mes: noviembre 2025Autora invitada: Sarah Moran Cómo citar este artículo/How to cite this article: Sarah Moran, "The Infanta Isabel Clara

I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions!
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
#ArtHistory
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The image shows the title of the exhibition a drawing of a rooster and a flag.

Join us on Friday, January 30 at 5 p.m. to celebrate the opening of the exhibition 1776 Across the Americas: A Hemispheric History from the Collections of the John Carter Brown Library.

Registration is required. Please register at forms.gle/HpP6WVdspBpJ....

Details at jcblibrary.org/events.

This is a great conference. Please circulate!

I'll be there with bells on 😁😇

In 1654-55 a visitation was conducted at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. Dozens of Beguines were interviewed. The biggest complaint: too many (boarding and day school) children at the Beguinage! They made noise and filled up the church so that some Beguines couldn't attend services.

Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...

Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with
@ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII

Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians

In 1694, the Dowager Marquise of Deynse, Marie-Alberte de Gand, founded a lace-making school at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. She outlined that the teacher of the school should choose "the most capable and virtuous girls" for admission.

Squirrels found in ‘The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America,’ originally issued in 30 parts from 1845-1848. The illustrations were drawn from nature by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse Audubon. The plates were printed and colored by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia.

#animalart

New Year, new book from the IMEMS Press! 📖 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.

📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!

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Konf: Pfarren. Religiöse, sozioökonomische und politische Aspekte vom Beginn der Pfarrorganisation bis Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts in „Zentraleuropa“

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160047

Wien, 18.02.2026-20.02.2026, Josef Löffler; Martin Scheutz; Herwig Weigl Pfarren. Religiöse, …