Martine van Elk

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Charles I, Eikon Basilike (1648) It has long been known that the famous Eikon Basilike, attributed to Charles I and published shortly after his execution, was popular with seventeenth-century women readers. So far, our blog has fe…

Today on the blog: a female owner of Charles I's popular Eikon Basilike, a book cherished by women readers, who used their ownership marks to express their political affiliations during and after the Civil Wars earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #HerBook #EarlyModern

No Woman Could Have Painted This, They Said. They Were Wrong.

Great to see Wautier get the exhibit she deserves! #EarlyModern www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/a...

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

CFP: Cavendish and Politics.
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Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2026 / Volume 21.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Migrancy. In keeping with the Journal's tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 21.1, we invite contributions on women's experiences of migration and migrancy specifically (as opposed to other kinds of mobility) in the early modern world. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum. Submissions are due October 15, 2025 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb- assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. I If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu. Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about. See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum. For additional queries, please contact the editors at emw@press.uchicago.edu.

Giving a boost to our Call for Papers for the 2026 Forum on early modern women and migrancy. Deadline October 15!

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1 Of all published articles, the following were the most read.

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Thomas Pierce, Philallelia, or, The Grand Characteristick Whereby a Man may be Known to be Christ’s Disciple (1658) Today’s featured book has three contemporary owners’ signatures crammed onto the upper fifth of its title page, Edward Wilmot and the signature of “Lady Bellamount,” which is bifurcated by the sign…

Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern

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Thomas Pierce, Philallelia, or, The Grand Characteristick Whereby a Man may be Known to be Christ’s Disciple (1658) Today’s featured book has three contemporary owners’ signatures crammed onto the upper fifth of its title page, Edward Wilmot and the signature of “Lady Bellamount,” which is bifurcated by the sign…

Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Excellent news. The law firm representing authors in the Anthropic/AI-theft class-action suit now has a website that is accepting non-US authors' contact info (as long as their books had a US publisher): www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Please do circulate!

#HerBook

Holding her little book (a bible I would assume) #HerBook #EarlyModern

I get bonus points!

Teaching Cavendish poetry with an excellent essay by @caviaremptor.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/90025...

Mary with an enormous book #EarlyModern #HerBook

Will see you there!!!

Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost.

Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.

#earlymodern

Looks wonderful!

Very impressive title

Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org

Although how a 17th century noblewoman shelved her books shouldn't have any bearing on how an individual chooses to arrange their personal library, it IS satisfying to see all the anti-shelving-by-colour snobs have to eat this

So much to unpack from Joe’s wonderful #HerBook post on Lady Bindloss’s purchase records. As he astutely notes, such records “help situate book ownership within a broader story of the networks and market mechanisms through which books moved from printer to seller to buyer”.

WELL worth the read 👇👇

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Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676) Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…

Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook

What we are reading in my English lit classes this semester.

INTERLUDE: THE CONDITIONS OF YOUR LEARNING, Part 1

Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021), 1-21.
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Thanks so much, Heather!

Any specific articles you recommend?