Timothy Twining

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿, 𝗺𝗮𝗶̂𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗱'𝗵𝗼̂𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝘂 𝗿𝗼𝗶 (𝟭𝟲𝟰𝟴-𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟳)
𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗩 (𝟭𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟰 - 𝟯𝟭 𝗱𝗲́𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟱)

Édité par Philippe Mauran

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WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩
And more excitement to come in 2026 as well.

I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that

#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today'
Paris, 10-12 June 2026
Please send proposals to daniel.fulda@germanistik.uni.halle.de by the 26 October
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ICYMI - still some time to register! #bookhistory

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Scholars of Jansenism take note.
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Autumn Seminar Series @LUCK LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre A…

Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK:

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Thank you--that's kind of you to say. It's always v welcome to learn a book's finding its readers!

What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.

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What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.

#earlymodern #skystorians

In his Reading Inscriptions & Writing Ancient History William Stenhouse discusses some cases from the mid c16th (pp. 50–53).

Who was the most influential pragmatist political thinker in the opening decades of the twentieth century? In this paper, I argue that it was H. G. Wells

"Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism"

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Richard Simon has long presented an enigma for historians, as his status as a pathbreaking textual critic and the opposition his work engendered from contemporary ecclesiastical authorities has sat uncomfortably alongside his consistent advocacy of his Catholic credentials. This article approaches this problem via an analysis of two hitherto understudied parts of his scholarly corpus. It first elucidates Simon’s distinctive plan for a new polyglot Bible in the mid-1680s before shifting attention some fifteen years to consider his work in French vernacular biblical translation, bringing out how the confessionally inflected content of his work in that field contrasted with his earlier critical scholarship. By revealing how Simon negotiated the relationship between scholarship and religion during his working life, the article foregrounds the continued import of confessionalized erudition at the turn of the eighteenth century while also interrogating the limits of its explanatory power as a historical category.

📣Out now on #firstview!

Timothy Twining (@tntwining.bsky.social) (KU Leuven) on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible'

#Religion #Scholarship #Translation #Catholic #French 17thc 📙🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now out in The Historical Journal, my new article on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible'.

Find it Open Access here:

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

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Thank you! It was such a lovely surprise!

Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles!

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🎉 Congratulations to our member, Timothy Twining, on his nomination for Best Monograph for the 2025 EHS Book Prize! We look forward to hearing the results in January 2026.

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Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles!

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The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊

📢 CfP | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on #EarlyModern Christianity
🗓️ May 19–21, 2026 | 🏛️University of Wrocław

🔍Theme: Early Modern Christian Materiality
⏰Deadline: Feb 15, 2026

🔗 More info: reforc.com/events/fifte...

Enjoyed putting together this H-France Forum on Paul-Alexis Mellet's *Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion* – reviews and response available here:

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After a fantastic slate of papers at RSA Boston 2025, EMoDiR is delighted to announce our CfP for RSA San Francisco 2026.

Please circulate, and submit a proposal!

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Could anyone with Old Church Slavonic please translate for me this inscription on a cross, pictured in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s account of the 1594 voyage to Novatya Zemlya?

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Katrina Olds and I are organising one or two panels at next year's @rsaorg.bsky.social in tribute to the amazing and much missed A. Katie Harris.

If you have an paper touching on #earlymodern Catholic scholarship, relics, forgery, etc. please do send us something!

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Now out: the EMoDiR Newsletter for June 2025, compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini!

Check it out for news on new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, cfps and much much more!

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STARTING TOMORROW! Alex Walsham on Religious Movements: motion and Emotion in #EarlyModern Christian History. So excited there is an online link-up after all! #Reformazing #SkyStorians

Today!

Really enjoyed discussing The Limits of Erudition recently with
@janalena.bsky.social! Find the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-limits-o...

#earlymodern #skystorians

The discussion continues in the Early Modern Scholarship & Religion seminar @camhistory.bsky.social this Friday (2 May) at 4pm! For details and online participation, see www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

Really enjoyed discussing The Limits of Erudition recently with
@janalena.bsky.social! Find the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-limits-o...

#earlymodern #skystorians