Timothy Twining

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!

#earlymodern #Skystorians

🎉 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.

@tntwining.bsky.social
@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social

#EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory

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

#earlymodern #Skystorians

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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:

h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

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!

#earlymodern

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!

www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

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!

emodir.hypotheses.org/files/2025/0...

#earlymodern

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

It may look like an Amazon space rocket, but this is in fact the William Tyndale monument. 😛

Quite impressive views of the Severn Estuary from the top. What the Bible translator himself would have made of it, Heaven knows.

#earlymodern 🗃️

Nice to see this out! #ΟΑ
Also chapters on #bookhistory #skystorians #earlymodern

Announcing the winner of the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for 2024: Germaine A. Hoston The Journal of the History of Ideas awards the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the journal each year. The winner of the JHI’s Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article pub...

Congratulations to Germaine A. Hoston, winner of the JHI's Selma V. Forkosch Prize for her article “Neo-Confucianism and the Development of German Idealism"!

Hello Bluesky! This is the official account of the Society for Reformation Studies. We meet each April in Cambridge for our annual conference and our journal is Reformation and Renaissance Review.

We are keen to engage with anyone interested in Reformation studies!

#earlymodern #skystorians

A poster with details for the book launch of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024). For more information, see: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/early-modern-scholarship-and-religion

I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

#earlymodern

Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...

Thrilled that the @lrb.co.uk published Alexander Bevilacqua's wonderful review of my book on The Discovery of #Ottoman Greece

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

#earlymodern #skystorians

[FocusOn] Next Research meeting in Besançon in May

📅 May 21-23, 2025
📍 Besançon, France & Online

🔥 The GrECI Research Meeting IV is coming!

✅ Open to all, both in-person and online!
📜 Full program & details are available here : urlr.me/7Pjp38

I'm giving a #hextag talk about the Basque Witch-Hunt in Liverpool on Thursday 17 April! Everyone is very welcome. 😊

#earlymodern 🗃️

www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/talks/the-wi...

The Limits of Erudition Cambridge Core - European Studies - The Limits of Erudition

Truly honored that my book found a place alongside all these other superb works on the REFORC Book Award longlist:

reforc.com/news/longlis...

You can find The Limits of Erudition here:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

#earlymodern

The Holy Bible (1640) Sometimes, despite one’s best efforts, a book owner simply eludes identification. In this instance, it is one Joyes Pears who owned a 1640 Bible printed by Robert Barker in the mid-seventeent…

Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses a lovely little bible with red velvet binding and an inscription by a woman dated 1652 earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/t... #EarlyModern #HerBook

French historians - is anyone/anyone you know working at the AD Ille et Vilaine now or soon? Or have you worked there or know anyone who has? I have a question that someone might be able to save me a lot of time with. [I know I can email the archivists - for various reasons I'm trying here first]

Cover of volume 3 of the Cambridge History of the Papacy

First page of my contribution

Many congratulations to the editors of the new Cambridge History of the Papacy, in particular to @sistosesto.bsky.social !

Really pleased to see my own chapter on the legend of Pope Joan included in it as well. 😊

#earlymodern 🗃️

United States Prose Awards: 2025 Category Winners With 101 shortlistees, the AAP's PROSE Awards for academic, scholarly, and research publishing announces 37 category winners.

In a very tough week, suddenly some amazing news lands in my inbox.

The Basque Witch-Hunt won the PROSE Award for Best European History book of 2024!

🎉🎉🎉

publishingperspectives.com/2025/03/unit...

#earlymodern 🗃️

Another #Fagel update: one for #medicine #histscience crowd. I came across a manuscript list of items that apothecaries in the frontier cities of Dutch Republic and those joining the army of Maurice of Nassau had to have. It includes a range of different ointments, herbs, oils, etc. #earlymodern