...darkenes to light [...] I hate as Apostates from the faith and traitors to Gods true Church".
Over a page of this stuff!
When your will is actually just another piece of polemical writing. Matthew Sutcliffe, Dean of Exeter in 1628:
"Those false teachers alsoe amonge us that palliate popish heresies, and under the name of Arminius, seeke to bringe in poperie and endeavour, with all theire little skill, to reconcile...
Super happy to see Sara Norja and Mari-Lisa Varila’s special issue of Renaissance Studies in print! With contributions by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social @carriegrif.bsky.social, me, and others! My article is (unsurprisingly) about binding waste. Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
#earlymodern has anyone come across copies of Quarles poems in manuscript miscellanies? Nothing on CELM
A different context, and I may have remembered incorrectly, but I think the town accounts for Crediton in England c. 1700 feature the signatures of the vicar/assistant vicar in entries for the payment of their salaries. I don't know how far back that would have gone
I've spent a lot of time with Lantrow and a single article can't do justice to the richness of his writings for researching reading, writing, and religion in this context—I'm hopeful that it will bring some more attention to them in the future.
I have an article out on the unusual writings of an early-eighteenth-century Anglican curate of Devon, Christopher Lantrow, who thought himself inspired by God to write political sermons in the margins of a parish library book.
academic.oup.com/res/advance-...
Portrait of a Lady, by Catharina van Hemessen c. 1528–after 1587. She is the earliest known female #Flemish painter whose work can be clearly verified as hers. This picture was painted c.1548/49. (The Bowes Museum)
We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.
0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
I'm really looking forward to this event on Monday, where I'll be discussing William Bedwell with Prof. Alastair Hamilton and the curators of the Bedwell exhibition, Deborah Hedgecock & Bridget MacKernan. There's still time to sign up if you'd like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-be...
WORKSHOP: A Friendly Introduction to Palaeography!
🔎 Explore 14th century medical + culinary recipes
🔎 Based exclusively on records in our Archives
🔎 Learn about Middle English
🔎 No practical experience required
15 April | 2pm-4:30pm
Book your tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies
STRANGE NEVVES of FIERY BALL over Exceter &c.
One hundred and eight, one hundred and nine, one hundred and ... ten?
Ottaviano Petrucci's Canti C. N° cento Cinquanta (1503), from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, viewer.onb.ac.at/100450FC
Been down some rabbit holes about BUCKRAM today. Earlu modern theatre people -- were 'buckram men' used as props on the stage? (literalising Falstaff's 'men in buckram'?) Military history people -- were dummy straw men, perhaps lined with buckram, used for target practice in the 16th century?
#skystorians A rare permanent job at Warwick - Assistant Prof in Early Modern British History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO295/a...
the vision | the execution
(both from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 53.C.26, viewer.onb.ac.at/107A6269/ )
Also, anyone can respond: you do not have to hold British citizenship to respond.
Reminder: today is the last day to respond to the UK government consultation to the cruel changes to immigration rules being proposed. Can take just 20 mins.
I really recommend using Amnesty's guide to the survey because the survey is designed to catch you out
media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...
anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...
Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads?
My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.
Strong memories of, as a PhD student, standing up to give a talk on the history of Newton St Cyres to members of the Newton St Cyres history group and realising that I did not, in fact, know how to pronounce Cyres.
Preparing for a local history talk next week, which means furiously looking up and drilling the pronunciation of half a dozen words. (Alas, a method that only works if you know what it is you don't know.)
My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
'What a brilliant night! Wills: dry, formal, boring? This was story telling at its best: intriguing, engaging, human!’
In this new blog post, find out what happened when Chris Hoban and his band, The Executors, played to a packed house in Topsham
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social this exceptionally rare Tudor map of Kingsbridge in Devon has been acquired for public research at the Devon Heritage Centre, after more than four centuries in private hands.
Thank you!
Just started a (mat cover) postdoc on the DORMEME project with Elisabeth Giselbrecht at KCL! Highly relieved to be clinging on to academia for a little while longer, and even more happy to be doing so on such a fab project
Gosh I have not missed buggy university HR portals. On the plus side, nice to be back in a university HR system :)
