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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

📢Recently published! 📑Duval, Harvey, Sancho Fibla (dirs.) « Le projet Sorores », Chronica Mundi, 18 (2024).

Contributors explore the diverse experiences of non-cloistered religious women (12th–18th c.).

📩 Request a free copy via the email listed here:
www.chronicamundi.org/en/readers.h...

SEAL OF SAPIEXCELLENCE 2025 – Postdoc Fellowships (€50,000)

Sapienza University of Rome is offering 4 annual postdoc positions linked to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 – Seal of Excellence.

⏳ Deadline: 13 February 2026, 11:59

More details and other calls: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...

TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025 TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…

For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!

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Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

Domani ci tuffiamo nella Venezia magica d’età moderna… univr.zoom.us//88658895932 #magic #magia #witchcraft #stregoneria #modernhistory #storiamoderna #venice #venezia #santainquisizione #inquisition @stmoderna.bsky.social

✨Out now!
Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series.
🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-...

#EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory

New on Stmoderna
Call for papers | Violenza economica. Dominazione, sfruttamento e disuguaglianze di genere nel lungo periodo
📍 Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”
📅 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
A conference on the history of economic violence and gender inequalities across time and space.

Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin.

Waiting list now activated.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

📌Friday, 24 October
Presentation of “Chimere: Research Network on Cultural Histories of Magic”, launching a new seminar series on magic, folklore, and esotericism.
📍 University of Verona |🕚 11:50
💻Join on Zoom : univr.zoom.us/j/82097215327

Details on the speakers 👇

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

📢 Applications for the Winter School di Studi sulla Riforma are still open!
🌍Florence | 🗓️ 13–16 November 2025
⏰ DEADLINE : 10 October 2025
#Earlymodern #Reformation

New on Stmoderna:
Looking for a postdoc? Check out the Max Weber Programme at the EUI (Florence) for 2026/27.

🕒 Deadline: 15 Oct 2025, 14:00 CEST
🔗 Details: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...

Unearthing the Musical Secrets of a Renaissance Convent Laurie Stras on the thrill of archival discovery, the women behind the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, and the music that inspired Ricordanze: A Record of Love

More of Jo Carpenter's PR sorcery - this time, securing a blog on the Gramophone website, with pictures of the #nuntastic archival stuff... www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/articl...

Curious about Jewish communities in early modern Venice?

From Monday, Oct. 6, at the State Archive of Venice, Renata Segre leads a 5-week cycle on sixteenth-century manuscripts about Jewish communities.

🔗 Learn more: www.stmoderna.it/it/eventi/

📣New on Stmoderna!

Call for Applications: Winter School (Florence, 13–16 Nov 2025) on the Protestant Reformation - its political, cultural, and social dimensions, and its legacies in philosophy, literature, music, and the arts.

Deadline: 10 Oct 2025

see it at: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...

Starting today in Rome, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies:
Mapping Dissonant Objects – a three-day workshop organized by Sabina Brevaglieri, Massimo Carlo Giannini, and Lina Scalisi.

mapdisob.hypotheses.org

📢 New on StModerna

The Istituto Sangalli Prize for Religious History 2025 (11th edition) offers young scholars the chance to publish monographs on religious history (Middle Ages–contemporary) with Firenze University Press.

⏳ Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Two Franciscan friars seen through Japanese eyes from:

Kano Naizen's "Arrival of the Southern Barbarians Screen" c. 1600 (Kobe City Museum Collection)

Triple-knotted cinctures, bare feet, rosaries, hoods. Nicely observed. And linen shirts under the habit too.

Holy Smoke The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe.

It was a pride and pleasure to contribute to this article for the Science History Institute: Melissa Rossi, "Holy Smoke: The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe" #histmed #medhist
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

A scientist in a lab coat looks through a microscope in a laboratory, with other researchers blurred in the background. Overlaid text reads: “Record Applications – Choose Europe: EU research fellowships attract record 17,058 applications.” The European Commission logo appears in the bottom right corner.

The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide.

A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades.

Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment.

→ europa.eu/!jcnGgP

#ChooseEurope

New on StModerna: the Eleonora Rai Prize
Established in memory of Eleonora Rai, it awards PhD theses on themes she worked on: religious, cultural, and gender history, with special attention to violence (early modern to contemporary age).

⏳Deadline: 26 Nov 2025
www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

📢 New Call for Papers on StModerna

A social question before the Social Question: Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century
📍 University of Oxford
🗓️ 22–23 October 2026
⏳ Deadline: 31 December 2025

👉 This and many other CfPs await you on StModerna: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic

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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser

We’ve long known Samuel Pepys was a sleazebag, but Guy de la Bedoyere’s new edition of his journal reveals it was way worse than that — he was a relentless sexual predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Cover of the advertised book.

This volume investigates the epistemological dimension and social embedding of resource policies while providing a comprehensive overview of the knowledge layers that underpinned the material and immaterial economy of the early modern period in many fields.
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

🎓 Two new PhD opportunities just added on StoriaModerna:

📍 University of Trento – deadline: 26 August 2025
📍 University of Sassari – deadline: 1 September 2025

🔎 Full details here: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...

🏆 New on StModerna: the Paola Bora Prize (2025)

An award for unpublished MA and PhD theses on gender studies (including history).
Open to theses written in Italian or English.

Deadline: 31 October 2025

👉 See this and other awards and calls here: www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

📢 Just published on StModerna:

🌍 5 doctoral scholarships in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples) – deadline: 27 August 2025

🔎 Full details and more here:
www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...
www.stmoderna.it/it/concorsi/
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