Tomos Evans

Thanks for the shout out!

Laurel Berries and the B.A. (Cantab): An Unnoticed Pun in Milton’s Lycidas In On the Correct Pronunciation of Latin and Greek (Basel, 1528), Erasmus outlines a new system of Greek pronunciation, veering away from Byzantine Greek p

Great to see that my short article, ‘Laurel Berries and the B.A. (Cantab): An Unnoticed Pun in Milton’s Lycidas’, has been published in Notes & Queries! @oxfordunipress.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

Latin Beyond Poetry – Politics, Prose, and Religion. Proposals for papers (6,000–8,000 words) exploring the reception and influence of Latin in Modern Greek texts invited for edited volume Reception of Latin in Modern Greek Literature. Due October 31st 2025.

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It was a pleasure to present research from my monograph-in-progress, “Advocating Greece’s Liberation in the Seventeenth Century”, at the Hellenism in Early Modern Europe Conference, hosted by the European Union-funded project @greci-eu.bsky.social at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Center in Nicosia.

New Perspectives in Global Latin The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern...

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Issue 11 • 2025 • Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity III

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📆Next week, 22-24 October

👉 Anyone wishing to follow the conference remotely, please email greci@ucy.ac.cy to receive the zoom link!

#skystorians #earlymodern #classicalreception

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

'Paradise Lost' and Found - LECTURE - RHS The Inner Temple’s intriguing purchase of an early (1688) edition of Paradise Lost formerly owned by the Royal Master of Revels, Charles Killigrew (1655 – 1725), and annotated with the names of numero...

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@dremilyvincent.bsky.social

Greatly looking forward to presenting at the GrECI Conference in Cyprus!

Laonikos Chalkokondyles: The Last Byzantine Historian and the Dawn of Ottoman Historiography Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) Should the last Byzantine historian be considered an early modern Hellenist? Yes, because he lived through the crucial years of the fall of Constantinople…

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Society elects 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 63 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 249 people newly associated with the Society, f...

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Delighted to have been elected as an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! @royalhistsoc.org

British Milton Seminar and Andrew Marvell Society via Zoom on Friday 24 October 2025 at 2.00 pm (BST) / 9.00 am (EDT)

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CFP: Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life || 21–23 May 2026 || Hamburg, DE

Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.

My article ‘Marshall’s Ignorant Hand’ has been published (open access!) in Milton Quarterly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

St John's Cambridge Rr.7.15. Title page with ownership inscription crossed out messily.

Cambridge Whipple WS 570. Page with six lines of writing crossed out, and new ownership inscription added in.

Rare books people! Following some lively & productive discussion at the @livesandletters.bsky.social conference last week, I have a question: how would you describe inscriptions like these?

✨ GrECI Concluding Conference ✨

We are pleased to announce the concluding conference of the GrECI Project, “Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity”

📍 Nicosia, Cyprus (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation)
📅 22–24 October 2025

@nconstantinidou.bsky.social @ucy1.bsky.social

7 Neo-Latin PhD positions at Innsbruck and Freiburg: Ancient Greek and Neo-Latin; Oral Neo-Latin; Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin; Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers; Catholic Inculturation(s); Canones of Neo-Latin Texts; The Nachleben of Neo-Latin Literature.

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Looking forward to returning to my alma mater for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference next week!

International Graduate Students Engage in Research and Intellectual Exchange at the Seeger Center By Catherine CuranSix early-career scholars joined the Seeger Center's academic community for a week of research and intellectual exchange at the seventeenth International Graduate Student Conference ...

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Born #OTD 1514, John Cheke, MP for Bletchingley in 1547 and 1553. As sometime tutor to Edward VI, Cheke enjoyed great prestige during the king’s reign, becoming a secretary of state just a month before Edward’s death.

Read Cheke's biography here 👉 ow.ly/RWPh50zXSdn

New Ancient Greek Literatures: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies (8–10 July 2026)

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Congratulations John!

A screenshot of the title and abstract of the article, find via the link

Recently out in HR: @nicolegreenspan.bsky.social on how news in Cromwellian England about the 1655 massacre of Waldenses by Savoyard troops in Piedmont was composed, circulated, & altered as well as its impact & the methods of informal & public diplomacy employed academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, and virtue politics: magnanimity in England, Eden, and Hell What did John Milton think of Oliver Cromwell? This has long been one of the most debated questions in seventeenth-century studies. Milton worked for the Cromwellian Protectorate throughout its exi...

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Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Date: 5th June 2025 Venue: Balliol College, Gillis Lecture Theatre an

5th June 2025
Balliol College, Oxford
“Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean”

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