Madeline McMahon

Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social is coming to town to discuss his fantastic new book, The Discovery of Ottoman Greece! Institute of Historical Studies, UT Austin, Feb 2nd.

Ann Blair - In the Scholar’s Workshop

Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship

À paraître en juillet aux Princeton UP

On Pedantry A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

Arnoud S. Q. Visser ( @arnoudvisser.bsky.social), On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:

The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

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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Book titled The State Drug by Di Gennaro Splendore in a carton box

The new history of theriac (since Watson's 1966) is out there in the world, on its own. At last, out of my thoughts. I am so happy!
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Wonderful!! Excited to read it. Congrats!

We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...

‘Colón envisioned his library as a vast and accessible information machine. He recorded details about the acquisition of every book – date, place, price, even the exchange rate.’

Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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This is the Porta Orientale! Aka how to get to Venice :)

Lovely!

Hello #renaissance #reformation & #earlymodern historians: I'm really trying to rev up my Ren&Ref course this syllabus time: any inspiring/successful monographs, sources, websites that you could recommend? Melchior Lorck, Satire on the Papacy @metmuseum.org. Thanks!

I also tell students to read at least a page aloud, then they start to get the hang of it and have fun. I suppose if you wanted an equivalent text for practice you could use a modern edition of early modern lit (think Shakespeare) alongside an EEBO early modern edition.

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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. 😊

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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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Matthew Parker’s Portrait ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ the old adage tells us. Despite being the first portrait engraved in England, the portrait of Matthew Parker (1504–1575) from the College Statutes (CCCC MS 582) h...

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Can you repost the link? Not working on my end at least. Thanks!

With a keynote address by Sachiko Kusukawa on "how emblematic worldview shaped early modern scientific thought and representation, from Vesalius and Brahe to Gessner, Camerarius Jr, and Boyle." #earlymodern #HistSTM

As promised (many months later), here is the article! “Beyond Sarpi: Reading Prohibited Books about the Council of Trent in Early Modern Italy” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @adapalmer.bsky.social

A suon di polemiche | Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura In un’epoca come il Cinquecento in cui le frontiere dei grandi monoteismi e gli equilibri interni alle singole confessioni vacillavano, i protagonisti del dibattito religioso furono particolarmente in...

Giorgio Caravale, A suon di polemiche: Eresia e controversia dottrinale nella crisi religiosa del Cinquecento (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2025; #skystorians): www.storiaeletteratura.it/catalogo/a-s...

My hand holding a paperback copy of Anthony Grafton's book "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa", recently ordered from biblio.com.

New book mail yesterday, Anthony Grafton's work on #earlymodern magic and the age of Faust. In the current environment I'm also reminded of remarks in his Girolamo Cardano book referring to 16th-century astrologers as the economists of their day: 🙄 📗 📉 bookshop.org/p/books/magu...

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...

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Oh this will be a treat! Between now and publication date, why not tuck into Kate's superb @historicaljnl.bsky.social article on 'Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary'? Free to read open access and a fantastic piece of scholarship.

Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) on jobs.ac.uk!

Thanks to my department for combining my and my colleague's Leverhulme Trust teaching buy out into an almost full time (0.9) 1 year post 👇

- Application deadline 16th April

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