We are delighted to share the programme for our 'Art Lovers in the World' Conference, taking place at the University of Cambridge, 28th-29th Jul 2025, funded by the DAAD Hub, the Trevelyan Fund and the GHS. Tickets are available at artloversconference.eventbrite.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you!
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Apparently somewhat… bsky.app/profile/cjfa...
09.04.2025 16:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project
Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...
‘Crusius’s innovation lay not in his methods or his linguistic proficiency, but in the object of his curiosity: no other Western Christian of his time thought to produce such a detailed record of Ottoman Greece.’
Alexander Bevilacqua on the rediscovery of Greece:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
29.03.2025 19:28 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project
Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...
‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’
Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
26.03.2025 16:36 — 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
On board (my first ever) Amtrak to Boston to attend #RSA2025 #RenSA25 🚂 @caromurph7.bsky.social & I have organised a panel on "Administrative Cartography" with Lorenzo Gatta, Natsumi Nonaka & @hannahmgk.bsky.social 🗺️ And of course I'll be talking Neptune again with @frederickcrofts.bsky.social 🔱
19.03.2025 22:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:
24.02.2025 17:20 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
#ZISpotlight 💡
Frederick Crofts & Davide Martino on „The Age of Neptune“: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520–1650
www.zispotlight.de/frederick-cr...
21.02.2025 11:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
📣Out now on #firstview!
Amelia Hutchinson (@ameliahutchinson.bsky.social) (@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social) on 'Subtle Bodies: Networks and Corporeality in Philipp Hainhofer’s Pomeranian Cabinet'
#Art #Body #Merchant #Display #Artisan 16thc 17thc 🗃️
👉Read OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
05.02.2025 09:06 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Foto einer Vitrinenauslage von Neptun-Darstellungen in Grafik und Fotografie
The Age of Neptune: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520-1650
Projektvorstellung von @davidemartino.bsky.social und Frederick Crofts morgen um 12:00 Uhr im ZI 🧜♂️
www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...
21.01.2025 12:30 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Early modern historian at the University of Cambridge | Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and Fellow of Darwin College | PhD on the Bishops' Bible of 1568 | General book lover 📚
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Associate professor @ Tallinn University | review editor for "1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies"
Economic history/material culture/alternative currencies
Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography, SOAS
Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more
Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics
PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU
Fashion https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
Political philosopher of science. Trying to work on the ideology-critique of scientism and a materialist theory of scientific crises, while also holding down a desk job.
Art historian (Basel/Florence/Munich) studying artistic clandestinity, early modern art theft, and memorials for animals
Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
Official account of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) - a research institution with over 200 years experience in publishing Medieval source material in text-critical editions. Posts by Clemens Radl, Annette Marquard-Mois, Dominik Trump.
A series of free #materialculture events at @warburginstitute.bsky.social | Theme for 2024-25: Work v. Play | Posts by convenor @louisamckenzie.bsky.social
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/material-world
he/him | PhD @StAndrewsHist | Anglo-Dutch Public-Sphere c. 1685-1713 | @USTC | @NEMN blog editor
phd in seventeenth-century science and medicine at cambridge. ri freer prize fellow 2024-5
Historian of early modern health, religion, & emotions | Critical AI studies & historiography
Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Professor and Chair of History at Tufts. Co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Posts on the history of early modern medicine and science; teenagers; cooking; running; cats.
EMLC is a leading open access journal dedicated to the study of the early modern Low Countries. We publish multidisciplinary and state-of-the-art scholarship on any aspect of the turbulent history of this region from 1500-1850
Lecturer History at Utrecht University • Interested in all things Early Modern | History of Science | the Environment | Capitalism • Book coming out: Galileo's Fame https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948599/ • My dog’s name is Freddy
Assistant Professor in Early Modern Intellectual History @University of Amsterdam
RTT/Ass.Prof. Roma3- early modern natural philo - #DescartesLab - sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U - Warburg/I Tatti fellow / #ConEnvHIst - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies
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Historian of Knowledge, Encounters, and the Mediterranean | PhD on Eastern-Mediterranean Artisans, Vendors, and Practitioners in early modern Italy | Warburg Yates Fellow
