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In this essay, I have analysed the Portuguese translation of an important catechetical work by the Jesuit missionary Roberto Nobili. I have sought to highlight how the concept of "Catholicity" could take on an "accommodationist" connotation in early modern South India. www.academia.edu/127918568/

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This is interesting! My new book on Gráinne with @yalebooks.bsky.social will be out in 2027. Looks like the film is leaning into the folklore rather than the history. Bet it won’t be anywhere NEAR as funny as the podcast episode we did on her on You’re Dead To Me. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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🔬How did artists and scientific practitioners visualize their work in the early modern period? That’s the main question behind the online exhibition of rare books curated by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, @ariellaminden.bsky.social and Leendert van der Miesen. 🔗https://rarebooks.biblhertz.it

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Tomorrow (February 11) at 4 pm EST: The Institute for Advanced Study welcomes Jérémie Koering for a discussion of his new book Iconophages. He will be joined by IAS Professor Maria Loh and IAS Professor Emeritus Yve-Alain Bois for a panel discussion. Register to attend: www.ias.edu/events/histo...

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It's THAT Time Again #SuperbOwl #MementoMori

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Uno dei miei grandi eroi accademici: Antonio Ciaralli su Armando Petrucci (Insula europea; #skystorians, #philology, #bookhistory) www.insulaeuropea.eu/2025/01/29/a...

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Excited to present some new work. #earlymodern #nuntastic #convents

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Margaret Schotte is happy to be sharing a snippet from our project next Monday, 9am EST/3pm CET. Join virtually to hera the tale of "The Carpenter’s Notebook: A Maritime Love Story (France-India-Spain)" www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-...

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this tweet inspired me to do some fun nerd stuff on here. so nerds, what’s your favorite library? i have two, both very personal: the first is uchicago’s harper library (now a reading room) and the second is the nashville public library, which is a stunner.

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This lecture series from the Centre for the Study of #Medicine and the #Body in the #Renaissance looks rad. #medieval #earlymodern #women #childbirth #skystorians #academicsky #whatshistory #historysky

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Online seminar about publishing in academic journals. Please share with grad students and early career scholars. www.rsa.org/events/Event...

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J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters, by Quentin Skinner muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... - tapestry of an intellectual life (or 'intellectual biography') with much food for thought 📖 #skystorians #earlymodern #academicsky

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More writing on a snowy Sunday morning. Help me out #earlymodern folks: I'm looking for works that conceptualize/theorize what we mean when we say "household." I think we all have an idea of what it means as a convenient shorthand, but I want to unpack the idea a bit more. Readings, thoughts?

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Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web! How do you celebrate a full-scale digital MS library online? By publishing our latest MS acquisition! Our Director, Philippa Hoskin, describes the gift: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/par... Stay tuned for interviews marking the anniversary!

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For those of you in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Carmen Ripollés will be speaking on 17th-century Portuguese painter Josefa de Óbidos on Jan 30, in advance of her forthcoming book on the artist meadowsmuseumdallas.org/cal/lecture-... #earlymodern #skystorians

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Congrats to all recipients: research.utexas.edu/news/three-f...

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I am incredibly proud to share the CFP for the first issue of "Riflesso: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Journal of Italian Studies." Fellow Italian Studies instructors, circulate it with your students! The Editorial Board welcomes essays & creative pieces dealing with any aspect of Italian culture.

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For reasons today I've been working with Shakespeare Documented today: a great site where you can see copies & transcriptions of c.400 print and manuscript documents relating to Shakespeare, his family and circle 🗃️🎭 shakespearedocumented.folger.edu

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My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨ In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇 academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

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And it’s out! My book is now available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in #EarlyModern Europe. #Skystorians

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My suggestion for a Christmas present #earlymodern #history

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Guys, help me out here: are there overviews of the state of the field of scholarship on #EarlyModern Britain & Ireland? That seems a thing with the modern people and all overviews I can think of are more broadly European/global or thematic. We have entire book series, so something?

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Many subjects and fields within Ancient Mediterranean studies depend on a basic training in ancient Greek and Latin language and literature. CUNY's LATIN/GREEK INSTITUTE is one of the places that makes this possible for all of our students. Please consider a gift to the LGI!

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It's that time of year again when I show students in my survey course parallels to ancient religious practices found across UMD campus (e.g., ex voto offerings for Testudo) and the difference between hybridity (Kermit-Testudo) and syncretism (...Kermiterp?)

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Absolutely stellar historical detective work by Fara Dabhoiwala in the @londonreview.bsky.social! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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People, Andrew Hui is in the Paris Review!! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/11...

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Thrilled to announce the publication of my first book with Harvard University Press. "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece" will appear in Jan 2025! Available for pre-order at HUP's website: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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Use code HTWN at press.JHU.edu for a discount year-round, or HHOL24 for an even bigger discount and free shipping over $50 through 12/8

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Last week, when the BJHS article by @cberiksen.bsky.social and I received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize at HSS Mérida, I wrote a 🧵 on X sharing our research process. Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern

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New on advance access: "A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis" by Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

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Impressed by Plantin offers the prints of 14,000 woodblocks, freely available for creative reuse. museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...

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I've begun a starter pack of scholars of the early modern Low Countries. Let me know if you want me to add you. #earlymodern 🗃️ go.bsky.app/VsHZ9xJ

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Oxford colleges relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff on very low hourly pay (and they don’t even earn tips)… www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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I have made a starter pack for people interested in Reformation Studies. Please share and comment if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/9vP56oW

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Still life of a musicological library, likely commissioned by Bolognese music critic Giovan Battista Martini, c. 1725, Oil on canvas (Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna)

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Anthony Grafton, himself the author of a wonderful biography of Alberti (2000), on Martin McLaughlin's new book on the Renaissance polymath (@londonreview.bsky.social; #skystorians, #history): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I’ve had success with something similar as an extra credit opportunity (complete with taking shelfies in the library) and it’s fun. This is much better thought out and gives great directions! 📚

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