15th-century astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, printer-publisher Johannes Müller, aka Regiomontanus, was born 6 June 1436 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/t...

We're delighted to welcome today 337 new Fellows & Members who've been elected to the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/3FfrjEb Our new Fellows practice history in 11 countries, our Associate Fellows promote history across many sectors & our PGR Members study at 68 universities worldwide #Skystorians

Just received the incredible news that I’ve been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org! It’s a real honour—and a deep source of pride—to receive this recognition. Heartfelt thanks to Andrew @apettegree.bsky.social for his generous support! This means a lot! #skystorians

Prof. Domenico Cecere gives an intriguing talk about natural #disasters and emotions in 17th-century Mediterranean at the 4th session of the Universiof Alcalá's international seminar on the history of written culture #bookhistory #emotions #writing #writtenculture #disasters #print #manuscripts

If you are lucky enough to be near San Marino, CA, between March 12th and May 26th, don't miss this fantastic opportunity! #rarebooks #bookhistory #GutenbergBible #earlyprint #incunbula huntington.org/news/hunting...

Honored to be awarded a Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship from the Renaissance Society of America for my research on Novohispanic readers of Italian books! Thank you so much for such a fantastic privilege! #BookHistory #Renaissance #Mediterranean #ColonialMexico www.rsa.org/page/RSAGran...

Do you fancy getting started working with Transkribus? We're hosting a @transkribus.bsky.social in person workshop in Edinburgh, Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00 - 17:00. @jnockels.bsky.social will demistify automatic text recognition as well as its context, as part of @edcdcs.bsky.social training ☺️

Very excited that Hidden Venice, a new smartphone walking tour app from History City, is now available for (free) download. Three historical trails from the 16th-18th century, written by historians (myself, Fabrizio Nevola, David Rosenthal, and Rosa Salzberg). youtu.be/HU4nx6CZp-U

Now Esther Borrego Gutiérrez (Universidad Complutense) walks us through the fascinating world of the religious "villancico", a mixed genre of popular music and verses developed in early modern Spain. #writing #popular #music #religious #navidad #textualstudies #comedy #emotions

The inaugural lecture by Diego Navarro Bonilla (Universidad Carlos III) focuses on how calligraphy generates emotions and develops creativity . #calligraphy #writing #historyofemotions #writing

Ready to start this fantastic seminar, "Corazón, de ti me quejo...", on emotions and writing (15th-21th centuries) ath the Department of Philosophy and History at the University of Alcalá! #writing #writtenculture #emotions #archives #paleography #history #manuscript #reading

Le dernier numéro des #Annales est désormais publié sur Cambridge Core (@cambridgeup.bsky.social). À lire, l’intelligence des gestes techniques au XVIIIe s., l'histoire et l'anthropologie des populations amérindiennes, les Juifs, l’antisémitisme et le capitalisme 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Au sommaire du prochain numéro des #Annales, l’intelligence des gestes techniques au XVIIIe siècle, histoire et anthropologie des populations amérindiennes, les Juifs, l’antisémitisme et le capitalisme

#callforpapers for the forthcoming San Daniele Sammelband 15-16 conference, to be held from 10 to 12 April 2025. sammelband.hypotheses.org/2267

The whole Mediterranean region was out of fashion among academic historians during the formative century of modern academia. I talk a fair bit about this in the opening sections of my new book “Inventing the Renaissance” forthcoming February www.amazon.com/Inventing-Re...

Love this scheme! Take note lovely DH friends, that it is a VIRTUAL fellowship.

Shall we call him Scroogewell? Croogewell? Scromwell?

How to organize your books in true #earlymodern style by following 3 simple steps. Here is an advice from 1504: Step 1: lay them on top of each other. Step 2: book spines facing up. Step 3: Have a few boxes within your book collection. #bookhistory #skystorians

Don’t.

Reminder as you consider holiday gifts that REUSE is even better than RECYCLE, and thrift shops and eBay are full of wonderful things loved ones might want, including a million jillion stuffed animals of every species imaginable waiting to be loved.

It’s official! 🤩Starting next year I’ll be joining the University of Alcalá as a Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Professor. I’m beyond excited and deeply grateful for this opportunity and can’t wait to begin this new chapter!🥳📚 #goodnews #newjob #professorship #happiness #sun #skyacademic #skystorians

Yep, I need to go to Germany. #coffee #humor #goodmorning

Nouvel épisode de podcast en ligne : 359, la fabrique des Annales (2), avec un grand format consacré à la colonisation et à sa dimension économique, autour du livre majeur de D. Cogneau, Un empire bon marché. Sommaire ci-dessous. Bonne écoute, retours bienvenus ! parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

Biblioteca Angelica, Rome 🇮🇹

Francesco Algarotti, Venetian polymath, champion of Newtonianism, born #OTD 1712; friend of Voltaire & Émilie du Châtelet, patron of Tiepolo, commissioned Panini’s View of Pantheon c.1734 & owned Liotard’s La belle Chocolatière c.1744 National Gallery of Art Rijksmuseum Dresden State Art Collections

So true... #AcademicLuck

As the holidays draw near, a gentle reminder: my #shortstories #book "Il Karma della Rosa" has been out for a year now on Amazon. 🙂📚 The English translation will be available soon, bringing these stories to an even wider audience. Thank you for your support—it means so much to me! amzn.eu/d/0iptJDJ

Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern

Thank you so much to everyone who attended the Turning Page(s) workshop! What has been striking throughout this day is the balance between pioneering #innovation and the revisitation of traditional themes with fresh, critical approaches. 🧵

Time to take the stage! I'm presenting my paper on how we can track the migrations of popular books using the #rare book market as our map. It's like being a detective, but for small ephemeral books. Let’s see if I can convince the crowd that #rarebooks have their own travel stories worth telling!

The third session began with Anders Toftgård who talked about a fascinating unpublished manuscript by C. Bruun on the history of private libraries in Denmark and Norway in the early modern age. #rarebooks #bookhistory #libraries #skystorians

Matilde Malaspina closes the second session of our workshop talking about her projects on the library of Hernando Colón.

Maria Vittoria Comacchi fascinated the audience with a talk on reading and annotating Arabic manuscripts in Early Modern Europe and how those books travelled among the Mediterranean. #mediterranean #intellectualhistory #bookhistory #manuscriptstudies #Arabicstudies

Let's begin the second session of our workshop with a fascinating paper of a very promising project on libraries and 18th-century travel guides by Fiammetta Sabba. #bookhistory #grandtour #libraries #italy #travelguides #travel

René Hernández Vera gave an enlightening paper on the new methodology to study, analyze and understand medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies. And now Q&A time! #manuscripts #bookhistory #medievalsky #history #writing #materialstudies

Ray Schrire just gave a spectacular paper on the new horizons of marginalia in books and cognitive studies. #bookhistory #marginalia #cognitivestudies #reading #earlymodern #printedbooks #skystorians

The first speaker of the Materiality session @zannavanloon.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk about the collaboration between Christoph Plantin and the bookbinders in 16th-century Antwerp. #bookhistory #bookbinding #Antwerp #books #Plantin #earlymodern

Now our Keynote speaker, Edoardo Barbieri, talks about the connection between events and communication tools in early modern Tuscany. #bookhistory #earlymodern #rarebooks #religiousstudies #printculture #Tuscany

Here we are! The "Turning Page(s)" workshop officially started! 😃 You can follow us here👇 ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/64912158792 #bookhistory #skystorians #libraries #books #earlymodern #medievalsky #rarebooks #manuscripts #print

TOMORROW is the day! Join us for Turning Page(s) at the Arnamagnæan Institute or via Zoom. A full day of engaging discussions awaits, exploring books, libraries, and their rich histories. Don’t miss it! Program & details 👇 #bookhistory #libraries #skyhistory #skystorians #earlymodern #medievalsky

Monks did, from time to time, hide in letters. Like here, on a page of Hrananus Maurus’ ‘De Laudibus Sanctaen Crucis’ printed in 1503. #skystorians

The decision to take this offline was made as a precaution following a change in the University's cyber policy, at short notice. It is not our intention to lose the resource, but to put it on a more sustainable, safe and secure technological platform - we don't have a timeline as yet.

If you are bored, I have taken to producing absurd content on tiktok about rare books. Today's joke video is on Giuseppe Rosaccio's 1598 Viaggio da Venetia a Costantinopoli www.tiktok.com/@devinfitzra... (also on my IG, but they cut the vids a bit devinfitzrarebooks)

My caveat for all social media content is this: I do it for fun. I make mistakes in videos. I talk off-the-cuff based on whatever strikes my fancy. I spend exactly 5-7 minutes from filming to editing. These are outreach, not scholarship.

SHAKESPEARE’S LADY EDITORS is now available in paperback! And even more insanely affordable at £23/$30! #bookhistory www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

New group to meet people who love libraries and their immortal charm. Again, if you want to be added, just let me know! #libraries #bookhistory #historyoflibraries #booksky go.bsky.app/ThXvW7V

📣Applications are open for Week 1 of the London Rare Books Summer School: 16-20 June 2025 📣 A 🧵 on all the exciting courses available this year! Register, and find out more here: buff.ly/4ejU2mT Bookings close on 23rd May 2025. #RareBooks

Today, our Backstage Sociability on the Book and Art Market conference is quicking off, supported by #SHARP, @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social and AMU university Poznań at @ Campus Condorcet