British Milton Seminar and Andrew Marvell Society via Zoom on Friday 24 October 2025 at 2.00 pm (BST) / 9.00 am (EDT) bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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/...

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. listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

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

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) ianls.com/wp-content/u...

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...

5th June 2025 Balliol College, Oxford “Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean” www.themedievalacademyblog.org/transmitting...

We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts! #earlymodern #history

📣 New open access publication on early modern student notes, in which Leuven features quite prominently, as it has a long tradition of research in this source type (e.g. Magister Dixit, DaLeT). An extra surplus is that it has appeared in the year of KU Leuven's sexcentenary.

My new article, "Wild Horses," is now out in Annals of Science! It argues that the Manchu conquest of China—as presented to Europeans by the Jesuit Martino Martini—shaped dialectical theories of the rise and fall of empires, and of the role of horses therein 🐎 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us on April 24 for a lively discussion of how teaching Spenser can solve the crisis of attention in the classroom! Or at least distract us from other crises. Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

‘Milton’s Diodatian Poetics’ in the latest issue of Milton Studies is now accessible on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl...

28 MARCH: John Gallagher on “The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?” IHR Low Countries seminar 5:30 pm GMT (UK clocks not yet changed), online & in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar...

My article ‘Milton’s Diodatian Poetics’ has been published in the latest issue of Milton Studies. Check it out! #rsa2025 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/milton-...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

The LAGOOS team (www.lagoos.org) is delighted to announce the publication of the first volume of K. B. Hase’s “secret” diary on the @transkribus.bsky.social edition platform: app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos. The edition is #open-access. 1/4

📢 Call for Papers! The GrECI Concluding Conference will take place on 22-24 October 2025 in Nicosia, Cyprus, exploring the cultural legacy of Ancient Greece in early modern Europe. 🗓 Submit your abstract (250 words) by 1 April 2025. 💡 Some travel funding available [1/2]

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... New Catullus 64 accessible online

Enjoy this interview with Yanni Kotsonis, author of The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism, a sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece. press.princeton.edu/ideas/yanni-... #Greece #GreekHistory #History

GrECI is now on BlueSky! 🌍 GrECI consists of three partner universities and studies the reception and appropriation of ancient Greek culture in early modern Europe (15th-17th century). For more, see greci-twinning.org #GrECI #CulturalHeritage #Skystorians #ClassicalStudies #ClassicalReception

Are you an early modernist & working on the History of Ideas? There is an exciting 3-month new fellowship for an ECR who wants to do research in Amsterdam in 2026: thijssen-schoute.nl/fellowship/ It comes with a stipend of €2000 per month & a workplace at @huygensknaw.bsky.social Deadline: May 15th.

📕Publication Day 🥳 Get your copy of "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece" now at @harvardpress.bsky.social or at your favorite place to buy books! #earlymodern #skystorians www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Monday 20th January, British School at Athens: ‘Poetry between Languages: Writing and Translating Poetry in English and Greek’ www.bsa.ac.uk/events/david...

Seminar alert: Rebecca Bowen will speak on 'Figures of Love: Imagining Amore in the Early Italian Tradition', 16 Jan, in person IHR London and also via Zoom, register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/figur.... All welcome! Please share.

CfP: Seventeenth International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies. “Works in Progress: New Approaches” Princeton University. Friday, May 2, 2025. Deadline: Friday, February 7, 2025 hellenic.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

The RSA 2025 panel I’ve organised, sponsored by @warburginstitute.bsky.social , will take place 11:00–12:30 on Friday, March 21. rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...

Proofs! My article ‘Milton’s Diodatian Poetics’ about Charles Diodati will be published in the next issue (67.1) of Milton Studies. The Appendix includes new texts, translations, and commentary to Diodati’s surviving Latin and Greek works.

It was such a pleasure to deliver my Fellowship Lecture, “Advocating Greece’s Liberation in the Seventeenth Century”, with Professor Anthony Grafton as respondent, at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies on Oct. 22. hellenic.princeton.edu/events/2024/...