The British Academy invite applications for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026. The scheme aims to promote the study of Western medieval manuscripts, particularly those of British interest: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1

Epitaph of Beguine Joanna Vanden Straeten, beneath a statue of St. Catherine of Siena, Ghent, St. Elizabeth's church, formerly of the city's Grand Beguinage. #nuntastic #FlemishArt

I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions! #FlemishArt #WomensHistory #ArtHistory agenart.org/the-infanta-...

The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025. www.rsa.org/general/cust...

I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions! #FlemishArt #WomensHistory #ArtHistory agenart.org/the-infanta-...

Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026. www.folger.edu/research/the...

Early modernists! I'm reading abt the 1662 Russian embassy to London where Pepys records gifts of 'furs, hawks, carpets, cloths of tissue, and sea-horse teeth'. I'm intrigued by the seahorse teeth bc...seahorse don't have teeth, right? Are these other parts of the seahorse's body or something else?🪸

Plan of the Aarschot Beguinage, 1673. Such a lovely orchard! #nuntastic

For grad students and recent PhD's: The Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is hosting a virtual “office hours” on the topic of applying for fellowships on Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:30–11:30 am (EST) Sign up at www.mfa.org/event/cna-of...

Utterly charming devotional portrait at the Lier Augustinian (Zwartzusters) convent. The patron, Magdalena de Backer, included her name and the date of 1690 in an inscription. Photo via the KIK-IRPA. #nuntastic

Epitaph of Joanna Hasaert and her nieces/cousins Marie Ghisquiere and Margareta van Mosschroen, all Beguines at the Ghent Grand Beguinage. Installed below a statue of St. John. Ghent, St. Elisabeth's church. #nuntastic

Epitaph of Beguine Joanna Vanden Straeten, beneath a statue of St. Catherine of Siena, Ghent, St. Elizabeth's church, formerly of the city's Grand Beguinage. #nuntastic #FlemishArt

Portrait of an Augustinian sister from the Antwerp Zwartzusters convent.Sixteenth century. I bet we can match that coat of arms to a name! #nuntastic #FlemishArt

Friday writing session: wrapping up conference paper on #earlymodern Spanish convent households in transit. An astonishing number of nuns moved across Spain, founding and reforming convents, being shuffled to others as need arose, etc. How did they preserve a sense of household? #nuntastic #travel

The Virgin Mary on the rostrum of the pulpit at the Herentals Beguine church, framed by symbols of the Evangelists. Late 17th century. #nuntastic #FlemishArt

Angels guard the passages through a screen at the #Diest Beguine church, which probably separated the Beguine community from the laity during services. Probably by the sculptor Jan Mason, aboutu 1670. #nuntastic #FlemishArt #ArtHistory

Utterly charming devotional portrait at the Lier Augustinian (Zwartzusters) convent. The patron, Magdalena de Backer, included her name and the date of 1690 in an inscription. Photo via the KIK-IRPA. #nuntastic

Hi all, does anyone have access to this? Wellens, Robert. "Le domaine de Mariemont au XVIe siècle (1546-1598)." Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles 50 (1961): 241–247.

Dog is very annoyed about its idiotic haircut. Nevertheless it was immortalized in 1580 by Hans Hoffmann of Nuremberg. Today is his day.

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists. We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still. Archaeologists 🥺 www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

The three children of Christian II of Denmark: Dorothea, John, & Christina. So much excellence in this picture, painted 1526 by Jan Gossaert.

There is a wonderful new book about this artist - Maria Sibylla Merian By Catherine Powell-Warren Available to UK/ROW consumers from @lhartbooks.bsky.social: www.lundhumphries.com/products/mar... Available to US/North American consumers from Getty Publications: shop.getty.edu/products/mar...

An update on the nuns on the run.

Exciting #NewAcq: a manuscript occasional Dutch poem, written and recited for the jubilee of Maria Anna Barbara Van der Meer, in the Tongeren beguinage in 1775 #Nuntastic. We have plenty of these in print, but few in #manuscript and none as a 📜 with wooden shafts! 📚💙 #BookHistory (EHC 912571)

One of the most interesting books I’ve read in a while. Conceptions of property in Soviet economics, from micro and macro lenses, but fun! Like this lil glass hedgehog, for example.

Delighted to be giving a lecture on my new book at the V&A Museum on 23rd October- it’s free and open to all www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Wax sculptor Daniel Neuberger (1621-1680) made this "Kaiserautomat" a life-size automaton of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, constructed out of wax, human hair, silk, and wood, that could apparently move via a series of internal clockworks (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog! Sofonisba’s Impact by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social artherstory.net/sofonisbas-i... Howard discusses Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola's influence on other Italian #womenartists, including her own sisters.

#Newbookannouncement! Lavinia's Wondrous Portraits by Emanuele Lugli, Chiara Palillo corraini.com/en/lavinia-w... Lavinia’s wondrous portraits brings children closer to the work of Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), a professional artist from Bologna who was famous above all as a portrait painter.

🌷 "Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is." (Lord Tennyson) 🌸 The Dutch National Library & De Gruyter Brill @dgb-mem.bsky.social warmly invite you to the festive book presentation of...

This is gorgeous!

Not even a week after academia.edu's new TOS claiming the right to use all content to create AI slop (negating the former opt-out), they "cite" me on an SCSC panel w/ which I had nothing to do. My paper existed. The panel existed. The panel organizer did not mention me. Account deleted.

Just deleted my academia.edu account after 17 (!) years -- the company's exploitative new terms of use are outrageous, and it's a shame such a blatant commercial sell-out is able to operate under the .edu top-level domain. If you are still on academia.edu, please consider deleting your account too.

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

I hate to talk about Christmas at a time like this (it being only Sept.), but if you're thinking about commissioning a gift map for Christmas...'tis the season! I've done a number of gift maps over the last few years, and they take a while. So now's the time to get in line!

Prepping a manuscript on #ModernArt? Leonard A. Lauder Spring Publication Grants support new work in the field. Max award $12,000. Deadline September 30, 2025. Info: buff.ly/gG8jWKp #ArtHistory

If you're in Florence next weekend, this looks amazing! And fabulous poster, kudos to the graphic designer :) Conference: "Early Modern Mansplaining! Male-Authored Histories Of Women" 25-26 September 2025 Palazzo Alberti, Via de’ Benci 10, Florence

What Did Dinosaurs Actually Look Like? www.thamesandhudson.com/blogs/all-ne... #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Plaeontology #JurassicWorld

The Call for Applications for the Center for Netherlandish Art, MFA Boston Research Fellowships 2026-2027 is now open. The program supports young scholars (MA through postoc level). www.mfa.org/collections/.... Deadline December 1, 2025.

The Harry Ransom Center @UTAustin 2026–2027 research fellowships support projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, women's and gender studies. Online info sessions coming up: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

Like a scene from "Ben Hur": For #ReliefWednesday a terracotta relief depicting an accident at a chariot-race at the Circus Maximus. The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance. muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...

A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...

Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers

✨ #Ambizione: The SNSF is awarding 76.4 million Swiss francs to 92 early-career researchers. They will receive an average of 830,000 francs to lead their first independent research project at a higher education institution in Switzerland. 🚀 ℹ️https://buff.ly/WGvNr7E

A new episode of The British Food History Podcast is out now! This week, I spoke with @alexbamji.bsky.social of the University of Leeds about a rare, newly discovered Early Modern pamphlet on cheese. Available on all podcast platforms open.spotify.com/episode/1We5...