This sequel to the award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror is now 57% funded! #projectwelove www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

PhD student Arielle Jasiewicz-Gill (Durham) has written our blogpost this month on her years-long search after St Bridget of Sweden in English prayerbooks. How do you get close to a past that seems so far away? 🤔 wp.me/p7o0HV-sT #SkyStorians #History

Now...it's also possible that he was murdered by his niece for the inheritance, but it's a much better story with the eels. So we'll go with that. And on that basis, here's a helpful chart to help you understand the relationship between historical deaths and eels. 2/2

I just love maps, okay?!

And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?

Temptation of Saint Anthony w/ self-portrait as giant hell-mouth spewing demons. Plus an artist in his brain (of course!). By Joos van Craesbeeck, whose day is today.

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

Congratulations to four members of our Research Team on the publication of their new books! memorients.com/news/memos-t...

I own one of the pictured cat&coffee project bags by @alisakbeer.bsky.social and I use it all the time! It is so well-made. If you're a crafter, check out her shop!

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

sometimes I feel weird or bad or sad about the world and then I look at some of my favorite DH projects and feel a tiny bit more hopeful: memp.ace.fordham.edu ebba.english.ucsb.edu tudornetworks.net dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/ historiacartarum.org tell me your favorites!!

What's up, Doc? Channeling his best Bugs, a bunny bashes the cymbals in the top margin of f. 313v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu

Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten." #copyediting

This Black History Month, please consider donating to this incredible place in my town: the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Community Center. They host mutual aid and community programming for all ages, and have an extensive library. Help them continue to exist! givebutter.com/ARCC-2026-BHM

This Black History Month, please consider donating to this incredible place in my town: the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Community Center. They host mutual aid and community programming for all ages, and have an extensive library. Help them continue to exist! givebutter.com/ARCC-2026-BHM

Exciting hands-on workshop session! “Renaissance Pigments II: Native Alaskan Formline Painting” on Saturday, February 21 from 2:30–4:00 PM. Details here: rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee... Email [email protected] to reserve your spot! #RenSA26 #RenTwitter #earlymodern

Fellowship Opportunity! The Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship Deadline March 1, 2026 $2,000, the fellowship supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700. www.rsa.org/page/keberfe...

📣 Grad Students: Receive complimentary conference registration by volunteering to work just one shift! If you've already registered, we'll refund your registration fee. Get details & sign up here: forms.gle/7EEUMj1QTo6r... #RenTwitter #RenSA26 #earlymodern

This inspired me to revisit one of my favorite folk songs, "Julian of Norwich" (by Sydney Carter, here performed by David Coffin). More academics should know about this song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE9V...

I found the boombox that I had in high school. Every time I look at it, I get a jolt of joy. I love having this object in my space again. It was manufactured in 1999. The sound quality is spectacular. I've listened to an album of chansons de Bretagne 4 times today. And I can make mix tapes again!

Decent image of Eleanor Rykener's court record now up on Wikimedia Commons, with CC BY 4.0 license. Use with wild abandon for talks, seminars, all the good queer & trans history stuff #MedievalSky 🗃️ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...

ICYMI: The Winter 2025 issue of RQ is our first special issue! Resource Landscapes: Ecologies, Labor, & Investment in the Early Modern World, edited by Tina Asmussen and Renée Raphael, is packed with seven(!) articles + the editors' brilliant introduction. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current

Open for nominations: RSA Renaissance Studies Article Prize! For articles published in 2025 on the topic of Renaissance ecologies - ecology in art and literature, humans and the natural world, resources and extractive industries, natural and designed environments, etc. www.rsa.org/general/cust...

📣 We are thrilled to announce that the Winter 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.4) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.

With 3 major art shows on C17th-18th women, is the Autumn of Early Modern #WomenArtists! Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 nmwa.org/exhibitions/... Michaelina Wautier-Painter www.khm.at/en/exhibitio... Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜ The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces. They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading. #bookhistory 💙📚📜

The new issue of Renaissance Quarterly is *fantastic* & in it you'll find: - Disabled artistic expression of Hendrick Goltzius (whose hand self-portrait is the cover of this issue) - *Incredible* drama between 16th-century shipbuilders - Visual poetry about Thomas Becket - VOLCANOES! Go read it!

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

Hello everyone! Sharing a cfp for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds next summer, organised by Gummies Marie Besson and Brooklyn Arnot. Check it out!

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰 @ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

On the Anthropic piracy settlement & compensation for authors whose work was stolen by their A.I. machine: Authors -- check if your work was pirated by Anthropic here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Then you can check the copyright and get compensated as part of the federal lawsuit.

can't agree more. more print, local print, traditional publishers, self-made, all of it.

One of our featured reviews for this issue -- free to access!

I'm so excited to see this article appear in an upcoming special issue of RQ!

We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us. They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

Check out the new issue of RQ! There's the Bennett Lecture from @rsaorg.bsky.social 2024, PLUS articles on Muslim war narratives, race and blushing in Renaissance art, multilingual migrants, and tombs as treasure. Cover image is Lautaro, a Mapuche leader of Indigenous resistance against the Spanish.

Remember to call or write to Stephan Bunker, Wayne Farrin, Dani O'Halloran, and David Rollins to thank them for supporting trans kids in Maine!

anyone who’s done sustained historical research will recognize the feeling that it just takes soooo long. SO much longer than you’d think when starting the idea that there’s some magic bullet that resolves this work so you can just churn it out faster is antithetical to the core ethos of the method

Lost in this 4,500 word article is the opaque recognition that LLMs are the tech sector's solution to human labor cost. This is not an issue of labor (we have it) or value (we pay for it), it's an imposed concern about productivity from an economic point of view (it's expensive!).

keep running into people saying they will stay on facebook no matter what because to do otherwise is to "let them take away our voices" and I just ... don't think we need to trust corporate platforms with our voices. especially when said platforms just see said voices as content to be mined for $$$

I’ve noticed an uptick in dismissals of the concerns of teachers about AI. Some say that it’s *their* job to find a way to evaluate work that AI can’t replicate. I would just ask that you talk to real teachers and really listen. I’d also suggest reading a bit about writing and the brain.

The horrors persist, but today I am excited to see that my review of "May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth" was published in the Mariner's Mirror. It was a joy to review this incredible collection of Franklin letters. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy #WorldBeeDay 🐝 These are the industrious #AberdeenBestiary bees. They are going into hives known as skeps (from the Anglo Saxon, skeppa, for basket). These are made from woven straw or other plant fibre and require the beekeeper to have great skill to harvest the honey and not harm the bees.