Yesterday @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students @humanitiesuu.bsky.social to The Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, the 17th-century hunting lodge of William III & Mary II. They interviewed curators Paul Rem, Hanna Klarenbeek, Kristin Duysters & Marit Brands on creative and global exchanges at court.

Our excursion is part of the module 'Creativity in the Early Modern City: Antwerp, Paris, and Amsterdam' @humanitiesuu.bsky.social that I coordinate and teach with @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social. The course explores transnational & global exchanges of creativity between French and Netherlandish cities.

#PhD fellowship within the DECADOCS network: ‘Decadent Travellers and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century’ decadocs.blog/research-pro...

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)

My colleague @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students to the fantastic new exhibition at the city hall, now a royal palace, about this sculptor: Artus Quellinus (1609-1668). We were warmly welcomed by conservator Marjan Pantjes.

Mijn allereerste publicatie was met dank aan deze fantastische scriptieprijs van @tijdschriftholl.bsky.social. Stuur je mooie onderzoek dus vooral in!

Kom naar de dag van de historische Nederlandse letterkunde op vrijdag 28 november. Thema: Crisis! Uitdagingen en kansen: www.ru.nl/over-ons/age...

Ik wil een lang interview zien met ex-minister Veldkamp. Door een goede journalist, zoals Mariëlle Tweebeeke.

How long will it take before graduate programs in History that focus on non-Anglophone regions get the same treatment? 🗃️

This is a more thoughtful, measured view of Aeneas than that shared by the Guardian, here, www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Very happy to see this piece out: "Isotta Nogarola as a Public Intellectual." New evidence about her famous Defense of Eve, and an appraisal of how it squares with what we know of women Latin authors in 15th c. Italy. Open Access: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

Another "method": scrolling through catalogue search results. Earlier today, I searched for 18th century #manuscripts in French in our library, and found a 144 pages long epic poem on the Life of Christ, written by a Flemish woman, Thérèse Constance de la Croix O.Carm. #Nuntastic.

We have some lovely early ownership inscriptions amongst our early modern books for auction this week, including several with contemporary female ownership inscriptions. #rarebooks #books #earlymodern #herbook #bookauction #provenance #bookhistory #inscription stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars

French, German and Italian will likely only be taught up to a passive B2-level at Utrecht University… What a dreadful prospect

Including a wee little piece (Open Access) by yours truly on uncovering female voices in male-authored medieval manuscript sources…

Alas… no pope Pizzaballus

Again a fascinating new post on a Latin book owned by a woman—this time nobody less than Bathsua Makin!

I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true "If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times […]

nice! The Neulateinisches Jahrbuch is now on #Brepols online: https://www.brepolsonline.net/loi/neulat It's closed access, unfortunately, but at least the articles have a DOI now and the metadata can be retrieved online. @neolatin cc @digneolatin

Een klap in het gezicht van alle recent ontslagen onderzoekers.

New evidence of an early modern woman writing her name on a Latin book!

CFP Reminder: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

#Neulatein​ische Neuerscheinung: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Brian P. Copenhaver, und Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Nine Hundred Conclusions. I Tatti Renaissance Library, ITRL 100. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2025. #renaissance #philosophy @neolatin @renaissance

Ieder bericht waarin de drie lettergrepen Ep-po Bruins voorkomen, is een zorgelijk bericht voor de Nederlandse wetenschap. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/04/de-g...

A reminder that Hypatia publishes translations of important pieces of feminist philosophy from other languages into English, up to the usual word-limit of 10k. Can be a paper or a book chapter, and it's the would-be translator that makes the submission. Scroll down to 'Feminism in translation':

Hey look it's a postdoctoral position to study the codicology of middle-eastern manuscripts in Leiden: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Het lijkt er toch steeds meer op dat Eppo Bruins de meest incompetente en opportunistische minister van OCW is die Nederland in mensenheugenis heeft gehad. Eerst een sector helemaal in crisis storten, en dan, terwijl er een miljard bezuinigd wordt, >

Long-established US conference on women's history has lost its venue for 2026 due to 'increased political pressure on academic institutions'.

De grootste Nederlandse stilist aller tijden was waarschijnlijk Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536). neerlandistiek.nl/2025/03/eras...

Rotterdam geeft alle inwoners gratis abonnement op bibliotheek en schaft boetes af www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/r...

This is a critically important contribution to the ongoing efforts to recover hidden female labor and artisanship. Three cheers for Dulcia and Guba and Claricia and all of the wondrous women involved in the work of creating medieval manuscripts! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵Exciting PSA from the SNLS on behalf of the journal Vates: Announcing the return of Vates: the journal of New Latin Poetry Previous 14 issues, 2010-18: vatesblog.wordpress.com New series, similar but with some improvements, to appear regularly from mid-2025: ISSN 2976-9671.

The Trump regime expands its discouraged (BANNED) words across federal agencies. The list is long Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

De internationale vrouw die ik vandaag graag in het zonnetje zet is Mencia de Mendoza y Fonseca, markiezin van Cente (1508-1554). Zij behoorde tot de hoogste Spaanse adel, kreeg een op humanistische leest geschoeide opvoeding en werd een leerling van Juan de Vives.

April 25 - Early Modern Women on the Move: Space, Materiality, and Transnationalism www.eventbrite.com/e/early-mode... Keynote: Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) Gendered Paths and Spaces in the Early Modern World

My review of Piet Schrijvers’ translation of the ‘Leiden Odes’ on het Leids Ontzet, by 16th-cent. humanist Janus Dousa: nederlandsklassiekverbond.nl/recensie/poe...

Ik moet de laatste tijd af en toe denken aan Galileo Galilei (Over gender.) neerlandistiek.nl/2025/02/en-t...

www.minnesotaccec.com/ccec The Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) has a very nice Summer program and grants.

Hello Bluesky! We are the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, which promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies.

KNHG lanceert fonds voor historisch onderzoek historiek.net/knhg-lanceer...

Italiaans moet gewoon blijven in Leiden. www.openpetition.eu/nl/petition/...

Vers van de pers! Een stuk over onderzoek naar boekeigenaarschap van vrouwen uit de Republiek in tijdschrift 'De Boekenwereld'. Ik bespreek hoe de Latijnse gedichten van Margareta van Godewijck (1627-1677) indirect het bestaan van zestien boeken tonen die ze - waarschijnlijk - thuis had staan.

*NEW Blog Post* Read about our intern Lily Hegener and @diyclassics.bsky.social and their work to integrate women’s voices into our Latin linguistic dataset. #classics #latin isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." -- MLK Jr., 11/8/56

I created a starter pack for Neo-Latin Studies. Please let me know in the comments if you or people you know work in this field and I will add your profiles. I would love to connect with more colleagues in this field on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/LYukbpC #ClassicsBluesky @neolatinsociety.bsky.social

Een prachtig begin van het nieuwe jaar op het Nationaal Archief: het Johan de Witt-team heeft een bijzondere vondst gedaan: een nieuwjaarsgedicht én de schrijfster geïdentificeerd. Onze bevindingen: youtube.com/shorts/eK0_Z... #dewittfluencers

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

6 januari 1667 - the Swedish sailor Swen Roelofsen (20) is arrested and detained, he denies he had a snowball in his hand, nor did he throw that snowball to 'an important man from the government' ('sienelijk heer in Reegerrigh'). #Amsterdam #17thCentury #OTD