Seeing 17th-century envelopes really makes me realise how terrible the 21st-century Italian post is at delivering my mail. They're unable to find my address despite 5 lines of details, and this letter could just be sent to "one of the king's warships" and somehow still reach its recipient!

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Political possibilities in a post-revolutionary world On 26 November, 17.00 CET, join a workshop with Luis De la Peña on South America and the Balkans in the early #19thcentury 👉 loom.ly/C4S9K1I Organised by our Political History and Diplomatic/International History working groups

I'm going to have no choice but start a collection of goofy-looking Lions of St Mark on early modern Venetian banners because what is this

Long train rides accross Europe have the advantage of allowing me to catch up with some reading, including this article warning against the pitfalls of forcing AI through academia. I agree with a lot of the points about the risks on the quality of research to come. zenodo.org/records/1706...

It was a pleasure to take part in #SplendidEncountersXII in Warsaw this week, investigating all the ways to "Fake it till you make it" in early modern diplomacy (perfect for one's impostor syndrome). Thank you again to the organisers for this lovely opportunity!

Our researcher Cosimo Pantaleoni defends his #PhD thesis on Venetian navy crews at the end of the #16thcentury , focusing on the condition of convict rowers on board galleys and connecting it to wider phenomena of banditry and piracy in the #earlymodern Adriatic Sea 👉 loom.ly/nOWcjao

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

Mobilising knowledge as a political tool Read the interview with our #PhD researcher Müberra Kapusuz on the political role of expertise in #17thcentury Ottoman politics, in relation with today’s debates on expertise and authority 👇 📰 #Fridayreads #Expertise

Struggling to participate in the Indian Ocean sea trade Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article by Michael O'Sullivan on the evolution of Ottoman shipping in the Indian Ocean from 1650 to 1900 👉 buff.ly/GN9hF8G Part of our CAPASIA @erc.europa.eu project research 👉 buff.ly/K57rhlr 📚 #Fridayreads

Sono lietissimo di annunciare la pubblicazione del mio primo articolo (sono diventato un accademico vero!), a proposto dei "battibecchi" di rango nella marina francese delle anni 1660 e del loro impatto. Potete trovarlo qui eum.unimc.it/it/catalogo/..., è disponibile in Open Access.

I am immensely happy to relay the publication of my first article (Look Mum, I'm a real academic!), exploring how petty disputes about rank poisoned the French Navy during the 1660s. If you can read Italian, you can head to eum.unimc.it/it/catalogo/..., it's in Open Access!

Le programme des @rdvhistoire.bsky.social est sorti! N'ayant rien de mieux à faire pendant les vacances, voici un petit décompte grossier des conférences de L'Histoire en Débat par période: Inclassable: 24 Antique: 5 Médiévale: 8 Moderne: 13 Contemporaine: 104 Qui aurait pu prédire 🙃

How do perceptions influence intra-European relations? 📰 Read the interview by our #PhD researcher Klaudia Kuchno on perceptions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in #earlymodern Italian princedoms 👇 📚 #MyEUIResearch

I have arrived in Aix to take part in @ndh-network.bsky.social 's 6th conference, on "The World and Europe: Diplomatic Transfers, Networks, Representations and Practices". Looking forward to present on naval ceremonies in the early modern Indian Ocean later today!

🚨 CFP "Forced Mobility and the Making of Knowledge (16c Naples, Rome & Venice)" Organised by Fiona Lejosne, Oury Goldman and myself 4-6 March 2026 @ehess.fr Proposals in French/English/Italian welcome Deadline: 1 July 2025 Don't hesitate to apply & share widely ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co...

For French speakers: Lucie Ecorchard et Romane Suchet m'ont donné la chance de participer à un épisode de leur podcast, L'Objet de la Recherche, pour discuter d'histoire matérielle des pavillons modernes et de mes recherches en général. Vous pouvez le retrouver ici: open.spotify.com/episode/66mF...

Members of the project will participate in the conference "Early Modern Diplomacy across the Religious Divide: Justification, Defamation, Obfuscation, and Misapprehension" (Dubrovnik, 16-17 May 2025)

Turns out explaining my PhD in one minute is even harder than writing it! Thank you @eui-eu.bsky.social for the challenge!

The list of books available to review for Diplomatica has been updated! You can find it here: newdiplomatichistory.org/books-for-re... If one of them catches your eye, please feel free to write us at [email protected]. There's something for everyone!

Found the French Monty Python soldier in my English archives today: "I hailed him [a French ship] and called to him from off my poop to strike [his flag] for the King of England. He made answer that hee wore the King of France's Colours and would not strike and immediately filled his sails"

This little guy from 1686 is an accurate depiction of my face when trying to read some of these records

This staging could be especially useful during peace congresses, such as the Congress of Carlowitz, during which Konstantinos Poulios demonstrates that strategies of negotiation worked best for diplomats able to combine an orator's arguing skills with a merchant's bargaining abilities.

Nouvel épisode ! Et aujourd'hui, Costanza Lugnani vient nous parler du pavillon impérial en mer du Nord et en Méditerranée au XVIIIe siècle. De qui ce pavillon du Saint-Empire, hissé en haut des mâts des navires, est-il l’emblème et que nous apprend-il ? pdca.st/FSw4

Updated prog for NDH6 Aix-en-Provence 22-24 May ndh2025.sciencesconf.org Thanks to Nic Badalassi as our host 👍 @luikki.bsky.social @dwebster.bsky.social @florianwagner.bsky.social @maximemorel.bsky.social @pavoljakubec.bsky.social @lukasschemper.bsky.social @karenskjoldager.bsky.social

Good evening, early modern hive mind! This is the first time I am doing this, and I could do with a little help or shared opinions. What date would you read in this picture: 1635 or 1638? I am torn between a weird 8 or an 5 written twice...

Thank you Wikipedia, I often get them confused

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Hello everyone! I'm a 3rd-year PhD researcher at the EUI in Florence, working on naval ceremony in the seventeenth century, more specifically on flags and their meanings. I have an interest in early modern diplomatic and maritime history, and the history of representations/symbols.