We're down to the last handful of tickets for my workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses' in Leeds on 10 July. Please share! www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

7 June 1583: Actors behaving badly today. The earl of Worcester's men, a fairly prominent company, are touring the provinces, and pitch up at Norwich. Sadly, they are not welcomed; their request to play is refused by the mayor to 'avoyd the meetynges of people this whote ... 1/ #earlymodern

A book on Renaissance cartography that I consulted for my dissertation had zero notes. That made it unusable. How could I know whether any facts in it were misunderstood or invented? Unless I found that info in a book with references to primary sources, those "facts" didn't exist. 1/ #academicsky 🗃

Do you know a medievalist nerd who is fun to listen to - someone working on the period c.500-1500, give or take a few decades? Are YOU a medievalist nerd who is fun to listen to? Then perhaps you/they should pitch the @americanmedieval.bsky.social podcast! 🗃 #medieval

I have a note out! It offers some new life-records of this unlovely man. academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

The Art Institute of Chicago just acquired Lavinia Fontana's signed and dated Christ Driving Out the Traders From the Temple (1580)

I’ll be talking about the racialised Merlin in early modern England at this seminar (June 8th, 5pm uk time). Very excited!

Marjane Satrapi

The Library is delighted to announce that another Gaelic manuscript has been digitised and added to @dias-isos.bsky.social. RIA MS B iv 1 is a 17th century paper manuscript containing some 494 pages of mostly early modern Irish tales and verse. www.ria.ie/2026/05/26/a...

If you know a Masters student who would like to go on to the PhD and knows Dutch, there's a Phd position open in Alisa van de Haar's exciting "Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America" project at Leiden: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...

Our Annual Colloquium is next week! Join us on Thursday 11th June for a series of panels and a roundtable on 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

I am teaching my Death in the Middle Ages class this fall for the first time in five years. If you know of, or have written, any recent undergrad-friendly work on the topic (esp. re England), please let me know! Here's the syllabus from the last time I taught it. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a9ebs...

Second: Research Fellowships for Graduate Students (2027-2028) Application deadline is Sept. 15, 2026 beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

Channeling a voice like Edward Alleyn, fittingly, to honor this day of Marlowe mourning—

Here @parergon.bsky.social our call is open for proposals for special issue 45.2 (2028) - please circulate widely! www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...

Oooh! @mairistirlinghill.bsky.social have you checked for any spare change behind the sofa, maybe…? www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

*Arden* is such a rich play often reduced to the authorship question and unfairly dismissed. Join me and @oldfortunatus.bsky.social as we explore not only its resonances with Shakespeare's work, but also questions of domesticity, true crime narratives (then and now), gender, race-making, and more.

8000 fragments! Congratulations, @fragmentarium.bsky.social! Folks, PLEASE survey your early modern bindings and share what you find. #fragmentology

2 weeks from today I'll be celebrating my book's publication day with @tracelarkhall.bsky.social 😄

We're delighted to be launching Prof. Jonathan Sheehan's latest book - On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular. Join us on 10th June at 17:30. Full details below. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/on-th...

kooky idiot medieval people: women who don't have regular periods develop a build of bad humours and become poisonous clever modern scientific western medicine: we have to make a fake period on the contraceptive pill or women will Go Weird

Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640 This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers. spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk

In pre-modern England, everyone ate eels. And not knowing how to deal with them was a literary trope -- a marker of culturally visible stupidity. There's a great example in Shakespeare's KING LEAR. Fun fact: there are more eels in Shakespeare's writing than any other fish! 1/3 🗃️🧪

to paraphrase Ada Palmer in Inventing the Renaissance - the Victorians are, as ever, the true villains of historiography.

🚨 Opportunity! 🚨 Want to come to York for up to a month this June, July or August? Apps are now open for our Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowships based in our glorious #earlymodern Heslington Hall (1/2) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com

I'm delighted to announce that I have joined the team behind @ardenpublisher.bsky.social's fantastic 'Shakespeare in the Theatre' books as a series editor. Do you have a book to write about a Shakespearean practitioner or company? We would love to hear from you! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/sh...

Assistant Professor in English Dublin City University Permanent Expertise in Children’s Literature is essential. Proven experience lecturing in 19th-century literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

It is with very deep pleasure that I share my first Publisher's Marketplace book deal announcement. Submissions for The Monstrous & the Divine are open through to 31 July 2026: www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology

Join us next week for our next 'Race and the Early Modern' seminar. We'll be discussing a paper by @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social on John Satia and the ban on Black Apprenticeship. The pre-circulated materials will be sent out later today. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 2: Henry James, 'The Turn of the Screw' (1898) The novel is a #C19th gothic tale of a governess caring for 2 cherubic children who may or may not be in league with ghosts. Also...that's a nut.

You can now read mine and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social new article about the remedies 18thc women took six weeks before birth. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Next Friday I'll be in Sheffield for this cool workshop/symposium. You can join online (for free!) scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Delighted to have this opportunity to chat about The Malone Society with Beyond Shakespeare!

Does anyone know what might be a realistic weekly rent in London in c1602? I’m thinking Shakespeare with the Mountjoys. Thank you for any leads on this.

Tommy M ftw 🎉

Giving at talk at UCSD this Thurs on early modern green-sickness (aka"the disease of the virgins"), pathologizations of #asexuality, and em love poetry. Finalized my ppt this morning, and happy I've finally managed to create a rough visualization of something I've been struggling to articulate:

Anita Guerrini's review of "Culinary Texts in Context, 1500–1800" is a feature review, free to read, in the latest RQ issue! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... The book is edited by Sarah Peters Kernan & Helga Müllneritsch; it's published in the series Food Culture, Food History before 1900.

Reminder that @louisegeddes.bsky.social and I are welcoming chapter proposals for a planned new volume "Tyranny, Resistance, and the Performance of Early Modern Drama". Deadline to submit is August 31. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...

I gather Kit was on Start the Week today discussing his new book on alchemy, which seems a good reason to give it a shout out. It's hugely enjoyable as well as deeply researched. profilebooks.com/work/the-age...

A reminder about this! Please do share with any students and ECRs working on Christian Missions, 1500-2000 with your networks.

A brilliantly-worked and detailed account of how theatrical and civic worlds were intertwined in early modern London

There's still space on my Summer course. I promise a week of highway robbery, pickpockets, pirates, burglary, murder, execution, & more. It'll be great fun! Crime & Punishment in Early Modern London & the Home Counties | Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford share.google/sEp55JVrpBtZ...

REED Online (ereed.org) and REED: Patrons and Performances (library2.utm.utoronto.ca/otra/reed/) are usually my first points of call on companies' touring. Gurr's Shakespearian Playing Companies has lists of payments for performances on tour for each company, though they should be checked... (1/2)

As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...