Die #Hofzwergin Luisa wendet sich im 16. Jh. an die spanische Königin: Ihr Bruder durfte wegen seiner Größe nicht dem #Franziskanerorden beitreten. @juliagebke.bsky.social über die Verhandlung von körperlichen Normvorstellungen & sozialen Grenzen. habsmon.hypotheses.o...#Hofzwergin#Franziskanerordenihb-oeaw.bsky.social

Liebe #earlymodern #skystorians, habt ihr Lust auf eine kleine Zeitreise an den spanischen Königshof im 16. Jahrhundert? Und wollt ihr wissen, was Luisa, die "Hofzwergin", und die spanische Königin, Anna von Österreich, umtrieb? Dann schaut mal hier👇 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

📯 Netzwerke der Nonnen are a material object AND open access available! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/netzwer...

Francisco Ortiz, originally from Santoña, was appointed as shipmaster of the Fort de Nantes by the Spanish charterer, Francisco Sánchez de Madrid. His personal archive, comprising more than 500 documents, reveals many details about his personal life and his social relationships.

Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool. #earlymodern #witches #halloween #scholar #academic #gothic #horror #history britishonlinearchives.com/collections/...

#earlymodern ads are never boring! An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟 St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.

How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680? His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians

A great presentation from Lyndal Roper, now Q&A time. Did you know that between 70,000 and 100,000 people died in just two to three months during the German Peasants' War? This map shows the extent of the destruction - hundreds of castles, convents, and monastaries were attacked #16thC #EarlyModern

Whoop, Whoop! Verrückt und freudig! doi.org/10.24894/978...

OA, #earlymodern #bookhistory: Visuelle Geschichtsvermittlung Zur Medialität historischer Lehrwerke für Kinder und Jugendliche im langen 18. Jahrhundert. Von @tinahartfiel.bsky.social

Studies are beginning to reveal fissures in the argument that AI boosts productivity, writes Tech Policy Press fellow @eryk.bsky.social. Nonetheless, companies and governments are pouring investments into speculative growth without ample evidence.

It’s that time of year again! Here is the term card for the upcoming talks. As always, everyone is welcome! Fortnightly, 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, @jesusoxford.bsky.social

#PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

Liebe #EarlyModern #Skystorians, am 14.10.2025, 17 Uhr, werden meine Kolleginnen vom @ihb-oeaw.bsky.social und ich gemeinsam die Frage nach #agency von Frauen in der Geschichte diskutieren. Wir freuen uns auf euch! Online-Teilnahme ist möglich, gerne hier anmelden 👇 www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...

#earlymodern ads are never boring! Diana Maccartney dismissed servant taking revenge pretending be the wife of her former employer and running him into debt! Post Boy, May 7, 1720.

An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history! #EarlyModern 🗃️

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

What would you do if you won the lottery? 💵💰💸 In the 18th century, people allready loved the lottery. Here they’re fighting eachother to enter the lottery agency in the Kalverstraat, in Amsterdam.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200110487

Dear #skystorians interested in experiences and #DisabilityHistory, The 8th annual HEX Conference, Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures is coming soon (9–11/03/2026). The deadline for proposals is 30/11/2025. For the CfP, take a look here: events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...

Ch 6 of Voices of Thunder tells the inspiring story of the London lace woman Elizabeth Attaway, the first C17th woman to preach publicly to a mixed-sex congregation. Her Baptist church did not let women preach, but Attaway did not allow her low social status or her sex to be a barrier … 1/2

Today, I accidently delved into the world of gambling in 16th-century Netherlands. Apparently, King Philip II of Spain believed that if his governor-general, Margaret of Parma, had no means of securing money, she could always draw from the lottery. #earlymodern #skystorians

Dear #skystorians, do you sometimes struggle to bring those historical voices that were silenced and unheard until now to life? I've been ruminating on #earlymodern voices and #disability history. You can read more here: www.public-disabilityhistory.org/2025/09/disa...

#Hochschulkommunikation — macht bald auch KI?! Diese (berechtigte) Sorge war heute ebenfalls Thema. Kürzungen drohen an vielen Orten. Aber: Kommunikator_innen sind unersetzlich! Von vielen Gründen dafür hab ich hier nur 1 rausgegriffen: KI hat keinen politischen 🧭 & den braucht’s dringend! #WissKomm

For all those #skystorians hispanohablantes (please excuse my Spanglish 😉) interested in #earlymodern diplomacy, here the CfP for the workshop "Más allá de los embajadores" iehm.uib.es/actividades/... 2026 - Seminario diplomacia - Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad

Who would have thought that early modern wills could create such a burst of creativity! 👏 This post reminded me of the fascinating artsy and sensory ways to engage with history. There is still so much to explore...

📢 ICYMI: in our new blog post Laura Sangha talks about her collaboration with a musician to explore wills, history and creative approaches 👇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Wie aber werden jetzt Oszillationen vom Atemrhythmus beeinflusst? Ein Mechanismus, der vor allem aus der Tierliteratur hergeleitet ist, ist in dieser schematischen Abbildung dargestellt: Der Atemrhythmus selbst entsteht im Hirnstamm, in einem Kernbereich namens 'präBötzinger-Komplex' (pBC).

We love this tiny illustration of a Bridgettine nun engrossed in a book! She can be found in the border of Sister Mary Dominic's vow in the Syon Abbey archive. 📷 EUL MS 389/COM/2/2/3/4 (date: 1924-27) #TinyTuesday #SyonAbbey #Nuntastic #Archives

🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨 Forget lemon juice tricks 🍋 — early spies were far more cunning. Some even forged invisible ink letters to keep the game alive! Hear @misswalsingham.bsky.social & @elegantfowl.bsky.social 🎧 Listen now! pod.fo/e/3251ad 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor...

Our September colloqium is nigh! Join us this Saturday for informal chat and sharing. Everyone is welcome to participate or lurk. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

Anthony Delaney isn't on here, so here's a shout-out for his new book, Queer Georgians - published today! It looks fabulous . . . 🌈📚🗃️ www.penguin.co.uk/books/460692... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social There's an online event with AD and @thegozfather.bsky.social (The National Archives) on 17 Sept . . .

This looks like a great #CfP for #EarlyModern #skystorians, especially the #nuntastic and #reformazing bunch. "Religious Embodiment and Conversion Practices in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, 1500-1800," in Copenhagen on 23 and 24 April 2026. Abstracts due 26 November 2025. #16thC #17thC

CFP: Religious Embodiment and Conversion Practices in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, 1500-1800 https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156037 Copenhagen, 23.04.2026-24.04.2026, Juliane Engelhardt / Ariane Viktoria Fichtl, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Bewerbungsschluss: 26.11.2025

On a visit to a stately home near Boston, I was infatuated with this article of furniture in the library: a stepladder that folds into an armchair. What would be in your dream #library? #BookSky #WritingCommunity

A vignette from 1633: one of the Merchant Taylors' almswomen on Tower Hill is sick and the Company buy her a flock bed, bolster, rug and blanket for her comfort.

New #OpenAccess article from @drjpw.bsky.social in Transactions of the @royalhistsoc.org on 'mad' supplicants in Elizabethan England, showing how 'distressed subjects exercised rhetorical agency when petitioning those in power.' #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

De gegevens van duizenden WIC-opvarenden zijn nu online te doorzoeken #wicopvarenden wic-opvarenden.dekok.xyz/browse

To ensure that Disability Studies will stay relevant and keep flourishing in Germany's academic landscape, please consider signing (there is an English version as well): weact.campact.de/petitions/di...

Gift link. In (at least) 1979-1989 Volkswagen enslaved Brazilian workers to work in their cattle ranch. Volkswagen denies it happened, but the survivors disagree. The details are horrifying, be warned. wapo.st/40v10l0

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

Have you dreamed of seeing or reading books recently? Well, according to a German publication about dreams and their meaning from 1603 this means: future sadness and depression. Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40... #booksky #bookhistory

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

Antonio Manuel ne Vunda, Kongo ambassador to the Pope in Rome in 1607-8. His polychrome marble bust usually graces his funeral monument high above ground in Santa Maria Maggiore. In the Global Baroque exhibition at the Quirinale, you can see him almost eye to eye #earlymodern #Kongo #AfricanHistory

For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern intersections of medicine, gender, and race. Just dive into this fascinating post by Carolin Schmitz 1/3: www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...

MONDAY!!! Join us for an exciting talk by @michaelaidan.bsky.social on Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the #EarlyModern Iberian Atlantic 28 April, 5:30PM, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...) #SkyStorians

I am already excited to attend and introduce the keynote lecture by Dagmar Herzog this evening. For those of you #skystorians, who are not in Vienna right now: You can join us via Zoom.

“The blank page is not blank. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we always write on top of a palimpsest.” -- Rosmarie Waldrop

Me, watching the news. Watercolor of a malignant growth springing from the eye of a woman, 19th century. The eye protruded for two months. In the righthand corner, you can see a monochrome sketch of the eyeball and tumour after its removal. [Image: Wellcome Collection]

#EarlyModern #WomensHistoryMonth Women Writers Online is free to access till the end of March. 470 full text works covering the 16th to 19th centuries, including the famous and not so well known. wwo.wwp.northeastern.edu/WWO/search?b...