*small embarrassed voice* A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s. doi.org/10.1093/libr...

Yale has announced our upcoming visiting speaker series as well as my spring seminar on the history of institutional legitimacy in higher education: news.yale.edu/2025/10/06/c...

Yale has announced our upcoming visiting speaker series as well as my spring seminar on the history of institutional legitimacy in higher education: news.yale.edu/2025/10/06/c...

🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:

Enjoyed reviewing this interesting and important book on the Wars of Religion by Thierry Amalou, *La Sorbonne entre en guerre de religion: autorité universitaire, censure et pouvoir royal en France (v. 1551–v. 1589)* academic.oup.com/fh/article-a...

FYI, here's what I ultimately came up with: samuelrutherford.com/wp-content/u... Thanks to everyone who shared their own resources!

Buchtipp: Ulrich L. Lehner, »Inszenierte Keuschheit. Sexualdelikte in der Gesellschaft Jesu im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert« (Open Access)

Incunable-Stravaganza?! In case, (like me), you missed both the early printing shows at the #BnF (2023) and Princeton Libraries (2018), here's a handy dual(ish) review... europenowjournal.org/2023/11/20/i...

First bsky post! Here to share my co-written review essay, out today in EuropeNow, about the BnF's exhibition on Gutenberg this past summer: www.europenowjournal.org/2023/11/20/i... Where are book history / rare books / cultural exhibitions people on here?