Some cool news: my last article was recognized with the Honorable Mention distinction for the Koren Prize, just awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for the “most outstanding article on any period of French history” in the previous calendar year by a scholar based in the USA/Canada:

*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?