On Friday I will be speaking at the Deutsches Historisches Museum about my research on alba amicorum and early modern Germanness in Constantinople. www.dhm.de/programm/tag...

I am thrilled to share that Portraits of Empires won the Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize! Read more here:

This is highly useful if you work with #earlymodern books of all kinds: a compiled and explained set of contemporary abbreviations. From apothecaries' weights to signs for half moon moments in almanacs. Boost, #bookhistory and #skystorians looking for abbreviations of the past. 🗃️

I am giving a lecture tomorrow (July 17) in Münster at 18:15 and it will be on Zoom too! If you are interested here is the link! A bit on the book, and pointing towards the new project!

This book is (finally) completed and coming out very soon! 🥰🥰 A very special project indeed, and I am so grateful to the wonderful contributors, to Charlotte and Anita, to our editor Graham Nelson and - not least - to Jo Whaley whose scholarship and teaching brought us all together 🥳🙌🍾

Another day, another museum visit. Another discussion of magnificent objects

Wolf Huber. 😍

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Painted on stone (and how cool is that?) so that stony sky swirls naturally over triumph of Cupid. Clever work by Hans von Aachen, whose day is today.

Today I am taking my students to my favorite museum: Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer #KHM. Wearable sculptures recalling the physical presence of absent owners, performing masculinity in commissions that were part of a premodern flex culture. But more importantly, just stunning craftsmanship! #armsandarmor

CfP: The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries) Vienna - March, 19-20 2026. www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/...

Full Professorship (W 3) for Modern History with a focus on gender history and historical culture (Univ. Freiburg) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Today is my favorite teaching day of the semester in The Politics of Representation: Art and its Histories @historicalstudies.bsky.social : critical race art history, critical cataloging, and intersectional approaches. Fortunate to have a wealth of fantastic new scholarship to work from!

Call for papers is still active for the workshop in Innsbruck: #EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections in Innsbruck June 5 and 6, 2025. if you are a few days late I am happy to still have a look and see if we can make it work ☺️ archivespublishing.com/2025/01/30/c...

So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!

It is always a pleasure to open an author copy, though I never read beyond the first sentence for fear of catching the inevitable mistake... 😏

Birthright citizenship is on the lips and minds of many, given yesterday’s “executive order.” Recommend Martha Jones’s book to those seeking to inform themselves about the context of this concept.

In preparation for the online publication of new AHY articles to be featured in our upcoming 2025 edition, revisit #AHY2024 Explore gendered perspectives on dynastic politics, new approaches to pre-modern violence, and innovative work on food and migration crises! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Södertörn University in Stockholm has advertised four PhD positions in historical studies with the Baltic and East European Graduate School, and four more in critical and cultural theory. Applications close 13 February 2025 #AcademicSky #PhD #jobs #skystorians

Delightful new review out about my monograph, #PortraitsofEmpires in the Journal of Early Modern History. brill.com/view/journal...

Do you have students looking for a funded MA or PhD in historical studies? Encourage them to apply to CEU! Deadline for applications is 2025 February 4! historicalstudies.ceu.edu/admissions

Happy New Year from Tuscany!

Do you have any students in Museum Studies? We have scholarships available for our great 2-year MA!

Considering applying for a one-year MA? Here are our tips: Find a thesis project you're passionate about, check our faculty list for a supervisor, and write a great research proposal (and check very carefully the spelling and grammar!). Sample proposals here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/node/22

Wonderful summer school on offer here in Vienna:

This semester I had the privilege to teach my favorite course: Ottoman Hungary. Last night we celebrated the end of the semester and I am so thankful to be surrounded by such a great group of adventurous students. Köszi! Danke! Teşekkürler!

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

MAs with scholarships for next academic year: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA410/s...

Beat Kümin and I are accepting applications for our 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26 at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office "Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives" Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Please take a look at my brief review of a highly important new book about the origins of Gothic art in medieval Hungary: jekely.blogspot.com/2024/12/revi...

So this is an interesting creation--it's not just the donation of Brown's papers, but she's created an endowed archive for OTHER medievalists' papers as well. Perhaps the first archive of its kind?

Gearing up for another full day with @historicalstudies.bsky.social students inside the Weltmuseum / Kunsthistorisches. Habsburgs: collecting the universal and defying gravity since at least the fifteenth century.

Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern

To celebrate our inaugural year, the Department of Historical Studies at Central European University has set up a fund to support future students: tinyurl.com/kbucctcy Donate in someone's name to support a wonderful cause for Christmas!

Even on the weekend, can't stay away from work. :) dragging the little along for another #Weltmuseum visit.

Love taking students to the storehouse of history. Scenes from my Palaeography and Archives in Central European History seminar's visit to the HHStA. @historicalstudies.bsky.social

This lovely book arrived in the mail today! I have always been shocked by how few people connected William Morris to Islamic arts. This and the exhibition is a much needed corrective. Go see it if you have a chance! The most British thing is rooted in the arts of the Ottomans and Persians. 😍

Please share: Call for Applications Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH www.ims.forth.gr/en/news-item...

Mood today: sultana holding a fan in the album amicorum of Hans Joachim Prack von Asch from circa 1587–92. She is not messing around... dagger, sassy hand on her hip, and even breaking the fourth wall with that right foot. 😍 #PortraitsofEmpires

Thrilled to announce the publication of my first book with Harvard University Press. "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece" will appear in Jan 2025! Available for pre-order at HUP's website: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

This week in my Ottoman Hungary seminar: preparing to talk #Ottoman #bookhistory and I ran into Ömer Daryā Bey's description of the siege of Esztergom in 1595 and its Ottoman reconquest in 1605. Not surprised to find the Hungarian formal title of the sancakbey of Esztergom on the first folio...😍

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long sixteenth century. Please share, contact me with suggestions for other people to include, and of course if you would like to be included yourself. #skystorians #SixteenthCentury #StarterPack #history #EarlyModern go.bsky.app/U4CEeWN

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

Taking my CEU undergrads to Arms and Armor and the Weltmuseum today. Excited to talk about the politics of representation in art history while standing in front of such works. Perfect complement to the paintings in the KHM to disrupt the canon. Is object biography the answer?

🚨 Deadline Approaching! Join the University of Vienna’s Turkish Studies as a University Assistant (predoc)! 🕒 4 years, 30h/week 📍 A vibrant research environment in #TurkishStudies @univie.ac.at 🗓️ Deadline: 29.11.2024 ⏳ Don’t miss this opportunity! 🔗 Apply now: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

An introduction to @universalstc.bsky.social: an open access database of early modern print culture. To find out more visit our website: www.ustc.ac.uk

***Job Opportunity*** Assistant/Associate Professor, Polish/Eastern European History, Central Connecticut State University 2/ www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Spending the afternoon admiring Hoogstraten's trompe-l'œil marbled papers at the Rembrandt/Hoogstraten exhibition in the KHM. I think it is clear that the student outdid the master here. 😍😍😍 Living in Vienna certainly has its perks.