A fantastic time (as always) at #RenSA26 San Francisco. Heard some great papers, saw friends and colleagues, and met interesting people. Exhausting + invigorating? Possible. #earlymodern #Renaissance #womenshistory #diplomacyhistory #earlymodernwomen

And immediately after the roundtable join us for an exciting panel on elite women's practices, examining material culture and exchange, equestrian practices and communication of royal majesty, and the roles of ambassadorial daughters in Spanish embassies! #RenSA26 #Rsa2026 #earlymodern

Join us today at #RenSA26 #RSA2026 for a roundtable on #earlymodern materiality, material culture, and emerging methodologies! What am I going to talk about? Diplomacy and women (what else?) but questioning how transportability and movement impacted gift-giving.

Legit, who wants to work on a women-through-prehistory timeslip computer game with me? I HAVE IDEAS 🏺🎮

A primer for next week's presentation #renaissance #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen #sixteenthcentury #earlymoderndiplomacy #genoa

Just revisiting a friend from my undergrad days - from a class i took in 2015 😳 #earlymodern #renaissance #queens

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

"Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez, and the Hispanic Baroque" at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin

Tudor Times Royal Marriages summit, a three-part series bit.ly/45piHEd in which historians will talk about key marriages of 16th century, Tudor & European. The summits will be live, with Q & A, available to purchasers until 31 December. Individual or combined tickets.

Hey Tulsa & #JaneAusten in OK friends, won't you join me on September 10th at 7 p.m. at the fab Magic City Books? I'll be talking #WildforAusten in conversation with some guy named @georgejustice.bsky.social . Anything could happen!

#CFP #CallforPapers Still seeking a third panelist for "Women’s Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World" panel for #RenSA2026. Networks broadly defined: patronage, material, economic, social, political, etc. DM if interested. #womenshistory #medieval #earlymodern #Renaissance #skystorians

Last day (Aug 4) to submit proposals for Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World panel, RSA 2026! Economic, familial, social, political - global and transnational. #RenSA2026 #medieval #earlymodern #womenshistory #digitalhumanities #dh #renaissance #CFP #SNA #skystorians #Callforpapers

draft writing challenge of the day #1 - 1,222 words remaining or 4 pages. Based on the number of graph figures I want to include, the page limit will probably bite me first.

Five days left (!) to submit proposals for Women’s Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World panel, RSA 2026! Networks broadly conceived - econ, familial, dynastic, political. Submit by Aug 4! #RenSA2026 #earlymodern #medieval #CFP #digitalhumanities #womenshistory #Renaissance #dh

Panel CFP: Women's cross-border networks. Engaging with network construction and maintenance, economics, diplomacy, politics, familial, gendered. Digital Humanities and global perspectives! Deadline for abstracts August 4! #earlymodern #RSA2026 #medieval #DigitalHumanities #womenshistory

Welcome to the archives.

#16thC #16thcentury #CFP extended! We are still looking for a panelist/roundtable discussants #Renaissance #medieval #earlymodern #skystorian for the 16th C Conference in Portland in Oct/Nov - #womenshistory and #diplomatichistory #queens #Europeanhistory #worldhistory #academicsky

#CFP #CallforPapers LAST CALL #skytorians: Still looking for panelists/roundtable about women + diplomacy for #16thc #16thCentury Society 2025 in Portland! #Renaissance #earlymodern women and poli strategy in practice and in the archives. proposals: [email protected] #digitalhumanities #dh

Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns

"The Nobility My Children Will Inherit: The 1604 Testament of Seraphina de Braganza," RSA 2025 Boston, MA, March 22, 2025 #Renaissance #skystorians #RSA2025 #earlymodern #digitalhumanities

Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns

Reading for teaching and for fun - work-life balance 😇 #skystorians #renaissance #earlymodern #medieval

Any fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skytorians of women's #diplomatichistory interested in participating in a panel on diplo strategy or a roundtable on methodologies and approaches to women and EM diplomacy in archives and documents at #16thCentury Society in Portland? Details below

Interested in testaments, inventories, and women’s agency? Well why not?! There will be art, networks, cool documents… Join us at 11:00 at the Westin, 7t floor Parliament Room. #Ren2025

#Renaissance #skystorians putting together a proposal for a roundtable on methodologies and approaches to women and diplomacy in #earlymodern for SCS #16th Century in Portland 2025. Foci include royal women, diplomats, unofficial agents, brokers, health, etc. Leave a comment if interested - cfp tba

Anne Curry's fascinating essay turns to 'the highest level of diplomatic exchange' in the middle ages: the rare face-to-face meetings of #kings. Focusing on Henry V and Charles VI, she sets out their tense political importance during the Hundred Years' War 👑 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #BookSky

CfP! With Natasja Peeters, Jasper van der Steen, and Ton van Strien, I am organising the one-day Seventeenth-Century Society's conference on Family, Kinship, and Dynasty in the Early Modern Low Countries on 5 September 2025. zeventiendeeeuw.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

#Renaissance #earlymodern colleagues going to RSA next month? Sarah Dyer and I are very excited about our panel testaments and women's agency that Sat; business history, material culture, patronage, social networks, diplomatic. #RSA2025 #research #DigitalHumanities

EXCITEMENT!!! OUR PROGRAMME IS LIVE! Would you look at all these fascinating panels and presentations -- the #EarlyModern continues to fascinate. Have a peak www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial... and get excited for 2-5 July in Bristol for #RenSoc25! #SkyStorians

El Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias presenta cuatro nuevas obras procedentes del Museo Nacional del Prado www.museodelprado.es/actualidad/n...

I've just learned about kumu.io, and I am really liking it! Browser-based, clear documentation, intuitive UI, easy annotation and metrics. A quick google turned up an easy way of doing dynamic time slices. Here is an example with the networks in Venetian spy reports🕵️ #digitalhumanities #dh 🗃️

So much time this week was spent thinking about the #Renaissance politics of biscocho, bread, and grapes. Household accounts are some of my favorite #earlymodern diplomacy #archival sources #17thcentury

Join us at Durham History! It's a friendly department in a lovely part of the world, with a wonderful bunch of early modernists across the university. I'm happy to discuss informally and feel free to get in touch with any questions if you're interested in applying.

We're recruiting for the role of Assistant Professor in Early Modern History, and seek to appoint a historian working on any aspect of the early modern world, excluding the Anglophone world (deadline 17 March 2025): durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Call for Papers now open for BAVS 25th Anniversary Conference in Oxford. Papers, panels and roundtables are invited on any aspect of the long nineteenth century. 23-25 July, with an ECR event on 22 July – for more details and to submit, see english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 @engfac.bsky.social

I scrapped the reading my #history class was going to do for Monday; as a treat for taking their first exam, we're going to have some fun with #earlymodern #Renaissance #paleography. Chat about hands, scripts, ink, paper parchment; there are some easier ones and then some challenges 😆

Contrary to popular belief, comps are in fact not the “best times of your phd”

Just having fun with early modern social networks. #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians #digitalhumanities

Are you a PhD student interested in the history of knowledge? Apply for the Lund summer school this August. Under the guidance of @bjornlundberg.bsky.social and others. I taught it in 2020 and 2021, great fun. newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/01/28/2...

Went to a talk on clustering and mapping piracy and now I want to play around with my social network data sets instead of writing this dissertation chapter 🫣 #earlymodern #skystorians #digitalhumanities

Awwww, yisssss! #sixteenthcentury #earlymodern #medieval #skystorians #historysky #whatshistory

US (and Puerto Rico) graduate students: Would you like to participate in a 8-9 week paid summer internship working in archives in Puerto Rico? This program is for you. Organized by Aldo Lauria Santiago, from Rutgers. More information here: prac.rutgers.edu/archival-int...

A preview of what my students will be covering this week. #teaching #skystorians #earlymodern

Book post! My review is coming soon in BBC History magazine but I'll say now this is particularly good for its explanation of Machiavelli's significance.

Planning on using portraits of Maria of Austria and Max I's children to explain 16th-century fashion and dynastic symbolism. Any excuse to talk about farthingales and the immortal image of C V's black and gold de la Cruz portrait armor. #earlymodern #skystorians #teaching

Some students appreciated my in-class comparison of why Isabel I of Castile married Ferdinand and the Bachelorette today. It's the little things that keep us going. #teaching #gradschool #Renaissance #earlymodern

Thinking about proposing a panel on the diverse strategies of #medieval #earlymodern women in diplomacy for AHA 2026 meeting in Chicago. Any #skystorians interested? Patronage, embassies, family networks, petitioning, mediation, etc.

Quite excited to teach this semester - if nothing else, I get to revisit some favorites. #dissertation #teaching #gradschool