Out now! Open access in current issue of Renaissance Quarterly thanks to @ucdlibrary.bsky.social my thanks to everyone who helped me with this - but a special mention of the late Bríd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.

You still have over a week to get your abstracts in!

oh! The latest issue of Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis 🥰 and what a wonderful-looking tribute it is: contributions from @vreinburg.bsky.social @anakroniks.bsky.social, Penny Roberts, Hilary Bernstein, @paulecohen.bsky.social, & many more! #NZD4Eva #EarlyModern

Oh look! Now it has a cover

I'm giving a #monkabulous talk next week Friday at the Sapienza on the flying friar Joseph of Copertino. And it just occurred to me... What better place to share the details than :: hum :: BlueSky? Everyone is very welcome!

Grateful to Felix Schlichter for scrutinising my book, in this, its first review. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Find the book itself here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... #earlymodern

A fantastic opportunity to work with a very special collection! #earlymodern

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿, 𝗺𝗮𝗶̂𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗱'𝗵𝗼̂𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝘂 𝗿𝗼𝗶 (𝟭𝟲𝟰𝟴-𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟳) 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗩 (𝟭𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟰 - 𝟯𝟭 𝗱𝗲́𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟱) Édité par Philippe Mauran Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/3Wa4EOm #History #France #EarlyModern #Historysky

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩 And more excitement to come in 2026 as well. I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that

#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today' Paris, 10-12 June 2026 Please send proposals to [email protected] by the 26 October Link to the full CFP here: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ @isecs-sieds.bsky.social

ICYMI - still some time to register! #bookhistory

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Scholars of Jansenism take note. #earlymodern

Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a... #skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistory

What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'. #earlymodern #skystorians

What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'. #earlymodern #skystorians

Who was the most influential pragmatist political thinker in the opening decades of the twentieth century? In this paper, I argue that it was H. G. Wells "Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism" bit.ly/4gcheoe

📣Out now on #firstview! Timothy Twining (@tntwining.bsky.social) (KU Leuven) on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible' #Religion #Scholarship #Translation #Catholic #French 17thc 📙🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now out in The Historical Journal, my new article on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible'. Find it Open Access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #earlymodern #skystorians

Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles! #earlymodern #Skystorians

🎉 Congratulations to our member, Timothy Twining, on his nomination for Best Monograph for the 2025 EHS Book Prize! We look forward to hearing the results in January 2026. @tntwining.bsky.social @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social #EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory

Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles! #earlymodern #Skystorians

The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊

📢 CfP | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on #EarlyModern Christianity 🗓️ May 19–21, 2026 | 🏛️University of Wrocław 🔍Theme: Early Modern Christian Materiality ⏰Deadline: Feb 15, 2026 🔗 More info: reforc.com/events/fifte...

Enjoyed putting together this H-France Forum on Paul-Alexis Mellet's *Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion* – reviews and response available here: h-france.net/hfrance-foru... @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

After a fantastic slate of papers at RSA Boston 2025, EMoDiR is delighted to announce our CfP for RSA San Francisco 2026. Please circulate, and submit a proposal! #earlymodern

Could anyone with Old Church Slavonic please translate for me this inscription on a cross, pictured in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s account of the 1594 voyage to Novatya Zemlya?

Katrina Olds and I are organising one or two panels at next year's @rsaorg.bsky.social in tribute to the amazing and much missed A. Katie Harris. If you have an paper touching on #earlymodern Catholic scholarship, relics, forgery, etc. please do send us something! www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Now out: the EMoDiR Newsletter for June 2025, compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini! Check it out for news on new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, cfps and much much more! emodir.hypotheses.org/files/2025/0... #earlymodern

STARTING TOMORROW! Alex Walsham on Religious Movements: motion and Emotion in #EarlyModern Christian History. So excited there is an online link-up after all! #Reformazing #SkyStorians

Today!

Really enjoyed discussing The Limits of Erudition recently with @janalena.bsky.social! Find the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-limits-o... #earlymodern #skystorians

The discussion continues in the Early Modern Scholarship & Religion seminar @camhistory.bsky.social this Friday (2 May) at 4pm! For details and online participation, see www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

Really enjoyed discussing The Limits of Erudition recently with @janalena.bsky.social! Find the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-limits-o... #earlymodern #skystorians

It may look like an Amazon space rocket, but this is in fact the William Tyndale monument. 😛 Quite impressive views of the Severn Estuary from the top. What the Bible translator himself would have made of it, Heaven knows. #earlymodern 🗃️

Nice to see this out! #ΟΑ Also chapters on #bookhistory #skystorians #earlymodern

Congratulations to Germaine A. Hoston, winner of the JHI's Selma V. Forkosch Prize for her article “Neo-Confucianism and the Development of German Idealism"!

Hello Bluesky! This is the official account of the Society for Reformation Studies. We meet each April in Cambridge for our annual conference and our journal is Reformation and Renaissance Review. We are keen to engage with anyone interested in Reformation studies! #earlymodern #skystorians

I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series... #earlymodern

Thrilled that the @lrb.co.uk published Alexander Bevilacqua's wonderful review of my book on The Discovery of #Ottoman Greece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #earlymodern #skystorians

[FocusOn] Next Research meeting in Besançon in May 📅 May 21-23, 2025 📍 Besançon, France & Online 🔥 The GrECI Research Meeting IV is coming! ✅ Open to all, both in-person and online! 📜 Full program & details are available here : urlr.me/7Pjp38

I'm giving a #hextag talk about the Basque Witch-Hunt in Liverpool on Thursday 17 April! Everyone is very welcome. 😊 #earlymodern 🗃️ www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/talks/the-wi...

Truly honored that my book found a place alongside all these other superb works on the REFORC Book Award longlist: reforc.com/news/longlis... You can find The Limits of Erudition here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... #earlymodern

Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses a lovely little bible with red velvet binding and an inscription by a woman dated 1652 earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/t... #EarlyModern #HerBook

French historians - is anyone/anyone you know working at the AD Ille et Vilaine now or soon? Or have you worked there or know anyone who has? I have a question that someone might be able to save me a lot of time with. [I know I can email the archivists - for various reasons I'm trying here first]

Many congratulations to the editors of the new Cambridge History of the Papacy, in particular to @sistosesto.bsky.social ! Really pleased to see my own chapter on the legend of Pope Joan included in it as well. 😊 #earlymodern 🗃️

In a very tough week, suddenly some amazing news lands in my inbox. The Basque Witch-Hunt won the PROSE Award for Best European History book of 2024! 🎉🎉🎉 publishingperspectives.com/2025/03/unit... #earlymodern 🗃️

Another #Fagel update: one for #medicine #histscience crowd. I came across a manuscript list of items that apothecaries in the frontier cities of Dutch Republic and those joining the army of Maurice of Nassau had to have. It includes a range of different ointments, herbs, oils, etc. #earlymodern

Boosting this. Do you work on #earlymodern women and communities (broadly conceived)? See below for my topic and let me know (via DM) if you want to join a session for 2025 @16csociety.bsky.social

It’s one week to go until the RSA Annual Meeting in Boston! We’ll be there with a panoply of EMoDiR panels, organised by Matteo Al Kalak and @martinamampieri.bsky.social. We can’t wait to see you there! #EarlyModern