Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Vol. 101, No. 3 (2025) poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... @peeterspublishers.bsky.social @lectio-institute.bsky.social A Cry for Help: New Perspectives on Healing and Disease in the Ancient Mediterranean World

The summer is usually quieter, but we are doing some work behind the scenes to prepare for the first event of the next academic year, the summer school. In two days we'll see how many people applied to participate, and soon thereafter, we hope to send out a lot of confirmation emails. Almost there!

We are looking for a postdoc @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! And they are looking for another postdoc @unituebingen.bsky.social! If you want to work on the Latin translations of Aristotle's De anima and De sensu, this is your chance! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #ancientbluesky #philosophysky

V LECTIO Interdisciplinary Summer School “Translations in the Premodern and Early Modern World” 8-9 September 2026, Old Abbey of Kortenberg. Masterclasses, research pitches, and a lot of conversations across disciplines! Program and registration (until 30 June): www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...

One of our Institute's contributions to the celebrations of KU Leuven's 600th birthday in 2025, this volume is available in Open Access. Do have a look!

Another LECTIO volume just out!

BOOK: Violet SOEN, Wouter DRUWÉ, Wim FRANCOIS & Ralph DECONINCK (eds.), Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797) [Lectio; 18] (Turnhout: Brepols, 2026) esclh.blogspot.com/2026/04/book...

5 May in Leuven! Looking forward to presenting my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (PIMS @uoftpress.bsky.social @brepols.net @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2025) at @lectio-institute.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event... #BookHistory #earlymodern

An exciting lecture, which illustrated the challenges and possibilities of HTR as well as some fantastic pages from the Magister Dixit collection of student notebooks. Thanks to Serena and to KU Leuven Special Collections for organising this event!

One more week left to apply and get a chance to spend some time in Leuven (and stay at Groot Begijnhof) next academic year!

The call for Visiting Fellowships is open! In a nutshell: 📚 Open topic (x2) or a more specific theme (x3) ⏳ 4–6 weeks in the academic year 2026–2027 💶 Non-stipendiary (alas!), but we will cover travel to/from Leuven and accommodation 📆 Apply by 6 March 2026 🔗 www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...

Very proud of this truly bottom-up initiative coming from our ECRs!

At our workshop "Digital Tools for Critical Text Editing": "a digital edition is not visible" #DigitalHumanities #DH www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...

This is the current best book joke

Starting the IV LECTIO Summer School! 💫

! Call for Applications – LECTIO Summer School 2025 (3–4 September): Epistolography from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. The deadline for registration is 25 July 2025. All details regarding the programme, practical arrangements, and how to apply can be found on our website: lnkd.in/e8aWqFGC

I presented the research planned in the FitMA project to the colleagues @lectio-institute.bsky.social today! 📷 Tilke Nelis

We look forward to welcoming Emanuele Scieri to Leuven and to hearing more about his research!

Friends, if you're in Leuven next week Thursday (15 May), you are most welcome to come hear about my current project.

*Last day* to apply for a PhD position in medieval history and DH, a joint project between Ugent, VUB and KU Leuven! Come and investigate the circulation of ideas in the Low Countries with a great interdisciplinary team!

Apply until 20 May for our joint Visiting Fellowship program with DigiSoc – KU Leuven Institute for Digital Society! We invite scholars working on the reception of the past in digital society – for example, our current fellow will give a lecture on "history as aesthetic" and videogames next week. ⬇️

Do you want to study the 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱? We have an open postdoc position at the intersection of #AI and #SocialNetworkAnalysis. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Apply by 19 Apr 2025. @marghefant.bsky.social @lectio-institute.bsky.social

Hello BlueSky! This is a new account for the LECTIO Institute. We are an interdisciplinary research institute based in Leuven devoted to the study of the intellectual history of pre-modern and early modern Europe. www.kuleuven.be/lectio