I can't help but feel really curious about Christ's genitalia now. 🤪 A statue by Michelangelo in the Domine, Quo Vadis. #earlymodern

This is a terrific discussion about archives, paperwork, and ordinary people’s use of the law and documentation to defend and protect themselves. Informative back and forth between early modern and contemporary issues. Highly recommend! #earlymodern #migration #refugees

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

As the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed, it’s worth remembering that dissenting women were preaching to mixed sex congregations in London as early as 1645. My book Voices of Thunder has a whole section on 17th-century “she-preachers” #earlymodern

Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the academic year! @saragwynbeam.bsky.social will be kicking things off with an excellent paper titled ‘Paradoxes in the History of Torture and the Advent of Modernity in Europe, 1400-1700’. 🗓️ 1 October, 1pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall

Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/

Today is the publication date of Academic Households in #EarlyModern Northern Europe 🎉 doi.org/10.4324/9781... Can't wait to have the actual book in my hands in the near future!

Happy to announce that the #Transkribus model I've had the pleasure of working on for the last few years is live! It is built on a variety of hands used in English courts around 1530-1650 (just hit over 1 mil words in the training set!) Take a look: #earlymodern app.transkribus.org/models/publi...

Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access! Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians

How did women carrying for non-kin children seek recompense for their 'mothering' labour in #EarlyModern England? New #OpenAccess addition to the #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography from @erhodes.bsky.social: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

One of you witchcraft historians out there needs to do a proper scholarly takedown of Silvia Federici #EarlyModern

"... [The book] is about the powerfully twinned intimacy and instrumentality of family history– for families and institutions. Based on way too much research across British America, from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries." #EarlyModern 👇( #Hidalguía...)

A Lutheran depiction of Christmas: Joseph, colourfully placed in the centre and feeding the ass, dominates the scene as the example of the Protestant pater familias who provides for his family and household —Lutheran Abbey of Isenhagen, early 17th c. #Lutheranism #Renaissance #Nativity #nuntastic

Right, I got a #nuntastic starter pack going: go.bsky.app/VSCAcXH. But it’s not yet very populated, so tag people I haven’t found yet :)

Anybody got good recommendations on genuinely environmental history of early modern mining? A lot of history of science/technology material, but precious little from an explicitly environmental history perspective? I've got Joanna Linzer's stuff on mining/environmental harms in early modern Japan.

A widely used #Christmas time special of the European past was to buy and wear a paper crown. A paper crown, #skystorians? Yes, a printed paper crown. And the tiny street seller highlighted in this #earlymodern painting is selling them. Let's have a festive 🧵

A book I edited is finally out! The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Love in the Early Modern Age. It has brilliant contributors and illustrations - and yes, I gave the Frenchman the last word on love

Ok, teaching is over and I am finally about to return to our talk boards to see all the exciting things our volunteers have been highlighting in our #EarlyModern wills! If you would like to join the hunt click here www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... 📜💍👞👗🧀🪑🐮🗡️📚🫖💰🗃️

Also a good time to recall that the Newberry offers a variety of short-term fellowships for research in many different areas, and the application deadline is coming up on January 3rd: www.newberry.org/research/fel... #earlymodern #envhist #histsci

Hi everyone! Historian🗃️ of early modern France in the long 18th century, social politics, and colonialism in the Indian Ocean World. I write about French India, medicine, slavery, marriage and everything in between. Currently, a Lecturer at University North Texas and living in Dallas, TX.

Pleased to be putting on Berkeley's first-ever Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800) Keynote: Alison McQueen (Stanford) @aejm.bsky.social Submission deadline: January 10 Date: May 3 Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Foy... Please circulate widely!

So great to see so many #earlymodern folks joining up! I thought I would reintroduce myself. Historian working on a book on judicial torture in early modern Europe. In the meantime, I edited a 1686 infanticide trial for student use utorontopress.com/978148758767...

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...

If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives: #skystorians So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting

And it’s out! My book is now available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in #EarlyModern Europe. #Skystorians

Adding the hashtag #HAMH for threads about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Here's the second 🧵. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #18thCentury

Love love loved Conclave! This may be no surprise considering my interests BUT cinematically it's absolutely beautiful, the way they deal with power dynamics (especially but not only gender) is splendid, and the intrigue! Also, suitably #nuntastic!

Check out my talk with @charmianmansell.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Female Servants in Early Modern England. @oxunipress.bsky.social 💙📚 #earlymodern #skystorians #16thc #17thc #history

Have you seen the Netflix docudrama on Queen Njinga? #Angola #earlymodern #africanhistory #17thcentury #textilehistory #ivory #africanqueen

Coming soon! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

RIP Christiane Klapisch, great historian of Florence, women, gender, family, kinship, work, society #earlymodern

#earlymodern #Iberian #slavery

Sixteenth-century Breton graffiti discovered in Tower of London! #earlymodern #france

I wrote about how enclosure wasn't normative in many #earlymodern convents and why the historiographical tradition contending that it was has such a hold on convent scholarship #nuntastic www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Lorraine witches! #earlymodern Not Just the Tudors podcast discussion @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social with Robin Briggs. Don’t miss it! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

It’s OUT! My article on environmental thought and expertise in the Dutch Republic:

This database looks totally splendid #earlymodern

Please share widely. Let’s get #SixteenthCentury conversations going! #EarlyModern #SixteenthCenturySociety

I feel silly for not noting the #earlymodern list, so it’s time for the repost!

James Galbraith, husband of Janet Love of Greenock, complained to the Privy Council about illegal torture being used on her in 1632. She was an accused witch & held in the custody of Rev John Hamilton, minister of Inverkip, then William Cochrane, Sheriff of Renfrew. #earlymodern #witchcraft

Print culture this week! Just adding the brilliant new '100 Ballads' to my seminar resources: the bestselling songs of 17th-century England, richly contextualised & even performed! #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.100ballads.org

The way I ran from the airport straight to the British Library lol. #earlymodern #skystorians I am in town for the week. Would be happy to meet colleagues, particularly junior scholars and graduate students working on Portuguese empire/India/Brazil who might want to pick my rather small brain.🗃️

TONIGHT! Our final session of this term, and what a way to end: the spectacular @erinmaglaque.bsky.social! Talking about Foundlings in #EarlyModern Catholic Europe. (Counter) #Reformazing insights galore! www.history.ac.uk/events/morta...

Hello #EarlyModern where would I read about public charges paid to landholders by tenants in mid C17 Yorkshire/England?

First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook doi.org/10.1163/9789...

Posting a link to the new episode of the "Witches of Scotland" podcast from Dr Claire Mitchell KC & Dr Zoe Venditozzi out today. After a slight hiatus, they are back with Seasom 2, episode 1 #QuarrelsomeDames Of interest perhaps to 16th - 17th c #earlymodern folk open.spotify.com/episode/2SZt...

In the 17th and 18th c’s, Jews in #Prague had processions in honor of the birth of an heir to the #Habsburg throne & published descriptions somewhat similar to the one described here re courtly wedding festivities. I’d love to meet more folks working on similar in #EarlyModern and/or #JewishStudies

huntington.org/verso/how-me... My blog post while researching as a NEH fellow at the Huntington Library, 2023-24. Part of my second book project.