My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern

UPDATED DUE DATE! 📣✨ Two funded postdoc positions✨📣 Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers. (1/5)

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

📖Book presentation: Silvia Cinnella della Porta, "Traduttori e mercanti: la scoperta inglese del Nuovo Mondo" (Firenze University Press, 2025). 📍La Colombaria (Florence) | 📆 25 February 2026 | ⌚16:00 #EarlyModern #BookLaunch

📌Wednesday, 4 Februrary 2026 ⌚11:00 📖 Germano Maifreda will present his book "Io sono una strega (Einaudi, 2025)" as part of the seminar series “Voices from the Margins: Women, Religion, and Othering.” 🌍Università degli Study di Firenze |💻Online: meet.google.com/kxd-mmcg-xno

Updated CfP: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation’ @ Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026. Please do check out and share our #CfP. Deadline: 27 February 2026. #Earlymodern #Communication #History

@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/postal-intel...

CfA 📢Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowships for 2026-2027 @folger.edu 🏦Folger Shakespeare Library |🌍Washington DC ⏰Deadline: 15 January 2026 🔗 www.folger.edu/research/the... #callforpapers #Fellowships

#Reclutamento L’École française de Rome seleziona un(a) assistente scientifico(a) 📆 Termine ultimo per la presentazione delle candidature: 8 gennaio 2026, ore 12.00 ➡️ Inizio del rapporto di lavoro: 1° febbraio2026 ➕Consultare l'offerta di lavoro: https://ow.ly/j6Gb50XKpB2#Reclutamento #EFR #emploi #recherche

Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

The International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources” is offering 3 fully funded doctoral positions, starting 1 Sept 2026. Projects in history of science, global history, media studies, DH, and related fields are welcome. Details: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

📢Recently published! 📑Duval, Harvey, Sancho Fibla (dirs.) « Le projet Sorores », Chronica Mundi, 18 (2024). Contributors explore the diverse experiences of non-cloistered religious women (12th–18th c.). 📩 Request a free copy via the email listed here: www.chronicamundi.org/en/readers.h...

SEAL OF SAPIEXCELLENCE 2025 – Postdoc Fellowships (€50,000) Sapienza University of Rome is offering 4 annual postdoc positions linked to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 – Seal of Excellence. ⏳ Deadline: 13 February 2026, 11:59 More details and other calls: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...

For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

Domani ci tuffiamo nella Venezia magica d’età moderna… univr.zoom.us//88658895932 #magic #magia #witchcraft #stregoneria #modernhistory #storiamoderna #venice #venezia #santainquisizione #inquisition @stmoderna.bsky.social

✨Out now! Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series. 🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-... #EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory

New on Stmoderna Call for papers | Violenza economica. Dominazione, sfruttamento e disuguaglianze di genere nel lungo periodo 📍 Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” 📅 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 A conference on the history of economic violence and gender inequalities across time and space.

Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin. Waiting list now activated. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

📌Friday, 24 October Presentation of “Chimere: Research Network on Cultural Histories of Magic”, launching a new seminar series on magic, folklore, and esotericism. 📍 University of Verona |🕚 11:50 💻Join on Zoom : univr.zoom.us/j/82097215327 Details on the speakers 👇

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century. 🗃️🪡 #earlymodern 📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

📢 Applications for the Winter School di Studi sulla Riforma are still open! 🌍Florence | 🗓️ 13–16 November 2025 ⏰ DEADLINE : 10 October 2025 #Earlymodern #Reformation

New on Stmoderna: Looking for a postdoc? Check out the Max Weber Programme at the EUI (Florence) for 2026/27. 🕒 Deadline: 15 Oct 2025, 14:00 CEST 🔗 Details: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...

More of Jo Carpenter's PR sorcery - this time, securing a blog on the Gramophone website, with pictures of the #nuntastic archival stuff... www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/articl...

Curious about Jewish communities in early modern Venice? From Monday, Oct. 6, at the State Archive of Venice, Renata Segre leads a 5-week cycle on sixteenth-century manuscripts about Jewish communities. 🔗 Learn more: www.stmoderna.it/it/eventi/

📣New on Stmoderna! Call for Applications: Winter School (Florence, 13–16 Nov 2025) on the Protestant Reformation - its political, cultural, and social dimensions, and its legacies in philosophy, literature, music, and the arts. Deadline: 10 Oct 2025 see it at: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...

Starting today in Rome, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies: Mapping Dissonant Objects – a three-day workshop organized by Sabina Brevaglieri, Massimo Carlo Giannini, and Lina Scalisi. mapdisob.hypotheses.org

📢 New on StModerna The Istituto Sangalli Prize for Religious History 2025 (11th edition) offers young scholars the chance to publish monographs on religious history (Middle Ages–contemporary) with Firenze University Press. ⏳ Deadline: 1 Nov 2025 www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Two Franciscan friars seen through Japanese eyes from: Kano Naizen's "Arrival of the Southern Barbarians Screen" c. 1600 (Kobe City Museum Collection) Triple-knotted cinctures, bare feet, rosaries, hoods. Nicely observed. And linen shirts under the habit too.

It was a pride and pleasure to contribute to this article for the Science History Institute: Melissa Rossi, "Holy Smoke: The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe" #histmed #medhist www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide. A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades. Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment. → europa.eu/!jcnGgP #ChooseEurope

New on StModerna: the Eleonora Rai Prize Established in memory of Eleonora Rai, it awards PhD theses on themes she worked on: religious, cultural, and gender history, with special attention to violence (early modern to contemporary age). ⏳Deadline: 26 Nov 2025 www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

📢 New Call for Papers on StModerna A social question before the Social Question: Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century 📍 University of Oxford 🗓️ 22–23 October 2026 ⏳ Deadline: 31 December 2025 👉 This and many other CfPs await you on StModerna: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...

We’ve long known Samuel Pepys was a sleazebag, but Guy de la Bedoyere’s new edition of his journal reveals it was way worse than that — he was a relentless sexual predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

This volume investigates the epistemological dimension and social embedding of resource policies while providing a comprehensive overview of the knowledge layers that underpinned the material and immaterial economy of the early modern period in many fields. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

🎓 Two new PhD opportunities just added on StoriaModerna: 📍 University of Trento – deadline: 26 August 2025 📍 University of Sassari – deadline: 1 September 2025 🔎 Full details here: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...

🏆 New on StModerna: the Paola Bora Prize (2025) An award for unpublished MA and PhD theses on gender studies (including history). Open to theses written in Italian or English. Deadline: 31 October 2025 👉 See this and other awards and calls here: www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

📢 Just published on StModerna: 🌍 5 doctoral scholarships in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples) – deadline: 27 August 2025 🔎 Full details and more here: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati... www.stmoderna.it/it/concorsi/ www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Orange is the colour of the summer 🧡

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

📣 call for applications 📣 Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. Please share widely! www.historyworkshop....

📢 Call for Applications The Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici has published its 2025–2026 fellowship call (15 scholarships available). Deadline: 31 July 2025 More info 👉 www.iiss.it/bando-di-con...

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) memorients.com/events/cfp-b... #CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology