📢 CFP: The Intersections & Influences of Legal and Political Authority in the European Renaissance Seeking papers on the dynamic interplay between legal & political authority during the Renaissance (1300-1700) @ the 2026 RSA Annual Meeting!

My article on Jean Calvin's 1532 Seneca Commentary is now published at History of European Ideas. If you're interested in Calvin's political thought or the problem of counsel, take a look. Link below, and DM me if you don't have access but would like to read it. doi.org/10.1080/0191...

My article on Jean Calvin's 1532 Seneca Commentary is now published at History of European Ideas. If you're interested in Calvin's political thought or the problem of counsel, take a look. Link below, and DM me if you don't have access but would like to read it. doi.org/10.1080/0191...

In today's think piece, Truman Cunningham studies how Andrea Alciati's Emblematicum Liber bridged the elite literary culture of Erasmus and popular woodcut art to understand its explosive popularity across all levels of literate Europe through the sixteenth century.

𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺, true successor to the old 𝘑𝘗𝘗 trashed by Wiley, launched as a diamond open access journal! “Commercial publishers…don’t care about academic integrity, intellectual community, or valuing the free labour scholars provide...It’s time to fight back.” PolTheory #philsky 🌐

damn, Petrarch, just @ me next time.

Political theorists: @andpgibson.bsky.social and I are organizing a Renaissance political thought panel for SPSA this year and are looking for 1-2 faculty discussants willing to comment on grad student papers. Please reach out if interested! (nb786 [at] georgetown).

Hello world! Ph.D. student in political theory at Georgetown (early modern HPT), migrating and rebuilding follow lists.