You clearly don’t know much about the Middle East.

No, it is correct.

You mean Israel defended itself against attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah. That’s what happened.

Jim, this is terrible. Hope you and your colleagues will be ok.

Wild strawberries in a wan-li bowl, 1704. By Adriaen Coorte, wonderfully still painter of lifes.

Drowsy dog, 1650, by Gerrit Dou. Today was his day.

We couldn’t find a taxi to our wedding — a panic moment in a morning of panic moments, including a computer virus

People on social media are constantly telling me that Jews must be terrible because people want to kill us.

Book cover of "War, Revolt and Sacred Space Cambrai and the Southern Netherlands, 1566–c.1621"

Just published by Brill. A long-awaited, important work on reformation, revolt and the material culture of religion in the Low Countries by a distinguished scholar.
#reformationinthelowcountries

#jobopportunities

#earlymodern at Fondazione Bruno Kessler #Trento

3 Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of Early Modern History

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Burlington Magazine Scholarship | French 18th-Century Art The application period closes next Tuesday, from The Burlington: The Burlington Magazine Scholarship | French 18th-Century Fine and Decorative Art Applications due by 31 March 2026 The Burlington M…

#earlymodern #art #French #C18th
Fantastic research opportunity:
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Spanish iris, morning glory, cherries. Promises of spring (it's coming, truly!) from Georg Flegel, whose day is today.

The Huguenot Bursary for Historical Research 2026 The purpose of the award is to facilitate the research of the recipient, for example to cover research trips etc.

'Courtesy of the Trust, a bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis.' #Skystorians

A bit of medieval manuscript in lovely, clear gothic script. In between one of the lines of text is something that looks a lot like an eel, except it is somewhat furry looking. By medieval marginalia standards, though, it's pretty clearly an eel. It's brown, and slithery, and knows that it's cool as fuck. Three lines below it is some sort of interlinear beast that looks like a sea cucumber with the head of a stork or heron. It's head it's pointed up towards the eel, with it's long beak reaching, but not quite grabbing, the fish. The eel, for it's part, is shying away from the cucumber-bird's hunger. Which shows good sense, really. The slug-stork, btw, is one of the ways you know that the eel is an eel. The connection between storks/herons/demiherons/etc. & eels is very well established in medieval English artwork. If you wonder if the thing you're looking at is a snake or an eel, look for a stork. Also, if the artwork was made in England, it's probably an eel. They LOVED their eels The minims in the text are lovely, and the whole thing is extremely readable. A beautiful bit of handwriting to accompany a wonderful eel and his bird-friend.

It's Friday! You made it through the week. Go ahead...take an interlinear eel. You deserve it.
🗃️🧪

I have the DVDs and intended to rewatch. Maybe I shouldn’t. Egg was always irritating.

A colorful 18th-century engraving titled "Un Vitrier / Ein Glaszer" (A Glazier), depicting a French or German master glazier in elaborate period costume. The figure stands confidently, wearing a distinctive stacked geometric hat (itself shaped like architectural glass panels), an orange and green doublet, red stockings, and black shoes. He carries: A large leaded glass panel on his left, featuring diamond and square patterned panes in teal/turquoise A bundle of tools in his right hand (rulers, cutting implements) Various glazing tools hanging from his belt In the background to the right sits a brazier/forge on a tripod stand, used for heating lead and soldering tools. The numbered caption at the bottom lists the glazier's tools in both French and German, including: une lanterne / ein Latern (a lantern) losanges / Spiegel Scheiben (diamond panes / mirror glass) vitrage / ein Käftel (glazing / a box) régle à couper le verre / ein Einschneidlaust (glass-cutting ruler) un Diamant / ein Dumant (a diamond cutter) ...and so on through item 19. This image is from the Wellcome Collection and represents a classic example of early modern trade illustration, celebrating skilled craftsmen through allegorical, highly decorated portraiture.

NEW ESSAY — “Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History” — In early modern Europe, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief that they were made of glass. Tamara Sanderson explores: publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-a...

So interesting. I knew that Richelieu’s aunt thought she was made of glass but didn’t realize the belief was more common.

At the #ETH Zurich! #histsci #histSTEM

Babies don’t stay inside until ID is produced.

Congratulations!

Lyndal Roper

Congratulations to Lyndal Roper for winning the Holberg Prize! holbergprize.org/laureates/ho...

Absolute DREAM of a PhD position! Four years getting lost in the Plantin Press 🤩 #BookHistory #EarlyModern #Skystorians

The students I’ve had like this usually got caught plagiarizing.

Nevermore

𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳… | Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘩𝘋 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD stude...

📣 New internship 📣
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO).

Applications close 1 April 2026. For more details, please see: shorturl.at/pdO1r

#18thcentury #eighteenthcentury

Screenshot of the homepage of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies digital archive.

I've put online a #c18th side project on Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies that uses data extraction for mapping & network analysis, exploring questions of urban history, genre and print culture, geography, and social worlds across editions:

harrisslist.prisms.digital

#HarrissList #DH #WIP

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...

#medievalsky

Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries

Friday 13 March 5:30 pm London time Sam Geens (Antwerp) will be speaking to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries.” In person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I teach about Elvis and religion all the time and the students know exactly who he was.