Colonisations: notre histoire, a roundtable discussion Abstract. The collected volume Colonisations: notre histoire (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2023) is a landmark publication that offers a critical assessment o

The roundtable on _Colonisations: notre histoire_ (and the book itself) might also be useful. academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

On confessional wars and diasporas, Owen Stanwood's book is fabulous, as is his recent HLQ article (both more mid-c17 than you might need). global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This special issue came out after our manuscript was submitted, but I wish I could have drawn from some of the essays here. sup.sorbonne-universite.fr/catalogue/re...

My favorite recent book on early c17 France proper is @tombhamilton.bsky.social _A Widow's Vengeance_. @csschmitt.bsky.social _The Predatory Sea_ is essential for the c17 Caribbean. As a rule, I read everything I can find by @maneuvre.bsky.social.

Thanks, Caroline and Surekha! We're very happy that it's almost here. When I'm back at my desk I'll share a few titles that were helpful to us.

You're too kind! It was so great to meet you in person finally, thanks for making the time to come by. Let me know the next time you'll be in SoCal!

Congratulations, @sdamussen.bsky.social!!

Looking forward to this.

A phenomenal article by one of the best. Congratulations, Molly!

Wonderful to see the JEMH's Editor Molly Warsh win the Leopold-Hidy Award for the best article published in _Environmental History_in the previous year. Congratulations, @mwarsh.bsky.social! @aseh.bsky.social #earlymodern

Image of a museum sign with an artist's rendition of Ona Judge, an enslaved woman who escaped from George and Martha Washington in 1796. The words "I am free now" are visible beneath the image of a ship in Philadelphia's harbor.

The story of Ona Judge and the ongoing battle over interpreting history at the Declaration’s quarter-century mark highlight the often-invisible links between public humanities and peer-reviewed academic scholarship.
www.huntington.org/verso/undoin...

Featuring my middle-aged attempt to illustrate the complex NPS process in a simple graphic (*made without AI*).

Image of a museum sign with an artist's rendition of Ona Judge, an enslaved woman who escaped from George and Martha Washington in 1796. The words "I am free now" are visible beneath the image of a ship in Philadelphia's harbor.

The story of Ona Judge and the ongoing battle over interpreting history at the Declaration’s quarter-century mark highlight the often-invisible links between public humanities and peer-reviewed academic scholarship.
www.huntington.org/verso/undoin...

On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Thank you!!

Thanks again, Laurent!

Thanks, Casey!

Image of a book jacket for Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth.

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

An image with a red banner on top with the text, in white: HLQ | an early modern studies journal. Below is the text: 'The Mysteries of Apalache': Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South. Owen Stanwood. ABSTRACT: In 1658, Charles de Rochefort published a description of Apalache, an Indigenous polity located in southeastern North America that had welcomed French and English refugees. Usually dismissed as a tall tale, Rochefort’s account has never been thoroughly analyzed. The story demonstrates how Europeans in the early period of colonization understood America as a place of wonder and inspiration. In addition, one can learn how information (and misinformation) traveled across the Atlantic. Rochefort probably patched his tale together from various oral sources, including some that came from Indigenous Americans. As a result, Rochefort revealed a lost world of stories and shows the myriad ways Europeans tried to make sense of America.

Charles de Rochefort, a Protestant refugee, imagined a Native American utopia called Apalache. Stanwood uncovers the networks of knowledge, rumor, and storytelling that produced this fantastic--but not entirely fictional--place. #earlymodern #hlq

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

Ginny Reinburg's essay changes how we think about--and teach--Menocchio's story (and more). She shows that the conflict originated in, and was shaped by, clerical sexual abuse, institutional protections for abusers, and a broad struggle to resist. #earlymodern @vreinburg.bsky.social

Amanda Herbert and Kevin Dawson debut a new HLQ article category called Early/Modern Connections: original #earlymodern research in service of the public good. The article and cover feature art by Ebony Iman Dallas. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/article/983132

Thanks, Katherine! It's all down to the amazing editorial board!

A new issue of HLQ is out - see more via Project Muse. It's really exciting to see the directions the journal is taking with @brettrushforth.bsky.social as editor.

muse.jhu.edu/issue/56420

Cover of the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly. At the top in white letters against a crimson backdrop it reads HLQ | an early modern studies journal. Below is an image of the artwork BLACKout: Madonna and Child, by Ebony Iman Dallas.

CONTENTS EDITOR’S NOTE New Directions for the HLQ BRETT RUSHFORTH RESEARCH ARTICLES “The Mysteries of Apalache”: Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South OWEN STANWOOD Indigenous Sun Worship in the Early Modern English Colonial Imagination SOPHIE BATTELL Escaping Rumor in the Mexican Inquisition DARIA BERMAN Rhetorical Rebound: Disabling Critique in Richard III PASQUALE TOSCANO A “Disposition to Laziness”: Visions of Cockaigne in the Early Modern Atlantic World DANIEL JOHNSON ASSESSMENTS AND APPROACHES How Menocchio’s Ordeal Began: Clerical Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in the Sixteenth and Twenty-First Centuries VIRGINIA REINBURG EARLY/MODERN CONNECTIONS Black Aquatics: Early Modern Past, Present, and Future AMANDA HERBERT & KEVIN DAWSON

Happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of the HLQ. Access now through Project MUSE. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56420

Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️

Ah I see! Glad to know a second Michael Oberg!

Hahaha, oops! Congratulations by proxy, I guess!