Nice to see this review of Jean-Paul Autant's deeply researched book on Henri IV's Chancellor of Navarre, Michel Hurault de l'Hospital, out now in Renaissance Quarterly! doi.org/10.1017/rqx....

The call for papers for the second COMLAWEU conference, on the dissemination of the law in Early Modern Europe, is now open!

The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2025.

Any inquiries can be directed to Dr Arthur der Weduwen.

🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026.

👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference

📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025

📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals!

#CfP #bookhistory #skystorians

Thanks for a brilliant paper @wadehistory.bsky.social! Really enjoyed chairing this session.

Greatly looking forward to speaking at St Andrews' Early Modern and Reformation Seminar on Thursday! I'll be asking the question everybody in the French Mediterranean was asking in 1685: how do you solve a problem like Anne-Marie?

Really enjoyed writing this blog, which gives an idea of some of the things I've been working on lately!

So happy to see this published & out in the world! Our Special Issue explores displacement & innovation, interrogates the term 'exile', & foregrounds interdisciplinarity as a method especially apt for exile studies where border-crossings converge... Thank you to all our contributors ✨

A little thread introducing the articles in this issue which we’ll build gradually over the week:

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screenshot of RENAISSANCE STUDIES VOLUME 39 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2025 Introduction: Exile and Innovation byAnnalisa Nicholson and Christophe Gillain Exiles and innovators: a survey of heretics in sixteenth‐centuryEurope by Peter Burke Returning home from exile? Arnold Cornelisz’s ministerial networks and the religious landscape of the liberated Netherlands by Silke Muylaert Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O’Sullivan Beare’s Zoilomastix (c. 1626) by Kevin Gerard Tracey Exile in Barbary: English‐speaking expatriates, biblical theology, and mercantile ethics in the seventeenth‐century Maghreb by Nat Cutter ‘A child who implores your clemency from his mother’s womb’: emotion, inclusion and the unborn Condé child (1656) by Jim Coons The Jesuit and the ‘false princess of China’: a contested exile narrative in 1690s Paris by Sean Heath Drafting an image of success: the Russian patronage of émigréElisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun by Erin Wilson

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE!

And it’s a beautiful one: on Exile and Innovation in the #EarlyModern World

Find the full issue here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658...
#SkyStorians

Delighted to see our SI of Renaissance Studies out in the world now!

🗃️ So excited to post the call for papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on incarceration (broadly defined—eg prisons, asylums, penal colonies, detention camps etc) in French & francophone histories.
Co-edited by Sophie Fuggle and me.
Papers are due 15 Aug 2024.
Please share!!

Deeply sorry to learn of the death of Natalie Zemon Davis, the most brilliant early modern historian of our time, influence on every one of us, and my teacher and mentor for my whole life as a historian. She was extraordinary.

Such an enormous loss. Reading The Return of Martin Guerre and The Rites of Violence as an undergraduate made me want to become a historian of early modern France.

1/ So much to celebrate about the life of Natalie Zemon Davis - a long life well lived to the end & an extraordinary impact over decades that secures a long legacy.
She loomed large in my career from when I decided not to do a PhD with her a Princeton but follow my boyfriend to Hopkins instead:-)

A page from NZD, A Passion For History, p. 12. Underlined sentence: Very often the past offers us the memory of possibilities -- not models, not possibilities to imitate, but simply other possible world, other ways of living that we humans sometimes had here or elsewhere on our globe.

In perpetuity, WWNZDD (What Would Natalie Zemon Davis Do), remains the most consistently human, caring, curious, integer way of approaching life, teaching, and research.

What a loss, yet what a gift to have had us with us for so long.
[NZD, A Passion For History, p. 12.]

deeply saddened to announce that Natalie Zemon Davis has passed away

her work on early modern European cultural history profoundly shaped the thinking of successive generations of scholars

her warmth & generosity touched the lives of so many family, friends, students, colleagues, and comrades

RIP

Natalie Zemon Davis in her home office. Photo by Michael Graydon. Source: https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/becoming-natalie-davis/

We are saddened to learn of the death of the inimitable Natalie Zemon Davis

www.rensoc.org.uk/natalie-zemo...