We will hear about transformative #imaging #heritagescience research & celebrate our wonderful contributors!
@rylandsesoterica.bsky.social @guyda.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @nhsf.bsky.social @erihsfr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomlibrary.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk
Join us celebrating the launch of our new @manchesterup.bsky.social special issue on cutting-edge heritage imaging science @thejohnrylands.bsky.social 25th March!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-is...
Many thanks to wonderful @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social @arstechnica.com for this piece on our @historians.org AHR article on the proteomics analysis of Renaissance recipes. I really enjoyed our conversation!
Wonderful to see my “Situating Early Modern Translators: A Mediterranean Epilogue” out in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social ‘On the Move: Mobility and Early Modern Translation’
Massive thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social eds Giancarlo Casale & Ann Thomson!
👉🏽 shorturl.at/TX4wb
It has been a real joy to welcome you, Eva - and what a great paper! Thank YOU!
Thrilled to start this year’s #affectiveartefacts seminar series with @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social!
@bemccollective.bsky.social
In “Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes,” @stefanhanss.bsky.social and his research team show how scientific analysis and historical contextualization of biochemical information of early modern recipes reveals new insights into early modern medicine and material practices. #AHR
I think meat stains are rather unlikely given the appearance of the stains, but still worth testing!
Wonderful to see our research receiving such wide attention
Benjamin Arbel, “Jews in International Trade: The Emergence of the Levantines and Ponentines.” In The Jews of Early Modern Venice, edited by Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 73–96, here 84.
David Jacoby, “Camlet Manufacture, Trade in Cyprus and the Economy of Famagusta from the Thirteenth to the Late Fifteenth Century.” In Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta, edited by Michael J. K. Walsh, Peter W. Edbury, and Nicholas S.H. Coureas (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), , 15–42
For specific questions, see also mhistories.hypotheses.org/1630, or the wider research on the Veneto-Ottoman trade in zambellotti, i.e., cloths made of goat or camel wool, at times blended with silk or cotton, via Levantine or Eastern European trading routes:
@evelynwelch.bsky.social’s Renaissance Skin, of course, and there is a lot on early modern furriers (check the history of crafts and artisanship), and on furs mentioned in inventories (e.g., Zander-Seidel’s Textiler Hausrat).
This sounds like an unmissable exhibit, but the phrase "defence of museums with global collections" is doing a huge amount of work as a justification for clinging on to "collected" (stolen) Hawaiian heritage.
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oh! The latest issue of Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis 🥰 and what a wonderful-looking tribute it is: contributions from @vreinburg.bsky.social @anakroniks.bsky.social, Penny Roberts, Hilary Bernstein, @paulecohen.bsky.social, & many more! #NZD4Eva #EarlyModern
If you ever wondered what biochemical traces of past users of medical recipes may tell us about early modern haircare, see @uk.theconversation.com's discussion of our @historians.org article:
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social
Wonderful to have you here, Theo!
By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025)
pims.ca/publication/...
Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Thank you, Julie, it's great to hear you liked the article!
Christmas comes early!
NEW open access @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Bulletin spec issue on how imaging science transforms our understanding of heritage!
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
Co-edited w/ @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social
@nhsf.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.
Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb
Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.
Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
Just got my contributor’s copy!
Stay tuned for this wonderfully powerful Jan 2026 volume w/ Disobedience Press, celebrating the legacy of Chandler Davis for the current struggle for academic freedom.
Pre-order here:
disobediencepress.com/in-the-spiri...
Wonderful to see our @historians.org article on
"The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance"
on top of the "most read" AHR articles!
It is available open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
