Thanks. All the texts are quite cryptic. All I could offer is that the first person may be god (as represented in the left corner). Note that the Latin on the right side is part of the same line (together they form an elegiac couplet).

Do you have more context? I’d say that definitely matters here. Who’s the first person? Where’s this (hexameter) line from?

Yes, no. 1 also holds for writing about men (as I think all of them do, which is why they spoke to me, I guess). No. 7 is weird, although I agree with the first half (which seems very similar to 10).

In 2026 reiken de Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw, Werkgroep De Achttiende Eeuw en de VNVNG voor het eerst gezamenlijk de Scriptieprijs Madelein voor de Vroegmoderne Lage Landen uit. Lees hier meer over deze prijs en hoe scripties in te dienen:
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Only Women | Lawrence Stone Before beginning a discussion of the books under review, I must first set out the ten commandments which should, in my opinion, govern the writing of

How *not* to write early modern women’s history? I recently stumbled upon Lawrence Stone’s ‘Ten Commandments’ from 1985. They still strike me as highly relevant today. www.nybooks.com/articles/198...

Black and white portrait of Katharina, wearing a cap and a high collar.

For International Women's Day, here is Katharina Schütz Zell of Strasbourg (1497-1562), the first known female Protestant reformer. She wrote a number of evangelical pamphlets calling for the reform of the church, despite the disapproval of her male colleagues, with whom she occasionally clashed.

For International Woman’s Day, a thread.

Ik draag mijn steentje bij en zal ontstellend ouderwetse colleges geven ‘Mooi hoor, dat vooruitgangsdenken. Het heeft ons van alles opgeleverd, van moderne opvattingen over de democratie tot de magnetron.’

Mijn meeste recente column voor @mareonline.nl - waarin ik uit de kast kom als conservatief.

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getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

Fantastic blogpost by @patthomson.bsky.social on productive discomfort 👏 ‘Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself.’ patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

Opening tomorrow in Ghent: Unforgettable, a major exhibition at the MSK on women artists of the 17th-century Low Countries. More than 150 works reveal how painters, sculptors and lace-makers helped shape the Golden Age - even if art history later forgot them.

Het fortuin van Agnes de Fays Ongehuwde katholieke vrouwen uit de elite konden dikwijls goed voor zichzelf zorgen. Twee zusjes De Fays besloten niet te trouwen. Ze kozen een…

Inmiddels ook online: mijn verhaal in @onsamsterdam.bsky.social over Agnes de Fays, liefdadig klopje in 18de-eeuws Amsterdam: onsamsterdam.nl/artikelen/he... @evelyneverheggen.bsky.social @onslies.bsky.social (niet echt nuntastic maar close enough toch? 😉)

A rediscovered Rembrandt.

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Excited to be in San Francisco for #RenSA26. In a roundtable on minor poets tomorrow and a panel on Dutch women on Saturday with @lindevde.bsky.social @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and Amanda Pipkin #earlymodern

Mooi overzicht!

The (im)possibilities of being a female scientist in Enlightenment Europe: how women navigated gender roles in eighteenth-century science by Pia van de Schaft As a consequence of the increased appreciation of empirical research, a new scientific culture emerged. Intellectuals collaborated in national scientific academies while amateu…

Soms heb je studenten waar je heel blij van wordt. Pia is er zo eentje: ze schreef (in haar 2e studiejaar!) een mooi stuk over de rol van vrouwen in de 18de-eeuwse wetenschap 👇

Here is a cool call for the #bookhistory communities: “Women Printing for Institutions in Early Modern Europe”, at the HAB Wolfenbüttel (and organized by Saskia Limbach) in November 2026.

CFP: www.hab.de/wp-content/u...

Leidse vrouwen op de kaart: van nul tot nu! Lees hier meer over dit bijzondere project van de Historische Vereniging Oud Leiden, de Universiteit Leiden, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken, Museum De Lakenhal en de gemeente/ Leiden kennisstad: mdnl.nl?p=19493

Research-Creation in the early Middle Ages: the example of Hibernicus Exul : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne <p> The pivotal role played by Irish scholars in preserving and transmitting ancient learning during the early Middle Ages is well known even beyond the academy, thanks to popularising works such as ‘How the Irish Saved Civilization’. Yet a great deal of work remains to be done on individual Irish figures working in continental Europe during the eighth to tenth centuries in order to establish more rigorously the Irish contribution. The shadowy figure known as ‘Hibernicus Exul’ (‘the Irish exile’) provides an ideal test-case for this work: the author of thirty-eight Latin poems, on scholarly, political, and comic topics, his works appear in a single manuscript, Vatican Reg. Lat. 2078. This is an important and influential poetic anthology from the heart of the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of intense cultural and intellectual activity in eight- and ninth-century Europe during which the literature and learning of the ancient Graeco-Roman world was rediscovered and concerted efforts were made to standardise and widen access to educational systems, with significant consequences for the intellectual history of western Europe. The PhD student recruited will write the first monograph-length study of Hibernicus Exul, setting his work in the context of the manuscript, addressing the controversial question of his possible identification with the better- known Carolingian scholar Dúngal, and demonstrate how the poet exemplifies the nature of medieval Irish literature, which simultaneously aims to educate and to entertain, and can in many ways be seen as a predecessor of today’s Research-Creation. </p> <p> <strong>Please note below additional requirements when submitting your Expressions of Interest:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Additional requirements: <ul> <li> <strong>Statement of research interest [max. 1000 words]</strong> </li> <li> <strong>MA in a related field, or equivalent, to be completed by the programme start date.</strong> </li> <li> <strong>Evidence of at least six semesters of Latin, or equivalent, with grades of B+ or higher, or equivalent</strong> </li> </ul> </li> </ul>

#MEDIEVAL #LATIN #PHD OPPORTUNITY:
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Voor valentijnsdag wat romantiek uit 11de-eeuws Duitsland! Een huwelijksgelofte in het Latijnse Ruodlieb gedicht:

Zeg mijn geliefde dat van mijn hart zoveel LIEBES (liefde) zal komen als er LOUBES (loof) is, en zoveel WUNNA (geluk) de vogels hebben, zoveel MINNES (hartstocht) zal er voor hem zijn.

I’ll be there! This will be my first time, as covid prevented me from going a couple of years ago. I’m very much looking forward to it!

📜 Neo-Latin Call for Papers 📜

Proposals are now being accepted for the 26th annual NeoLatina Conference, to be held in Innsbruck on 24-25 September 2026!

See attached flyer for more details and share to fellow Neo-Latinists!

Een portret van een jonge vrouw waarvan men aanneemt dat dit Maria Tesselschade is.

Nog een keer de beerput in, gewoon omdat het zo leuk is 😉 In 2015 groeven we een perceel op waarbij uit historisch vooronderzoek bleek dat Maria Tesselschade en haar man daar gewoond hadden. Ik vond correspondentie tussen haar en PC Hooft over het graveren van glas. Maria was goed bevriend net Hooft

Is annalistische geschiedschrijving dan een contradictio in terminis, volgens jou?

📣 Publication alert 📣

The 2025 volume of HL is out. You can access the OA volume through the link below. It features a thematic section on ‘Lovanium’ in the frame of the university’s sexcentenary alongside regular articles spanning 6 centuries of Neolatinitas.

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Ugh no. Aargh. Google Books has stopped working.

#earlymodern

Een vrouwenleven ontrafeld - Holland Historisch Tijdschrift In 2019 deed genealoog Robbert Jan van der Maal in een Belgisch familiearchief een spectaculaire ontdekking: een memorieboek van ruim tweehonderd pagina’s, geschreven door de Alkmaarse Maria van Nesse...

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Samen met Judith Noorman schreef Robbert Jan van der Maal een boek dat Maria van Nesse als zeer zelfstandige vrouw portretteert, maar wel gericht op Maria zelf en minder op haar omgeving.
De vraag blijft hoe uniek dit memorieboek nu echt is
Zie de recensie van @arjannobel.bsky.social
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An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).