In early modern Italy many medicines, especially patent ones, came with a little sheet informing patients of how to use them, when, and for what. Medical regulation came out of state offices and guild government #earlymodern #histmed
I don't know if this will be of any help to you, but here in Wuppertal, Voler Remmert carried out a major project a few years ago on the iconography of #earlymodern scientific instruments.
geschichte.uni-wuppertal.de/fileadmin/ge...
Related: if anyone has knowledge of/literature recommendations on the use of putti (faces) on #EarlyModern scientific instruments (esp. on earliest use), I'd be very grateful for suggestions or getting in touch! (perhaps
@rhiggitt.bsky.social & @dominikhhh.bsky.social?) #HistSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️ 🏛️
#SkyStorians, art historians and historians of science: Is anyone familiar with or specialized in decorative engravings on #EarlyModern scientific instruments, especially clocks? We have questions with respect to the dating! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory #HistSTM #MaterialCulture 🗃️ 🏛️
New, antiquarian book auctions, starting tonight from 8pm
#antiquarian #history #books #maps #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #maps #religion #philosophy #maps #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
#earlymodern literature peeps: this dude has an early modern drama PhD and is moaning that his advisor "read every tragedy written in English until 1640" because almost all of them were "garbage," even though the process was "gruelling but instructive."
Screenshot of the Introduction to the Chester City Hearth Tax webpage. Link to the page in the text of the post.
1,360 households in the 'Cittie of Chester' in 1664 now transcribed on the Hearth Tax Digital site. Read the intro here: gams.uni-graz.at/o:htx.chstr/...
And read the returns for all the households here, fully #OpenAccess: gams.uni-graz.at/o:htx.chstr
#EarlyModern 🗃️
📝🏆The IJMH awards an Early-Career Paper Prize for the best article in military history (antiquity to the present) by a graduate student or early-career scholar. The winner receives €500.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
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#medievalsky #earlymodern
Poster for the launch event, titled 'The Poetry and the Poetics of Difficulty'
Spanish early modernists: Madrid Early Modern Seminar are hosting a launch event for our new edition of George Chapman's early poems on 27 April, with a talk by the editor, @zenon-l-m.bsky.social. Full details at the link. All welcome!
#earlymodern
madrid-ems.com
16th century Iron gall ink on paper, top corner of legal proceedings with a brown stain that follows the edges of the written words
16th century Iron gall ink on paper, top corner of legal proceedings with a brown stain that follows the edges of the written words
structural formula of iron gall ink
Look at how pretty this manuscript damage is. Any cross disciplinary scholars want to explain why iron gall ink would repel (water? who knows) in this way? A chemistry friend of a friend provided the structural formula. #earlymodern #skystorians #histsci
Renaissance Society of America members, @rsaorg.bsky.social: today's newsletter has All The Things describing the two-part call for nominations for Board, Council, and committee positions over the coming months. Do check it out and consider nominating yourself!
#renaissance #earlymodern
At the former Karen Brahes Bibliotek, Adelige Jomfrukloster, Odense, Denmark. Note the Brochmand volumes at the bottom. #skystorians #earlymodern
Folklore forecasts less desirable #Easter gifts from birds, should you neglect to wear new clothes
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Easter finery traditions solidified during the commercial revolution of #earlymodern England
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But have roots in #medieval quarter days & livery
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Big news for the wills world:
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📜 NEW 'Will of the Month' post over at @materialwills.bsky.social 👇
@uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @cemsexeter.bsky.social #history #SkyStorians #EarlyModern
Paperback copy of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2 sitting on a bookcase. Cover has a red heraldic rose, an unhappy-looking king, and possible witch, and a soldier on horseback, all surrounded by a wash of bloody red.
Back cover of a paperback edition od the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Henry VI, Part 2.
It never fully sinks in until you're holding the copy in your hands...
Thank you to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for trusting me with the introduction! I’m quite proud of how it turned out. 😄🍾📖 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern
#earlymodern This thread.
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Title page of the book, reading 'Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae domini Frisiae'
Sketch of a woman in early modern attire carrying a child
Sketch of a woman carrying stuff on her head, on the right a person on a horse.
Sketch of a man with his arms crossed looking a woman who has her back to the viewer.
Blank pages invite use.
In this 1578 print album by Philip Galle, published in collaboration with the Officina Plantiniana, a later reader used the flyleaves and leftover white space to sketch contemporary faces and figures.
#bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜
a couple of a deer (sika/reindeer hybrid) and another animal who is a hybrid of an anglo-nubian goat and an african wild dog princess marianne I (born 25 january 1782) of the house of montreux is the heir apparent of a fictional kingdom on an island west of france, and she is an anglican protestant native to the capital city of "new liverpool" her interests include law, music, art, literature, and history; she is carefree, cheerful and optimistic, but to the point sometimes of being naive, but she's also transparent, and she's outgoing and friendly joanna hamilton (born 16 october 1784) is the daughter of an anglo-nubian goat father and an african wild dog mother, and she's a catholic native to the city of Saint-Gregoire (named after st. gregory of nyssa), which is right beside the city of New Liverpool she is a polymath, being an engineer with expertise in physics and calculus, as well as a painter, hairdresser, and carpenter. she's highly intelligent and diligent, and while she shares marianne's optimism, she helps her rationalize it, especially due to her no-nonsense, down-to-earth personality. while she's the more introverted of the two, she is a compassionate person at heart marianne is wearing an aristocrat-style gown with jewellery studded all over her body (including her antlers), while joanna is wearing a more commoner-style outfit, along with a wrench and hammer in her pocket, while fixing the hair of her loved one
here's a piece of 18th/19th century furry yuri
my first OCs too
#furry #furryart #anthro #SFW #lgbtq #lesbian #yuri #digitalart #art #reindeer #deer #goat #dog #earlymodern #aristocrat
reskeets appreciated!
A word cloud. The largest words are pride, decently, vain, conveniently, manner, honest, expense, world and ceremonie.
Research paper 1: complete!
And that's the first time I've added a final powerpoint slide which is a plug for a forthcoming album ! ! ! 🎵📜🪗🎩
[More on that album here! sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... ] #EarlyModern 🗃️
1 April 1583: A fairly quiet day again. James VI writes to Elizabeth to complain about an attack by three English captains on a ship called the Grace of God of Dundee which took place last year. Apparently the Englishmen not only seized the ship and all its contents, landing ... 1/
#earlymodern
A VIP visitor at the German Maritime Museum 👀 My colleague Frederic and I had the pleasure of welcoming the one and only @garius.bsky.social to Bremerhaven. We talked about the Bremen Cog, the Meteor – and of course, cats at sea. #earlymodern #history
A listing of the renowned impostor George Psalmanazar's 1704 'Description of Formosa' (1704), with the imprint 'Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan'.
Of course Dan Brown printed it ... #earlymodern #skystorians
Wherein I review Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg's tremendous recent volume, Johann Buxtorf, Impresario of Hebrew and Jewish Books (2025).
Find it here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
#EarlyModern
'what if' they had had offspring? #earlymodern
'Peter Marshall walks us through the full Easter season in Shakespeare’s lifetime, explaining how it evolved out of medieval Lenten traditions and how it adapted under the English Reformation.'
#EarlyModern 🗃️
www.cassidycash.com/easter-in-sh...
