Lively @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Bowen and Imhof about @brepols.net The Burgeoning #European #Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints via the Platin-Moretus Press of #Antwerp. #Skystorians #EarlyModern #Belgium #LowCountries
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‘A Young Virgin of Great Hopes’: Agency, Belonging, and the Display of Deaf Hester Koolaart (1683-1737) and her Speaking in the Republic of Letters and Beyond | BMGN - Low Countries Historic... BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries

YAY! Brilliant to see Nina Geerdink & Victoria Nyst's article about a deaf woman in the #EarlyModern #LowCountries out in BMGN!

This is really SUCH cool research, making you think about what it is we study when we study #DisabilityHistory -- plus introducing an intriguing figure to me at least.

𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀
By Jelmar Hugen

Info: bit.ly/4rrsnqp

#Medieval #MedievalSky #Flanders #DutchLiterature #Literature #MedievalLiterature #multilingualism #Kzoo2026 #MedievalFlanders #LowCountries

FRIDAY! Join us for an exciting talk about Blindness, Writing, and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) by Feike Dietz

27 February, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom -- sign-up link www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #SkyStorians #LowCountries #earlymodern

We're welcoming Feike Dietz to the #LowCountries seminar @ihr.bsky.social next Friday!

She'll talk about "Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands"

27 FEB, 17:30, in Bloomsbury & on zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

book cover Fossil Consumerism

portrait of a man + quote “By the end of the eighteenth century, fossil energy had become an intrinsic part of everyday life, as people increasingly prioritised their own cosy comfort over the health of their surroundings.”, Wout Saelens, author of Fossil Consumerism

"The roots of climate change lie in the living room."

🔥📙'Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries', by Wout Saelens
👉 lup.be/2026/01/wout...

#Fossilenergy #ecology #domesticlife #consumption #Anthropocene #earlymodernhistory #LowCountries #openaccess

How better to put off bad luck on Friday the 13th 😱 than by discussing all things future-thinking with @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social?

Friday, 13 FEB, 17:30. Join us @ihr.bsky.social, or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Discover our newest titles in #Renaissance & #Baroque #Art in the #LowCountries with this newsletter.

Go to: bit.ly/4rDqhVe

#ArtHistory #Rubens #Bosch #Borman

!!! #LowCoutries outside the #LowCountries!!

NEXT FRIDAY! Very excited we'll get to hear from @back2futureerc.bsky.social at the @ihr.bsky.social!

Join us, Friday 13 February (😱), at 17:30, in person or online -- register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #SkyStorians #LowCountries #MerchantHistory #EarlyModern

WE'RE KICKING OFF THE #LOWCOUNTRIES SEMINAR THIS FRIDAY!

And we're doing so in style. So excited to hear all about David Hopkin's work on lace-making and lace-makers.

30 Jan, 17:30. Join us in person @ihr.bsky.social or via zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

🤩 #LowCountries!

(and the #LowCountries seminar heard a previous version of this wonderful piece, in case you needed any incentive to join in Bloomsbury on Friday nights: you get the previous of brilliant research!) (and delicious Sichuan food. that too.)

IHR Low Countries programme 30 January David Hopkin: Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion 13 February Jeroen Puttevils: Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries 27 February Feike Dietz: Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) 13 March Sam Geens: Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries 22 May Valika Smeulders: The Rijksmuseum: New Horizons

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries!

Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Don't have all that much to add on 19th c. fiber arts... BUT there's a fantastic-looking talk coming up on January 30 organized for the #LowCountries seminar by @onslies.bsky.social from David Hopkins about 19th c. lacemaking schools in Belgium! bsky.app/profile/onsl...

screenshot of the IHR Low Countries programme 30 January David Hopkin: Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion 13 February Jeroen Puttevils: Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries 27 February Feike Dietz: Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) 13 March Sam Geens: Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries 22 May Valika Smeulders: The Rijksmuseum: New Horizons

🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up!

Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom

Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians

With some wonderful articles on the history of anxiety ( #EmoHistory), maritime communities, and an #AngloDutch couple: emlc-journal.org

The #LowCountries have something for all #SkyStorians.

Vol. 140 No. 4 (2025): Transimperial Opportunities? Small State Colonisation of Congo (1876-1940) | BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries

OOOO! Our latest Special Issue from BMGN is out! About Transimperialism and small-state colonisation of Congo. Do have a read, fascinating development of approaches with ramifications well beyond Congo & #LowCountries history: bmgn-lchr.nl/issue/view/1... #SkyStorians

What If Belgium and the Netherlands Had Remained One Country? By Nick OttensThis article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership with Never Was. For more articles like this please check out thei...

Originally published in "Never Was" magazine, Nick Ottens looks at the #WhatIf moments of the #DutchRevolt and the #EightyYearsWar - could #Belgium and the #Netherlands have remained one country? #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #LowCountries #Benelux www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...

Deel archief online op website. Part of my archive online on new website Screenshot of the top of the website English below De afgelopen maanden heb ik met veel plezier een deel van mijn archief online gezet op een gloednieuwe website: Black Presence in Art from the Low…

#art #artworks #LowCountries #BlackHistory

'Over the past few months, I’ve been excited to share a portion of my archive online through a brand-new website: Black Presence in Art from the Low Countries 1300–1600!'

(Post in English and Dutch)

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programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30 17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys 31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters 17 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30 17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys 31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters 28 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods

THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods

FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic* Abstract. Historical scholarship has long highlighted the extensive landscape interventions initiated by state agents, early capitalists and experts in the

I *adore* it when we get to see a paper we hosted a version of at an @ihr.bsky.social seminar! This time; @annalunapost.bsky.social’s brilliant work on expert resistance & environmental thought @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:

Exciting work for #SkyStorians into #EarlyModern #EnvHist or #LowCountries

Leo Belgicus Leo Belgicus has to be one of the most famous, as well as pictorially pleasing, of all maps. What makes this map so interesting is its direct relationship with the events taking place at the time it was made, and how these events are reflected in the map. _Novissima, et accuratissima Leonis Belgici, seu Septemdecim Regionum Descriptio,_ from _Atlas minor sive Geographia, compendiosa in qua orbis terrarium…_ c.1650. Map Res 34 The first version of the map was printed in 1583, these later editions were published by the famous family of Dutch cartographers, the Visschers, with the first by Claes Janszoon around 1611. This version is by his son Nicolaus, in an atlas whose title translates rather wonderfully as ‘Atlas minor, or Geography, a compendious account of the world’. That the group of nations know as the Low Countries can be mapped in the shape of a lion was a convenient way to show a group of 17 provinces when over half of those provinces had a lion on their shields, as can be seen along the top of the map. The lion though can also be seen to symbolize war, and power, and it was to feature regularly on maps during the 80 Years War, a conflict between the Northern Provinces and the ruling power in the area, the Spanish Empire. We can tell this map has been printed during a short truce in the fighting between 1609 and 1621 because the sword held by the lion is sheathed, and held downwards. Maps made either side of the truce show the sword held high, ready for action. The map, symbolic in itself with the form of a lion representing the outline of the countries as well as the individual provinces, is full of smaller symbolic references. Just above the base of the tail two women, representing the northern and southern half of the Netherlands, sit on an old man, ‘d’Oude twist,’ who represents the conflict that has hopefully now passed. Around the lion are pastoral scenes, showing the countryside at peace, with harvests gathered and villages and towns under repair or expansion (‘t’vergrooten der steden’ means the ‘enlargement of the cities’). In one of the stranger parts of the map a putto, a winged figure often found around cartouches on maps, has rather ungainly fallen out of heaven and has dropped a number of concepts in the shape of various associated objects, so the candle sticks represent wealth (‘rijckdom’), while the other objects symbolize art and science (hour glass, cross-staff, lead weight for reading depths at sea and so on), all for the benefit of a nation at peace. The atlas, in 2 volumes, is a beautiful example of Dutch cartography during the golden age of the seventeenth century. The atlases are full of regional and country maps as well as maps of the heavens; it even has a page at the end full of different types of fortifications and instruments of war. Many pages have elaborate cartouches, the title page gives a taste of the glories within. Here Geography, one of the muses, draws the globe while Poseidon stands by. Cybele, with her crown made of city walls, measures the earth while a lion stands by. There’s a second Leo, in the atlas. Despite the raised sword which would suggest war this is a celebratory lion. The map was made in 1648, a year of treaties and negotiation finishing with the Dutch gaining independence from Spain. _Comitatus Hollandiæ denuo forma Leonis_ Map Res. 34

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I have no great knowledge of cartography, but I nearly always find maps interesting.

#Maps #Art #Cartography #LowCountries #LeoBelgicus #Netherlands #Flanders #17thCentury #EarlyModern #History

#LowCountries excitement! Congratulations @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social!!

(and if you miss this prize celebration, you can join us on 13 February @ihr.bsky.social for a paper by Jeroen :))

The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters

NEXT WEEK! Come and celebrate Halloween with us at the #LowCountries seminar with a paper on the Synod of Dort! (there's a (holy) ghost involved ok 👻) with Dirk van Miert @huygensknaw.bsky.social

FRI 31 OCT 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for link) #EarlyModern #AngloDutch #Skystorians

Screenshot of a zoom meeting with a Holbein painting

We’re OFF! With smouldering #LowCountries dudes. Come for the cheekbones, stay for the cool art history.

I can still DM you a link.

I have the powerpoint for Alexander Marr's talk and it looks LUSH! Join us tonight! #EarlyModern #LowCountries #SkyStorians

GET READY FOR FRIDAY! Make plans to get to lovely Bloomsbury if you're in the neighbourhood, or sign up for the zoom link by Thursday evening.

(or, if you like to live on the edge, get a picture of a Good Tree ready to bribe me for the clandestine zoom link on Friday)
#LowCountries #ArtHistory

𝗟𝗮 𝗥𝗲́𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝘀-𝗕𝗮𝘀,𝟭𝟱𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟲𝟮𝟬
Par Christine Kooi

Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/3ISoMS9

#Reformation #Theology #Protestantism #Religion #ReligiousHistory #LowCountries