Bodies and being Speaker Series Mara Ciuntu presents: Old Age and Infirmity in Dialogue: Chaucer’s Reworking of John of Wales’ 'Communiloquium'

Our upcoming online talk features Mara Ciuntu talking about old age and infirmity in #Chaucer. Open to all!

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

The Bussi brothers, with family outside of Milan, were buried together in a Roman chapel under the auspices of a former patron. I'm forever going to be struck by the humanity of the people I study. Real, emotional people and their family ties are so important. #earlymodernhistory

As always, it was a wonderful and successful week in London.

Thank you to @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy and GISociabilité for giving me the opportunity to present my research as part of such a fantastic programme!
#freemason #sociability #travel #earlymodernhistory #prizepapers

books.openedition.org/cidehus/29721
Homenagem Belíssima a quem partiu precocemente.
#earlymodernhistory
#mouriscosportugueses
#filomenabarros

Bodies and Being Colloquium A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.

Come join us for our monthly online colloquium on Saturday. Thanks to all the Zoombombing, we can only admit those who register.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

#HistBookChat
#HistoryBookChat
#EarlyModernHistory

communication networks during the second half of the seventeenth century, after Ducal Prussia won its independence from its former feudal lord, the Polish king.

Sign up now: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...

#earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #prussia #historyofpolitics #diplomacy
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💙📚💙📚 Thomas was accused of kidnapping the young Edward VI and of pursuing the teenage Elizabeth, Seymour's ambition finally outpaced his luck. Within days he would be executed at the Tower. #OnThisDay
#TudorFiction #TudorNovels #HistoryCommunity #EarlyModernHistory

Vor dem Hintergrund praxeologischer Ansätze aus der Netzwerkforschung und Wissensgeschichte sowie unter Berücksichtigung von Methoden der #DH widmet sich der Workshop den Verflechtungen frühneuzeitlicher Institutionen und Medien am und um den Gothaer Hof.
#earlymodernhistory #bookhistory #Brief
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💙📚💙📚 On this day in 1522, Henry VIll rode in the Shrovetide joust, wearing the motto she has wounded my heart.
The event was recorded by Edward Hall and shows the king at his most theatrical.
#TudorHistory #HenryVIll #Shrovetide #TudorCourt
#EarlyModernHistory

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

Bodies and Being Colloquium A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.

Roses are red, violets are blue, meet us at our online monthly informal colloqium, won't you?

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025) - New Books Network

The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
by @tracyborman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-stolen-c...
#earlymodernhistory #britishhistory
Turns out it was not such a smooth path for James I

Tuscan and Genoese aspirations to transoceanic trade in the 17th century

Our alumnus Giorgio Tosco has just published a new book exploring how the Republic of Genoa and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany sought to enter global commerce and expansion overseas👉 loom.ly/3co5n3k

📚 #EarlyModernHistory

The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500-1800 edited by Gerald Stourzh The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500-1800 edited by Gerald Stourzh at isdistribution.com This volume presents the Mediterranean as a crucial part of the social and cultural fabric of the early modern Habsb...

📘 20% off with code 2991-26
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#EarlyModernHistory #MediterraneanStudies #HabsburgHistory

Ricercatore Tenure Track - s.c. 11/HIST-02, ssd HIST-02/A (Codice 5826) | Università degli Studi di Milano Statale Selezione pubblica a n. 1 posto di ricercatore Tenure Track riservata ai sensi dell’art.14 comma 6-septiesdecies del decreto legge 30 aprile 2022, n. 36 convertito con modificazioni, dalla Legge 29 gi...

❗CfA 📢 "Ricercatore Tenure Track" in Early Modern Histoy
🎓Università degli Studi di Milano
⏰Deadline: 9 February 2026, 12:00
🔗 www.unimi.it/it/ateneo/la...

#EarlyModernHistory

It is *fascinating* & indicative of SOMETHING that none of the 4 depict the most common people in Bourdichon's society. The working people are town craftspeople, not rural peasants--yet French society of 1500 was at least 80% peasant. Curieux. #HistSky #History #earlyModernHistory #ArtHistory

Entre l’atelier et le lecteur L’impression et la lecture des livres de la Renaissance sont déjà bien connues. Mais ce qui se passait entre le moment où l’encre séchait sur les feuilles dans l’atelier de l’imprimeur et celui où un ...

And for those who are interested in the book that looks at this from a French perspective, it is now available in #openaccess here: books.openedition.org/pur/298922

(so easy to read in automatic translation too!)

#bookhistory #earlymodernhistory #frenchhistory

Threads across the Atlantic: The Transfer of the Silk Industry between the Iberian Peninsula and New Spain, c.1520-1620 PhD thesis defence by Paula González Fons

Our researcher Paula González Fons defends her #PhD thesis today on the silk industry in 16th- and early 17th century New Spain.

Her research aims to a better understanding of the colonial political economy and the foundations of imperial ambitions 👉 loom.ly/SSwWxi0

🎓📚 #EarlyModernHistory

Factories, capitulations, and the dilemmas of Ottoman–Portuguese detente in Basra, 1622–1722

Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article authored by Michael O’Sullivan from our CAPASIA research project @erc.europa.eu 👉 loom.ly/clJF_wE

📚 #EarlyModernHistory

📢 Huygens researchers at the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
Jelle van Lottum and Marlies Couch will give a lecture on domestic violence in early modern Amsterdam, followed by a Q&A session during the symposium Exhibiting the Domestic Past
📅 8 Jan 26 | 9:30-17:30
🔗 tinyurl.com/9bwv4z9c
#EarlyModernHistory

Bodies and Being Colloquium A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.

School is back in session and so are we! Join us online on Jan 10th for casual #bodystudies chat.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

#EarlyModernHistory

Ein aufgeschlagenes Buch zeigt eine Landkarte. Auf den Seiten liegt eine Lupe.

#SaveTheDate Am 18.12. findet die letzte Veranstaltung der FBG @unierfurt.bsky.social im Herzog-Ernst-Kabinett/Schloss statt.
Um 18.15 Uhr spricht Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinbach (TU Braunschweig) zum Thema „Der Historiker und Das Meer – Fernand #Braudel (1902-1985)“.
#EarlyModernHistory #Annales

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#DressHistory #FashionHistory #SpanishFashion #Velazquez #EarlyModernHistory #ArtHistory #BookAwards #RenaissanceStudies #AHA #AssociationOfDressHistorians #GordonBookPrize #EdicionesElViso #ScholarSpotlight #ResearchExcellence
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Yesterday, I have obtained my #MA with #distinction in #EarlyModernHistory at @ueahistory.bsky.social. I am able to claim that across all my work, every single fact quoted and each sentence delivered was my own ‘human intelligence creation’, built on old fashioned research and reading. Long live HI.

Kindergeschenke zum Nikolaus- und Christtag | Blog der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha

Vorgestellt und eingeordnet wird die aufschlussreiche Quelle von Daniel Gehrt im neusten Beitrag des Blogs der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha:
blog-fbg.uni-erfurt.de?p=11609
#EarlyModernHistory #Nikolaus #Weihnachten #Handschriften #Gotha

The early modern era—Renaissance, Reformation, scientific revolution—set Europe on a new trajectory 📜⚔️🧪. It’s a period where old institutions clashed with emerging modernity. #EarlyModernHistory #Europe

Kenneth G. Appold, "Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, and the Revolt Of 1525" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network

Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, and the Revolt Of 1525
Kenneth G. Appold
newbooksnetwork.com/luther-and-t... #revolts #rebellions #religioushistory #earlymodernhistory

David M. Whitford, "The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity" (Routledge, 2025) - New Books Network

The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity
by @davidmwhitford.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/the-making-o...
#masculinity #skystorians #religioushistory #earlymodernhistory