5 April 1583: The University of Edinburgh is gradually coming into existence. James VI granted a charter (pictured) for its foundation last year, but the city council has dawdled, and they now realise that if they don't get on with it, a gift he'd promised them will lapse. ... 1/
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Easter-ish reading: my words on an #earlymodern Portuguese painting of hell that bristles with New World motifs and monsters.
#arthistory #monsters
If you are interested in #earlymodern architectural drawings and are an ECR under age 36, *APPLY FOR THIS*! Deadline: 20 April. #CFP
#CfP #earlymodern #genderhistory "Family roles, access to resources, access to work: unmarried women (15th –19th centuries) Deadline tomorrow 6 April!
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IT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)
#antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
Early modern musicology friends: is there a convenient guide, published or otherwise, to pre-modern musical notation? It’d be of enormous help. TIA #skystorians #earlymodern #musichistory
Introducing…The Pageant Wagon Podcast!
I talk to scholars, historians, and practitioners of #medieval and #earlymodern theatre. We discuss new perspectives, staging techniques, and pedagogical strategies.
Launching April 1st!
4 April 1583: The question of whether England should shift to the Gregorian calendar, as advocated by John Dee, hits a bump: the queen is favour of it, her ministers accept it, but the bishops are now opposing it. Archbishop Grindal and bishops Aylmer, Piers and Young write to ... 1/
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THE BOOKFISH LIVES!
Or: #EarlyModern #Reformazing history turning very colourful.
Excuse to post Alex Walsham's article again: academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
Some of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)
#antiquarian #bibliophile #history #BookTwitter #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #finebinding #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
Nyboder in Copenhagen, public housing built for the common sailors of Christian IV’s navy. Most of the development was rebuilt sometime later and a 2nd storey added to each building…except for this one remaining single-storey unit on Sankt Pauls Gade. #earlymodern #skystorians
Wonderful to see the JEMH's Editor Molly Warsh win the Leopold-Hidy Award for the best article published in _Environmental History_in the previous year. Congratulations, @mwarsh.bsky.social! @aseh.bsky.social #earlymodern
I am so proud of and honored by this award. Working with the wonderful editors at EH, Mark Hersey and Stephen Brain, was transformative for me as an author and as an editor. My deep thanks, too, to the extraordinary readers who saw what I was trying to do and helped me to do it better. #earlymodern
Spotted at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo: Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s collage of European portraits painted over with Indigenous South American pottery, collapsing longstanding divides between European high art and Indigenous ‘anthropology’ in museums. #earlymodern
Early modernists in NYC/NJ--join us next week at Rutgers for FEEGI's 2026 conference! FEEGI is entirely DIY-no institutional base or $$ support, just a committed membership. All sessions are plenary. Oh, and it's crazy affordable (FREE for grads, postdocs and IS!) #earlymodern
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#earlymodern @drsheeha.bsky.social @natcutter.bsky.social @nidel.bsky.social
Congratulations to all of our team members! 🥳
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The Ocean Remembers: Indians and the Tides of Empire
History & Social History, Islamic, Malaysiana by Nia Deliana:
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George's death is told as an #Easter story in @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social. He and his younger brother, Christopher, repaired their relationship on Easter eve, before taking communion together on Easter Sunday. George then died on Easter Monday which Thornton refers to as Black Monday. #EarlyModern 🗃️
3/13 April 1583: William the Silent got married yesterday (I was going to post about it but there was confusion over dating) to his fourth wife, Louise de Coligny (depicted here in later life). An English source writes that they were married in the castle chapel, 'habillés ... 1/
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Photo of a memorial plaque to the Wandesfords, including George Wandesford at the top, at St Michael's, Kirklington.
3 April 1651 #OTD Alice’s brother, George Wandesford, was buried in St Michael’s Church, Kirklington. His body was brought from Catterick ‘by coach to Kirklington in the company of all the gentry in that part of Yorkshire with a greater lamentation and sorrow’ (Book 1). #EarlyModern 🗃️
Everything is now essentially Long Seventeenth Century but somehow a worse version of it ...
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Yesterday, we started fully disassembling the 16th century clock 🕰️. After three hours, we were at about 45 components, and we're nowhere near done yet 🤯
Christ on a cracker... just when you thought you could not have more respect for #EarlyModern craftspeople #HistSci #HistSTM 🗃️ 🏛️ #MaterialCulture
Music and the #FigurativeArts in the #Baroque Era
Edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito
Info: bit.ly/4v7z8Rh
#Musicology #MusicHistory #Arts #ArtHistory #EarlyModern
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 🗃️ 🏛️
