Stuart's site is simply a mine of treasures. He generously shares so much openly and is a truly deep scholar. His books - particularly on Foucault - are always must-reads for me.
Dutch Atlanticists, the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, PA, is offering a two-week reading course on German handwriting (June 1 – 12, 2026) Participants will learn to read German manuscripts dating from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries. More info: www.moravianchurcharchives.org/events/#tabs-3
alte Karte mit Zerbst, Dessau, Roßleben (und Magdeburg)
Leipzig, 6. März 1626
Herzog von Weimer und Obrist Fuchs mit 20.000 Mann / 3.000 Reiter bei der Stadt Zerbst und Dessauer Brücke - verschanzen sich stark, um Wallenstein den Pass zu verlegen, damit er Mansfeld nicht nachsetzen kann. ... 1/3
if quantitative social science is automatable, it's because many of the fields in question have already reorganized their research in such a way to be indistinguishable from machine output, and already optimized for machine measurement.
Yes. Just from the link I sent to Will, I see you, Timothy Burke, and Jon Dresner who are all active here, mentioned in the awards. But Will had not heard of them and Laura had her memory jogged.
Bremen, 6. März 1626
Königl. Dänemarkischen aufgebrochen und mit dem Volk das aus der Ayenburg dazu gestossen / in Westphalen gute Fortuna gehabt, etliche Städte eingenommen.
"Man kann aber davon nicht gewisses haben noch schreiben / weiln die Strassen ganz unsicher"(!)
It's possible we may have "met" in one of those threads.
I know that there are actually quite a few Cliopatria award winners here on bsky.
US-based. Were not officially part of the AHA, but kind of glommed on to the book awards there. Shut down in 2012.
www.hnn.us/blog/17605
Does anyone on here remember Ralph Luker's old Cliopatria Awards for blogging?
(I did a quick search and I seem to be the first person to mention him or them on bsky.)
1766 religious census of Ireland is 260 years old today (5 March). Have a look at our brand new map of surviving details from 'Ireland's first census'. 😃
Join us on 10 March at 5:30pm for a GHIL Lecture by Karin Friedrich (University of Aberdeen) on 'Between Republic and Dynasty: Transnational Governors and Noble Agents between Poland-Lithuania and the Duchy of Prussia' taking place at the Warburg Institute (online participation possible)! 📅
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Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
Congratulations!
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #ancientsky #cfp #booksky
Hands up who wants to get involved with a cool online journal - or attend an equally fun online conference this April! #fame&fortune
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
@christinekooi.bsky.social Hi! My album amicorum research uncovered something new to me, and I was wondering if it is something widely known to Dutch Reformation scholars?
The autograph album of Daniel Eilshemius from the Synod of Dort: images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet...
📣 Réservez vos 5 & 6 mars pour le colloque "Mobilités contraintes et production de savoirs sur le monde à Naples, Rome et Venise au XVIe siècle" au Campus Condorcet !
La toute dernière version du programme en avant-première 👇
SOCRESTA explores how ordinary people used violence and the law to settle their disputes, by focusing on the 16th-c Prince-bishopric of Würzburg. This German polity offers a unique window into early modern social relations, state dynamics, and the history of the feud or Fehde. (1/2)
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I'm over 60, fwiw.
"Les guerres civiles du XVIe siècle sont-elles l'avenir des études sur les violences de masse ? "
Nicolas Mariot me fait l'honneur d'une riche et passionnante discussion de Survivre dans Genèses. Merci à lui et à la revue pour cette lecture.
shs.cairn.info/revue-genese...
My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern
Especially nicely done was a chronological sequence of illuminated letters of nobility from ca 1550 to 1700 which illustrated the changes in elite fashion.
I highly recommend this wonderful exhibit on Spanish fashion at the Hispanic Society in NYC: hispanicsociety.org/exhibition/s...
#earlymodern
This is a pretty funny revelation at this point. Did someone mention it earlier?
The muskets, which I had manufactured in the mountains by the gunsmiths and locksmiths immediately upon our arrival in Troppau, were also delivered to me. I will arm my men with them as best I can."
Danish war commissar Mitzlaff has local smiths make muskets for his troops in Silesia in 1627.
Huh. This was news to me - Hannah Wolley's 17th German language edition isn't a translation of "The Queen-Like Closet" as widely reported, but "The Ladies Directory". howtobook.hypotheses.org/2051
CALL FOR PAPERS: Contested Seas: War, Commerce, and the Making of the Law of the Sea (c. 1400–1800)
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@vubcore.bsky.social @vliz.be
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Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
um 1600 viele Munitionswagen von Pferden gezogen, viele Soldaten
Wolfenbüttel, 1627
Wolfenbüttel 25. Feb 1626
* dänische Truppen nach Osnabrück unter Obristen Fuchs, Linßlaw u.a.
* Mansfelder in die Marck aufgebrochen, mit 30 Kanonen, 500 Wagen Munition u.a., Anschlag geplant
* zuvor Elbe und Weser gut besetzt
* Halberstätter (Christian) hat jetzto das Regiment in Braunschweig 1/2
Okay, let's also do a list of the worst offenders for image fees. I'll start: the Royal Collection. Come on, you're the British Royal Family, you really don't need the money.
