Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten."
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Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten."
#copyediting
This Black History Month, please consider donating to this incredible place in my town: the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Community Center.
They host mutual aid and community programming for all ages, and have an extensive library. Help them continue to exist! givebutter.com/ARCC-2026-BHM
This Black History Month, please consider donating to this incredible place in my town: the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Community Center.
They host mutual aid and community programming for all ages, and have an extensive library. Help them continue to exist! givebutter.com/ARCC-2026-BHM
Oh, man, this one hits me. I loved (and still love) that movie. Once and always an insufferable goth kid!
I wish we'd had Ethan Frome! I think I would have loved it back then too.
Yesss! I think it's #RenSA26! I hope you have a great conference ✨
Exciting hands-on workshop session! “Renaissance Pigments II: Native Alaskan Formline Painting” on Saturday, February 21 from 2:30–4:00 PM. Details here: rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee... Email duran0@purdue.edu to reserve your spot! #RenSA26 #RenTwitter #earlymodern
Fellowship Opportunity!
The Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship
Deadline March 1, 2026
$2,000, the fellowship supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700.
www.rsa.org/page/keberfe...
Congratulations!
📣 Grad Students: Receive complimentary conference registration by volunteering to work just one shift! If you've already registered, we'll refund your registration fee. Get details & sign up here: forms.gle/7EEUMj1QTo6r... #RenTwitter #RenSA26 #earlymodern
This inspired me to revisit one of my favorite folk songs, "Julian of Norwich" (by Sydney Carter, here performed by David Coffin). More academics should know about this song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE9V...
I found the boombox that I had in high school. Every time I look at it, I get a jolt of joy. I love having this object in my space again. It was manufactured in 1999. The sound quality is spectacular. I've listened to an album of chansons de Bretagne 4 times today. And I can make mix tapes again!
Same!
Decent image of Eleanor Rykener's court record now up on Wikimedia Commons, with CC BY 4.0 license. Use with wild abandon for talks, seminars, all the good queer & trans history stuff
#MedievalSky 🗃️
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ICYMI: The Winter 2025 issue of RQ is our first special issue! Resource Landscapes: Ecologies, Labor, & Investment in the Early Modern World, edited by Tina Asmussen and Renée Raphael, is packed with seven(!) articles + the editors' brilliant introduction.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current
Open for nominations: RSA Renaissance Studies Article Prize!
For articles published in 2025 on the topic of Renaissance ecologies - ecology in art and literature, humans and the natural world, resources and extractive industries, natural and designed environments, etc.
www.rsa.org/general/cust...
📣 We are thrilled to announce that the Winter 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.4) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance
@universitypress.cambridge.org
Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by
@routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️
It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...
Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.
A glorious profusion of flowers sitting on a stone ledge, in the right edge of which is the artist's signature. According to the text on the museum object page, "Luscious white and orange lilies, peonies, cabbage roses, and striated tulips compete for attention in a sumptuous display. Glistening dewdrops on the petals suggest that the blossoms are freshly cut. Indeed, their scent continues to attract hovering insects."
With 3 major art shows on C17th-18th women, is the Autumn of Early Modern #WomenArtists!
Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750
nmwa.org/exhibitions/...
Michaelina Wautier-Painter
www.khm.at/en/exhibitio...
Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer
www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...
Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve
A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment
A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment
A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment
☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜
The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.
They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜
Seriously brilliant scholarship here by Or Vallah, A. Jorge Aguilera-López, Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, and Domenico Laurenza. Also, 75 book reviews for your perusal!
The new issue of Renaissance Quarterly is *fantastic* & in it you'll find:
- Disabled artistic expression of Hendrick Goltzius (whose hand self-portrait is the cover of this issue)
- *Incredible* drama between 16th-century shipbuilders
- Visual poetry about Thomas Becket
- VOLCANOES!
Go read it!
📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
Call for papers for Leeds International Medieval Congress, 'Reading Repetition: Non-Linear Temporalities and Layered Meaning in the Middle Ages and Beyond'
Hello everyone! Sharing a cfp for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds next summer, organised by Gummies Marie Besson and Brooklyn Arnot. Check it out!
Bram Stoker 1847-1912 A PENGUIN SINCE 1979
This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?
Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰
@ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social
Last step: submit your contact info & list of pirated titles to the lawyers: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact
Next step: If you find your name in the LibGen database, check the work's copyright at publicrecords.copyright.gov. Any work you find listed there is registered & entitled to compensation under the lawsuit. If your work was published within the last 5 years, contact the publisher to register it.