Let's just say, this pretty yellow and amazing volume came out this week in print, and will be available in open access soon (likely in June): www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Schreibkalen...
It is about #earlymodern almanacs of German-speaking Europe: the #Schreibkalender
Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
Congratulations to the volume editors, contributors and series editors on the publication of -
Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by Anni Hella, Anu Korhonen
Blurb and table of contents: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Per...
All about Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin: "The image of him is everywhere but no one seems to hear or read his own voice.” (Salad Hilowle)
#earlymodern
What do the #earlymodern chess-playing automaton, the "Mechanical Turk" from 1770, and today’s AI have in common? There’s still more of a human touch to AI than you might think or expect.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-menschlic...
#CfP 📢 "Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies", eds. Mary Katherine Newman and Rana Banna
Seeking chapter proposals on how language and the senses shaped evidence in the #earlymodern world (c.1492–1700).
⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 12 April 2026
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
#HistoryOfKnowledge
Working on the history of hair? Or just found a hairy case study you would like to explore? We are looking forward to it! Please answer our CfP on „Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026“ and join us in Lucerne this October! #skystorians #earlymodern
It's no secret!
Arno Strohmeyer's new article about Habsburg-Ottoman espionage practices is now available online.
Read it in public or private on FirstView!
#History #AcademicSky #Ottoman #Habsburg #Austria #Diplomacy #EarlyModern #Skystorians
tinyurl.com/H-O-secrecy
Today's anecdote from the Lisbon Inquisition probably sets a record for vindictive pettiness. In 1544 a woman is denounced because whilst giving birth she “did not call out to the Virgin Mary but to her [own] mother.”
"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️
This is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Research is underway to uncover the identity of two teenagers in 17th Century portrait.
www.bbc.co.uk
Francois Soyer
Annika Bärwald
Lauren Working
Swedish exhibition explores life of 18th-century Black diarist
Born into slavery, Gustav Badin became part of Swedish royal court and left legacy of books and letters
In 1760, a Black child around 10 years old arrived at the Swedish royal court as a “gift” to the queen. Adolf Ludvig Gustav Fredrik Albrecht Couschi, who became known as Badin (derived from the French for joker or prankster), later held titles including chamberlain, court secretary, ballet master and civil servant.
He is thought to have been born into slavery between 1747 and 1750 in the former Danish colony of St Croix (now part of the US Virgin Islands), where he was “owned” by Christian Lebrecht von Pröck, who took him to Denmark. He was “received” by Gustaf de Brunck, a Swedish councillor of commerce, who later “donated” Badin to Queen Louisa Ulrika. Continue reading...
