JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Today!
The cluster on the Greek Fathers in the new JHI includes an article by Christa Lundberg: "Humanist Translation and the Parisian Tradition: Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’s ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite"
muse.jhu.edu/article/959039
The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles, "Context and Paratext: New Insights into the Early Modern Reception of the Greek Fathers." The introduction by organizer Paolo Sachet is now available open access:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.
#earlymodern #skystorians
#CfP: 'Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice'. Limerick 14-15 January 2026. Abstracts by June 16, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/discip...
As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend this job offer: an Assistant Professor at the Department of History devoted to work within a Global History of Knowledge.
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#skystorians #histknow
It was nice to meet old friends on my first visit to Det Kongl. Bibliotek in Copenhagen today: a copy of Lefèvre's Fivefold Psalter that belonged to the family of the printer Johann Amerbach.
Timothy Twining
Timothy Twining
Duncan Bell
Journal of the History of Ideas
The discussion continues in the Early Modern Scholarship & Religion seminar @camhistory.bsky.social this Friday (2 May) at 4pm! For details and online participation, see www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
Journal of the History of Ideas
Society for Renaissance Studies
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
#earlymodern
We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.
Really enjoyed discussing The Limits of Erudition recently with
@janalena.bsky.social! Find the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-limits-o...
#earlymodern #skystorians
New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and
the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical
Scholarship', by Timothy Twining bit.ly/3IkveRA
How was ‘everyday erudition’ used to come to terms with the historical reality of Christian revelation? 1/2
