Wherein I review Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg's tremendous recent volume, Johann Buxtorf, Impresario of Hebrew and Jewish Books (2025).
Find it here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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#CfP 📢 The latest EMoDiR american meeting has barely concluded, and we are already excited to announce the theme of our next gathering at #RSA2027!
Please circulate widely 🤗
#EarlyModern #ReligiousMinorities #MigrationHistory #ReligiousDissent #Transgression #MobilityStudies @rsaorg.bsky.social
#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
Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.
📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR members Inquisitions, Iconography, and Memory (13th–19th Century) (Viella, 2025). The volume explores how visual culture shaped the memory and representation of inquisitorial institutions across centuries.
🔗 www.viella.it/libro/979125... #EarlyModern #Inquisition #VisualCulture
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Long in the making….here’s my new article about second-hand books and the Bodleian www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
We are delighted to announce that booking is now open for the fifth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism conference - details and a draft programme can be found here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... #skystorians #EMHistory #nuntastic #recusantsbaby #history #Catholicism
**Call for Bids for The Making of the Humanities conference 2028**
The Society for the History of the Humanities has opened a Call for Bids to host the 13th Making of the Humanities conference in 2028.
Deadline: 15 September, 2026
For more info: www.historyofhumanities.org/2026/03/19/c...
@ecsssstir2025.bsky.social are accepting nominations for the Richard B. Sher First Book Prize (awarded early 2027).
The prize recognizes authors whose first scholarly book contributes significantly to the field of eighteenth-century Scottish studies.
#skystorians #18thC #ScottishHist
"Sixteenth-century doctors were much less specialized than today’s medical professionals...Nancy followed them into these areas, and studied their polymathy with her own deep learning and equally profound humility."
Today's #histSTM & #histmed lunch read: Andrew Berns's éloge for Nancy Siraisi 🗃️📜
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Great to see that the video of Imogen Peck's recent talk @long18thsem.bsky.social on 'Family Archives in England, 1650-1838' is now available online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
