I've identified some new marginalia by Henry VIII on the psalms at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
You can read all about it in the latest issue of the Library: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
'“It’s a sad reflection on the sector as a whole when the Russell Group is unwilling to present a robust defence of UK higher education in response to a shoddy political hatchet job,” said Andrew McRae, a former dean of postgraduate research at the University of Exeter.'
Well said. 1/3
This note concerns a copy of Erasmus’ Enarratio in Psalmum XXXIII at the British Library. While this book has long been associated with the library of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, an analysis of the handwritten marginalia in this volume ...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
'Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance.' #Skystorians
I was particularly struck by Henry VIII's careful drawings of birds and manicules in this book. he was clearly a prince with time on his hands... 🗃️
#BookHistory
#earlymodern #bookhistory
Go and hangout in the Palazzo Alberti in October!
CFP: Tuscany and the Iberian Empires: Migration and Knowledge Transmission in the Early Modern Period
30 October, Florence
Deadline: 15 July
All info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
#EarlyModern #Skystorians
As the @rsaorg.bsky.social 's Religion discipline rep, I'm excited to share two #earlymodern #CfP for #RenSA27.
The first, coorganised with Amanda Scott, is entitled "Banishment and Exile in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Looking ahead to what promises to be a landmark gathering next year. It's the *60th anniversary* of @srsrensoc.bsky.social , the conference is taking place at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social, and the theme is explicitly inviting us to move beyond limits... Cannot wait - spread widely!!!!!
Tim Wade
New leader of research-intensive grouping says ‘challenging conversations’ needed but critics urge united front against political attacks
www.timeshighereducation.com
Over the next three weeks, we feature the 8 monographs and 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book & Early Career Article Prizes.
Today: 'The Bonds of Freedom. Liberated Africans & the End of the Slave Trade', by Jake Subryan Richards (Yale UP, 2025) bit.ly/4onv2BK 1/2 #Skystorians
Letter: Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham
This article is extraordinarily insightful, and also some of the most unrelentingly bleak stuff I have read in quite a while www.jstor.org/stable/27077... (about anglo-American printers advertising & brokering the sale of enslaved people)
I've identified some new marginalia by Henry VIII on the psalms at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
You can read all about it in the latest issue of the Library: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
Society for Renaissance Studies
Jan Machielsen
Hannah Murphy
This note concerns a copy of Erasmus’ Enarratio in Psalmum XXXIII at the British Library. While this book has long been associated with the library of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, an analysis of the handwritten marginalia in this volume ...
*Call for Papers*
@srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment.
Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...
The Warburg Institute
It's almost time!!! We have less than a week before our Book History Conference. Lots of great panels are planned!
If you'd like to join online please contact the organizers, Chloe Akers-Brewers or James Fox.
Learn more about the conference program here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference