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@neilayounger.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 4:49 PM

16 October 1583: Not a lot to report today. In the Stationers' Register is (I imagine) a pamphlet, 'A report of the Conqueste of the Ilandes of Tersera, by the marques of Santa Cruz in the behalf of king Phillip' - this is the completion of the Spanish conquest of the Azores (and ...
#earlymodern

@thethinkingpress.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 2:37 PM

I'm excited about this one. The Magical World of the Heroes, Cesare della Riviera's book of 1605, in English for the first time, comes out October 25, 2026. Hardcover, $79.99; ebook on Kindle at $19.99.

thethinkingpress.org/project/magical-world-of-the-heroes
🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern

The cover of The Magical World of the Heroes, by Cesare della Riviera, translated by B. C. P. Statema, from The Thinking Press.
@lizlehfeldt.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 1:42 PM

Friday morning writing: if we conceptualize #earlymodern convents as households (the backbone of my project) it changes how we think about nuns, enclosure, etc, BUT...it also exposes the lives of individuals that don't leave many traces in the archives. People like lay sisters and bailiffs.

@asls.org.ukOct 16, 2026, 1:19 PM

… then @roslynpotter.bsky.social serves a historical hors d’oeuvre in “‘Better byde the cuiks, nor the mediciners’: food and poetry in medieval and early modern Scotland (c. 1400–1650)” …
#medievalsky #EarlyModern #food #poetry
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/bett...

@onslies.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 1:10 PM

Was wonderful to meet @frankietaylor317.bsky.social this Summer while I was in York! Such brilliant and mind-bending work; I can't think of the maintenance of knowledge in the same way again. Wonderful piece, do give it a read! #earlymodern #Skystorians

FFrancis Taylor@frankietaylor317.bsky.socialAug 7, 2026, 8:40 AM

Just published this with Renaissance Studies! On furzes, thistles, and ‘perfect’ descriptions of parochial weeding techniques: doi.org/10.1111/rest...

doi.orgA Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’Seventeenth-century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting...
@onslies.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 10:17 AM

A WEEK FROM NOW! Join us for what will be an exciting paper by @bobpi.bsky.social on Water, Space, & Environmental Inequality in #EarlyModern Amsterdam

FRI 23 Oct, 17:30 in person @ihr.bsky.social or on Zoom -free & all welcome, but register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries

OLiesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 9:55 AM

A programme! A veritable programme! Would you look at these cool talks for our Autumn line-up, with dream team @bobpi.bsky.social, @ninondubourg.bsky.social, and @ewatson.bsky.social Join us at the @ihr.bsky.social (or on zoom) on Fridays at 17:30 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries

Autumn term programme for the Low Countries seminar at the Institute f Historical research on Fridays at 17:30 23 Oct Bob Pierik (Brussels), ‘Water, Space and Environmental Inequality in Early Modern Amsterdam’ 20 Nov Ninon Dubourgh (Cologne), ‘Between Old Age, Illness, and Disability: Everyday Care in the Hospitals of Late Medieval Liège’ 18 Dec Elise Watson (Edinburgh), ‘”For women by women”: Gendered Networks in Operation in the Dutch Book Trade’
@emodir.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 9:56 AM

📌Wednesday, 21 October 2026
🕐13:00
🌍Florence | 💻Online: meet.google.com/VHC-DDSZ-HJS...

The Seminar Series “Orizzonti dell’alterità” offers another great opportunity to hear @federicobarbierato.bsky.social discuss his latest book!

#EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #ReligiousDissent #Venice

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@wisdompedlars.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 9:27 AM

Some of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)

#antiquarian #bibliophile #history #BookTwitter #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thcentury #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

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@thethinkingpress.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 2:07 AM

I'm excited about this one. On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched, Floriano Canale's book of 1614, in English for the first time, is out now. Details and the glossary of plants are on its page.

thethinkingpress.org/project/discerning-and-healing-the-bewitched
🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern

The cover of On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched, by Floriano Canale, translated by B. C. P. Statema, from The Thinking Press.
@adamshear.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:51 PM

Looks like a great conference: iias.huji.ac.il/event/sacred...

#earlymodern #jewishstudies #religiousstudies

@dbellingradt.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 7:19 PM

This too would have been a bestselling #earlymodern broadside.

@wisdompedlars.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 5:12 PM

New, antiquarian book auctions, starting tonight from 8pm

#antiquarian #history #books #maps #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #maps #religion #philosophy #maps #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

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@steventeasdale.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 4:36 PM

Yes, keep the open-access #earlymodern books coming! I'm looking forward to reading this Ramona!

@guel-sen.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 4:07 PM

The first English-edition of a remarkable primary source: Ali Akbar Khatayi's Khataynameh /"Book of China" completed in 1516 in Istanbul, about Ming China during the early 16th century. 🧵1/

#OttomanHistory #EarlyModern #BlueSkyBooks

The Book of China: A Persian Merchant’s Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court ʿAli Akbar Khatayi. Edited and translated by Kaveh Hemmat, John Curry, and Hyunhee Park. Columbia University Press.
@thethinkingpress.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:57 PM

Out today: Floriano Canale, On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched (1614), in English. Diagnosis before treatment, with a never-printed rite from a 1663 copy. Hardcover $64.99, ebook $19.99.

thethinkingpress.org/project/discerning-and-healing-the-bewitched
🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern

The dust jacket of On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched, by Floriano Canale, translated by B. C. P. Statema, from The Thinking Press.
@shnuska.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:53 PM

Brilliant-looking papers and plenary talks next week in Jaén!
#graduateconference #earlymodern #earlycareerresearchers

@steventeasdale.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:03 PM

It's always nice to see another open-access #earlymodern book! Gillian Jack on the Monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite in Renaissance Florence.

@neilayounger.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 10:30 AM

15 October 1583: Francis Walsingham is back at Elizabeth's court at St James and reports to the queen. I think we can imagine that he's spent some time on the long journey south planning exactly how devastating his report on James VI will be. Elizabeth has not shown much ...
#earlymodern

The Tudor gatehouse to St James's Palace. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_James%27s_Palace_Gateway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_783930.jpg