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@erc-parish.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:52 PM

ERC PARISH researcher Radka Kacvinská @radkakacvinska.bsky.social presented “Continuity and Discontinuity of Local Power: Parish Politics in Selected Parishes of Abov (Abaúj) County in the 18th Century” at an international conference on language and religion in Prešov, 16–18 Sept 2026. #earlymodern

Radka Kacvinská presenting at the conference in Prešov; a slide behind her shows maps of historical Abov/Abaúj County.

Radka Kacvinská speaking during her presentation; the projected slide discusses economic asymmetry and lay foundations in parish life.

@neilayounger.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:15 AM

10 October 1583: Sensational news from Caister in Norfolk, where, says Holinshed, a 'monstrous fish' is 'by force of the wind (being then easterlie) driven a shore'. 'The length whereof was from the necke unto the taile seventeene yards and one foote, having a big head; for the ...
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16th-century woodcut of a whale being cut up

@onslies.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:08 AM

Woohoo! Booking for our first session on 23 October is up!

Join us to hear from @bobpi.bsky.social about water, space, and environmental inequality in #earlymodern Amsterdam.

Free, all welcome in person or on zoom, but register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries

@patrickkapty.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:20 PM

The Swan No 17
oil on Canvas
c. 1915
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944)
Sweden

#art #abstractart #modernart #spiritualart #HilmaAfKlint #Sweden #modernism #symbolism #TheSwan #No17 #c1915 #Sweden #SwedishArt #SwedishModernism #geometricart #earlymodern #brithofmodernism #avantgarde #womenartists #modernism

Born on October 26, 1862, at Karlberg Palace in Solna, Sweden, she was raised in an aristocratic family of naval officers and cartographers. From her upbringing, she inherited a lifelong interest in mathematics, geometry, and botany.
She was among the early generations of women allowed to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, graduating with honors in 1887.
For years, she maintained a successful, conventional career painting naturalistic landscapes, portraits, and botanical illustrations to achieve financial independence.
Following the tragic death of her 10-year-old sister Hermina, af Klint deeply immersed herself in spiritualism, Theosophy, and Anthroposophy.
In 1896, she co-founded a secretive group of five women artists known as "De Fem" (The Five). They met weekly for séances, prayers, and meditation, practicing automatic writing and drawing to communicate with entities they called the "High Masters".
During a séance in 1904, a spirit guide named Amaliel commissioned af Klint to paint a monumental series on the astral plane.
Between 1906 and 1915, working in radical secrecy, she created The Paintings for the Temple—a breathtaking cycle of 193 abstract works. This monumental feat predated the famous abstract breakthroughs of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Kazimir Malevich by several years.
These works were distinct for their massive scale, vibrant colors, biomorphic spirals, and precise geometric shapes. For example, in The Swan series, she heavily utilized dualistic symbolism—black and white representing opposites, yellow for the masculine spirit, and blue for the feminine.

@guel-sen.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:35 PM

Here is one of the best-known depictions of the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571.

Lepanto is today's Nafpaktos in western Greece; Ottoman Turkish: İnebahtı

The image represents the Holy League’s victory over the Ottoman fleet. 🧵1/

#MaritimeHistory #EarlyModern #OttomanHistory #galleys #ships

Here is one of the best-known depictions of the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571.

(Lepanto is today's Nafpaktos in western Greece; Ottoman Turkish: İnebahtı)

The image represents the Holy League’s victory over the Ottoman fleet.
mage: Ignazio Danti, Battle of Lepanto, c. 1580, fresco, Gallery of Geographical Maps, Vatican Museums, Vatican City, based on a 1572 engraving by Fernando Bertelli.
The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus was the immediate trigger for the formation of the Holy League.

The victory has traditionally been portrayed as a decisive triumph of Christian Europe over Ottoman expansion and a symbolic turning point in the Mediterranean.
Recent scholarship has challenged the traditional portrayal of Lepanto as a decisive turning point. It has emphasized its limited immediate strategic consequences and the Ottomans’ rapid reconstruction of their naval power.
Here are three references:
On the conventional narrative and how this interpretation was itself shaped by early modern Catholic political and religious discourse:
Stefan Hanß. War and Peace: Shaping Politics in Reformation Germany after the Battle of Lepanto. (2017).
On Lepanto's long-lasting impact on European literature, art, diplomacy, and representations of Muslims:

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Issue 1: Seeing the Turk after Lepanto: visions of the Ottomans and Islam in Spain and Italy. 2018.
On the rapid reconstruction of the Ottoman fleet after L. within 6 months:

Bulent Ari/Luca Zan “Shipbuilding and Early Forms of Modern Management: Six Months to Rebuild the Ottoman Fleet after the Defeat at Lepanto,” (2024)

@steventeasdale.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:51 PM

Another promising ##earlymodern seminar, this one on Francesco Carletti and global commerce.

@steventeasdale.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:48 PM

This looks like a promising seminar. I've been using transcription tools on 15th century Genoese financial records and I'm interested to compare with the results of @lauramorreale.bsky.social . #medievalsky #earlymodern

@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:25 PM

#earlymodern ads are never boring!

This week's research topic was 'Vapours' in women. The first remedy ad is for Saccharum Martis, or Sugar of Steel.

Interestingly, sold at the Angel in Corn Hill (= Nath. Brooke) and Mrs Martins in the Barbican.

Newes, December 7, 1665.

@neilayounger.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:40 PM

9 October 1583: The Catholic gentlewoman Margery Throckmorton writes to one of her sons, probably Francis, from Lewisham. We've already seen Francis as a visitor to the French embassy (as revealed by Walsingham's spy inside the embassy) and involved with Mary queen of Scots' ...
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@guel-sen.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:03 PM

Now open access:
Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, The Early Modern Zagori of Northwest Greece: An Interdisciplinary Archaeological Inquiry into a Montane Cultural Landscape (Sidestone Press, 2022). 🧵1/

#EarlyModern #BookSky #OttomanHistory #Books #Greece #Zagori

The image of the cover of:
Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, The Early Modern Zagori of Northwest Greece: An Interdisciplinary Archaeological Inquiry into a Montane Cultural Landscape (Sidestone Press, 2022)."Contrary to the dominant nationalist historiography, it demonstrates the continuity of regional elites from the Byzantine to Ottoman period in Epirus and reveals how this shaped settlement patterns and elite/non-elite sedentary adaptations in this montane region." from the abstract.

@lsangha.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:23 PM

I. Have. Finished. Coding. All. My. Finger. Rings. 🎉💍

HEADLINES:

~ Of the 30,000 wills in our sample, about 8,000 of them mention rings.
~ For reasons, many more rings than that are actually bequeathed within the wills (chiefly because people bequeath many mourning rings at a time)

#EarlyModern 🗃️

@antecedentia.com Oct 8, 2026, 4:21 PM

Visited the UK National Archives in Kew today. Saw the Revolution 250 exhibition. Interesting for my own research on Jacob van Braam. He fought with George Washington in 1764 but as a loyalist in 1776. Was on campaign in St. Augustine (Florida) and Georgia.
#genealogy #familyhistory #earlymodern

@katha-m.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:02 PM

Und #earlymodern . 😉

@karlgalle.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 3:12 PM

This is a very good read, now available in paperback. 📗 👇

#EarlyModern #BookHistory

@shakesinstitute.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:10 PM

At the Thursday Seminar this week, we're delighted to welcome back our brilliant alumnus @eoinprice.bsky.social , now of @edinburghuni.bsky.social, who is speaking to us about how often early modern playgoers went to see plays 👀

#Shakespeare #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory

@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:50 AM

#earlymodern ads are never boring!

Today's fave:
C. Bartlet's inventions of Steel Trusses for Rupture (hernia) - including revealing him as a religious dissenter, a Seventh-day Sabbatarian.

London Post, December 13, 1703.

@neilayounger.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:48 AM

8 October 1583: The fourth edition of John Foxe's 'Actes and Monuments', aka Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is published some time this month. I don't think Foxe has yet appeared on this account; he's in his late sixties now, and I think working abroad. This is the last edition Foxe ...
#earlymodern