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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 9d

There's a new blog on Hermes by Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) -- enjoy!

earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/10/01/l...

Laonikos Chalkokondyles: The Last Byzantine Historian and the Dawn of Ottoman Historiography

Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) Should the last Byzantine historian be considered an early modern Hellenist? Yes, because he lived through the crucial years of the fall of Constantinople…

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Tomás Antonio Valle @tomasantoniovalle.bsky.social · 15d

CFP: Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life || 21–23 May 2026 || Hamburg, DE

Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · Aug 28

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

2 postdoctoral fellows for the ERC-project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA)

Intrigued by the Medieval Aristotle? Join our research group!

www.kuleuven.be

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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Aug 25

Christian folk etymology with #Erasmus: Sunday is not derived from the 'sun' but from Dutch '(ver)zoenen' ('to reconcile').

vulgata Germanorum lingua dicitur Soendach, non a Sole, ut quidam interpretantur, sed a reconciliando

(LB 5, col. 1191)

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · Aug 8

#Job Tenure-track #Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at the Univ. of Cyprus.

Greek not a requirement, but it will be considered a bonus. Happy to answer informal inquiries. Thanks for reposting!

➡️ www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...

#job #academicsky #skystorians #classics

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SNLS @neolatinsociety.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎓CALL FOR PAPERS🎓

Abstracts are still being accepted for an SNLS-sponsored conference to be held in Cambridge on the 5th and 6th of November 2025!

Abstracts should be submitted via the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · Aug 4

📢#Job announcement:

Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at my Department, at the University of Cyprus; tenure-track; please repost

www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...

www.ucy.ac.cy

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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Aug 2

📢 New blogpost on Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism

Adriaan Demuynck's "Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other"

earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/08/01/l...

Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other

Adriaan Demuynck (KU Leuven / FWO) On 27 February 1565, the new city hall of Antwerp was formally inaugurated, exactly four years after the first stone was laid. To adorn the opening of this presti…

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Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social · Jul 31

Are you working on topics related to the history of linguistics?🫵
Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print.
www.henrysweet.org/language-and...

Language & History — Henry Sweet Society

Published in 3 issues per year both online and in print, Language & History is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that aims to promote the study of the history of all branches of linguistic…

www.henrysweet.org

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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · Jul 30

“Brunck” can probably be identified as the French researcher Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729-1803), which means that the notes date from the second half of the 18th century. @adendros.bsky.social

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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 17

Heading back to Berlin after just 2 days of #ianls25 . Really happy with the 4 special sessions on digital technology. There's are strong focus on databases and corpora, but there were also papers on digital methods. Let's see how things develop over the next triennium!

@neolatin

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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 16

Interesting project presentations this morning in the special session on digital technology at #ianls25 : Malika Bastin-Hammou presented the database of 16th century paratexts of ancient drama: https://ithac.elan-numerique.fr

Šime Demo talked about LAPIS, a database of Latin church inscriptions […]

Original post on openbiblio.social

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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Jul 10

This volume gathers submissions of the previous two years, seeing that the last volume of HL (72, 2023) was the one in honor of Jeanine De Landtsheer.

Enjoy!

@neolatinsociety.bsky.social @digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy

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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Jul 10

Just in time for the @ianls.bsky.social conference in Aix, the Seminarium is happy to share the new, hefty volume of 'Humanistica Lovaniensia', which appeared last week.

As usual, all papers can be consulted freely online, through the following link:
poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

PEETERS ONLINE JOURNALS

poj.peeters-leuven.be

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Jul 7

New volume of Humanistica Lovaniensia poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... #openaccess In honorem Rhodae Schnur VXorI NVrI res neoLatInas nVtrIentI horum commentariorum editores natalem gratulantur singularem @adendros.bsky.social @thomashendrickson.bsky.social @juancjimenez.bsky.social

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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Jun 2

A new blogpost is available on 'Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism': enjoy Domenico Graziano's insightful analysis of the Greek paratexts to Heinsius' intriguing Peplus.

earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/06/01/o...

On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius’ ‘Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum’: Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek

Domenico Graziano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Universität Innsbruck) In 1613, Jan Jacobszoon Paets, Leiden University’s printer (1603-1619), published a mature fruit of Daniel H…

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William M. Barton @krithemp.bsky.social · Jun 1

The latest post from Hermes!🪽A piece on D. Heinsius’ Peplus (1613) by Domenico Graziano: earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/06/01/o... New Ancient Greek, early modern paratext and poetic philosophy in action right here!

On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius’ ‘Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum’: Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek

Domenico Graziano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Universität Innsbruck) In 1613, Jan Jacobszoon Paets, Leiden University’s printer (1603-1619), published a mature fruit of Daniel H…

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · May 28

✨𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻: 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗶𝘁 (𝟭𝟰𝟮𝟱-𝟭𝟳𝟵𝟳), Ralph Dekoninck, Violet Soen (red.)
🖋️Een bijzondere blik op vier eeuwen notities van Leuvense studenten en geleerden

Meer info 👉 lup.be/book/lessen-...

#KULeuven #UCLouvain #600jaarKULeuven

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Maarten Larmuseau @maartenlarmuseau.bsky.social · May 20

Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

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SNLS @neolatinsociety.bsky.social · May 12

🚨Neo-Latin Conference🚨

A reminder that the Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an international conference on Neo-Latin style in London on 18-19 September 2025!

All are welcome and attendance is free!

Click the link below to see a provisional programme and to register ⬇️

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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · May 10

Nun ist mir der neue #papst einigermaßen egal. Aus #neulateinischer Sicht erwähnenswert ist aber, dass sein Namensvorgänger lt. Stroh "wohl der letzte voll sprachmächtige Lateiner unter den Päpsten" war ( […]

[Original post on openbiblio.social]

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · May 10

'Reciprocal' in English comes from Latin reciprocus 'returning', and I'm charmed by the theory that reciprocus in turn comes from the unattested phrase *re-que pro-que (literally 'back-and forth-and').

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · May 5

I am pleased to share the CfP for the next meeting of the Sammelband 15-16 project group, on 'The Sammelband and Instruction'

📍Nicosia (University of Cyprus)
📆9-21 November 2025

For more information, and the full CfP, please see below:
sammelband.hypotheses.org/2481

Call for papers: The Sammelband and Instruction

Conference The Sammelband and Instruction – Call for Papers for the 13th International Sammelband 15-16 event University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 19-21 November 2025 Beginning in 2019, the Sammelband 15-16...

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Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN) @acrsn.bsky.social · May 3

May 4 deadline #CFP Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe - Innsbruck, Austria - September 19, 2025 lagoos.org/2025/04/04/l... [including diaries written in Latin & Greek]

LAGOOS Workshop: “Diaries of Scholarship” 19.09.25 – CfP

The LAGOOS Project (www.lagoos.org) is pleased to announce it’s upcoming workshop “Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe” The event wil…

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · May 1

5th June 2025
Balliol College, Oxford
“Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean”

www.themedievalacademyblog.org/transmitting...

Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Date: 5th June 2025 Venue: Balliol College, Gillis Lecture Theatre an

www.themedievalacademyblog.org

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GEMCA @gemca.bsky.social · Apr 30

🗣️ 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗤𝗨𝗘
🔜 Mardi et mercredi prochain, assistez au colloque "New Perspectives on Neo-Latin Correspondences during the Early Modern Period",
@adendros.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

📅 6-7/05
📍 Leuven, Mgr. Sencie Instituut / Louvain-la-Neuve, Learning Center Christine de Pizan

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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Apr 29

Warmly recommended reading for those interested in early modern student notes and who are in search of a companion.

Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Apr 29

Available in paperback and Open Access 📖🔓
✨ Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion, edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy
🔗 lup.be/.../student-...

#studentnotes #earlymodernhistory #bookhistory #universityhistory #Latin #intellectualhistory

book cover 'Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)'

quote 'Investigating student notes from so many centuries ago is a complex challenge, especially because they come in so many forms and you need a lot of skills to tackle them.' + cover 'Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)'

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Apr 29

Available in paperback and Open Access 📖🔓
✨ Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion, edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy
🔗 lup.be/.../student-...

#studentnotes #earlymodernhistory #bookhistory #universityhistory #Latin #intellectualhistory

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · Apr 24

Emotion in Early Modern Science?

Join us for a 2-day conference at the Warburg Institute exploring how Kepler, Kircher, and Boyle used pathos, praise & wonder in their scientific writing.

📅 15–16 May
🎟️ Free (in person or online)

Emotional Persuasion in Early Modern Science: Vernacular and Neo-Latin Perspectives

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warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Apr 16

With contributions by Ann Blair, @jarrikvanderbiest.bsky.social, @nconstantinidou.bsky.social, Dieter Cammaerts, Violet Soen, Daniel Gehrt, Michael Stolberg, Lorenz Demey, Marc Laureys, Alicja Bielak, Gwendoline de Mûelenaere, Tomás Valle, Maximilian Schuh, and the editorial team.

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