Amanda Madden
@amandamadden.bsky.social
Asst Prof of History/affiliate fac @chnm and GMU. Author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell UP, 2025). Co-PI of Mapping Violence in EM Italy and La Sfera. Rock climber, heavy metal enthusiast, KPop fan
Thank you for coming! I love that sticker.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Thank you for coming! I love that sticker.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It was amazing.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It was amazing.
The Center for Humanities Research at GMU is hosting a hybrid book talk for my monograph Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy this upcoming Friday from noon-12:30. Register at this link: chr.gmu.edu/events/17595
CHR Book Launch, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" by Amanda Madden
Friday, November 21, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
chr.gmu.edu
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Center for Humanities Research at GMU is hosting a hybrid book talk for my monograph Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy this upcoming Friday from noon-12:30. Register at this link: chr.gmu.edu/events/17595
I ordered a cake to celebrate my book launch. It turned out kinda epic. š
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I ordered a cake to celebrate my book launch. It turned out kinda epic. š
Bonus, @cornellupress.bsky.social is having a sale so now is a great time to grab it!
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Bonus, @cornellupress.bsky.social is having a sale so now is a great time to grab it!
Today is the day! Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy is officially out! I'll be posting about the book and the digital project it launched in the upcoming weeks. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Civil Blood by Amanda G. Madden | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Civil Blood is a study of the practice of vendetta among the civic elites in sixteenth-century Italy and illustrates the complex and integral role that vendetta violence played in civic life and state...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today is the day! Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy is officially out! I'll be posting about the book and the digital project it launched in the upcoming weeks. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
Grazie mille ā¤ļø
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Grazie mille ā¤ļø
While not an exploding box (you'll have to read the book ;-)), something equally exciting was waiting for me on my doorstep today. My advance copies for Civil Blood arrived! A hearfelt thanks to my wonderful editor at @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social for making this day possible!
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
While not an exploding box (you'll have to read the book ;-)), something equally exciting was waiting for me on my doorstep today. My advance copies for Civil Blood arrived! A hearfelt thanks to my wonderful editor at @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social for making this day possible!
Chapter 5 has sus nuns.
September 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Chapter 5 has sus nuns.
Thank you so much Ziga!
August 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Thank you so much Ziga!
Grazie, Mike! :-)
August 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Grazie, Mike! :-)
The image is from the Master of the Appollini Sacrum's "The Assassination of Julius Ceasar" My website with accompanying data and material will be launching soon. Stay tuned for more info on forthcoming talks!
August 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The image is from the Master of the Appollini Sacrum's "The Assassination of Julius Ceasar" My website with accompanying data and material will be launching soon. Stay tuned for more info on forthcoming talks!
Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.
August 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.
Thrilled to be giving a book talk later this year at the Italian-German Historical Institute for my forthcoming book with @cornellupress.bsky.social Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy! Information below.
Join us for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history, hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento! With Louise Bonvalet, Robert Kendrick, Antonio Chemotti, Umberto Cecchinato, Laura Righi, @amandamadden.bsky.social, and @massimorospocher.bsky.social #skystorians
August 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Thrilled to be giving a book talk later this year at the Italian-German Historical Institute for my forthcoming book with @cornellupress.bsky.social Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy! Information below.
4) Whatever the translation, I'm taking this was meant as a warning to remove the poem from wherever it was placed at your own considerable risk. Picture of document in 17th c. script attached.
August 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
4) Whatever the translation, I'm taking this was meant as a warning to remove the poem from wherever it was placed at your own considerable risk. Picture of document in 17th c. script attached.
3) The poem generally insults the manhood of the Venetians, their wives, their government.... That's not the most interesting bit, however. The cartello ends with the line: "Chi lo strazzarĆ sarĆ ammazzato." My rough translation of this is: "Whoever tears this up, will be killed"
August 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
3) The poem generally insults the manhood of the Venetians, their wives, their government.... That's not the most interesting bit, however. The cartello ends with the line: "Chi lo strazzarĆ sarĆ ammazzato." My rough translation of this is: "Whoever tears this up, will be killed"
2) This poem from 1615, which was apparently posted publically all over Verona, is a dialogue and pasquinata (a satrical poem) and says some shall we say insluting and NSFW things about the Venetians (for context, Verona was part of the Republic of Venice and wasn't always happy about it).
August 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
2) This poem from 1615, which was apparently posted publically all over Verona, is a dialogue and pasquinata (a satrical poem) and says some shall we say insluting and NSFW things about the Venetians (for context, Verona was part of the Republic of Venice and wasn't always happy about it).
1) Finally back in the research trenches and working on the next book (and the project Mapping Violence) and the Venetian material I've collected continues to delight. Today's find from the archives of the Council of Ten: An investigation of a 'cartello' of a treasonous poem from Verona.
August 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
1) Finally back in the research trenches and working on the next book (and the project Mapping Violence) and the Venetian material I've collected continues to delight. Today's find from the archives of the Council of Ten: An investigation of a 'cartello' of a treasonous poem from Verona.
The girl in the middle looks she's thinking: "if one of these dudes tries to mansplain the gulag archipelago or Chicago-school economics to me one more time..."
August 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The girl in the middle looks she's thinking: "if one of these dudes tries to mansplain the gulag archipelago or Chicago-school economics to me one more time..."
I'm not sure how much I can add beyond what has already been deciphered. It's a fascinating text!
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I'm not sure how much I can add beyond what has already been deciphered. It's a fascinating text!
Reposted by Amanda Madden
*first day of class
āHey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*ā
*Miltonās Paradise Lost
āHey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*ā
*Miltonās Paradise Lost
August 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
*first day of class
āHey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*ā
*Miltonās Paradise Lost
āHey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*ā
*Miltonās Paradise Lost
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So....I've just learned that there are women on TikTok dressing up as Alexander Hamilton and sneaking out of windows to get to the dueling ground.
This made my morning.
This made my morning.
August 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
So....I've just learned that there are women on TikTok dressing up as Alexander Hamilton and sneaking out of windows to get to the dueling ground.
This made my morning.
This made my morning.