Through a discussion of art, architecture, and courtly spectacle, we reveal air as a space of display, influence, and conquest in early modern Europe and Iran.

Yes, we will talk about perfume.🌹

For room location see the @rsaorg conference app!

#rsaboston #16thcentury
#17thcentury #culturesofair

Between us we shall examine the air as a substance to be managed, altered and experienced, reconstructing its role in public festivities and private contemplation. We consider how botanical and medical ideas about scent shaped and were shaped by notions of health, pleasure, and power. 🧵

With my colleagues from Cambridge and London, we will explore the sensory worlds of early modern courts—from Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici's garden in 16th-century Rome to imagined gardens in 17th-century Safavid Iran and the dazzling festivities at the Pavillon de l’Aurore in 18th-century Paris.🧵

I’ve organised a panel at the @rsaorg conference in Boston on the Visual and Material Cultures of Air in Early Modern Courts...🧵

We are looking for speakers for the Monash Medieval and Renaissance Seminar series. If you would like to join our mailing list to attend the seminars, please get in touch! (We will be alternating between European, American and Australian timezones) @monashcmrs.bsky.social

*VERY EXCITING VACANCY*

Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley.

Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.

(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

I've made a starter pack for if you want great quality posts about medieval history. Let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/Eo1HyLT

"this is fine"

British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

Looking forward to seeing this just-opened exhibition this week!

Yes! I will go this week! I'm sad to have missed the conference!

Definitely a smell I would be happy not to ever encounter!

That...and roses!! 🌹

Ahahaha! I am so glad I'm not the only one! 😊

Ever wondered what plague smelled like? Probably not but I wrote an entry on it for the Encyclopedia of Smell History and Heritage! Masterminded by @willtullett.bsky.social this is your go-to resource for the history of olfaction.

#historysmells

encyclopedia.odeuropa.eu/items/show/2...

Henri Matisse
Reading Woman in Violet Dress, 1898

#art

Mothers, teach your daughters about Judith beheading Holofernes.
#themoreyouknow

Ah, thank you! 😊