Chapter 5 has sus nuns.

Thank you so much Ziga!

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!

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.

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 strazzarà sarà 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).

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..."

I'm not sure how much I can add beyond what has already been deciphered. It's a fascinating text!

*first day of class

“Hey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*”

*Milton’s Paradise Lost

Thank you!

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.

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳
#dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

A very helpful collection of primary sources on early modern Europe. 🗃️

If you're attending #DH2025 make sure to check out @jmotis.bsky.social's panel Revitalizing, Maintaining, & Sunsetting the Digital Humanities on Friday and @deepthimurali.bsky.social & @jasonheppler.org's session Participatory Platforms, Open Scholarship and Advanced OCR on Thursday.

Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org

Call for Papers – Deep Mapping Dialogues
An online workshop exploring layered narratives of place in archaeology & history.
Submission deadline: 1 June
Workshop date: 24 September

Proposal submissions & detail: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#DeepMapping #DigitalHumanities #History #Archaeology

A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.

2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

I'm adding two articles I wrote back in 2016 and 2017, during a different round of threats to NEH and other valuable cultural agencies.

The first is "How to Fight for Federal Support of Cultural Research and Why It Matters," which offers some specific advocacy tips

medium.com/@jasonrhody/...

The @humanitiesall.bsky.social has a resource, NEH for All, w data about the impact of the NEH locally and nationally. Yes, it is important to right now use the contact and advocacy resources, but it's also critical, imho, to read, gather, & share this info w family &community. www.nehforall.org

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...