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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 19h

Loved this book - congrats to Jack (and @yalepress.bsky.social)!

Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 19h

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 5d

Ha, what's funny is that she's exactly who I had in mind when making the guess. Paul, I don't think she's on here so tell her hello! As for feline Bertie, how could he possibly compare?

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 5d

Great opportunity to get supportive feedback!
librarycompany.org/academic-pro...

Call for Papers – The Library Company of Philadelphia

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 5d

chatte GPT

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Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · 7d

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 8d

www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 8d

"A major shift in how we understand colonial growth in the early Caribbean, colonial-Indigenous relations, the origins of slavery in the Caribbean and North America, and the connections between piracy, privateering, and colonization." Greg O'Malley nails it. Congrats @csschmitt.bsky.social!

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 11d

Haha, on it! The previous issue was a bunch of art historians, so their images were fun to play with (great essays, too).

A collection of eight historical images from nineteenth-century Britain illustrating a collection of essays titled "Paintings, Peepshows, and Porcupines: Exhibitions in London, 1763-1851"

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 11d

Well thanks, my friend. It turns out--as with everything else at the journal right now--that's me. It's amazing what a few tutorials on Adobe Express can do!

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks, Molly!

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

Morteza Lak, “Print Culture and the Composition of a Visual Anthology: The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare (1783-1787)"
muse.jhu.edu/article/970063
#shakespeare #bookhist #printculture

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

And who hasn't lamented (and celebrated) the indeterminacy of the shit-ton?

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

Richard Palmer and David Roberts, “Harris v. Harris: A Restoration Actor at the Court of Arches”

Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

Richard Palmer and David Roberts, “Harris v. Harris: A Restoration Actor at the Court of Arches”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970064

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

Jacob Murel, “The Readers and Annotations of the First English Quran (1649)”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970062

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

Spencer Weinreich, “The Invasion of Utopia”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970061
#utopia #earlymodern #renaissancelit

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

Isabel Robinson, "'The Anagrammatic Method': Titus Oates and Satiric Wordplay in Post-Restoration England." muse.jhu.edu/article/970060
#earlymodern #PopishPlot #skystorians

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

John Saillant, "Fictions of Freedom: An English Antislavery Novel and the Art of Jean-Étienne Liotard, 'Le Peintre Turc.'" muse.jhu.edu/article/970059
#skystorians #abolition #arthistory

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 13d

New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians

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Elizabeth Wood @drbethwood.bsky.social · 18d

@brettrushforth.bsky.social shared this with me years ago, and I return to it constantly. We must dare to risk delight. poetrysociety.org/poems/a-brie...