Cécile Fromont
@cecilefromont.bsky.social
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Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
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Encounter itself was an author in this visual atlas of 17th/18th century Kongo & Angola created in the crosscurrents of European missionary activities and central African cosmopolitan societies @psupress.bsky.social 30% off 👉 NR24 #booksky #arthistory #africanhistory #earlymodern #skystorians
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola By Cécile Fromont
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 an...
www.psupress.org
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Friday, 3pm. Having more or less caught up with the most pressing pending tasks, the researcher can now turn to their attention to own research and writing for the week.
a person wearing a pair of nike shoes is getting ready to run on a track
ALT: a person wearing a pair of nike shoes is getting ready to run on a track
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brettrushforth.bsky.social
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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Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Outre-mer. Can’t wait to read it!
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manuscripta.bsky.social
We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden
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sharonhoward.bsky.social
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
earlymodernweb.org
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kbgraubart.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.
rsaorg.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
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gianamar97.bsky.social
I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
first paragraph of the book review
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Apply for a 2026 Research Fellowship! For the 2026 cycle, the RSA will award fellowships of $2,000–$3,750 to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). The deadline for applications is September 16, 2025. Details here: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern #RenTwitter
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mwarsh.bsky.social
Hey historians of all stripes: the Forum on Early-modern Empires & Global Interactions (FEEGI) is hosting its 2026 conference at Rutgers U. on April 10-11. This time we're teaming up with PEAES & The Library Company..its gonna be great. Check out the CFP! #earlymodern #earlyAmerica #historians
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We are pleased to announce that the 2026 meeting of the Forum for Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions will be held April 10-11th, 2026 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.  Interested...
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craigclunas.bsky.social
There's £1k going to some deserving early career art historian for an unpublished piece of work on things South Netherlandish 1400-1800. Deadline to get it in is 1 September
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
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elotroalex.bsky.social
Here's a good write-up on universities in Sudan surviving against all odds, with some tips on what we could do to support higher education there, and for its displaced diasporas by my former student, and now dear friend, Rebecca Glade, and Muna Elgadal. www.cmi.no/publications...
Sudanese higher education in crisis
Since war broke out in 2023, institutions of higher education in Sudan have faced existential threats. In this blog we describe how fa...
www.cmi.no
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Two years later, it still feels surreal that I had the (quite literally) once-in-a-lifetime honour of giving a keynote at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds.

Turning that talk into an essay—whose proofs arrived today—is just the icing on the absurdity cake.
Screenshot of page proofs for an essay titled «So, Who Killed the Elephant?». Tracing African-European Entanglements in the ‘Global Middle Ages’, Verena Krebs, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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mwarsh.bsky.social
Global early Americanists--check out this great opportunity! The June 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop is convened by Alison Games on the topic of "Global Early America before 1700". Call for Papers is below; apps due by Sept. 15.
@gamesaf.bsky.social #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica
WMQ-EMSI 2026 Workshop - OIEAHC
Apply by September 15, 2025, for the WMQ-EMSI Workshop—"Global Early America before 1700"—convened by Alison Games. Workshop convenes January 30-31, 2026.
oieahc.wm.edu
cecilefromont.bsky.social
When images or rather when visual and material culture are concerned "There are no shortcuts to expertise" either, to paraphrase @historians.org ‘s excellent phrase. Visual and material literacy are crucial skills to historians and citizens alike, in the age of AI as in any era.
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Such language about image generation is too vague, and at a minimum misleading. In what sense could/would the AI generated image be *historical*? Would it be acceptable, according to @historians.org to « Ask generative AI to produce a
*historical (written) document* for a paper or presentation »?
cecilefromont.bsky.social
A thoughtful guideline for AI use in History Education by @historians.org insisting on the fundamental role of expertise, uncertainty, & creativity in historical work
*BUT*
the guideline approves « Ask[ing] generative AI to produce a historical image for a paper or presentation » This is an issue.
historians.org
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Shoutout for the #Humanities! Humanities majors age 23-32 are highly employed, compensated equally from their life/social science peers, and in satisfying careers.
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
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ICYMI: "There are no monsters, and all of them are real."

I spoke with @kawulf.bsky.social, director of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social Library, about, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. The recording: 1/2

💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #monsters #politics #HAMH

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDch...
Screenshot of a YouTube channel showing a black PowerPoint screen with six vivid images on it. Top-left to bottom right: a painting eight figures, most of them of African descent, posing on three levels; painting of a girl with a hairy face holding up a sheet of paper; a museum shot of an entryway with "bones and mummies" on it and a dinosaur image above it; a round, diagrammatic map, a print of a naked woman riding backwards on a hoofed mammal; and a print of a monster standing on its hind legs: vaguely humanoid, with a donkey's head. At the top right is the small icon of the speaker: a dark-haired woman wearing a blue and yellow top. Along the lower part of the screen: JCB Reads: Surekha Davies on Humans: A Monstrous History.
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Late #medieval and #earlymodern folks: my friend Ricardo Padrón is assembling a couple of panels on #cartography for #RenSA26, the next @rsaorg.bsky.social conference, in San Francisco in February 2026.

Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃

www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Detail from a hand-coloured sixteenth-century map showing Tenochtitlan: a city in a lake, with seven bridges to the shore and fortress-like buildings where they reach land. Green foliage beyond the circular lake.
cecilefromont.bsky.social
‼️👀‼️ what a wonderful opportunity! I wish I could apply!
#earlymodern #Africa
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CfA: Gotha's Africa: Courtly Perceptions of the Continent in the Early Modern Period 🗃️

Summer School on "the history of perception and knowledge of Africa" at Early Modern courts (Aug 25 to 29, 2025); expenses covered

📆 Deadline: 15 Jul 2025

www.uni-erfurt.de/en/gotha-res...
Screen grab of Gotha summer school 2025 (check link for details)
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Aux Rencontres Recherche et Création de @agencerecherche.bsky.social au Festival d’Avignon #ANR #festivaldavignon www.recherche-creation-avignon.fr
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Still 30% off 👉🏽 NR25