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Christa Lundberg

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Historian of early modern teachers, theologians, editors, and plagiarists. Assistant professor at Lund University & Pro Futura fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study.

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thank you! I'm looking very much forward to joining the History dept. in Lund as a Pro Futura Scientia fellow this fall.

Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · Feb 28

Congratulations, @christalund.bsky.social!

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Christa Lundberg appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow

We are thrilled that Christa Lundberg (University of Cambridge) has been appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow and will be joining the Department of History and be part of LUCK. Congratulations…

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 25d

What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.

#earlymodern #skystorians

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 27d

New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'

'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and
the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical
Scholarship', by Timothy Twining bit.ly/3IkveRA

How was ‘everyday erudition’ used to come to terms with the historical reality of Christian revelation? 1/2

'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical Scholarship', by Timothy Twining. Full abstract:

The history of early modern scholarship was long written as a subject set at some remove from
the rest of early modern society. Learning was the common property of like-minded scholars
in the ‘Republic of Letters’, linked by shared codes of elite sociability and united by a mutual
concern to transcend religious boundaries. Recent years have seen such views challenged,
with studies demonstrating how much scholarly activity was undertaken to achieve confessional objectives. Yet, these contributions have chiefly focused on orthodox clerical scholars.
This article uses the case of John Locke to present a new perspective on the place and significance of erudition in the early modern period. It is based on a thoroughgoing examination
of Locke’s lifetime of religious reading, bringing together evidence from his manuscript notebooks and journals, his library catalogues and annotated books, and his correspondence and
published works. It coins the notion of ‘everyday erudition’ to reveal how learning was not an
abstruse concern. Instead, for Locke and his contemporaries at multiple points on the sociocultural scale, it was a kind of common currency, a tool to be used to come to terms with the
historical reality of Christian revelation

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jun 12

As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend this job offer: an Assistant Professor at the Department of History devoted to work within a Global History of Knowledge.

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

#skystorians #histknow

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University

We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

lu.varbi.com

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · May 28

#CfP: 'Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice'. Limerick 14-15 January 2026. Abstracts by June 16, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/discip...

The internal jurisdictional autonomy of early modern universities represented a significant inheritance from the medieval instruments of academic freedom. The rise of the territorial university as a model curtailed the independence of these institutions rendering them more directly subject to external political actors, a situation that became more pronounced as a consequence of the Reformation. Despite these transformations, the university’s powers of internal oversight and control of its members remained relatively intact. These powers were set out, instituted and sanctioned in charters, statutes and ordinances. The principal instrument through which the powers were asserted was the academic jurisdiction, i.e. the university court. At one level, these arrangements protected university members, ensuring their protection to a certain extent from external legal threat. However, in adhering to the university jurisdiction, the members submitted themselves to its regulating influence. In this forum, students, professors and the cives academici could be arraigned, prosecuted and sanctioned for minor or major acts of deviancy. Thus, the university court and other instruments of institutional authority could play a central role in the disciplining of university members, defining the parameters of and enforcing normative behaviours. This conference seeks to explore the characteristics of these jurisdictional regimes in the early modern period. Paper proposals that address the following themes are especially welcome:

The legal and administrative frameworks of discipline at early modern universities
The characteristics of university courts
Social disciplining and the normative functions of university courts
The pursuit of personal vendettas and factional strife through the instruments of university jurisdiction
The limits and limitations of academic disciplinary regimes
Subversions of academic jurisdiction

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · May 13

The cluster on the Greek Fathers in the new JHI includes an article by Christa Lundberg: "Humanist Translation and the Parisian Tradition: Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’s ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite"

muse.jhu.edu/article/959039

A quote from the article: "Against the recent Platonizing interpretations of ps.-Dionysius, Lefèvre introduced his edition as an antidote brewed from the scholarly and religious resources of Paris."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · May 6

The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles, "Context and Paratext: New Insights into the Early Modern Reception of the Greek Fathers." The introduction by organizer Paolo Sachet is now available open access:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "What can we learn about early modern patristic reception by conceiving of publishers, editors, translators, patrons, correctors, censors, and compositors as creators of patristic books? Looking at editions in their making, rather than just the final product, reveals failures, compromises, and second thoughts that are crucial to a complete understanding of the works and their reception."

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · May 2

Today!

Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Apr 10

I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

#earlymodern

A poster with details for the book launch of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024). For more information, see: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/early-modern-scholarship-and-religion

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Apr 30

The discussion continues in the Early Modern Scholarship & Religion seminar @camhistory.bsky.social this Friday (2 May) at 4pm! For details and online participation, see www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Apr 28

Feel free to message or email me if you’d like a copy and don’t have access! Would love to hear any thoughts or reactions, too.

Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Apr 28

I argue that Lefèvre’s method reflects a premodern hermeneutics of multiple translations – reading several versions side by side, not as rivals but as complementary witnesses to the text’s meaning – continuing a scholarly tradition evident in medieval manuscripts.

A medieval manuscript that Lefèvre might have consulted in the Abbey of Saint Denys. It features three Latin translations of the Greek text in parallel columns.

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Apr 28

My piece focuses on the 1498/99 Parisian edition of the works of Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite: uncovering how Lefèvre intervened to ‘traditionalize’ the Latin text, actively reshaping Traversari’s translation to better reflect his own understanding of the theology of the Greek Church Father.

The title page of Theologia vivificans (1499) with an elaborate woodcut depicting a forest, two eagles, and two circles in which the titles of the works by ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite (edited and lost) are printed.

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Apr 28

Excited to share my new article in JHI! It's a deep dive into how Lefèvre d'Étaples didn’t just adopt a humanist Latin rendering of Ps.-Dionysius—but rewrote it in dialogue with medieval translators. Thanks to Paolo Sachet for putting together an amazing special issue!

muse.jhu.edu/article/959039

Project MUSE - Humanist Translation and the Parisian Tradition: Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’s ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite

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Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · Mar 31

My department at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History.

Read more about the position and the conditions here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · Mar 13

My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Mar 13

UK universities are in crisis.

Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.

www.historyworkshop....

A Decade of Crisis

The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Mar 12

Grattis!

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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · Mar 10

Three-year postdoc at Cambridge on 'Ireland and the "ends" of the British Empire'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · Mar 7

CFP: Scholarly Institutions Through Time: Continuity and Change

On May 14 my Uppsala department will be hosting a workshop on the role of scholarly institutions in the history of science. Follow the link for the whole call.

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Call for Papers: Historical Perspectives on Scholarly Institutions

Call for Papers: Historical Perspectives on Scholarly Institutions Workshop: Scholarly Institutions Through Time: Continuity and Change Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University...

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thank you! I'm looking very much forward to joining the History dept. in Lund as a Pro Futura Scientia fellow this fall.

Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · Feb 28

Congratulations, @christalund.bsky.social!

newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/26/c...

Christa Lundberg appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow

We are thrilled that Christa Lundberg (University of Cambridge) has been appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow and will be joining the Department of History and be part of LUCK. Congratulations…

newhistoryofknowledge.com

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The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social · Feb 3

Joining us today at the Monday Seminar is Mikkel Jensen (Halle-Wittenberg) who is presenting on Amthor and the reception of Thomasius’s political thought at the University of Kiel, followed by comments by Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge).

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Jan 30

More information and our term card can be found here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion | Faculty of History University of Cambridge

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Jan 30

The Early Modern Scholarship & Religion Seminar in Cambridge is back this term with four talks on Friday afternoons. Our first session is with Jonathan Nathan (Pharos foundation, Oxford), who will talk speak on ‘the problem of unbelief in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries' on 7 February at 4pm.

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Anton Jansson @antnlj.bsky.social · Jan 28

Are you a PhD student interested in the history of knowledge? Apply for the Lund summer school this August. Under the guidance of @bjornlundberg.bsky.social and others. I taught it in 2020 and 2021, great fun.
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2025 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge

Lund Centre for Knowledge History (LUCK) invites applications for the sixth annual Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge, to be held at Lund University, August 19–22, 2025. The Su…

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Dec 5

And it’s out! My book is now available online:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in #EarlyModern Europe.

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The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social · Dec 2

Joining us today for the final seminar of the year is Muriam Haleh Davis (MECAM-Tunis) who is presenting on decolonisation, translation, and knowledge production in Algerian literature and sociology, with comments by Kaoutar Ghilani (Cambridge).

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Nov 29

Canada getting serious on AI copyright theft.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/w...

Major Canadian News Outlets Sue OpenAI In New Copyright Case (Gift Article)

A coalition of some of Canada’s biggest media companies is seeking billions of dollars in compensation for what they say is copyright infringement on their work through ChatGPT.

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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Nov 28

Hi Tom, I would love to be added to one of these lists!

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