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Dr Leah Veronese

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She/her. Early modernist at Balliol/Queen's Oxford. Petition. John Donne. Queer history 🌈 Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · Mar 5

This excellent piece really gets to the heart of my article: the political repurposing of Shakespeare during the 1640s

Volker Schröder @marphurius.bsky.social · Mar 4

New York Times coverage of the Sonnet 116 find (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/w...

Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered (Gift Article)

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different.

www.nytimes.com

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 19h

The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 5h

✨Book Curses✨ is included in the list of Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers, so you should buy Book Curses and the 1000 piece puzzle of The World of Frankenstein. Or Book Curses and a Cthulhu pin badge. Or Book Curses and the Edgar Allen Toe socks.

Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers

Celebrate the spooky season in style - from gothic literature to ghoulish accessories, the Booleian has you sorted!

bodleianshop.co.uk

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 7d

Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely

Poster: detail from Lincoln's Inn stained glass window showing palatial buildings, with a forest covered landscape beyond. In the foreground are two men in hats and cloaks having a little chat. A dog runs towards them from the right. In the centre of the poster is a black circle containing the following text

TEXT:
Call for Papers on John Donne and Architecture
13th January 2026
Lincoln College, Oxford
Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough
Please send abstract of up to 250 words to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) & Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk) by 14th November 2025

Call for Papers

John Donne’s Architecture

Submission Deadline: 14th November 2025

Event Date: 13th January 2026, Lincoln College, Oxford

Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough.

We welcome 150–250 word abstracts for twenty-minute papers relating to any aspect of Donne and architecture from critics and historians of literature, architecture and related fields. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

The use of buildings in rhetoric or the arts of memory.
Donne’s metaphorical use of architecture, as well as related disciplines such as geometry, cartography, and visual art.
The buildings in which Donne lived, worked and preached (e.g. the Chapel Royal, York House, St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, St Dunstan’s in the West, etc.) and their influence on his life and work.
Donne’s encounters with buildings on his travels through Europe.
The relationship of literary to architectural form.
Please send proposals or enquiries to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk).

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Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social · Sep 1

Amazing treasures of medieval legal history for a medieval Monday - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents.
#medievalsky

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Aug 25

A page of figure studies by Gesina Ter Borch from 1648 (Rijksmuseum)

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · Aug 2

Little portraits by visiting students 🥹❤️ Particularly love the observation of the coffee cup in the second one 🤣

Cartoon drawing of a smiling face with glasses and curly hair

Cartoon drawing of a smiling figure with glasses and curly hair, holding a coffee cup

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Jul 5

💘 💘 in UL Inc.2.B.7.19[4144]

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · Jul 3

New favourite 18th-century portrait miniature just dropped ❤️

Said to be a lampoon of Madame du Barry, former mistress of Louis XV, representing her as a white peacock #18c

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Jun 2

Interesting waste endpapers in this Hebrew edition of Calvin’s Catechism, printed at Geneva in 1554. The binding (see below) would seem to be contemporary & French, which might help someone identify the fragments. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social S817.e.55.6.

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · May 28

It's #WorldOtterDay!
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)

An open book showing an illustration of an otter eating a fish

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · May 22

Looking out the window, 17th century style

(Italian, British Museum)

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · May 16

Radigund decided to lend a paw to prepare today's teaching materials Adding to the materiality. Very kind. 🐈‍⬛💌🐾

Handwritten letter with smudged word. Word annotated with an arrow and the caption 'apologies: kitten smudge'

Photo of a kitten sitting on an open folder looking at papers spread out beneath her

Photo of kitten sitting on a document, with a slightly deranged expression

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · May 14

Will bequests du jour, from a Nfk yeoman to his wife 1581: 'two quesshions withe squirrelles thereone withe twoe other quishions of her owne makinge' and 'one quishion withe the princes armes vppon it and an other quisshion with the Squirrelles.' Bit of a decorative theme there. #EarlyModern

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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · May 15

📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · May 11

Woo! Town & Gown 10km complete! Well done to #TeamUniv and to my running buddy @leahveronese.bsky.social, the Univ LVs smashed it! 💪👏💙💛🥇

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · May 7

Finally out!

In this vol., a neglected group of texts with much in them to add to discussions about Donne and women, sacramental theology, Roman Catholicism and preaching tailored to occasion and auditory.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Apr 22

The 32 winds & their names from a handcoloured 1644 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Novus Atlas. #EarthDay

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Apr 11

Giotto,
St Francis Preaching to the Birds
c. 1295-1300

San Francesco, Pisa.

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · Apr 8

Friends, my books are discounted! Both come in paperback. You can check out my work on Shakespeare or my work with Emily G Sherwood @esherwood.bsky.social on the letters of Elizabeth Bourne. Please ask you library to buy them if it hasn't already. #EarlyModern
www.routledge.com/authors/i156...

Cristina León Alfar - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile

www.routledge.com

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Apr 5

How your email finds me:

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Apr 5

Pen and ink drawing by Pier Francesco Mola showing a man with four flying letters, c. 1647-1657

(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · Apr 2

She has pockets

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Apr 2

A young nun painted here by Gesina Ter Borch in 1657 (Rijksmuseum)

Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · Mar 26

nibble

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · Mar 23

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bears, for today is their special day!

This illustration of a bear comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

📷 Reserve 590 BUF

#WorldBearDay #BearDay #RareBooks

Cropped image from a book showing a colour illustration of a bear. It appears to have a cheeky expression on its face, and a little red tongue is sticking out of its mouth!

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Mar 22

Antoon Van Dyck visited the very elderly Sophsoniba Anguissola #painter 12 July 1624 during plague lockdown in #Palermo. She died in Nov 1625. He made this sketch, then this painting. (BM/National Trust images)

Van Dyck was born #otd 22 Mar 1599. So he was 25 when he saw her.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Mar 21

Yes, we may be cataloguing Big, Serious Archive Collections about Important Events, but we're also very much enjoying this fab children's drawing of a farm, unexpectedly found in the back of a 1904 book about mining legislation

Personal highlights: TROFF & comparative pig / house scales

Child's pencil drawing of a farm at the back of a 1904 book called 'The miner's guide to the Coal Mines Regulation Acts and the law of employers and workmen'. The drawing shows a fenced field with two pigs eating out of TROFFS, two ducks swimming in a pond, two possible horses, what may be a hen house, and an unidentified animal which looks as though it has two antennae. A house is next to the field on the left, it has a door, four windows, and is about half the size of one of the pigs.

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