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Brepols @brepols.net · 12d

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿, 𝗺𝗮𝗶̂𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗱'𝗵𝗼̂𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝘂 𝗿𝗼𝗶 (𝟭𝟲𝟰𝟴-𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟳)
𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗩 (𝟭𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟰 - 𝟯𝟭 𝗱𝗲́𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟱)

Édité par Philippe Mauran

Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/3Wa4EOm

#History #France #EarlyModern #Historysky

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 11d

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩
And more excitement to come in 2026 as well.

I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that

Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 11d

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30.
6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule
10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea
17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia
1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 14d

#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today'
Paris, 10-12 June 2026
Please send proposals to [email protected] by the 26 October
Link to the full CFP here: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
@isecs-sieds.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today / Le défi des Lumières. Enjeux intellectuels et politiques - BSECS

Please see the file linked below for information on the ISECS coordinated conference Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today, to be held in Paris, 10-12 June 2026. Early...

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 15d

ICYMI - still some time to register! #bookhistory

Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 19d

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ?

Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia

📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

The Aldine edition of Lucian of Samosata (1503), annotated by the printer Robert Estienne (1503-1559) and his son, Henri Estienne (1528-1598)

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21d

Scholars of Jansenism take note.
#earlymodern

Bibliothèque de Port-Royal @bibportroyal.bsky.social · 21d

L'édition numérique du Dictionnaire de Port-Royal, version réactualisée de l'édition Champion parue en 2004 sous la direction de Jean Lesaulnier et Antony McKenna, a été mise en ligne :
dictionnaire-port-royal.huma-num.fr

Présentation | Dictionnaire Port-Royal

dictionnaire-port-royal.huma-num.fr

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 22d

Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK:

newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a...

#skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistory

Autumn Seminar Series @LUCK

LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre A…

newhistoryofknowledge.com

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you--that's kind of you to say. It's always v welcome to learn a book's finding its readers!

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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 · 26d

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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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 · 26d

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

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Sep 6

In his Reading Inscriptions & Writing Ancient History William Stenhouse discusses some cases from the mid c16th (pp. 50–53).

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · Sep 4

Who was the most influential pragmatist political thinker in the opening decades of the twentieth century? In this paper, I argue that it was H. G. Wells

"Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism"

bit.ly/4gcheoe

Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism - Volume 112 Issue 2

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Aug 14

📣Out now on #firstview!

Timothy Twining (@tntwining.bsky.social) (KU Leuven) on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible'

#Religion #Scholarship #Translation #Catholic #French 17thc 📙🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Richard Simon has long presented an enigma for historians, as his status as a pathbreaking textual critic and the opposition his work engendered from contemporary ecclesiastical authorities has sat uncomfortably alongside his consistent advocacy of his Catholic credentials. This article approaches this problem via an analysis of two hitherto understudied parts of his scholarly corpus. It first elucidates Simon’s distinctive plan for a new polyglot Bible in the mid-1680s before shifting attention some fifteen years to consider his work in French vernacular biblical translation, bringing out how the confessionally inflected content of his work in that field contrasted with his earlier critical scholarship. By revealing how Simon negotiated the relationship between scholarship and religion during his working life, the article foregrounds the continued import of confessionalized erudition at the turn of the eighteenth century while also interrogating the limits of its explanatory power as a historical category.

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Aug 13

Now out in The Historical Journal, my new article on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible'.

Find it Open Access here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#earlymodern #skystorians

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you! It was such a lovely surprise!

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Jul 18

Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles!

#earlymodern #Skystorians

Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Society is pleased to announce the short list for our 2025 Book Prize! 📚

The winner will be announced at the Society’s Winter Meeting in January 2026.

#EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎉 Congratulations to our member, Timothy Twining, on his nomination for Best Monograph for the 2025 EHS Book Prize! We look forward to hearing the results in January 2026.

@tntwining.bsky.social
@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social

#EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Jul 18

Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles!

#earlymodern #Skystorians

Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Society is pleased to announce the short list for our 2025 Book Prize! 📚

The winner will be announced at the Society’s Winter Meeting in January 2026.

#EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Jul 9

The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢 CfP | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on #EarlyModern Christianity
🗓️ May 19–21, 2026 | 🏛️University of Wrocław

🔍Theme: Early Modern Christian Materiality
⏰Deadline: Feb 15, 2026

🔗 More info: reforc.com/events/fifte...

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · Jun 24

Enjoyed putting together this H-France Forum on Paul-Alexis Mellet's *Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion* – reviews and response available here:

h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

HFrance Forum: Volume 20 (2025) – H-France

h-france.net

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Jun 11

After a fantastic slate of papers at RSA Boston 2025, EMoDiR is delighted to announce our CfP for RSA San Francisco 2026.

Please circulate, and submit a proposal!

#earlymodern

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · Jun 10

Could anyone with Old Church Slavonic please translate for me this inscription on a cross, pictured in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s account of the 1594 voyage to Novatya Zemlya?

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Jun 6

Katrina Olds and I are organising one or two panels at next year's @rsaorg.bsky.social in tribute to the amazing and much missed A. Katie Harris.

If you have an paper touching on #earlymodern Catholic scholarship, relics, forgery, etc. please do send us something!

www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Renaissance Society of America

365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA

www.rsa.org

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Jun 5

Now out: the EMoDiR Newsletter for June 2025, compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini!

Check it out for news on new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, cfps and much much more!

emodir.hypotheses.org/files/2025/0...

#earlymodern

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