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The #earlymodern Islamic world was embroiled in a bitter controversy over coffee. Much ink was spilt by poets on both sides.

⌛️ Last chance to read this recent History Matters for free

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/coffee-poets-16th-century-islam

If you're an #ancient, #medieval, or #earlymodern history nerd, or you know such a person - and they haven't yet been on the @thisguysucked.com@bsky.brid.gy podcast - consider letting @ceaubin.com@bsky.brid.gy know!

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Wegen einer Wirtshausstreitigkeit an Silvester fand heute vor 270 Jahren im Amtshaus von #Triberg (#Schwarzwald) ein Prozess statt. Auf welche Weisen sich dieser Ehrkonflikt auf dem Weg von der Kneipe in den obrigkeitlichen Kontext vor Gericht transformierte, untersucht:

▶ Michaela Hohkamp, Vom Wirtshaus zum Amtshaus, #WerkstattGeschichte 16/1997, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/geortete-herrschaften

@histodons

#histodons #Rechtsgeschichte #FrüheNeuzeit #earlymodern #LegalHistory #Alltagsgeschichte

Erste Seite des gedruckten Beitrags (Auszug).

Mocking the (German) mania for titles in #earlymodern Europe: The transitory fame gained with a fancy new title - a "doctor", a "magister" etc. - is critizied in this print from around 1700. The man on the left is in a mania for titles: more, more, more for more social mobility. #academicchatter

a copperplate print - the frontispiece - of a German book from the year 1700 (VD17 7:704963A). On the left a man is collecting titles like doctor, magister, notarius etc. thrown from a putto in the sky. On the right a man is walking with sheep, and he is covered aith fruits from the goddess Fortuna, also sitting in the sky.

Critical Perspectives on “AI” in Education – a free, one-hour, Zoom interview series starting Monday Feb 17, 12 noon PT / 3pm ET / 8pm GMT, continuing Tuesdays from Feb 23. Come and chat with us! 🧵 🧪💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #education #politics #AcademicSky #technology #AI 1/

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Meeting the contemporary safety standards in #earlymodern Europe by wearing a helmet - decorated with plumes. Safety first, #skystorians.

Armed knight on horseback riding to the left; decorated with large plumes. The woodcut is from 1509. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-274

Around 1650, Sweden’s ships sailed beyond the Baltic for the first time. Dutch captains and lieutenants in the Swedish navy guided this expansion.

Join our online lecture on Monday, 1pm CET, in the Ships & Seafaring series.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seafaring-15001800-tickets-1931080938069

#earlymodern #maritimehistory #history #histodons @histodons

Online Lecture Announcement: The importance of foreign seamen and their networks for the development of Swedish seafaring in the 17th century. Portrait of the speaker, black background, early modern print with ships.

The PAPERBACK of Humans: A Monstrous History from @ucpress.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, a history *through* monsters from antiquity to the present, is available to preorder! Here's a 🧵 of excerpts from the book. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

Me in a blue and yellow sweater and blue jeans, holding a copy of HUMANS, standing against a white wall with silvery lettering spelling out "University of California Press", looking dazed. - At the UC Press head office.

Humans: A Monstrous History is a year old today! Here’s a 🧵 of some spinoff writings and interviews. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

The red and silver English edition of HUMANS next to the smaller Chinese edition in a pale gray cover, both sitting on a circular wooden table (top and bottom cropped) on a wooden floor. The English cover is a dramatic red with yellow lettering. A large, silvery, oval mirror sits in the centre, with a black decorative border with fictional monsters on it. The Chinese cover has a human hand and a robotic hand reaching towards each other.

Chinese edition (traditional characters) of HUMANS: A Monstrous History now in my hands! Link to book (all editions and languages in bio), from Gusa Press (Taiwan): 1/ 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

A pale grey softcover book on a red and blue striped book chair on a circular wooden coffee table, with bookcases in the background. The book cover: black text in complex Chinese characters of various font sizes. In smaller font in Latin characters are "A Monstrous History" and "Surekha Davies". At the top left and bottom right are two large, outstretched hands, human (top) and silvery-grey robot with some exposed machinery (bottom), reminiscent of the hands of God and Adam on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.

One month in which to apply! #earlymodern #arthistory

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Continued (p. 104):

"Many hear [early modern] and think steam engines and early skyscrapers, but in the History Lab we mean the period after medieval and before the French Revolution. What we get by using early modern instead of Renaissance is that we avoid implying that the Middle Ages were bad, but early modern worsens the degree to which choosing a start date involves a judgment call about what makes us modern."

#history #Renaissance #EarlyModern

From Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance (p. 102):

"From its inception, the word Renaissance was a smear on the age that came before, rebirth coming to fix something wrong. Historians have tried to change the name, but it's hard to find another label for the period. Normal parlance in the History Lab now is (sigh) early modern, which is (to paraphrase Churchill) the worst name for the period, except for all the rest."

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#history #Renaissance #EarlyModern

#MaritimeHistory #EarlyModern #18c

Interested in writing about the past for a general audience? I wrote an essay *about* my essay in Smithsonian Magazine about an early 16th-century painting of hell with New World, trade, and genderqueer motifs. 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #arthistory #renaissance

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Just giant dabbers flying around while people are dancing. I am unsure what they are celebrating, but giant ink-balls were used in #earlymodern printing offices in the last step before printing. Such dabbers consist of pieces of leather filled with wool or hair and a wooden handle. #bookhistory