You all have seen #earlymodern books bound in recycled #medieval manuscript pages. And while this is already fun, let me show you that some European libraries used additional gold embossing provenance markers on the recycled bindings. Meet the stamped "OBER*RATH*" remark from ... 1/2

Belated congratulations, @brettrushforth.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy! Looking forward to this. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern

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CORRECTION: My lecture in London is on the evening of Thursday 5th March! Sorry, folks. 'Twas my first day doing any work after the break. 😭 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

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London book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! I'll be speaking on Thursday 5th May, 6pm, at @linneansociety.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy More info and registration below. A free exhibition, "Wonder" is now on and ends the next day. 1/2 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

HUMANS: A Monstrous History

Happy #PubDay for the Complex/Traditional Chinese translation of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from Gusa Publishing House, Taiwan! Available: World excluding Mainland China. More translations coming! 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #worldhistory #politics 1/

ICYMI: A great thread from @appuhn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy on Renaissance studies & intellectual history. A scholarly field must change and grow in new directions to be a living field. By contrast, a moribund field only recognizes as legitimate a dated caricature of itself. #earlymodern #Renaissance #histsci 🗃

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If you're interested in history and culture c. 1300-1700 (more or less), do check out the THREE starter packs of experts in the field who are on here. If you are an #earlymodern specialist who isn't in one of these yet but would like to be, just let the great @onslies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy know. 🗃

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**El Niño was linked to famines in Europe in the early modern period**

"_A study of 160 European famines between 1500 and 1800 shows that El Niño weather events led to the onset of some famines and extended the duration of others_"

🔗 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2509775-el-nino-was-linked-to-famines-in-europe-in-the-early-modern-period/.

#ElNiño #EarlyModern #History #Histodons #Climate #Environment #Famine #Europe

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/famous-mr-hendel

I confess to enjoying Handel more than J. S. Bach.

#Music #Handel #Baroque #London #History #EarlyModern

Paging the #Reformazing, #earlymodern and 🗃 gangs!

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I wrote about how a chance encounter with monsters in the archives led to my two books on monsters, science, exploration, maps, and culture.

Read the essay for free here!

#history #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #archives #libraries #arthistory #histodons

https://contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/31/can-the-archive-make-a-monster-of-a-historian/

I wrote in @contingent-mag.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy about how a chance encounter with monsters in the archives led to my two books on monsters, science, exploration, maps, and culture. 1/🧵 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #archives #libraries #arthistory

Can the Archive Make a Monster...

The alt text for these books make me want to read them all immediately. Going onto my TBR list! Thanks, @hltn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy! 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #renaissance

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Fun #earlymodern fact: Entangled has a maritime connotation (tangle was a seaweed type) and " one of its earliest documented uses in Richard Eden’s 1555 Decades of the New World, a translation of Peter Martyr d’Anghiera’s multi-volume history of European encounters with Native America."

Introduction: entangled trajec...

Type Thief – now an audiobook

Type Thief, set in #earlymodern Europe, is the tale of a beautiful typeface created in Venice for exclusive use by the Vatican. But the apprentice tasked with delivering the type to Rome decides instead to head north… Type Thief tells the story of what happens to the apprentice, and the type, as it journeys from Venice to Antwerp and beyond… Meanwhile, in the present day, a book collector traces its journey through the rare books and…

http://robmcminn.uk/2025/12/29/type-thief-now-an-audiobook/

Check out these 9 @ucpress.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy books that appeared on "Best of" lists this year. US/Canada orders placed directly via the press get 30% off using the code UCPSAVE30! 1/ 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #sociology #politics #academicsky #education #arthistory

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And here is the #earlymodern broadside with the likely - about one hundred years later - incorrectly remembered fighter detail, printed in 1627 Augsburg, in full glory:

More #monsters from @contingent-mag.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: check out their Time of Monsters season essays - and sign up for their mailing-list (or mine; link in bio) to make sure you catch my essay early in the New Year! #earlymodern #histsci 🗃 #Frankenstein

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Hallo, new followers! For #maps, #archives and #manuscript annotation fans, here's a recent essay about creative breakthroughs in historical research and thiknking. There's a wild story from a Venetian archive in it, too! 1/ #earlymodern 🗃 #cartography #renaissance buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Walter Ralegh's headless monst...

First ever international research trip. Hadn't even begun my PhD yet. Destination: the Vatican Library. Goal: Consult the giant 1529 planisphere (sea-focused world map) by the Seville-based, Portuguese-born mapmaker Diogo Ribeiro (aka Diego Ribero). 1/ 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #archives #libraries

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