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I knew about the Turks and tulips, and I also knew, or at least thought I knew, about the Dutch and "tulip mania".

What I did not know about was the Flemish connection. In addition, I was only vaguely aware of how serious researchers have cut the "tulip mania" legend down to size.

https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/tulips-dutch-turkish-or-flemish

#Tulips #TulipMania #Netherlands #Ottoman #EarlyModern #History

Currently reading Spinoza's "Ethics".

Challenging, stimulating, at times baffling. I expect I'm going to have to reread this after consulting some of the secondary literature.

#Philosophy #Spinoza #Ethics #EarlyModern #17thCentury #Netherlands

A portrait painting depicts a person facing forward, set against a dark, neutral background. The person has fair skin and dark, curly hair that frames the face and extends to the shoulders. They are wearing a dark, likely black, robe or coat with a large, prominent white collar that stands out against the dark clothing. The person is looking directly at the viewer with a subtle expression, and the lighting is focused on the face and upper body, creating shadows in the background and on the clothing. The style of painting appears to be from a historical period, possibly the 17th or 18th century, with a realistic and detailed approach to the subject's features.

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RE: https://openbiblio.social/@historicum_net/114176833033892784

Alle 60 Bände der Beihefte der "Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung" (ZHF-Beihefte) wurden im Oktober dauerhaft in den Open Access überführt. Auch die bis einschl. 2027 erscheinenden Bände werden im #OpenAccess zur Verfügung stehen. 🎉🎓📚

Mehr Infos hier:
https://www.historicum.net/news/artikel/2025/erfolgreiche-open-access-transformation-fuer-zhf-beihefte

#histodons #earlymodern @historikerinnen

A so-called “Prodigy ‘twixt Brute and Man” reputedly “the Link between the rational and brute Creation” in a late 18th-century broadside. The “Ethiopian satyr” or “savage” was “To be Seen alive at No. 99 Holborn Hill [London].” 1/ #earlymodern #histsci 🗃 wellcomecollection.org/works/z4x3bu35

A broadside showing a primate sitting on a chair and holding a long cane. Text on either side styled a bit like a poem in its layout; detailed description underneath.

I kind of forgot how massive #earlymodern telescopes might have been. At least the one Nicolaus Copernicus is holding in his hand, looks like a tool as big as a grown man.

A detail from print showing a man (Copernicus) with a big telescope. The detail is from the title-page og George Hartgill's 'Astronomical Tables' (London, 1656), and can be accessed here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1869-0612-501

Probably not among the juiciest topics in #NeoLatin and #Jesuit studies, but in the unlikely event that you feel like learning more about the legal basis of the Jesuits’ congregationes procuratorum, I’ve got you covered: “The Formula of the Congregation of Procurators: Introduction, Latin Text, and English Translation.” In Political Agents and Cultural Mediators. Brill 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004750548_017.

#neolatin #jesuit #earlymodern

Question: does the "minimalism" stereotypically attributed to Northern and Central Europe have any connections to Protestantism? I'm specifically thinking of the latter's aniconic/iconoclastic tendencies.

#histodons #earlymodern #earlymoderneurope #C19th #contemporaryhistory #design #designhistory #materialhistory @histodons

Gift-shopping for a nerd with a conscience? HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (@ucpress.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy) blends centuries of history, science, literature, pop culture & social justice, from earth to outer space. 1/ 🧵 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

Book on book chair open to first page of Introduction. Opening lines: “I spent my childhood watching too much Star Trek and have been searching for monsters and aliens ever since. They led me through grad school. They sustained me through adventures on the road: being locked into a vault in the Vatican Library and balancing on a ladder in a Parisian basement while wrangling giant maps and directing the beam of a hot lamp, trying not to burn anything. Monsters climbed into my syllabi when I…”

Bright red book cover showing: an oval, silver-coloured mirror with a black frame comprised of sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with yellow lettering for the title, “HUMANS”, around the top of the mirror, in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and bats’ wings. Subtitle just inside the mirror: A Monstrous History. Inside the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies. Along the left-hand edge of the cover crawls a xenomorph: a humanoid creature with an insect-like head and a long, sinuous, menacing, pointy tail.

If you are a fan of #citrus fruits, take some time and enjoy these glorious, colored images of a book about the famous #earlymodern Nuremberg-based citrus fruit cultications:

Another image from the mentioned book about famous citrus fruits of Nuremberg (VD18 14760916).

If you are a fan of citrus fruits, take some time and enjoy these glorious, colored images of a book about the famous #earlymodern Nuremberg-based citrus fruit cultications:

Today! Free book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, hosted by the Linda Hall Library: 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST) Register to get the Zoom link. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #renaissance #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #politics

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Just two lads from 1675 on a broadside ballad, holding sticks with flags, providing space for social media text inserts, and a comment on your preferred choice of drinks between #coffee and #tea

#histodons #drinks #earlymodern

A detail from a broadside ballad of 1675 showing two men singing to each other, and holding each a stick that forms a text bubble out of a flag at the end of the stick. The detail is taken from this print:

Lawrence White, All things be dear but poor Mens Labour; Or, the sad Complaint of Poor People (1675). Bodleian Ballads Online, Wood E 25(119). Roud no.V8906

Am Internationalen Tag der Menschen mit #Behinderungen verlosen wir unter allen, die diesen Post heute teilen, ein Heft der #WerkstattGeschichte 65/2015 »dis/ability«; im Thementeil, hg. von Cordula Nolte (@unibremen), Beiträge zur #DisabilityHistory der #Vormoderne u.a. von @censored_life:

▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/disability

@histodons

#EarlyModern #Earlymodons #MedievalHistory #Histodons #DisabilityStudies #FrüheNeuzeit #Mittelalter #DisabilityDay

Frontcover von WerkstattGeschichte 65/2015 unter Verwendung einer Zeichnung von Rembrandt: "Mann mit Holzbein, auf Krücke und Stock gestützt, in Rückenansicht" (um 1647-52, Albertina, Wien).

Screenshot vom Inhaltsverzeichnis (Auszug)

Thrilled that HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is one of @brdemuth.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy's best books of 2025 in @historytoday.com@bsky.brid.gy! 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #politics 1/

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On today's new episode we begin to look at Pierre Gassendi, focusing on the evolution of his thought from skepticism to “baptized Epicureanism.” www.historyofphilosophy.net/gassendi #philsky #podcast #philosophy #earlymodern #gassendi #atomism

Ancient prison graffiti in Sicily reveals games and fears of Early Modern inmates

Researchers working with the Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project (CMPHP) have used advanced remote-sensing methods to document the rare traces of daily life inside the former castle prison of Noto Antica in southeastern Sicily. Their work focuses on a set of carved gameboards and detailed engravings of galleys...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/ancient-prison-graffiti-in-sicily/

@archaeology

#archaeology #earlymodern #graffiti

Ancient prison graffiti in Sicily reveals games and fears of Early Modern inmates

Researchers working with the Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project (CMPHP) have used advanced remote-sensing methods to document the rare traces of daily life inside the former castle prison of Noto Antica in southeastern Sicily. Their work focuses on a set of carved gameboards and detailed engravings of galleys, which provide new insight into the ways inmates confronted the hardships of confinement in the Early Modern period...

@histodons

Over the #earlymodern period different practices to manage conflicts and guarantee peace agreements were established that Laufs and Wenzel will introduce to us. Thus, illustrating the ingenuity but also the limits of #emdiplomacy. (6/6)

#peacemaking #peace #EarlyModernEurope #conflictmanagement

@histodons

But diplomats did not only try to settle conflicts, they tried to prevent them! Peace treaties and truces were provided with treaty sureties that aimed at safeguarding the agreements. Negotiating these sureties could be difficult and conflictual, too. (5/6)

#emdiplomacy #EarlyModernEurope #peacemaking #peace #earlymodern

@histodons

Together Laufs and Wenzel tackle the important question of conflict management. How did #emdiplomats deal with conflicts? What practices were established?

Key to #earlymodern conflict management were mediation and arbitration as practices with a long tradition going back to the Middle Ages. Here, a third party tried to mediate and help find a compromise between the conflicting parties. (4/6)

#emdiplomacy #history #EarlyModernEurope #mediation #peacemaking

@histodons

Christian Wenzel works the universities of Marburg and Duisburg-Essen. He works on #peace treaties and breaches of agreements and ideas of security.

His PhD thesis on security in the debates of the French wars of religion was recently published and is also available #openaccess! (3/6)

https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/513

#emdiplomacy #earlymodern #earlymodernFrance #history

#earlyModern

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