John Theibault

NYC Neighborhood Complaints. Tag yourself. I’m “Illegal Posting”. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

📌 Conference: "La France périphérique (1559-1659)" On the political, religious & cultural dynamics of France’s peripheral regions between 1559 and 1659! 📆23-30 October 2026 🏫 Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) | 💻 Online: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3531966... 🔗 www.sns.it/it/evento/la... #EarlyModern

Director emerita Lorraine Daston in conversation with @histphilosophy.bsky.social​ on the first episode of “Pages of History.” They discuss the surprising parallels between #Philology & #Astronomy, & why philology is one of humanity’s oldest empirical sciences. 📜 🔗 https://bit.ly/4k4GP7K #HistSci

The full programme for the conference “Contested Seas: War, Commerce, and the Making of the Law of the Sea (c. 1400–1800)” (Ostend, 19–20 NOV 2026) is now available, together with the registration link! More information here: www.vub.be/en/event/con.... vubcore.blogspot.com/2026/10/remi...

Looking forward to presenting my preliminary findings at the Justus Liebig University Gießen this evening at 6 PM CET, thanks to the kind invitation by Prof Christine Reinle, the pioneering researcher of peasants’ feuds in the Holy Roman Empire.

A very cool #earlymodern #jewishstudies conference in #Amsterdam: The Converso Condition and the Reformation Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2026 Time: 13:00-17:30 Venue: Uilenburger Synagogue, Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91 mbii.nl/the-converso...

A useful reminder of what Gustavus Adolphus was up to at this point in the #30yearswar. Also interesting that this bit of news circulated from Nürnberg, not from the east.

FYI Lisa part 2

On the blog: Kiebitzpapier. simonbeattie.co.uk/blog/archive...

Just saw this show. Very good, though small to cover six artists. Just learned that one of the artists, Kay Sekimachi, just celebrated her 100th birthday.

21.10.1626 ... etliche melden, er sie wieder nach Schlesien ... Die OberEnser Bauern sind sehr erbittert, hauen nieder was sie antreffen, ohne Unterschied der Religion. Denn die Holsteinschen sehr übel mit ihnen gehaust / indem sie ihre Kinder gebraten / Nasen und Ohren abgeschnitten ...

Writer friends, new review article just dropped, covering recent scholarship on English magic & witchcraft. A treasure trove for research & story ideas!

Ah, a conference to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the sack of Rome.

A very exciting day for the @curioustravellers.bsky.social launching the digital edition of Thomas Pennant’s Tour of Wales and the new exhibition on Pennant at NLW. You can find out more about the project, Thomas Pennant, and access the digital editions at curioustravellers.ac.uk

FYI Lisa

"Sonsten ist dieses ganz Land fast verderbt / und voller Pest" - aus dem Herzogtum Braunschweig im Oktober 1626

It's international #OpenAccessWeek. On that note, here is the link to my open access monograph Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618–1648: Aspects of Institutional Change and Decline (2023). hup.fi/books/m/10.3...

Hessen, 16. Okt 1626 Aus Tyllis Lager hat man, dass Tylli nach Eroberung von Steinbrück und Neustadt stracks nach Verden gezogen - die Besatzung darin sich aber die Nacht davor nach Langwedel gerettet. Deswegen die Stadt sich ergeben ... Der Dänemarker mit seiner Armee nun 18.000 stark, ... 1/2

Things... On Maps? The Ortelius exhibition @newberrylibrary will include this de Wit (Novacco 4F 36 (PrCt)). We'll probably not be able to show what's on the back, though... maybe on the label? 🤔🌹 Zoom in here! collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...

The Maritime Britain database is now live! Explore hundreds of thousands of voyages, ships and people. Next stop: our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project, which so far has 4.8 million records, including 2.5 million voyages! maritimebritain.org

FYI Lisa

Call for papers for the conference 'People, Practices, and Knowledge of the Proximal Senses across the Mediterranean' that my colleagues and I organize in Liège! www.proxisenses.uliege.be/cms/c_129772... Deadline for abstracts 10 November #Earlymodern

Looking forward to this talk. It has made me review so much of the extant literature on these individuals. Broad hint, some of these men were continuing their service from the #ThirtyYearsWar - but most were fresh out of Scotland. Why? (And where did they go?) 🗃️🪖 #17thCentury #EarlyModern #MilHist

Looking forward to this workshop on Nov. 6 in Princeton at the IAS. Livestream option is available! #earlymodern #skystorians #EarlyModernSpain

Wir freuen uns für unseren ehemaligen Doktoranden in der Frühen Neuzeit, Leonard Dorn, über die Ernennung zum Archivrat auf Probe und Leiter des Stadtarchivs des Magistrats der Stadt Fulda. Auf seinem weiteren Weg wünschen wir ihm alles Gute und viel Erfolg!

Trés très heureux d'annoncer ce magnifique livre d'une grande amie. Myriam Marrache Gouraud, Les Caméléons de Peiresc, tout beau tout frais! #renaissance #histoiredessciences #curiosités

A very nice introduction to Hainhofer's cabinets. (As a side quest you can try to count how many different ways the auto transcription program spells Hainhofer.)

Interesting that the wedding was deemed important enough for a newsletter in and around the war reporting. This is presumably the wedding of the son of the Martinic who was defenestrated in 1618.

Good to know. (I went to Baldwin's Book Barn bookbarn.com for the first time in several years yesterday, so my well-being must be way up.)

"We often think of #alchemy as something distinct from science, but as historians of science, we’re really interested in the continuities..." Today's #histSTM (& #histsci, #histchem, etc.) lunchtime read: @whyy.org's preview of @sciencehistory.org new art & alchemy exhibit ("Fire & Gold"). 🗃️📜🎨

Just returning from an inspiring conference on decorated papers in Hamburg! Learned so much and a really wonderful experience viewing the Abschatz album with experts and decorated paper makers who brought their own unique perspectives.

It's Nobel season. Someone somewhere must have done a ranking and analysis of how successful each of the prizes has been over time at honoring the deserving, not honoring the undeserving, and not failing to honor the deserving. Presumably either Chemistry or Physics would come out on top.

Good thread. I think this is the key point.

🇮🇪 Historical Fiction | Ficsean Stairiúil Join us for a bilingual discussion on writing the history of 16th & 17th-century Ireland, as part of Dublin Festival of History. With Marie-Louise Coolahan, Deirdre Serjeantson & author Liam MacCóil. 📅 8 Oct | 6.30pm https://ow.ly/i6kX50ZPJAw

📢Fully funded PhD position in #earlymodern history! At University of Roma Tre, in collaboration with the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento, in the framework of my project "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy." isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta... Deadline 16 October 2026! #skystorians

Looks like all the Digitale Sammlungen at SuUB Bremen are offline. A DDoS attack? I don't know of a mirror. I hope they come back soon.

bring back the Thirty Years High Trust Social Cohesion!

Next week! #skystorians

I think I missed this fun thread on paleography when it first appeared. I remember when I first started in the archives being happy when a document in Latin turned up because I could at least make out the words. It does take a while to get the rhythm of old handwriting.

The #EarlyModern Recipes Online Collective annual transcribathon, w/ @wellcomecollection.bsky.social & @rcpmuseum.bsky.social, is 13 Nov. Guest speakers on old age and domestic care are @emmamarshall.bsky.social and Lynn Botelho. Hope you can join us! Details here: emroc.hypotheses.org/5254 #HistMed

A nice series of posts from Anhalt’s diary about what it was like to visit Frederick and Elisabeth in exile in the Netherlands. (In Arnhem rather than their main hangout in The Hague.)

If you want to learn more in an Ana-like way, poke around @monicamedhist.bsky.social 's plague bibliography (continuously updated): "The Mother of All Pandemics" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Late Valois/wars of religion friends- anyone encounter this before - connection between death of Adm Coligny in the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre & the 1572 supernova? 1/ #earlymodern #reformazing #valois