‘A 15th-century recipe collection, open at a drawing of a swaddled baby in a rocking cradle, provides a wider context for the other proteins found on the birth scroll’s surface: honey, milk, egg and legumes.’
@cjfaraday.bsky.social at the Wellcome Collection.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Although plants are a common motif in European manuscripts, medieval viewers would have hardly considered them commonplace.
Dr. Jennifer Carnell shares ways that plant life appears in these manuscripts and what the illuminations may have meant to the people who made them: https://bit.ly/4bn96Sl
An unfurled medieval birth girdle, showing illustrations of the three nails of the Crucifixion, talismans and Christ's side wound.
A medieval English birth girdle, an amulet offering protection for women during childbirth. It's inscribed with protective prayers, charms and other talismans.
You can consult the entire MS online now! (Harley Roll T 11)
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
My wonderful if struggling department of History and Classical Studies is crowd funding today with all proceeds donated (march 11) being matched in collaboration with #McGill24
If you are a McGill alumni and/or wish to donate to help the next gen of historians/classicists excel today is the day!
Early royal society ass experiment
I wish everything didn't cost one (1) thousand dollars now
"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages
New profile picture to document the rapid aging that comes from doing a phd
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
An opening from Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, featuring mirror writing and different diagrams.
Newly restored online: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, also known as the Codex Arundel (Arundel MS 263), written in his characteristic mirror-writing with diagrams, drawings, brief texts, and personal notes.
You can consult the entire manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
Every monday I work on my latin and every monday latin tortures me
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
[and alkalis]
It’s all acids
Microfilms.
Not my problem
Average description of the fixation of tinctures c.17thc
AI has so many implications to the death of the Real, but I can't really think about that right now
RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved posting a thread 🧵🧵🧵 (1/95)
A big physical copy of “The Works of …Glauber…” by Christopher Packe.
Spent my morning looking at some of the first english translations of Johann Glauber’s philosophical works from 1689
Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm ✨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social ,
and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The first Heidelberg tun built 1591. Perhaps the largest early modern #wine barrel? (BM)
Please share the news: the first week is given in English, the second in French (but it's possible to follow both, of course)
#earlymodern #skystorians
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
A reassessment of Quentin Skinner's classic paper on its 50th anniversary, drawn from a @britishacademy.bsky.social conference - Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond, edited by @adrianblau.bsky.social & open access at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Make it stop!
#earlymodern talk tomorrow - hybrid and in person with @kyamamoto.bsky.social 🗃️
