🚨🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! The Dept of History at JHU is seeking an Assistant Professor of Colonial Latin American History to fill our Rohrbaugh Family Chair. Review of applications begins 15 Oct: apply.interfolio.com/130955

Map of the monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII (Image credit: Historical Maps)

My forthcoming book with Bloomsbury, out later this year, now has a cover.

I am so excited to share that I will be working with Debbie Gershenowitz at UNC Press to publish my second book, _Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions_!
#twitterstorians UNH COLA

#Moon ’s influence on navigation was taken very seriously by pilots. Read the advice of pilot-major Gaspar Ferreira Reimão in the blog post 'When the Moon Wanes, Don’t Start Anything' by Luana Giurgevich at rutter-blog.blogspot.com/2023/07/when-m…
#astrology #AstronomicalNavigation #meteorology

John Caius (1510–1573), scholar, physician and re-founder of Gonville & Caius College, is known for his study of Galen & as a proponent for anatomy & dissections. But did you know he once kept a puffin in his house for 8 months, for research? Apparently, it bit anyone who fed it! #UTKCaius

It’s publication day for my book ‘Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: environmental ideals and urban practice in Genoa and Venice’ OUP History . Can’t believe that it’s on my desk/out in the world!

CONFERENCE: Christianity and Racemaking in the Early Modern Atlantic World | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents memorients.com/events/confere…

It’s that moment when the culmination of years of hard work falls into your hands. #courtlymediators

My latest article is about library lootings during Sweden's Great Power Era in the 17th century and how they contributed to the country's cultural resurgence. May be freely downloaded here: portal.research.lu.se/sv/publication…

Máscara funeraria.

La pieza proviene de la Estructura VII de Calakmul. Los antiguos mayas creían que estos objetos representaban al difunto aún con vida, en ese sentido, es posible que la nariguera y los elementos ondulados en su boca representen el aliento o su respiración.

I'm currently photographing Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', and the details in the hand-coloured illustrations are stunning.

La Relación de #Michoacán es un manuscrito maravilloso que es esencial para entender el mundo cultural del siglo XVI mexicano. Está expuesto en la Galería de las colecciones reales de #Madrid Hay múltiples estudios sobre el texto (y más de una tesis).

COURT CULTURE EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND THE HABSBURG NETHERLANDS (15th – 16th CENTURIES) 25th to 27th October 2023 in Aranjuez, Edificio de Pavía, Campus of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos institutomoll.com/en/conferences… José Eloy Hortal Facultad de Artes y Humanidades URJC Uniwersytet Śląski

For centuries, dozens of passages from Camden's Annals have been invisible to the naked eye – until now.

Through the use of new imaging technology, we've been able to uncover hidden text within this 400 year manuscript: the first official account of Queen Elizabeth I's reign.

Para esta noche: Un brillante texto de Saeko Yanagisawa sobre los códices prehispánicos y la tradición Mixteca-Puebla. Este estilo artístico se caracteriza por el uso de una línea-marco que delimita los colores y las formas. Fue empleado en manuscritos, cerámica y pintura mural.

First sight of the new book cover - HMS Terror and Erebus at the Antarctic by John Carmichael.

With penguins!!

#penguin #theterror #erebus #navy #antarctic #southpole #magnetism #antarctic a #polar #wednesday #book #art #history

We’re pleased to announce our upcoming fall exhibition “Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North,” which will be on view from November 14, 2023 to March 24, 2024...