Recent updates, new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, prizes, and much much more... It's December's EMoDiR Newsletter! Compiled by Martina Mampieri, PhD, FRHistS and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here: academia.edu/125940588/EMoD… #Twitterstorians #EarlyModern

‘It is strange but necessary to acknowledge that the person often held responsible for the witch-hunt of the Labourd is the main reason why we know of its existence at all.’ Read the introduction of The Basque Witch-Hunt by @DrJanMachielsen bit.ly/40BSyBi

And it’s out! My book is now available online: cambridge.org/core/books/lim… From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in post-Reformation Europe.

A thread of things I am especially pleased to have written this year, on sages, mountebanks and monarchs (1/)

New Special Issue of Church History and Religious Culture: "Religious Practices, Boundaries, and Institutions: Historiographical Debates and New Perspectives in Early Modern Italian History." Ed. by Sabina Pavone and Stefano Villani Link below (includes OA). #Twitterstorians

Drawing on a mass of archival sources, Timothy Twining reconstructs the religious, cultural, and institutional contexts in which the text of the Old Testament was considered and contested throughout post-Reformation Europe. tinyurl.com/bdd53j6u

TRN Book List! Five Must-Reads on the Early Modern Vernacular Bible selected by Timothy Twining buff.ly/40uqOxK

New publication! Kirsten Macfarlane’s Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2024) offers an alternative account of early modern popular religion by reconstructing an unstudied community of c17th puritan immigrants to North America.

The Jesuit Studies Café (Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies) is back for Spring 2025! Starting next week you can (virtually) attend a series of conversations with prominent scholars and their recent books, starting with Barton T. Geger. See this flyer, or the link below.

Now out: the EMoDiR Newsletter for March 2025, compiled by Martina Mampieri, PhD, FRHistS and Francesco Quatrini! Check it out for news on new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, cfps and much much more! Link below.

It’s one week to go until the The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Boston! We’ll be there with a panoply of EMoDiR panels, organised by Matteo Al Kalak and Martina Mampieri, PhD, FRHistS. We can’t wait to see you! #RenTwitter #RenSA25 #RSABoston25

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Now out: the EMoDiR Newsletter for June 2025, compiled by Martina Mampieri, PhD, FRHistS and Francesco Quatrini! Check it out for news on new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, cfps and much much more! Link below

The first academic article I ever read was in The Historical Journal, so it’s particularly special to have found a place in its pages with this new piece--now out in open access.