#earlymodern #twitterstorians the #cfp for the 2021 Reformation Studies Colloquium (taking place 8-10 September on Zoom) closes on 18 June! Email 200 word abstracts & 100 word bios to [email protected] or visit birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor… for more information! #reformazing

30 July 1560: #Protestant theologians Matin Bucer & Paul Fagius posthumously restored to honour in the University of #Cambridge #otd at a ceremony in Great St Mary's. In 1557 their bodies had been exhumed & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM) Dr Steven M. Foster

Small grant for independent researchers Women's History Network - at Bluesky and LinkedIn - deadline extended to 14 August 2021! Details here womenshistorynetwork.org/fellowships-fo… #womenshistory #herstory

Looking forward to presenting on classical humanism in the correspondence of Zwingli and Oecolampadius at this conference tomorrow!

On Monday October 4 Liliana Melgar and I will present on the challenges and opportunities of working with epistolary data collections. All welcome! @ERC_SKILLNET Historical Networks #historicalnetworks KBR

Register here for Friday's SNLS AGM and/or the annual lecture on 'Erasmus as a Theologian and a Paraphraser: A Comparison of the 'Paraphrase on Luke' and the 'Paraphrase on John'' by Dr Jan Bloemendal. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/s…

Purple! Uni of Birmingham

A wonderful video about Luther's copy of Erasmus' New Testament 🙂 English subtitles available.

Today marks the 500th anniversary of the Zürich sausage affair, which started the Swiss Reformation: devotions.urc.org.uk/devotions/2022…

This promises to be a fascinating event. Do sign up if you are interested in editing, translating, or commentating on neo-Latin texts! Oh, and you can also find out more about the challenges of translating Z and Oe's correspondence...

Visiting Zurich to look at the original manuscripts of the correspondence and managed to fit in a trip to Basel yesterday!

Fantastic 😄 #DanielLienhard

Footage from the humanist city walk Xander Feys and I led yesterday, showing Renaissance Leuven’s best to a bunch of Neo-Latinists gathered for a conference at KU Leuven. Pictures by courtesy of Zwingli & Oecolampadius

Looking forward to attending the Twelfth Annual REFORC conference in the coming days! I (Dr Sharon van Dijk) will be presenting on the 1536 edition of the correspondence of Zwingli and Oecolampadius - it is not what you might expect...

The conference on ancient, medieval and early modern Greek and Latin letter collections was wonderful - so many exciting connections and discussions. Thank you @GibsonRoyk and Simon Smets for organising!

Conrad Gessner, 1516–1565: Universal Scholar and Natural Scientist of the Renaissance. Written by Urs Leu of Zurich, this richly illustrated and erudite book is the first biography of the famous Swiss polymath to appear in English. brill.com/display/title/…

📢 Call for papers 2nd IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium (Leuven, 23-24 May 2024) Abstracts are due by 15 December. @artskuleuven LECTIO - @lectio-institute.bsky.social SNLS Digital Neo-Latin Studies arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijnlab

Forthcoming: Harris, Nigel W., and Sharon van Dijk, The Correspondence of Zwingli and Oecolampadius (Brill, February 2025) brill.com/display/title/…