Aron Ouwerkerk
@aronouwerkerk.bsky.social
Working on Early Modern Women's Writing, Classical Reception Studies, Neo-Latin Literature, Intellectual History. PhD Candidate @ Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/ALOuwerkerk.
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Did you know that classics students at @wwu.edu put out a weekly newsletter in Latin? You can read it online or subscribe to receive it in your inbox Friday 🤓
#MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians #languages
#MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians #languages
Nuntii Latini
Nuntii Latini Vasintonienses. The week's news in Latin, brought to you by the students of Western Washington University.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Did you know that classics students at @wwu.edu put out a weekly newsletter in Latin? You can read it online or subscribe to receive it in your inbox Friday 🤓
#MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians #languages
#MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians #languages
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Yesterday @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students @humanitiesuu.bsky.social to The Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, the 17th-century hunting lodge of William III & Mary II. They interviewed curators Paul Rem, Hanna Klarenbeek, Kristin Duysters & Marit Brands on creative and global exchanges at court.
October 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Yesterday @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students @humanitiesuu.bsky.social to The Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, the 17th-century hunting lodge of William III & Mary II. They interviewed curators Paul Rem, Hanna Klarenbeek, Kristin Duysters & Marit Brands on creative and global exchanges at court.
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Our excursion is part of the module 'Creativity in the Early Modern City: Antwerp, Paris, and Amsterdam' @humanitiesuu.bsky.social that I coordinate and teach with @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social. The course explores transnational & global exchanges of creativity between French and Netherlandish cities.
October 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our excursion is part of the module 'Creativity in the Early Modern City: Antwerp, Paris, and Amsterdam' @humanitiesuu.bsky.social that I coordinate and teach with @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social. The course explores transnational & global exchanges of creativity between French and Netherlandish cities.
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#PhD fellowship within the DECADOCS network: ‘Decadent Travellers and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century’ decadocs.blog/research-pro...
Research Project 6
This project, Decadent Travellers and the Reception of Classical Antiquity, will investigate the development of a decadent version of the Grand Tour in the late-nineteenth century, informed by the …
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September 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
#PhD fellowship within the DECADOCS network: ‘Decadent Travellers and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century’ decadocs.blog/research-pro...
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Exciting #NewAcq: a manuscript occasional Dutch poem, written and recited for the jubilee of Maria Anna Barbara Van der Meer, in the Tongeren beguinage in 1775 #Nuntastic.
We have plenty of these in print, but few in #manuscript and none as a 📜 with wooden shafts!
📚💙 #BookHistory (EHC 912571)
We have plenty of these in print, but few in #manuscript and none as a 📜 with wooden shafts!
📚💙 #BookHistory (EHC 912571)
September 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Exciting #NewAcq: a manuscript occasional Dutch poem, written and recited for the jubilee of Maria Anna Barbara Van der Meer, in the Tongeren beguinage in 1775 #Nuntastic.
We have plenty of these in print, but few in #manuscript and none as a 📜 with wooden shafts!
📚💙 #BookHistory (EHC 912571)
We have plenty of these in print, but few in #manuscript and none as a 📜 with wooden shafts!
📚💙 #BookHistory (EHC 912571)
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My colleague @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students to the fantastic new exhibition at the city hall, now a royal palace, about this sculptor: Artus Quellinus (1609-1668).
We were warmly welcomed by conservator Marjan Pantjes.
We were warmly welcomed by conservator Marjan Pantjes.
September 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My colleague @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social and I took students to the fantastic new exhibition at the city hall, now a royal palace, about this sculptor: Artus Quellinus (1609-1668).
We were warmly welcomed by conservator Marjan Pantjes.
We were warmly welcomed by conservator Marjan Pantjes.
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Mijn allereerste publicatie was met dank aan deze fantastische scriptieprijs van @tijdschriftholl.bsky.social. Stuur je mooie onderzoek dus vooral in!
Studenten en docenten opgelet! Is er gedurende het collegejaar 2024-2025 een interessante scriptie geschreven over de geschiedenis van Holland? Doe dan mee aan de Holland Scriptieprijs 2025 van @tijdschriftholl.bsky.social! Lees hieronder meer over hoe je kan mee doen!
Studenten opgelet! Heb jij in het collegejaar 2024-2025 een BA- of MA-scriptie geschreven? En werpt jouw onderzoek een nieuw licht op de geschiedenis van Noord- of Zuid-Holland? Doe dan mee met de… | ...
Studenten opgelet! Heb jij in het collegejaar 2024-2025 een BA- of MA-scriptie geschreven? En werpt jouw onderzoek een nieuw licht op de geschiedenis van Noord- of Zuid-Holland? Doe dan mee met de Hol...
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September 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Mijn allereerste publicatie was met dank aan deze fantastische scriptieprijs van @tijdschriftholl.bsky.social. Stuur je mooie onderzoek dus vooral in!
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Kom naar de dag van de historische Nederlandse letterkunde op vrijdag 28
november. Thema: Crisis! Uitdagingen en kansen: www.ru.nl/over-ons/age...
november. Thema: Crisis! Uitdagingen en kansen: www.ru.nl/over-ons/age...
Dag van de Historische Nederlandse Letterkunde | Radboud Universiteit
Tijdens deze eerste Dag van de Historische Nederlandse Letterkunde buigen we ons over het thema crisis.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Kom naar de dag van de historische Nederlandse letterkunde op vrijdag 28
november. Thema: Crisis! Uitdagingen en kansen: www.ru.nl/over-ons/age...
november. Thema: Crisis! Uitdagingen en kansen: www.ru.nl/over-ons/age...
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Ik wil een lang interview zien met ex-minister Veldkamp. Door een goede journalist, zoals Mariëlle Tweebeeke.
August 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Ik wil een lang interview zien met ex-minister Veldkamp. Door een goede journalist, zoals Mariëlle Tweebeeke.
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How long will it take before graduate programs in History that focus on non-Anglophone regions get the same treatment? 🗃️
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
How long will it take before graduate programs in History that focus on non-Anglophone regions get the same treatment? 🗃️
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This is a more thoughtful, measured view of Aeneas than that shared by the Guardian, here, www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Google DeepMind’s new AI can help historians understand ancient Latin inscriptions www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/23/1...
Google DeepMind’s new AI can help historians understand ancient Latin inscriptions
Aeneas aims to “connect the past” by providing researchers with historical parallels.
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July 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is a more thoughtful, measured view of Aeneas than that shared by the Guardian, here, www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Very happy to see this piece out: "Isotta Nogarola as a Public Intellectual." New evidence about her famous Defense of Eve, and an appraisal of how it squares with what we know of women Latin authors in 15th c. Italy. Open Access: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
July 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Very happy to see this piece out: "Isotta Nogarola as a Public Intellectual." New evidence about her famous Defense of Eve, and an appraisal of how it squares with what we know of women Latin authors in 15th c. Italy. Open Access: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
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Another "method": scrolling through catalogue search results. Earlier today, I searched for 18th century #manuscripts in French in our library, and found a 144 pages long epic poem on the Life of Christ, written by a Flemish woman, Thérèse Constance de la Croix O.Carm. #Nuntastic.
July 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Another "method": scrolling through catalogue search results. Earlier today, I searched for 18th century #manuscripts in French in our library, and found a 144 pages long epic poem on the Life of Christ, written by a Flemish woman, Thérèse Constance de la Croix O.Carm. #Nuntastic.
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We have some lovely early ownership inscriptions amongst our early modern books for auction this week, including several with contemporary female ownership inscriptions.
#rarebooks #books #earlymodern #herbook #bookauction #provenance #bookhistory #inscription
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
#rarebooks #books #earlymodern #herbook #bookauction #provenance #bookhistory #inscription
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
June 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We have some lovely early ownership inscriptions amongst our early modern books for auction this week, including several with contemporary female ownership inscriptions.
#rarebooks #books #earlymodern #herbook #bookauction #provenance #bookhistory #inscription
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
#rarebooks #books #earlymodern #herbook #bookauction #provenance #bookhistory #inscription
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
French, German and Italian will likely only be taught up to a passive B2-level at Utrecht University… What a dreadful prospect
June 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
French, German and Italian will likely only be taught up to a passive B2-level at Utrecht University… What a dreadful prospect
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Including a wee little piece (Open Access) by yours truly on uncovering female voices in male-authored medieval manuscript sources…
New issue of The Journal of Ecclesiastical History Vol. 76, No. 2 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambridgeup.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Including a wee little piece (Open Access) by yours truly on uncovering female voices in male-authored medieval manuscript sources…
Alas… no pope Pizzaballus
May 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Alas… no pope Pizzaballus
Again a fascinating new post on a Latin book owned by a woman—this time nobody less than Bathsua Makin!
We are very excited about this new post by @tamarajatkin.bsky.social on a book owned by the learned woman writer Bathsua Makin. A wonderful find at the Bodleian, and Tamara's extensive research is fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/h... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Hieronymous Megiser, Thesaurus polyglottus, vel Dictionarium multilingue (Frankfurt, 1603)
By Tamara Atkin The daughter of an Anglican schoolmaster, Bathsua Reginald (Reynolds) Makin was celebrated in her time as “England’s most learned lady.” Known for her verse collection, Musa Virgina…
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May 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Again a fascinating new post on a Latin book owned by a woman—this time nobody less than Bathsua Makin!
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I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
"If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times […]
"If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times […]
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April 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
"If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times […]
"If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times […]
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nice! The Neulateinisches Jahrbuch is now on #brepols online: https://www.brepolsonline.net/loi/neulat
It's closed access, unfortunately, but at least the articles have a DOI now and the metadata can be retrieved online.
@neolatin cc @digneolatin
It's closed access, unfortunately, but at least the articles have a DOI now and the metadata can be retrieved online.
@neolatin cc @digneolatin
April 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
nice! The Neulateinisches Jahrbuch is now on #brepols online: https://www.brepolsonline.net/loi/neulat
It's closed access, unfortunately, but at least the articles have a DOI now and the metadata can be retrieved online.
@neolatin cc @digneolatin
It's closed access, unfortunately, but at least the articles have a DOI now and the metadata can be retrieved online.
@neolatin cc @digneolatin
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Een klap in het gezicht van alle recent ontslagen onderzoekers.
Hier wetenschappers ontslaan en dan vervangen door Amerikanen: academische omvolking (en Hollandse spruitjeskneuterigheid want dit gaat van geld voor inflatiecorrectie af)
Onderwijsminister trekt 25 miljoen euro uit om wetenschappers naar Nederland te halen www.nu.nl/algemeen/635...
Onderwijsminister trekt 25 miljoen euro uit om wetenschappers naar Nederland te halen www.nu.nl/algemeen/635...
Onderwijsminister trekt 25 miljoen euro uit om wetenschappers naar Nederland te halen
Het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap heeft 25 miljoen euro vrijgemaakt voor een fonds voor buitenlandse topwetenschappers. Dat bedrag moet het mogelijk maken om wetenschappers uit ander...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Een klap in het gezicht van alle recent ontslagen onderzoekers.
New evidence of an early modern woman writing her name on a Latin book!
Today, @tarallyons.bsky.social discusses a fascinating copy of a book by Crashaw with early modern women's signatures and addresses a problem that complicates much of our research into women's book ownership earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/w... #HerBook #EarlyModern
William Crashaw’s Consilium quorundam episcoporum Bononiæ (1613)
For this blog post, I’d like to address a common difficulty that scholars face when examining evidence of early modern women and their ownership of books. Because spelling was not regularized in ea…
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April 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
New evidence of an early modern woman writing her name on a Latin book!
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CFP Reminder: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
April 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
CFP Reminder: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
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#Neulateinische Neuerscheinung: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Brian P. Copenhaver, und Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Nine Hundred Conclusions. I Tatti Renaissance Library, ITRL 100. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2025.
#renaissance #philosophy @neolatin @renaissance
#renaissance #philosophy @neolatin @renaissance
April 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
#Neulateinische Neuerscheinung: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Brian P. Copenhaver, und Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Nine Hundred Conclusions. I Tatti Renaissance Library, ITRL 100. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2025.
#renaissance #philosophy @neolatin @renaissance
#renaissance #philosophy @neolatin @renaissance