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Christa Lundberg
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Historian of early modern teachers, theologians, editors, and plagiarists. Assistant professor at Lund University & Pro Futura fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study.
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Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social · Feb 28
Thank you! I'm looking very much forward to joining the History dept. in Lund as a Pro Futura Scientia fellow this fall.
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JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
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November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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tntwining.bsky.social
What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.

#earlymodern #skystorians
royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Sep 12
New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'

'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and
the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical
Scholarship', by Timothy Twining bit.ly/3IkveRA

How was ‘everyday erudition’ used to come to terms with the historical reality of Christian revelation? 1/2
'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical Scholarship', by Timothy Twining. Full abstract: The history of early modern scholarship was long written as a subject set at some remove from the rest of early modern society. Learning was the common property of like-minded scholars in the ‘Republic of Letters’, linked by shared codes of elite sociability and united by a mutual concern to transcend religious boundaries. Recent years have seen such views challenged, with studies demonstrating how much scholarly activity was undertaken to achieve confessional objectives. Yet, these contributions have chiefly focused on orthodox clerical scholars. This article uses the case of John Locke to present a new perspective on the place and significance of erudition in the early modern period. It is based on a thoroughgoing examination of Locke’s lifetime of religious reading, bringing together evidence from his manuscript notebooks and journals, his library catalogues and annotated books, and his correspondence and published works. It coins the notion of ‘everyday erudition’ to reveal how learning was not an abstruse concern. Instead, for Locke and his contemporaries at multiple points on the sociocultural scale, it was a kind of common currency, a tool to be used to come to terms with the historical reality of Christian revelation
September 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend this job offer: an Assistant Professor at the Department of History devoted to work within a Global History of Knowledge.

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

#skystorians #histknow
Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University
We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.
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June 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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#CfP: 'Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice'. Limerick 14-15 January 2026. Abstracts by June 16, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/discip...
The internal jurisdictional autonomy of early modern universities represented a significant inheritance from the medieval instruments of academic freedom. The rise of the territorial university as a model curtailed the independence of these institutions rendering them more directly subject to external political actors, a situation that became more pronounced as a consequence of the Reformation. Despite these transformations, the university’s powers of internal oversight and control of its members remained relatively intact. These powers were set out, instituted and sanctioned in charters, statutes and ordinances. The principal instrument through which the powers were asserted was the academic jurisdiction, i.e. the university court. At one level, these arrangements protected university members, ensuring their protection to a certain extent from external legal threat. However, in adhering to the university jurisdiction, the members submitted themselves to its regulating influence. In this forum, students, professors and the cives academici could be arraigned, prosecuted and sanctioned for minor or major acts of deviancy. Thus, the university court and other instruments of institutional authority could play a central role in the disciplining of university members, defining the parameters of and enforcing normative behaviours. This conference seeks to explore the characteristics of these jurisdictional regimes in the early modern period. Paper proposals that address the following themes are especially welcome: The legal and administrative frameworks of discipline at early modern universities The characteristics of university courts Social disciplining and the normative functions of university courts The pursuit of personal vendettas and factional strife through the instruments of university jurisdiction The limits and limitations of academic disciplinary regimes Subversions of academic jurisdiction
May 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The cluster on the Greek Fathers in the new JHI includes an article by Christa Lundberg: "Humanist Translation and the Parisian Tradition: Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’s ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite"

muse.jhu.edu/article/959039
A quote from the article: "Against the recent Platonizing interpretations of ps.-Dionysius, Lefèvre introduced his edition as an antidote brewed from the scholarly and religious resources of Paris."
May 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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jhideas.bsky.social
The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles, "Context and Paratext: New Insights into the Early Modern Reception of the Greek Fathers." The introduction by organizer Paolo Sachet is now available open access:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
A quote from the article: "What can we learn about early modern patristic reception by conceiving of publishers, editors, translators, patrons, correctors, censors, and compositors as creators of patristic books? Looking at editions in their making, rather than just the final product, reveals failures, compromises, and second thoughts that are crucial to a complete understanding of the works and their reception."
May 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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tntwining.bsky.social
Today!
tntwining.bsky.social Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Apr 10
I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

#earlymodern
A poster with details for the book launch of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024). For more information, see: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/early-modern-scholarship-and-religion
May 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
christalund.bsky.social
The discussion continues in the Early Modern Scholarship & Religion seminar @camhistory.bsky.social this Friday (2 May) at 4pm! For details and online participation, see www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
April 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
christalund.bsky.social
Excited to share my new article in JHI! It's a deep dive into how Lefèvre d'Étaples didn’t just adopt a humanist Latin rendering of Ps.-Dionysius—but rewrote it in dialogue with medieval translators. Thanks to Paolo Sachet for putting together an amazing special issue!

muse.jhu.edu/article/959039
Project MUSE - Humanist Translation and the Parisian Tradition: Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’s ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite
muse.jhu.edu
April 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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johanostling.bsky.social
My department at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History.

Read more about the position and the conditions here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
March 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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davehitchcock.bsky.social
My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2
March 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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petermandler.bsky.social
Three-year postdoc at Cambridge on 'Ireland and the "ends" of the British Empire'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/
Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.
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March 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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CFP: Scholarly Institutions Through Time: Continuity and Change

On May 14 my Uppsala department will be hosting a workshop on the role of scholarly institutions in the history of science. Follow the link for the whole call.

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Call for Papers: Historical Perspectives on Scholarly Institutions
Call for Papers: Historical Perspectives on Scholarly Institutions Workshop: Scholarly Institutions Through Time: Continuity and Change Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University...
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March 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
christalund.bsky.social
Thank you! I'm looking very much forward to joining the History dept. in Lund as a Pro Futura Scientia fellow this fall.
February 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
Joining us today at the Monday Seminar is Mikkel Jensen (Halle-Wittenberg) who is presenting on Amthor and the reception of Thomasius’s political thought at the University of Kiel, followed by comments by Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge).
February 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
christalund.bsky.social
The Early Modern Scholarship & Religion Seminar in Cambridge is back this term with four talks on Friday afternoons. Our first session is with Jonathan Nathan (Pharos foundation, Oxford), who will talk speak on ‘the problem of unbelief in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries' on 7 February at 4pm.
January 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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antnlj.bsky.social
Are you a PhD student interested in the history of knowledge? Apply for the Lund summer school this August. Under the guidance of @bjornlundberg.bsky.social and others. I taught it in 2020 and 2021, great fun.
newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/01/28/2...
2025 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge
Lund Centre for Knowledge History (LUCK) invites applications for the sixth annual Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge, to be held at Lund University, August 19–22, 2025. The Su…
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January 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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tntwining.bsky.social
And it’s out! My book is now available online:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

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 #EarlyModern Europe.

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December 5, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
Joining us today for the final seminar of the year is Muriam Haleh Davis (MECAM-Tunis) who is presenting on decolonisation, translation, and knowledge production in Algerian literature and sociology, with comments by Kaoutar Ghilani (Cambridge).
December 2, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Canada getting serious on AI copyright theft.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/w...
Major Canadian News Outlets Sue OpenAI In New Copyright Case (Gift Article)
A coalition of some of Canada’s biggest media companies is seeking billions of dollars in compensation for what they say is copyright infringement on their work through ChatGPT.
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November 29, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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I've just received confirmation that all four of my books with Routledge have been flogged to Microsoft to train AI. This is a horrible betrayal. Here is my letter to my publisher:
"I have just heard the dreadful news that all four of my books with Routledge have been flogged to Microsoft to train AI/LLMs. While this might be allowable contractually, it is not allowable ethically, and it is a terrible betrayal of authors by a publisher. Further, the vast environmental damage caused by data centres, the exploitation of labour and IP, and the degradation of knowledge currently taking place should be opposed. Trust is also an issue here, as Microsoft is founded upon an enclosure of the digital commons, among other abuses: see Richard Stallman, Reasons Not to Use Microsoft: https://lnkd.in/enT8-BEW Some of my writing, and that of members of scholarly societies I represent or belong to, should be exempt from the AI training. At least some of our contracts with Landscape Research, for example, only cover T&F’s right to publish but not any other uses. It is T&F’s legal duty to honour these contracts."
August 16, 2024 at 8:20 AM
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johanostling.bsky.social
How are the histories of universities written nowadays? What are the trends and tendencies? In a new article in the Nordic Journal of Educational History, I try to chart the landscape.
 
Open access here: doi.org/10.36368/nje...
December 8, 2023 at 8:04 AM
christalund.bsky.social
I'm very excited to speak in the Warburg Work in Progress seminar tomorrow (Wed) at 2pm. Sign up here to attend in person or online: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/work-...
Work in Progress - ‘Religious Scholarship in Renaissance Paris: The Search for New Readers’
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November 28, 2023 at 3:45 PM
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tomaashby.bsky.social
Some big news for academic publishing: De Gruyter to acquire Brill & will become De Gruyter Brill www2.brill.com/webmail/3190...
October 12, 2023 at 8:54 AM