Dr Leah Veronese
@leahveronese.bsky.social
She/her. Early modernist at Balliol/Queen's Oxford. Petition. John Donne. Queer history 🌈 Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙
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New York Times coverage of the Sonnet 116 find (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/w...
Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered (Gift Article)
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different.
www.nytimes.com
This excellent piece really gets to the heart of my article: the political repurposing of Shakespeare during the 1640s
Deadline for abstracts for John Donne's Architecture is this Friday. Looking forward to reading them!
Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Deadline for abstracts for John Donne's Architecture is this Friday. Looking forward to reading them!
I have the most amazing colleague ❤️✨
@leahveronese.bsky.social and I have been teaching at @queenscollegeox.bsky.social this term, and so we have been invited to their Yule Feast! As our 'medieval accessory' I will be making us hare and stag masks inspired by the mummer illustrations from Bodley MS. 264, fol. 21v.
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I have the most amazing colleague ❤️✨
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The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
October 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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✨Book Curses✨ is included in the list of Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers, so you should buy Book Curses and the 1000 piece puzzle of The World of Frankenstein. Or Book Curses and a Cthulhu pin badge. Or Book Curses and the Edgar Allen Toe socks.
Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers
Celebrate the spooky season in style - from gothic literature to ghoulish accessories, the Booleian has you sorted!
bodleianshop.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
✨Book Curses✨ is included in the list of Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers, so you should buy Book Curses and the 1000 piece puzzle of The World of Frankenstein. Or Book Curses and a Cthulhu pin badge. Or Book Curses and the Edgar Allen Toe socks.
Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely
September 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely
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Amazing treasures of medieval legal history for a medieval Monday - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents.
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
September 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Amazing treasures of medieval legal history for a medieval Monday - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents.
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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A page of figure studies by Gesina Ter Borch from 1648 (Rijksmuseum)
August 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A page of figure studies by Gesina Ter Borch from 1648 (Rijksmuseum)
Little portraits by visiting students 🥹❤️ Particularly love the observation of the coffee cup in the second one 🤣
August 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Little portraits by visiting students 🥹❤️ Particularly love the observation of the coffee cup in the second one 🤣
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💘 💘 in UL Inc.2.B.7.19[4144]
July 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
💘 💘 in UL Inc.2.B.7.19[4144]
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New favourite 18th-century portrait miniature just dropped ❤️
Said to be a lampoon of Madame du Barry, former mistress of Louis XV, representing her as a white peacock #18c
Said to be a lampoon of Madame du Barry, former mistress of Louis XV, representing her as a white peacock #18c
July 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
New favourite 18th-century portrait miniature just dropped ❤️
Said to be a lampoon of Madame du Barry, former mistress of Louis XV, representing her as a white peacock #18c
Said to be a lampoon of Madame du Barry, former mistress of Louis XV, representing her as a white peacock #18c
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Interesting waste endpapers in this Hebrew edition of Calvin’s Catechism, printed at Geneva in 1554. The binding (see below) would seem to be contemporary & French, which might help someone identify the fragments. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social S817.e.55.6.
June 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Interesting waste endpapers in this Hebrew edition of Calvin’s Catechism, printed at Geneva in 1554. The binding (see below) would seem to be contemporary & French, which might help someone identify the fragments. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social S817.e.55.6.
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It's #WorldOtterDay!
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
May 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It's #WorldOtterDay!
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
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Looking out the window, 17th century style
(Italian, British Museum)
(Italian, British Museum)
May 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Looking out the window, 17th century style
(Italian, British Museum)
(Italian, British Museum)
Radigund decided to lend a paw to prepare today's teaching materials Adding to the materiality. Very kind. 🐈⬛💌🐾
May 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Radigund decided to lend a paw to prepare today's teaching materials Adding to the materiality. Very kind. 🐈⬛💌🐾
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Will bequests du jour, from a Nfk yeoman to his wife 1581: 'two quesshions withe squirrelles thereone withe twoe other quishions of her owne makinge' and 'one quishion withe the princes armes vppon it and an other quisshion with the Squirrelles.' Bit of a decorative theme there. #EarlyModern
May 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Will bequests du jour, from a Nfk yeoman to his wife 1581: 'two quesshions withe squirrelles thereone withe twoe other quishions of her owne makinge' and 'one quishion withe the princes armes vppon it and an other quisshion with the Squirrelles.' Bit of a decorative theme there. #EarlyModern
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📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
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May 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Woo! Town & Gown 10km complete! Well done to #TeamUniv and to my running buddy @leahveronese.bsky.social, the Univ LVs smashed it! 💪👏💙💛🥇
May 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Woo! Town & Gown 10km complete! Well done to #TeamUniv and to my running buddy @leahveronese.bsky.social, the Univ LVs smashed it! 💪👏💙💛🥇
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Finally out!
In this vol., a neglected group of texts with much in them to add to discussions about Donne and women, sacramental theology, Roman Catholicism and preaching tailored to occasion and auditory.
In this vol., a neglected group of texts with much in them to add to discussions about Donne and women, sacramental theology, Roman Catholicism and preaching tailored to occasion and auditory.
May 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Finally out!
In this vol., a neglected group of texts with much in them to add to discussions about Donne and women, sacramental theology, Roman Catholicism and preaching tailored to occasion and auditory.
In this vol., a neglected group of texts with much in them to add to discussions about Donne and women, sacramental theology, Roman Catholicism and preaching tailored to occasion and auditory.
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Giotto,
St Francis Preaching to the Birds
c. 1295-1300
San Francesco, Pisa.
St Francis Preaching to the Birds
c. 1295-1300
San Francesco, Pisa.
April 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Giotto,
St Francis Preaching to the Birds
c. 1295-1300
San Francesco, Pisa.
St Francis Preaching to the Birds
c. 1295-1300
San Francesco, Pisa.
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Friends, my books are discounted! Both come in paperback. You can check out my work on Shakespeare or my work with Emily G Sherwood @esherwood.bsky.social on the letters of Elizabeth Bourne. Please ask you library to buy them if it hasn't already. #EarlyModern
www.routledge.com/authors/i156...
www.routledge.com/authors/i156...
Cristina León Alfar - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile
Cristina León Alfar - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile
www.routledge.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Friends, my books are discounted! Both come in paperback. You can check out my work on Shakespeare or my work with Emily G Sherwood @esherwood.bsky.social on the letters of Elizabeth Bourne. Please ask you library to buy them if it hasn't already. #EarlyModern
www.routledge.com/authors/i156...
www.routledge.com/authors/i156...
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How your email finds me:
Pen and ink drawing by Pier Francesco Mola showing a man with four flying letters, c. 1647-1657
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
April 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
How your email finds me:
She has pockets
A young nun painted here by Gesina Ter Borch in 1657 (Rijksmuseum)
April 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
She has pockets
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Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bears, for today is their special day!
This illustration of a bear comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldBearDay #BearDay #RareBooks
This illustration of a bear comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldBearDay #BearDay #RareBooks
March 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bears, for today is their special day!
This illustration of a bear comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldBearDay #BearDay #RareBooks
This illustration of a bear comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldBearDay #BearDay #RareBooks