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Nina Lamal
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Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
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For those visiting Antwerp (esp. those of you attending for the Women&Household in Book Trade conference next week) do not forget to go and visit this library gem as well! #bookhistory
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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hsmurphy.bsky.social
First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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emodir.bsky.social
📢 CfP | Rethinking Sacred Images as the “Book of the Illiterate”: An Early Modern, Global & Auditory Perspective
📍 Academia Belgica, Rome | 🗓️ 4–5 June 2026
⏰ Deadline: Sept 30, 2025
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#Earlymodern
September 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK:

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#skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistory
Autumn Seminar Series @LUCK
LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre A…
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September 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
After many years, I finally made it to Simancas #archivalheaven
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
ninalamal.bsky.social
TextDiving in Valladolid (birthplace of Philip II). Great scholarly conversations, as well as Jesuits and their early modern books!
September 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
In true early modern style, thanks to cross-channel mobility and a smuggling operation in Leuven, I am now the proud owner of this badge. 👏🙏 to @onslies.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Sigh ... 🫣 we need different types (and amounts) of funding AND NOT more concentration of research money!
August 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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zannavanloon.bsky.social
REGISTRATION OPEN!

Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.

Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
ninalamal.bsky.social
How is your monday going? I just tried to make coffee without adding water
a man with a beard is using a bialetti coffee pot
ALT: a man with a beard is using a bialetti coffee pot
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August 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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zannavanloon.bsky.social
Ingenious use of woodcuts that overlap typeset text in this 1588 edition, visually reproducing old inscriptions found on funerary stones, altars & Capitoline Tables, carefully rendering letters but also the erosion, fractures & surface damage of their material supports.

#rarebooks #bookhistory
Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone. Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone. Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone. Engraved title page with typeset text in the middle. The engraving displays allegorical depictions and a historican scene at the bottom. The typeset text includes the title and the imprint.
July 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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wynkenhimself.bsky.social
Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...
BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC NEW SERIES Book History for the Future SERIES EDITORS: Lisa Gitelman, New York University, USA Tom Mole, Durham University, UK Sarah Werner, Independent Researcher, USA Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams. They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative methodologies, digital tools, and global contexts.
July 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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earlymodernwar.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️
Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.
July 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
After looking at some beautiful books in the newly opened museum of the Royal library in Brussels, we also enjoyed some beautiful pastries, post-conference #bookhistory
June 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Next Thomas Wallnig introducing @pcpsce.bsky.social and the aim to experiment with bibliographical datasets for Central-Europe
June 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Next very own @cerl-community.bsky.social Marian Lefferts on the need for comprehensive documentation for the different national databases #bibliography #bookhistory
June 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Next is series of short presentations. Renaud Adam explains how archives (council of Troubles as a case) can help as sources for bibliographies #yayarchives
June 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Heleen Wyffels on creating authority records for women printers in Short Title Catalogue Flanders #STCV25years #women #feministbibliography
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Back at @cerl-community.bsky.social conference in beautiful Brussels (after a small hiccup this morning). In time for paper by Alyssa Steiner on Incunabula Short Title Catalogue #bookhistory
June 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Christian Scheidegger makes a convincing case for a local retrospective bibliography, and why it needs to be made it available as a database online #bookhistory #digital
June 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory
June 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Happy birthday to Short Title Catalogue Flanders! Heleen Wyffels opens the @cerl-community.bsky.social conference on mapping Knowledge at Royal Library in Brussels #25yearsSTCV
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
ninalamal.bsky.social
Check out this #CfP #historyofknowledge
anastruillou.bsky.social Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · May 21
🚨 CFP "Forced Mobility and the Making of Knowledge (16c Naples, Rome & Venice)"

Organised by Fiona Lejosne, Oury Goldman and myself
4-6 March 2026 @ehess.fr
Proposals in French/English/Italian welcome
Deadline: 1 July 2025

Don't hesitate to apply & share widely

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[AAC] Mobilités contraintes et production de savoirs sur le monde à Naples, Rome et Venise au xvie siècle - IHMC
Le colloque se tiendra du 4 au 6 mars 2026 au campus Condorcet (Paris-Aubervilliers). Date limite de soumissions : 1er juillet 2025
ihmc.ens.psl.eu
June 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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huygensknaw.bsky.social
📅 Morgen 👉 ‘Van marge naar middelpunt’: onderzoekers (waaronder collega @ninalamal.bsky.social) en erfgoedprofessionals over de studie naar vrouwen uit de periode tussen 1500-1800, van Amalia van Solms tot naamloze vrouwen uit archieven.
🕔 17:00 | 📍 SPUI25 of online
🔗 spui25.nl/programma/va...
June 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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huygensknaw.bsky.social
Vroegmoderne vrouwen: verleden tijd? Allerminst!
Tijdens 'Van marge naar middelpunt' blikken onderzoekers (waaronder collega @ninalamal.bsky.social) en erfgoedprofessionals terug én vooruit op vrouwengeschiedenis in erfgoed & wetenschap.

📅 4 juni | 17:00 | SPUI25

Info & aanmelden 👉 buff.ly/b94pHFs
May 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM