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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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Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS
Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 1 incarico post-doc presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia - SSD PHIL-02/B - GSD 11/PHIL-02- Cod. Pica incarichipd202...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
www.kuleuven.be
January 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Post-doc position at the University of Warsaw
in a project on #earlymodern protestant printing centres operating in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia

konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (English version starts at page 7).

Applications are accepted until 9 March 2026.

#history
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January 14, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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The Short Title Catalogue turns 25! We had some wonderful celebrations on Monday. We sniffed a German book under the expert guidance of @svanimpe.bsky.social, got chocolates and declared our love to early modern books #bookhistory
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Thanks to Deutsche Bahn, one gets to unexpected places. I have always wanted to see Neuss (set ablaze by Alessandro Farnese in July 1586), I just did not think it would be on my way from Belgium to Mainz 🤔
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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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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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📢 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
🔗 cdn.ymaws.com/www.rsa.org/...

#Earlymodern
September 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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
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After many years, I finally made it to Simancas #archivalheaven
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Heleen Wyffels on creating authority records for women printers in Short Title Catalogue Flanders #STCV25years #women #feministbibliography
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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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
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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