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Žiga Oman
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Historian of early modern Central Europe.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher @york.ac.uk with SOCRESTA - Social Relations And The State: Feud And Law In Sixteenth-Century Germany @socresta.bsky.social
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My Marie Skłodowska-Curie project SOCRESTA has its own Bluesky account and now even a few posts @socresta.bsky.social
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The Center for Humanities Research at GMU is hosting a hybrid book talk for my monograph Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy this upcoming Friday from noon-12:30. Register at this link: chr.gmu.edu/events/17595
CHR Book Launch, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" by Amanda Madden
Friday, November 21, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
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November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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civsoc.bsky.social
The decline of violence UK since the 1990s is unheralded social progress. More evidence that overall rates of violence have little to do either with policing or inequality. #skystorians
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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The Würzburg data provides the thus far richest proof that plebeian feuds (Fehden) and their mediation by the state continued well after the practice was banned in the Holy Roman Empire in 1495, as is demonstrated by princely remissions (Landshuldung) or ‘pardons’ for feuding. (1/3)
Graph showing the number of remissions (pardons) for feuding in the Prince-bishopric of Wurzburg in the 1500s.
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
omandrziga.bsky.social
My Marie Skłodowska-Curie project SOCRESTA has its own Bluesky account and now even a few posts @socresta.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social

Deadline: 20 December 2025
Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence, May 22, 2026 - May 22, 2026 Deadline for submission/application: December 20, 2025 Call for Papers Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts the gender roles in a society firmly on records. Although we can never fully grasp the motives behind past acts of violence, through them we can gauge what was tolerated or sanctioned in any given society. Historical violence can suggest which meaning early modern people had of assault and abuse, whether physical, verbal or psychological. This brings us to the fundamental methodological question of how modern categories can capture past social realities. In this regard, the aim of the workshop is to offer a more precise picture of gender violence, with a quantitative study on survivors, their witnesses, and the negotiating process. This gathering aims to promote a discussion on how to defy certain stereotypes around gender-based violence by investigating how women and men in the past viewed and talked about their roles within the abusive act. While some treated the violence suffered as an intimate matter, charged with shame and danger and therefore difficult to articulate, others saw it as a matter to be publicly outed and put into words. This workshop invites proposals for short papers (4,000-5,000 words) on any aspect of gender and violence in early modernity. Papers that investigate the possibility to offer significant input for the study of what we would regard as psychological/physical trauma; dynamics of power; for understanding responses to assault; to investigate the status and forms of victims and perpetrators. The past can share its feelings as violent acts are always initially expressed through language and shaped by specific social and cultural norms.
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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AI experts in higher ed aghast at higher ed’s embrace of AI apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Only available on microfilm
unenthusiast.com Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · Oct 12
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez.bsky.social hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Oct 12
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire"

Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into

Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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cool new stuff from cool historians but also me hah take that #16thC #17thC #earlymodern #spain #italy #skystorians #iberia
www.routledge.com/Evidence-Crime-and-Forensics-in-the-Early-Modern-Mediterranean/Homza-Scott/p/book/9781032781464
Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered. Evidence, Cri...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
omandrziga.bsky.social
Another book I'm very much looking forward to this year. Congrats, Amanda! #earlymodern #vendetta
amandamadden.bsky.social Amanda Madden @amandamadden.bsky.social · Aug 29
Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.
August 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Join us for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history, hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento! With Louise Bonvalet, Robert Kendrick, Antonio Chemotti, Umberto Cecchinato, Laura Righi, @amandamadden.bsky.social, and @massimorospocher.bsky.social #skystorians
August 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
omandrziga.bsky.social
Really excited that this book is getting an English translation - congrats, Paolo! #earlymodern #peacemaking #vendetta
Criminal Justice and Peace-making in Early Modern Italy
An exceptional study of private peace pacts in early modern Italy that challenges earlier notions of the place of these private agreements in the development of the courts and state.
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August 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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The 56th edition of the Austrian History Yearbook has officially been published! For now you can read its 10 research articles and 58 book reviews online while we eagerly anticipate the journal's physical publication.

#History #AcademicSky #Austria #Vienna #Europe

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
omandrziga.bsky.social
Ranting on elite violence in early modern Styria at this fine conference on violence in Warsaw in September. Really looking forward to it!
Histories of Violence in Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Perspective. – Faculty of History
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August 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
omandrziga.bsky.social
Late to the show, as always, but still honoured to having this paper published in the Austrian History Yearbook.
July 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM