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Timothy Twining
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Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. Post-doc at KU Leuven. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Social media manager @emodir.bsky.social.

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Dec 5
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.

#Skystorians
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janmachielsen.bsky.social
I'm giving a #monkabulous talk next week Friday at the Sapienza on the flying friar Joseph of Copertino.

And it just occurred to me... What better place to share the details than :: hum :: BlueSky?

Everyone is very welcome!
“Volare oh oh”: Giuseppe da Copertino and the Miracle of Flight
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
tntwining.bsky.social
Grateful to Felix Schlichter for scrutinising my book, in this, its first review.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Find the book itself here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

#earlymodern
First page of Felix Schlichter's review of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024).
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
tntwining.bsky.social
A fantastic opportunity to work with a very special collection! #earlymodern
marshslibrary.bsky.social Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · Oct 13
We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿, 𝗺𝗮𝗶̂𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗱'𝗵𝗼̂𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝘂 𝗿𝗼𝗶 (𝟭𝟲𝟰𝟴-𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟳)
𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗩 (𝟭𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟰 - 𝟯𝟭 𝗱𝗲́𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟲𝟱𝟱)

Édité par Philippe Mauran

Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/3Wa4EOm

#History #France #EarlyModern #Historysky
September 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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onslies.bsky.social
WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩
And more excitement to come in 2026 as well.

I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that
ihreurope1500.bsky.social Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Sep 27
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30. 6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule 10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea 17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century
September 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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bsecs.bsky.social
#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today'
Paris, 10-12 June 2026
Please send proposals to daniel.fulda@germanistik.uni.halle.de by the 26 October
Link to the full CFP here: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
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Call for Papers: Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today / Le défi des Lumières. Enjeux intellectuels et politiques - BSECS
Please see the file linked below for information on the ISECS coordinated conference Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today, to be held in Paris, 10-12 June 2026. Early...
www.bsecs.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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ICYMI - still some time to register! #bookhistory
nconstantinidou.bsky.social Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · Sep 19
✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ?

Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia

📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)
The Aldine edition of Lucian of Samosata (1503), annotated by the printer Robert Estienne (1503-1559) and his son, Henri Estienne (1528-1598) 
September 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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christinekooi.bsky.social
Scholars of Jansenism take note.
#earlymodern
bibportroyal.bsky.social Bibliothèque de Port-Royal @bibportroyal.bsky.social · Sep 17
L'édition numérique du Dictionnaire de Port-Royal, version réactualisée de l'édition Champion parue en 2004 sous la direction de Jean Lesaulnier et Antony McKenna, a été mise en ligne :
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Présentation | Dictionnaire Port-Royal
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September 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK:

newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a...

#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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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
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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duncanbell.bsky.social
Who was the most influential pragmatist political thinker in the opening decades of the twentieth century? In this paper, I argue that it was H. G. Wells

"Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism"

bit.ly/4gcheoe
Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism - Volume 112 Issue 2
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September 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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📣Out now on #firstview!

Timothy Twining (@tntwining.bsky.social) (KU Leuven) on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible'

#Religion #Scholarship #Translation #Catholic #French 17thc 📙🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Richard Simon has long presented an enigma for historians, as his status as a pathbreaking textual critic and the opposition his work engendered from contemporary ecclesiastical authorities has sat uncomfortably alongside his consistent advocacy of his Catholic credentials. This article approaches this problem via an analysis of two hitherto understudied parts of his scholarly corpus. It first elucidates Simon’s distinctive plan for a new polyglot Bible in the mid-1680s before shifting attention some fifteen years to consider his work in French vernacular biblical translation, bringing out how the confessionally inflected content of his work in that field contrasted with his earlier critical scholarship. By revealing how Simon negotiated the relationship between scholarship and religion during his working life, the article foregrounds the continued import of confessionalized erudition at the turn of the eighteenth century while also interrogating the limits of its explanatory power as a historical category.
August 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Now out in The Historical Journal, my new article on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible'.

Find it Open Access here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#earlymodern #skystorians
August 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles!

#earlymodern #Skystorians
eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · Jul 16
The Society is pleased to announce the short list for our 2025 Book Prize! 📚

The winner will be announced at the Society’s Winter Meeting in January 2026.

#EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory
July 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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emodir.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to our member, Timothy Twining, on his nomination for Best Monograph for the 2025 EHS Book Prize! We look forward to hearing the results in January 2026.

@tntwining.bsky.social
@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social

#EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory
July 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
tntwining.bsky.social
Equal measures honoured and delighted that my book found a place on this shortlist alongside two other fantastic titles!

#earlymodern #Skystorians
eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · Jul 16
The Society is pleased to announce the short list for our 2025 Book Prize! 📚

The winner will be announced at the Society’s Winter Meeting in January 2026.

#EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory
July 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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janmachielsen.bsky.social
The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊
Book cover
July 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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emodir.bsky.social
📢 CfP | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on #EarlyModern Christianity
🗓️ May 19–21, 2026 | 🏛️University of Wrocław

🔍Theme: Early Modern Christian Materiality
⏰Deadline: Feb 15, 2026

🔗 More info: reforc.com/events/fifte...
July 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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tombhamilton.bsky.social
Enjoyed putting together this H-France Forum on Paul-Alexis Mellet's *Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion* – reviews and response available here:

h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
HFrance Forum: Volume 20 (2025) – H-France
h-france.net
June 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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emodir.bsky.social
After a fantastic slate of papers at RSA Boston 2025, EMoDiR is delighted to announce our CfP for RSA San Francisco 2026.

Please circulate, and submit a proposal!

#earlymodern
June 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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annegoldgar.bsky.social
Could anyone with Old Church Slavonic please translate for me this inscription on a cross, pictured in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s account of the 1594 voyage to Novatya Zemlya?
June 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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janmachielsen.bsky.social
Katrina Olds and I are organising one or two panels at next year's @rsaorg.bsky.social in tribute to the amazing and much missed A. Katie Harris.

If you have an paper touching on #earlymodern Catholic scholarship, relics, forgery, etc. please do send us something!

www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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June 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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emodir.bsky.social
Now out: the EMoDiR Newsletter for June 2025, compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini!

Check it out for news on new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, cfps and much much more!

emodir.hypotheses.org/files/2025/0...

#earlymodern
June 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM