Huntington-USC Early Modern Studies Institute, early modern Europe seminar, Fri 21 Nov, 12-2 pm: Kathy Stuart, “The Devil’s Bath: Suicide by Proxy and the History of Emotions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Germany, Seaver Classroom 1-2, Huntington. All welcome.

Excited to read this new book by Martha Howell!

Full program for 2025-6 for the IHR Low Countries Seminar. All meetings both in person and online. To register for any session, go to www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

Institute of Historical Research Low Countries Seminar program for this autumn! All seminars 5:30 Fridays, IHR and online.

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?

Thanks, but clicking on the three dots does not allow me to do anything other than report the feed. I just get this:

EMSI European History Seminar, this Friday, 8 Nov, at 12 pm: Daniel Rafiqi (UCLA Clark) on
“Post-Revocation Huguenot Life Writing and the Navigation of Refugee Experience,” Huntington Library
Seaver classroom 3. All welcome!

Online early modern English paleography course 25 November-6 December

Presenting the terrific program for this year’s Low Countries Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. All papers online or hybrid and open to all. You will however need to register for individual papers at the IHR website.

New Festschrift for the late lamented scholar of early modern radicalism and religion, Justin Champion

Conference May 3&4 at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute on Craft and Crafting in the Early Modern World. For more info/to register: dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/craft-a...

Deeply sorry to learn of the death of Natalie Zemon Davis, the most brilliant early modern historian of our time, influence on every one of us, and my teacher and mentor for my whole life as a historian. She was extraordinary.

Excited this *finally* arrived today!