By contrast, this is my guy. One line of Juvenal, in haste

When you ask Cornelis Drebbel to sign your friends book

Ligt het aan mij of zien jullie ook die treffende gelijkenis tussen Frederik Willem van Brandenburg en Rob de Wijk?

This is all over the Dutch media today: early modern historian @judithpollmann.bsky.social wins the Spinoza Prize, the highest prize in Dutch science!

Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.

This keeps happening (in various browsers) @labnf.bsky.social

Brederode was one of the first and most active diplomatic agents of the Dutch Republic, a vital figure in German-Dutch relations as well as in international Calvinism.

I wrote brief sketch of his life for the EMLO front page.

Voor Nederlandse volgers: Huygens was ook de uitvinder van de klapschaats! (Serieus: wat is dit!?)

Like other natural philosophers of his time, he used his skills for scientific purposes in his numerous drawings of observations and experiments.

The brilliant Christaen Huygens was also an accomplished artist. This is from his sketchbook:

Scheveningen, Hofwyck, and 'De mallemolen'.

UB Leiden, Hug. 14

And here's @paulinakewes.bsky.social herself talking about the Association between Mary Queen of Scots and her son James VI, and showing them portrayed as joint monarchs of Scotland in Leslie's 1584 succession tract

Hey @volkskrant.nl, neutrale berichtgeving is mooi, maar dit is wel een erg eufemistische omschrijving van deze radicale club - het is de Edmund Burke Stichting niet

CFP!

My wonderful friends and colleagues Jan van Dijkhuizen and Inger Leemans are organising a conference on the "The Poetics of Olfaction" in the early modern period in Leiden in January 2026.

Paper proposals are due 1 May 2025

@unileiden.bsky.social
@knaw-nl.bsky.social

Bij de oratie van professor (!) Feike Dietz @uvahumanities.bsky.social: Het bewogen lezen van historische literatuur

Oudewater, stadje met de hoogste monumentendichtheid van Nederland, een stadhuis uit 1588, de heksenwaag, én het geboortehuis van Arminius, waar je tegenwoordig kunt eten 🤩

The pamphlet is vital for the chapter I'm writing: it's the first Dutch attempt at public diplomacy in Southern America! But it's also extremely rare (lost, according to the
USTC). Today I received a PDF from the Oliveira Lima Library and I couldn't be happier!

Don't think David de Boer has landed here yet, so let me just tell you that his amazing book is just out with OUP!

And even better news: it's fully Open Access!

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