Nicholas Scott Baker
@renhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of Renaissance Italy and other things; latest book: In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy; Australian football tragic.
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Like many others, it seems, you can no longer find me or my work on Academia.edu. You can still find my stuff on Hcommons, or as always just email or DM me if you don't have institutional access to an article or chapter I have published and I'll send you a PDF.
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There are only three Star Wars films
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There are only three Star Wars films
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Did you miss our beginners' webinar last week? The complete recording of our step-by-step introduction to Transkribus is now available on YouTube 👇
Transkribus Webinar for Beginners (English)
Transkribus is the most popular tools for automatic text recognition of historical documents.
By watching this webinar recording, you will learn how to upload documents to Transkribus, perform…
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November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Did you miss our beginners' webinar last week? The complete recording of our step-by-step introduction to Transkribus is now available on YouTube 👇
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I'm very pleased to have all three versions of my book now out.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm very pleased to have all three versions of my book now out.
#reformationinthelowcountries
#reformationinthelowcountries
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Just published from ARC Humanities Press: Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Contributions range from 13th c. Tunis to my own contribution on "Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce," and include two great conceptual essays by the editors.
Contributions range from 13th c. Tunis to my own contribution on "Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce," and include two great conceptual essays by the editors.
November 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Just published from ARC Humanities Press: Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Contributions range from 13th c. Tunis to my own contribution on "Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce," and include two great conceptual essays by the editors.
Contributions range from 13th c. Tunis to my own contribution on "Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce," and include two great conceptual essays by the editors.
Just published from ARC Humanities Press: Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Contributions range from 13th c. Tunis to my own contribution on "Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce," and include two great conceptual essays by the editors.
Contributions range from 13th c. Tunis to my own contribution on "Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce," and include two great conceptual essays by the editors.
November 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Just published from ARC Humanities Press: Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Contributions range from 13th c. Tunis to my own contribution on "Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce," and include two great conceptual essays by the editors.
Contributions range from 13th c. Tunis to my own contribution on "Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce," and include two great conceptual essays by the editors.
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CfP: Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives, Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM) – NOVA, FCSH, Lisbon, June 22–26, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/small-w...
Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives | Mary Jaharis Center
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October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
CfP: Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives, Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM) – NOVA, FCSH, Lisbon, June 22–26, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/small-w...
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We are awarding FIVE tuition scholarships to RSA members who wish to attend the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute on the campus of the Université de Montréal. Apply by November 19, 2025! www.rsa.org/news/712947/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #scholarship #digitalhumanities
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We are awarding FIVE tuition scholarships to RSA members who wish to attend the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute on the campus of the Université de Montréal. Apply by November 19, 2025! www.rsa.org/news/712947/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #scholarship #digitalhumanities
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On Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, 5:30pm London time (1:30pm New York/6:30pm Brussels), Alex Lee (NYU London) will speak about ‘Disability and Community: Healing Miracles and the Bianchi of 1399’.
Free! Online-via Zoom & IHR Senate House, London
To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Free! Online-via Zoom & IHR Senate House, London
To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Italy 1200-1700
Seminar
www.history.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
On Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, 5:30pm London time (1:30pm New York/6:30pm Brussels), Alex Lee (NYU London) will speak about ‘Disability and Community: Healing Miracles and the Bianchi of 1399’.
Free! Online-via Zoom & IHR Senate House, London
To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Free! Online-via Zoom & IHR Senate House, London
To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Our jam-packed programme is ready to go! Keep reading for more ⬇️
October 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Our jam-packed programme is ready to go! Keep reading for more ⬇️
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Our summer 2025 volume has been published open access at doi.org/10.1553/medi...
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Our summer 2025 volume has been published open access at doi.org/10.1553/medi...
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Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome
October 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome
Head to "that Frankenstein place" on the hill. What could possibly go wrong?
Okay folks, what helpful advice is ChatGPT going to hallucinate for Brad and Janet here?
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Head to "that Frankenstein place" on the hill. What could possibly go wrong?
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I still think about this as one of the worst history headlines ever written—and show it to students to explore archaeology journalism. As if … thousands of years of writing and archaeology didn’t confirm that Asia Minor was, like, Roman at one point.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I still think about this as one of the worst history headlines ever written—and show it to students to explore archaeology journalism. As if … thousands of years of writing and archaeology didn’t confirm that Asia Minor was, like, Roman at one point.
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Book launch October 23rd!
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Book launch October 23rd!
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
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The Black Italian Renaissance is a critically acclaimed documentary that examines the presence of Black people in the Italian Renaissance and their contribution to its development and significance.
Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Black Italian Renaissance - Screening & Discussion
Screening of the film The Black Italian Renaissance and discussion with Angelica Pesarini (Toronto), Kate Lowe (Warburg) and Francesca Priori (Milan)
warburg.sas.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Black Italian Renaissance is a critically acclaimed documentary that examines the presence of Black people in the Italian Renaissance and their contribution to its development and significance.
Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
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Netflix may have gone a bit far in its promo if the new series. But I’m glad to learn there’s a new series coming!
Season 4 of ‘Lupin’ has wrapped filming.
The Omar Sy-led series is set to make its return in 2026 on Netflix.
The Omar Sy-led series is set to make its return in 2026 on Netflix.
October 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Netflix may have gone a bit far in its promo if the new series. But I’m glad to learn there’s a new series coming!
I love a good heist film (Hudson Hawk is my guilty secret!), and I agree the reality here seems far more prosaic. But I was still imagining the film in my head when I read the news this morning.
Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.
Real life:
Real life:
October 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I love a good heist film (Hudson Hawk is my guilty secret!), and I agree the reality here seems far more prosaic. But I was still imagining the film in my head when I read the news this morning.
Good see the NGV doing the right thing again.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Decision to do this secretly is surprising’: NGV returns painting lost in Nazi era to Jewish family
The museum has declined to answer key questions about the decision to return the artwork, prompting the New York-based researcher who uncovered the story to challenge the NGV’s handling of the case
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Good see the NGV doing the right thing again.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Today, free online registration from the Newberry in Chicago
Mapping from Mexico: New Narratives for the History of Cartography
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October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today, free online registration from the Newberry in Chicago
This is not as dire as some make it out to be. But it does seem fundamentally to misunderstand university teaching. I don't think anyone actually teaching has seen it as content delivery for decades, if ever. University teaching has always been applied teaching.
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
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When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is not as dire as some make it out to be. But it does seem fundamentally to misunderstand university teaching. I don't think anyone actually teaching has seen it as content delivery for decades, if ever. University teaching has always been applied teaching.
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
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New book! So pleased to get my author copies of our edition, translation, and study of Gregorio Dati's "La Sfera", a fifteenth-century Florentine poem on cosmology and geography.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New book! So pleased to get my author copies of our edition, translation, and study of Gregorio Dati's "La Sfera", a fifteenth-century Florentine poem on cosmology and geography.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
Another brilliant tribute to Marc Maron and WTF. It's heartening to see how many other people's lives he touched. I was traveling all day yesterday so I have not listened to the final episode yet. That bitter-sweet treat awaits on tomorrow morning's walk.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘Like losing a friend’: farewell to Marc Maron’s pioneering podcast WTF
After 16 years and almost 1,700 episodes, Maron is ending his show – which changed the face of podcasting. No wonder it’s sparking an outpouring of sadness
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Another brilliant tribute to Marc Maron and WTF. It's heartening to see how many other people's lives he touched. I was traveling all day yesterday so I have not listened to the final episode yet. That bitter-sweet treat awaits on tomorrow morning's walk.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern
October 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern