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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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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
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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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Really enjoyed discussing The Limits of Erudition recently with
@janalena.bsky.social! Find the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-limits-o...

#earlymodern #skystorians
April 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

#earlymodern
A poster with details for the book launch of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024). For more information, see: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/early-modern-scholarship-and-religion
April 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A very welcome surprise: my book spotted in print in a library for the first time!

#earlymodern #skystorians
A copy of my first book, The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024), in the Hesburgh Library.
January 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I recommended five books on the #EarlyModern vernacular Bible to KU Leuven's Theology Research News. It's an exciting developing field and it was a pleasure to highlight these:

theo.kuleuven.be/apps/press/t...

#skystorians
January 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Rare for academic positions to come with physical trials (this is 11.3 kg for metrically inclined applicants).
List of physical criteria for a job: "Physical Demands Must be able to lift materials of up to 25 lbs. Must be able to remain stationary for long periods of time."
January 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I reviewed Mark Goldie's recent edition of John Locke's correspondence (vol. 9) for CHRC:

doi.org/10.1163/1871...

Tldr: Come for the Locke letters, stay for Goldie's invaluable appendices..!

#earlymodern
December 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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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
December 5, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Should be out next week! I'm sure the Bodleian will have it soon after but this also offers a discount:
December 4, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Thread on EMoDiR's most recent newsletter--and a renewed invitation to anyone who works on religion in the early modern period to consider joining the (free) international research network!

Find out more here: emodir.hypotheses.org

🗃️
December 2, 2024 at 10:20 AM
tntwining.bsky.social
Spent the morning thinking about some charming #earlymodern drinking* vessels in the shape of books.

(*or, in some cases, hand warmers, historiography suggests).
November 29, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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My book is now available for pre-order at CUP—where you can also take a look inside:

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

This flyer will get you a 20% discount!

#earlymodern 🗃️
November 28, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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New issue of JHI out! Find it: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53780
Contents page for the new issue of the JHI.
November 25, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Superb shortlist for the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social Constance Blackwell prize: congratulations to all! 🗃️

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The judging panel is pleased to announce the shortlist for the Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024. The prize is awarded to the best first monograph in intellectual history published in the previous two years (2022-2023). Out of a wide range of submissions, the shortlist is: –Hegel and the Representative Constitution, by Elias Buchetmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. –Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain, by Freddy Foks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. –The Power of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650, by Lisa Kattenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. –Herder and Enlightenment Politics,by Eva Piirimäe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. –The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty,by Natasha Wheatley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. The judging panel expects to announce the winner in December.
November 25, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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Out next month! Kirsten Macfarlane's remarkable study of #earlymodern popular religion and the intersection of lay learning and biblical scholarship in a community of seventeenth-century puritan immigrants to North America.

Long been looking forward to this one!

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The cover of Kirsten Macfarlane's Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2024)
November 24, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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It's been on firstview a little while but my recent article on Richard Simon and the Vernacular Bible is now happily ensconced in an issue of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.

Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you lack institutional access, feel free to dm

#earlymodern
An image of the first page of the article 'Beyond a Confessional Paradigm? Richard Simon and the Vernacular Bible', published in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
November 20, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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That's one way of putting it! But we also hope to question some the ways boundaries have been drawn around what was - or who were - 'learned'.
November 9, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Another few steps on the road to publication: delighted my forthcoming book has its cover, and some very generous blurbs.

#EarlyModern
November 4, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Delighted to see this out--the first published article from my work at KU Leuven on Richard Simon and the vernacular Bible.

Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#earlymodern
March 14, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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With the final MS (finally) in, I'm delighted (and relieved) that my book, The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe, will be out later this year..! #earlymodern
January 26, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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My review of this exemplary collection (edited by Piet van Boxel, Kirsten Macfarlane, and Joanna Weinberg) is now out. A true testament to the value of collaborative scholarship in the humanities. brill.com/view/journal...

#earlymodern
December 20, 2023 at 11:33 AM
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Next on the review pile: Mark Goldie’s long awaited ninth volume of Locke’s correspondence. Been looking forward to this… (to understate it)
November 25, 2023 at 10:17 AM
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Up next on the review pile—been looking forward to this one!
September 28, 2023 at 2:22 PM