Cécile Fromont
@cecilefromont.bsky.social
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Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
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Encounter itself was an author in this visual atlas of 17th/18th century Kongo & Angola created in the crosscurrents of European missionary activities and central African cosmopolitan societies @psupress.bsky.social 30% off 👉 NR24 #booksky #arthistory #africanhistory #earlymodern #skystorians
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola By Cécile Fromont
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 an...
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From 15-10 to 11-01, we proudly present 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠: 𝑂𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, an exhibition examining how colonialism shaped the ways museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge are perceived and understood, revealing the (im)material scars imposed by systemic violence.
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The artists use their work as a device to unsettle fixed narratives, confront entrenched systems of power and open space for alternative ways of knowing, relating and being in the world. Join us for the opening on 𝟏𝟓 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫!

https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-shapeshifters/
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thejah.bsky.social
Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:

bit.ly/4q4UGvD
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Oh, yes, please!! Wish I could see it.
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celinecamps.bsky.social
A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good!
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️
Entrance to the new exhibition "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600" at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. Albrecht Dürer's famous woodcut of the Rhinoceros. Partially disassembled Schlüsselfelder Ship from 1503, to show how the nef can be filled with wine. The Archangel Raphael and Tobias in limewood made by Veit Stoß, 1516.
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Pendant earring and just a few curls peaking out of the checkered headwrap. Detail from one of the many images of the #eighteenthcentury #caribbean made by Agostino Brunias and circulated by many others.
Print of woman wearing an earring and head wrap
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Friday, 3pm. Having more or less caught up with the most pressing pending tasks, the researcher can now turn to their attention to own research and writing for the week.
a person wearing a pair of nike shoes is getting ready to run on a track
ALT: a person wearing a pair of nike shoes is getting ready to run on a track
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brettrushforth.bsky.social
New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Outre-mer. Can’t wait to read it!
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manuscripta.bsky.social
We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden
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sharonhoward.bsky.social
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
earlymodernweb.org
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kbgraubart.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.
rsaorg.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
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gianamar97.bsky.social
I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
first paragraph of the book review
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rsaorg.bsky.social
Apply for a 2026 Research Fellowship! For the 2026 cycle, the RSA will award fellowships of $2,000–$3,750 to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). The deadline for applications is September 16, 2025. Details here: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern #RenTwitter
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mwarsh.bsky.social
Hey historians of all stripes: the Forum on Early-modern Empires & Global Interactions (FEEGI) is hosting its 2026 conference at Rutgers U. on April 10-11. This time we're teaming up with PEAES & The Library Company..its gonna be great. Check out the CFP! #earlymodern #earlyAmerica #historians
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We are pleased to announce that the 2026 meeting of the Forum for Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions will be held April 10-11th, 2026 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.  Interested...
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craigclunas.bsky.social
There's £1k going to some deserving early career art historian for an unpublished piece of work on things South Netherlandish 1400-1800. Deadline to get it in is 1 September
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
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elotroalex.bsky.social
Here's a good write-up on universities in Sudan surviving against all odds, with some tips on what we could do to support higher education there, and for its displaced diasporas by my former student, and now dear friend, Rebecca Glade, and Muna Elgadal. www.cmi.no/publications...
Sudanese higher education in crisis
Since war broke out in 2023, institutions of higher education in Sudan have faced existential threats. In this blog we describe how fa...
www.cmi.no
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krebsverena.bsky.social
Two years later, it still feels surreal that I had the (quite literally) once-in-a-lifetime honour of giving a keynote at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds.

Turning that talk into an essay—whose proofs arrived today—is just the icing on the absurdity cake.
Screenshot of page proofs for an essay titled «So, Who Killed the Elephant?». Tracing African-European Entanglements in the ‘Global Middle Ages’, Verena Krebs, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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mwarsh.bsky.social
Global early Americanists--check out this great opportunity! The June 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop is convened by Alison Games on the topic of "Global Early America before 1700". Call for Papers is below; apps due by Sept. 15.
@gamesaf.bsky.social #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica
WMQ-EMSI 2026 Workshop - OIEAHC
Apply by September 15, 2025, for the WMQ-EMSI Workshop—"Global Early America before 1700"—convened by Alison Games. Workshop convenes January 30-31, 2026.
oieahc.wm.edu
cecilefromont.bsky.social
When images or rather when visual and material culture are concerned "There are no shortcuts to expertise" either, to paraphrase @historians.org ‘s excellent phrase. Visual and material literacy are crucial skills to historians and citizens alike, in the age of AI as in any era.
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Such language about image generation is too vague, and at a minimum misleading. In what sense could/would the AI generated image be *historical*? Would it be acceptable, according to @historians.org to « Ask generative AI to produce a
*historical (written) document* for a paper or presentation »?
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A thoughtful guideline for AI use in History Education by @historians.org insisting on the fundamental role of expertise, uncertainty, & creativity in historical work
*BUT*
the guideline approves « Ask[ing] generative AI to produce a historical image for a paper or presentation » This is an issue.
historians.org
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org