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Peter Sposato
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historian @ IU Kokomo | I study violence & the societal impact of war in 14th-15th c. Italy | author of Forged in the Shadow of Mars: Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence (2022) | DH projects: Florence Illuminated & Florentine Books of the Dead
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We can’t fact-check our way out of this crisis. Disordered discourse isn’t just about false claims - it reshapes power, identity, and how people engage with reality itself. There’s no single fix, but one crucial pillar of the response is education.
March 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This is not a TT job, but what looks like a good three-year gig at a very good institution. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt.
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December 10, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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As you start to think (however hesitantly) about spring courses, my book comes out in March, and I'm available to visit by Zoom! Thanks @cornellupress.bsky.social for setting up a great guest lecture program, complete with 40% coupon for attendees (plus Open Access Ebook) #earlymodern #skystorians 🗃️
December 4, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Just re-upping this old post seeing as there are more early modernists knocking around here these days. Your recommendations for articles & books on multilingual cities in the early modern world (15th-18th centuries, mostly) would be most welcome!
Historiography request: recently I've been trying to read as broadly as possible about multilingual cities in the early modern world. It's a huge topic and while I've found work on sites from Nagasaki to Vilnius to Cuzco I'll still be very grateful for any suggestions of reading people can offer!
December 5, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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This is the most AMAZING digital resource for place-based studies. I only found it today, but it ought to be on EVERYONE'S RADAR

www.populationspast.org/imr/1861/#6/...
Populations Past atlas
www.populationspast.org
September 16, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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In Florence, pass by the Riccardiana library to see: Commodities and Environments: Florence and the Indo-Atlantic World, 1500-1800, curated by the CAPASIA project at the European University Institute 19/11/24 - 10/1/25

www.capasia.eu/commodities-...

blogs.eui.eu/library/book...
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Commodities and Environments: Florence and the Indo-Atlantic World, 1500-1800
Dates: 19 November 2024 - 10 January 2025 Venue: Biblioteca Riccardiana, Via de' Ginori, 50123 Florence View exhibition catalog This exhibition explores the knowledge that Europeans gained from the ...
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November 27, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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Pleased to announce an online workshop for early career researchers on the History of War and the Military, 14 March 2025, a joint event of the Society for the History of War and our German counterpart the AKM. CFP deadline 10 Jan.
November 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM
very happy to be part of this project: humanities.uchicago.edu/articles/202...
Florence Illuminated project to receive generous NEH grant | Division of the Humanities
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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Join us over on @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social and our @h-net-humanities.bsky.social page (linked below). We'd love to have more scholars of southern Italian history and broader cultural interactions between southern Italy and the Mediterranean/Atlantic/Pacific worlds!
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves here on Bluesky! We're H-Sicily, a interdisciplinary group of premodernists working on southern Italy history between late antiquity and the end of the Spanish period.

Join us over on our H-Net network here: networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
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November 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Thrilled to be part of the #DigitalHumanities project Florence Illuminated at #UChicago and grateful for #NEH support. Read all about it at:
humanities.uchicago.edu/articles/202...
July 18, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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One #tomb just wasn't enough for some #Florentines. Check out the story of Giovanni di Tedice Manovelli -- convicted for election fraud in 1361 and memorialized in both his parish church and with the Dominicans at Santa Maria Novella.

sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/individuals/...
May 14, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Have you checked out our historical overview of Florentine tomb culture? You can do it here:

sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/home/overview
May 9, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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So thrilled that @sepoltuario.bsky.social is part of the Florence Illuminated Consortium, recently Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant! columns.wlu.edu/project-cons...
Project Consortium Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
George Bent, David Pfaff and Mackenzie Brooks from Washington and Lee University are part of a consortium that was selected by The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to receive one of the …
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May 9, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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#LaSferaProject made the news! The newsletter of the University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) interviewed me about the NEH-funded project led by @cebenes.bsky.social @amandamadden.bsky.social @lauramorreale.bsky.social & myself. Read it here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/sites/www.me...
January 10, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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CFP! Please circulate widely (my Bluesky footprint is still small) and contact me with any questions.
December 3, 2023 at 9:20 AM