Brett Rushforth
@brettrushforth.bsky.social
Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
Claude already knows...
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Claude already knows...
Ros Smith has an article coming out in the HLQ in a few weeks that discusses a similar example: Rosalind Smith, "Errant Marks: Misreading, Marginalia, and Early Modern Women's Book Use."
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ros Smith has an article coming out in the HLQ in a few weeks that discusses a similar example: Rosalind Smith, "Errant Marks: Misreading, Marginalia, and Early Modern Women's Book Use."
"A major shift in how we understand colonial growth in the early Caribbean, colonial-Indigenous relations, the origins of slavery in the Caribbean and North America, and the connections between piracy, privateering, and colonization." Greg O'Malley nails it. Congrats @csschmitt.bsky.social!
September 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"A major shift in how we understand colonial growth in the early Caribbean, colonial-Indigenous relations, the origins of slavery in the Caribbean and North America, and the connections between piracy, privateering, and colonization." Greg O'Malley nails it. Congrats @csschmitt.bsky.social!
Haha, on it! The previous issue was a bunch of art historians, so their images were fun to play with (great essays, too).
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Haha, on it! The previous issue was a bunch of art historians, so their images were fun to play with (great essays, too).
Morteza Lak, “Print Culture and the Composition of a Visual Anthology: The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare (1783-1787)"
muse.jhu.edu/article/970063
#shakespeare #bookhist #printculture
muse.jhu.edu/article/970063
#shakespeare #bookhist #printculture
September 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Morteza Lak, “Print Culture and the Composition of a Visual Anthology: The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare (1783-1787)"
muse.jhu.edu/article/970063
#shakespeare #bookhist #printculture
muse.jhu.edu/article/970063
#shakespeare #bookhist #printculture
Richard Palmer and David Roberts, “Harris v. Harris: A Restoration Actor at the Court of Arches”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970064
muse.jhu.edu/article/970064
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Richard Palmer and David Roberts, “Harris v. Harris: A Restoration Actor at the Court of Arches”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970064
muse.jhu.edu/article/970064
Jacob Murel, “The Readers and Annotations of the First English Quran (1649)”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970062
muse.jhu.edu/article/970062
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Jacob Murel, “The Readers and Annotations of the First English Quran (1649)”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970062
muse.jhu.edu/article/970062
Spencer Weinreich, “The Invasion of Utopia”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970061
#utopia #earlymodern #renaissancelit
muse.jhu.edu/article/970061
#utopia #earlymodern #renaissancelit
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Spencer Weinreich, “The Invasion of Utopia”
muse.jhu.edu/article/970061
#utopia #earlymodern #renaissancelit
muse.jhu.edu/article/970061
#utopia #earlymodern #renaissancelit
Isabel Robinson, "'The Anagrammatic Method': Titus Oates and Satiric Wordplay in Post-Restoration England." muse.jhu.edu/article/970060
#earlymodern #PopishPlot #skystorians
#earlymodern #PopishPlot #skystorians
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Isabel Robinson, "'The Anagrammatic Method': Titus Oates and Satiric Wordplay in Post-Restoration England." muse.jhu.edu/article/970060
#earlymodern #PopishPlot #skystorians
#earlymodern #PopishPlot #skystorians
John Saillant, "Fictions of Freedom: An English Antislavery Novel and the Art of Jean-Étienne Liotard, 'Le Peintre Turc.'" muse.jhu.edu/article/970059
#skystorians #abolition #arthistory
#skystorians #abolition #arthistory
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
John Saillant, "Fictions of Freedom: An English Antislavery Novel and the Art of Jean-Étienne Liotard, 'Le Peintre Turc.'" muse.jhu.edu/article/970059
#skystorians #abolition #arthistory
#skystorians #abolition #arthistory
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
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
The whole issue is available here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55109
July 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The whole issue is available here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55109
The introduction to the HLQ special issue on exhibitions in London is available for free download until Aug. 5. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
July 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The introduction to the HLQ special issue on exhibitions in London is available for free download until Aug. 5. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Checking caption credits for the next HLQ issue (first French edition of Utopia) while also finalizing image permissions for The Book, and voila: Sir Thomas Morue. (Apologyes in advance, it's been a very long day.) #earlymodern
July 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Checking caption credits for the next HLQ issue (first French edition of Utopia) while also finalizing image permissions for The Book, and voila: Sir Thomas Morue. (Apologyes in advance, it's been a very long day.) #earlymodern
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
July 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...