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An online hub for scholars, research, publications, and opportunities to explore and deepen your knowledge of the early modern period.
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
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November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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📢Recently published! 📑Duval, Harvey, Sancho Fibla (dirs.) « Le projet Sorores », Chronica Mundi, 18 (2024).

Contributors explore the diverse experiences of non-cloistered religious women (12th–18th c.).

📩 Request a free copy via the email listed here:
www.chronicamundi.org/en/readers.h...
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
SEAL OF SAPIEXCELLENCE 2025 – Postdoc Fellowships (€50,000)

Sapienza University of Rome is offering 4 annual postdoc positions linked to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 – Seal of Excellence.

⏳ Deadline: 13 February 2026, 11:59

More details and other calls: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...
Borse di studio
L’elenco dei bandi per borse di studio post-laurea, post-dottorato e assegni di ricerca che riguardano la Storia moderna.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!

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TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025
TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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✨Out now!
Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series.
🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-...

#EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
New on Stmoderna
Call for papers | Violenza economica. Dominazione, sfruttamento e disuguaglianze di genere nel lungo periodo
📍 Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”
📅 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
A conference on the history of economic violence and gender inequalities across time and space.
Call for papers
Elenco delle iniziative che prevedono l'invio di contributi scientifici sull’Età moderna.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin.

Waiting list now activated.

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 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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📌Friday, 24 October
Presentation of “Chimere: Research Network on Cultural Histories of Magic”, launching a new seminar series on magic, folklore, and esotericism.
📍 University of Verona |🕚 11:50
💻Join on Zoom : univr.zoom.us/j/82097215327

Details on the speakers 👇
October 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
www.unilu.ch
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...
October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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📢 Applications for the Winter School di Studi sulla Riforma are still open!
🌍Florence | 🗓️ 13–16 November 2025
⏰ DEADLINE : 10 October 2025
#Earlymodern #Reformation
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
New on Stmoderna:
Looking for a postdoc? Check out the Max Weber Programme at the EUI (Florence) for 2026/27.

🕒 Deadline: 15 Oct 2025, 14:00 CEST
🔗 Details: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...
Borse di studio
L’elenco dei bandi per borse di studio post-laurea, post-dottorato e assegni di ricerca che riguardano la Storia moderna.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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More of Jo Carpenter's PR sorcery - this time, securing a blog on the Gramophone website, with pictures of the #nuntastic archival stuff... www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/articl...
Unearthing the Musical Secrets of a Renaissance Convent
Laurie Stras on the thrill of archival discovery, the women behind the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, and the music that inspired Ricordanze: A Record of Love
www.gramophone.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Curious about Jewish communities in early modern Venice?

From Monday, Oct. 6, at the State Archive of Venice, Renata Segre leads a 5-week cycle on sixteenth-century manuscripts about Jewish communities.

🔗 Learn more: www.stmoderna.it/it/eventi/
News
Iniziative scientifiche, convegni, seminari e incontri di studio che si tengono in Italia e nel mondo sulla storia moderna.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📣New on Stmoderna!

Call for Applications: Winter School (Florence, 13–16 Nov 2025) on the Protestant Reformation - its political, cultural, and social dimensions, and its legacies in philosophy, literature, music, and the arts.

Deadline: 10 Oct 2025

see it at: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...
Call for papers
Elenco delle iniziative che prevedono l'invio di contributi scientifici sull’Età moderna.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Starting today in Rome, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies:
Mapping Dissonant Objects – a three-day workshop organized by Sabina Brevaglieri, Massimo Carlo Giannini, and Lina Scalisi.

mapdisob.hypotheses.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📢 New on StModerna

The Istituto Sangalli Prize for Religious History 2025 (11th edition) offers young scholars the chance to publish monographs on religious history (Middle Ages–contemporary) with Firenze University Press.

⏳ Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...
Premi per la ricerca
In questa sezione puoi trovare un elenco di premi destinati a nuove ricerche o ricerche scientifiche già concluse che coinvolgono la Storia moderna.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Two Franciscan friars seen through Japanese eyes from:

Kano Naizen's "Arrival of the Southern Barbarians Screen" c. 1600 (Kobe City Museum Collection)

Triple-knotted cinctures, bare feet, rosaries, hoods. Nicely observed. And linen shirts under the habit too.
September 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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It was a pride and pleasure to contribute to this article for the Science History Institute: Melissa Rossi, "Holy Smoke: The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe" #histmed #medhist
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Holy Smoke
The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe.
www.sciencehistory.org
September 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide.

A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades.

Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment.

europa.eu/!jcnGgP

#ChooseEurope
September 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New on StModerna: the Eleonora Rai Prize
Established in memory of Eleonora Rai, it awards PhD theses on themes she worked on: religious, cultural, and gender history, with special attention to violence (early modern to contemporary age).

⏳Deadline: 26 Nov 2025
www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...
Premi per la ricerca
In questa sezione puoi trovare un elenco di premi destinati a nuove ricerche o ricerche scientifiche già concluse che coinvolgono la Storia moderna.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📢 New Call for Papers on StModerna

A social question before the Social Question: Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century
📍 University of Oxford
🗓️ 22–23 October 2026
⏳ Deadline: 31 December 2025

👉 This and many other CfPs await you on StModerna: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...
Storia Moderna - Risorse online per la storia moderna
Comunicazione, dibattito e confronto: da questi obiettivi prende vita Storia Moderna, il luogo digitale per addetti ai lavori nell’ambito modernistico, tra scienza e didattica.
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September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic

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August 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM