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Registration is now open for the Preachers, Hearers, Readers & Scribes Conference! The conference will be Oct 3-5 at the Congregational Library, Boston & Harvard Divinity School. To register: eventbrite.ca/e/9490966626...#17thC#c18th#earlymodern

Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes Conference

New Approaches to Early Modern Sermons in Manuscript. A joint conference with the Congregational Library, Boston, & Harvard Divinity School.

Query for the #nuntastic#bookhistory crowds. Have any of you ever seen a female scribe adopt a male version of her name to sign a book? Maddalena's maestra was a Suor Antonia Mori. This music manuscript is signed by a Fra Antonius Morus. I'm sure this is just a coincidence.

LSlauriestras.bsky.socialJul 31, 2024 10:44am

In the decorated letters on this page, you can see two names, Madalena (hard to read, in the top "S") and Clementia (in the lower "S." The two nuns, Maddalena Sini and Clemenzia Sostegni, joined San Matteo in Arcetri within weeks of each other, in 1541. #nuntastic #earlymodern #GirlsGotPolyphony

If anyone’s interested Catherine Sutherland’s brilliant #HerBook#OpenAccessacademic.oup.com/library/arti...

Books Owned by Mary Astell in the Old Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge

The Old Library of Magdalene College, situated next to the chapel in first court, is often overshadowed by its famed counterpart, the Pepys Library. While

Really excellent post, now the fourth example of a woman owning a book by Bacon, showing that female readers showed a keen interest in natural sciences #HerBook

MVmartinevanelk.bsky.socialJun 4, 2024 3:48pm

Today on the blog: Joe Black discusses our third example of a book by Francis Bacon with evidence of early modern female ownership, and his post includes some unexpected "readers" at the end buff.ly/3VccQNc #HerBook #C17 #EarlyModern

Francis Bacon, The Naturall and Experimentall History of Winds (1653)

Today’s post adds to the small but growing number of books on this site categorized as science and natural history: for additional examples, including two other works by Francis Bacon with female owne...

You should pop over the Irish Sea sometime and visit the Boyle monuments. Fabulous. One in St Patrick’s Cathedral, but the other in Youghal Collegiate Church (which is in a gorgeous setting) is well worth a look

I am delighted to announce that my monograph Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672 has just been published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social#OpenAccess#skystorianslibrary.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Conference: Confessional Ambiguities in the Face of Control: Antitrinitarianism in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800). Organized by Francesco Quatrini and Maria Ivanova and held 17–18 June 2024, De Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam. #earlymodern

There's always something going on in Galway! Today, we are hearing from CLS Infra fellow Patricia García Sánchez-Migallón about "Eighteenth-Century Spanish Women Writers of Irish Descent and Social Network Analysis." #dh

Wonderful. Do you know who the receiver was? There’s a few names but not clear from the picture