A short glimpse into my mostly offline world: You see an #earlymodern masquerade in France gone wrong, and this image was published about the event with a burning costume in a German journal in 1707. It looks like Chewbacca is having a good time taking a shower, to be honest. #skystorians #starwars
Martin Schongauer has done some griffonmaxxing ! The griffon of classical antiquity was half lion, half eagle. Schongauer’s griffon is a blend of eagle, rooster, and bull – and isn’t this griffon owning his look! 1/ #earlymodern #medieval #Renaissance #printhistory #arthistory #monsters
Animal cyborg sighting – from the Middle Ages, no less! Now at the Louvre in the Martin Schongauer exhibition, until July 20. 1/ #earlymodern #printhistory #arthistory #Renaissance #medieval
Today's new #HoPWaG episode looks at the delightfully cynical and quotable aphorisms of La Rochefoucauld: we explore the profound ethical theory underlying his "maxims" and writings of other French Moralists: historyofphilosophy.net/french-moral... #philosophy #podcast #earlymodern #philsky
Excited to present “From Postbag to Portal” at DH Benelux 2026 in Maastricht. My project explores convict letters from HMS Calcutta, combining close reading, digital humanities methods, and digital storytelling: https://zenodo.org/records/19656115
#earlymodern #history #histodons #DHBenelux2026

Titre de qualité :
“Orbs of Blood in 14th-Century Persia: The Tānksūqnāmah and Its Theory of the Rotational Motion of Blood.”

(ce jeudi à 17h, inscrivez-vous !)
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/online-lectures/orbs-of-blood-in-14th-century-persia/ #histsci #histmed #earlymodern

« Concevoir la plante par la racine à l’époque moderne : du passage de la figure anthropomorphique à la racine-objet », nouvel article de Tassanee Alleau.
#histsci #histnat #botanique #earlymodern #materialCulture
https://journals.openedition.org/essais/15256
Concevoir la plante par la racine à l’époque moderne : du passage d...

Qu’était-ce qu’une racine au XVIe siècle ? Plus qu’un simple organe souterrain, elle constituait une image du vivant, à la fois métaphorique, anatomique et épistémique. Les naturalistes de la premi...

🌋 ☄️ #earlymodern