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 #DHBenelux2026Titre 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...
What does beauty have to do with monsters? And why did this matter to Christopher Columbus in 1492?
Check out the latest issue of NOTES FROM A SCIENCE HISTORIAN to learn more!
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Beauty and the monster: New wo...
Beauty and the monster: New worlds and Renaissance bodies
Hallo friends, and welcome, new subscribers! In today’s newsletter: Beauty and the monster: a riff on the Beauty and Ugliness exhibition (Bozar,...
The evolution of toilets through the ages! Greek, Roman, Norse, Late Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern! (Giorgio Albertini)
Now writing the next issue of NOTES FROM A SCIENCE HISTORIAN, out later today. It's a piece about the crossroads between beauty, monsters, and the existential crises that plagued Europeans during age of Atlantic exploration. Sign up to make sure you don't miss it!
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rzug5jxal4snlewudks3efsf/post/3mmdvllf4bk23The younger brothers of #earlymodern French kings could choose either to rebel or reconcile, but neither option was straightforward.
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/heirs-and-spares-early-modern-france
Heirs and Spares in Early Modern France | History Today
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