I was pleased to review Kate Lowe's book on global objects from the Portuguese Empire in this week's Times Literary Supplement
"Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources" is currently for looking submissions of articles and special issues. For details see below. Feel free to contact me with proposals.
On Thu 2 November, 5:30pm London time, DAVID LINES will speak via Zoom & in person on “How useful are statutes for the study of university history? The case of medieval and early modern Bologna”. To register please visit
https://history.ac.uk/events/how-useful-are-statutes-study-university-history-case-medieval-and-early-modern-bologna
How useful are statutes for the study of university history? The case of medieval and early modern Bologna
Institute of Historical ResearchNEW It's wonderful too see the first paperback copies of my book 'The Invention of Papal History'. Hot off the press and now available here!
https://shorturl.at/cKS78I was pleased to review Peter Burke's sweeping new book "Ignorance: A Global History" for History Today. More here:
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/its-blissIt’s Bliss | History Today
Honoured to be a member of the inaugural 'Renaissance Quarterly' Advisory Board (2024-2026)
https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/2060074/485380/February-2023Here's a review of a recent book I had the pleasure to contribute to: "A Jesuit cardinal in Roman high society".
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2023/02/16/review-ivry-pallavicino-delbeke-244738
Review: A Jesuit cardinal in Roman high society
A new collective tribute by a baker’s dozen of erudite specialists adds up to an erudite, if in some parts abstruse, overview of the remarkable life and ecclesiastic career of Cardinal Sforza Pallavicino.
America MagazineI was pleased to see Noel Malcolm's review of my co-edited volume "A Renaissance Reclaimed" in the Times Literary Supplement