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  1. Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair of them together

    scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong

  2. Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair of them together

    scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong

  3. Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
    Whare hae ye been sae brankie, O?
    Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
    Came ye by Killiecrankie, O?

    —“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819).

    The Battle of Killiecrankie ⚔️ was fought #OTD, 27 July, 1689. A Jacobite force led by Ewan Cameron of Lochiel & Viscount Dundee defeated a Scottish government army commanded by Hugh Mackay

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong

  4. Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
    Whare hae ye been sae brankie, O?
    Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
    Came ye by Killiecrankie, O?

    —“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819).

    The Battle of Killiecrankie ⚔️ was fought #OTD, 27 July, 1689. A Jacobite force led by Ewan Cameron of Lochiel & Viscount Dundee defeated a Scottish government army commanded by Hugh Mackay

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong

  5. This week on #HoPWaG we look at Pierre Bayle, and ask whether his Dictionary is supposed to lead the reader towards skepticism or a more profound Christian faith. (Maybe both?)

    historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/earl...

    #philsky #philosophy #bayle #dictionaries #earlymodern #skepticism

  6. This week on #HoPWaG we look at Pierre Bayle, and ask whether his Dictionary is supposed to lead the reader towards skepticism or a more profound Christian faith. (Maybe both?)

    historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/earl...

    #philsky #philosophy #bayle #dictionaries #earlymodern #skepticism

  7. “In her new book With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, historian & translator Ashley Douglas places an analysis of Poem 49 at the heart of her thoughtful & often speculative reconstruction of this early modern woman’s queer life”

    @litstudies

    theconversation.com/the-16th-c

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  8. “In her new book With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, historian & translator Ashley Douglas places an analysis of Poem 49 at the heart of her thoughtful & often speculative reconstruction of this early modern woman’s queer life”

    @litstudies

    theconversation.com/the-16th-c

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  9. In the latest episode of Talking Tudors, Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Ashley Douglas about her new book, With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteenth-Century Sappho

    youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  10. In the latest episode of Talking Tudors, Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Ashley Douglas about her new book, With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteenth-Century Sappho

    youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  11. A 500-year-old map known as “America’s Birth Certificate” was found a century ago. But what, and where, was “America”?

    To learn more, check out my op-ed in the LA Times. PDF & images in 🧵.
    1/ 🧵
    #maphistory #cartography #histsci #earlymodern #america250 #4thofJuly 🗃

    www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

    Contributor: What 'America' me...

  12. A 500-year-old map known as “America’s Birth Certificate” was found a century ago. But what, and where, was “America”?

    To learn more, check out my op-ed in the LA Times. PDF & images in 🧵.
    1/ 🧵
    #maphistory #cartography #histsci #earlymodern #america250 #4thofJuly 🗃

    www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

    Contributor: What 'America' me...

  13. The audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is $0.99 on Amazon.com / 99p on Amazon.co.uk. Links in thread, plus links for 30% off from @[email protected] (valid for all books!).

    Intro cliff-hanger in alt-text.

    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

  14. The audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is $0.99 on Amazon.com / 99p on Amazon.co.uk. Links in thread, plus links for 30% off from @[email protected] (valid for all books!).

    Intro cliff-hanger in alt-text.

    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

  15. As a food historian, I try to tell people most historical recipes are pretty normal. This one starts by roasting a whole ox, and then it gets weird.

    culina-vetus.de/2026/06/30/roa

    #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #foodfight

  16. At long last, another recipe post. It's about #gingerbread, corruption, and why if your diplomatic shtick is winning wars, losing one is dangerous.

    Any resemblance to current events is all in your head.

    culina-vetus.de/2026/06/20/gin

    #foodhistory #earlymodern #eattherich

  17. At long last, another recipe post. It's about #gingerbread, corruption, and why if your diplomatic shtick is winning wars, losing one is dangerous.

    Any resemblance to current events is all in your head.

    culina-vetus.de/2026/06/20/gin

    #foodhistory #earlymodern #eattherich

  18. Hunting for a #FathersDay gift? How about a book that blends history, science, & pop culture? HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is a history of the category of the human, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics 1/

  19. Hunting for a #FathersDay gift? How about a book that blends history, science, & pop culture? HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is a history of the category of the human, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics 1/

  20. With My Own Hand: Ashley Douglas on Scotland’s 16th-century Sappho
    22 July, Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh – £0/£4/£22 (with book)

    Ashley Douglas tells the story of Marie Maitland (c1550–1596), the Maitland manuscript, & Marie’s secret lesbian love poetry

    lighthousebookshop.com/events/

    #Scottish #literature #earlymodern #poetry #16thcentury #lesbian #queerlit #womenwriters #sapphic

  21. With My Own Hand: Ashley Douglas on Scotland’s 16th-century Sappho
    22 July, Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh – £0/£4/£22 (with book)

    Ashley Douglas tells the story of Marie Maitland (c1550–1596), the Maitland manuscript, & Marie’s secret lesbian love poetry

    lighthousebookshop.com/events/

    #Scottish #literature #earlymodern #poetry #16thcentury #lesbian #queerlit #womenwriters #sapphic

  22. ... and here is the page with the 🦁 image in full glory, from Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographiae uniuersalis' of #earlymodern fame:

  23. ... and here is the page with the 🦁 image in full glory, from Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographiae uniuersalis' of #earlymodern fame:

  24. I need these for work. Book haul in London yesterday, for a new narrative nonfiction book idea. 1/ 🧵 #earlymodern #histsci 💙📚 🗃

  25. I need these for work. Book haul in London yesterday, for a new narrative nonfiction book idea. 1/ 🧵 #earlymodern #histsci 💙📚 🗃

  26. Venez nous écouter à #Marseille !

    Cette semaine, nous allons parler longuement de la Renaissance en Provence à la bibliothèque de l'Alcazar. Ce colloque, coorganisé par RHR, la Fédération historique de Provence, la Bibliothèque L’Alcazar Marseille, et les universités d’Aix-Marseille, Avignon et Saint-Etienne, se tiendra du jeudi 11 juin au samedi 13 juin, avec des visites patrimoniales le dimanche.
    Nous avons prévu trois conférences grand public samedi 13 juin après-midi, avec Lionel Piettre, Sophie Astier et Jérémie Foa.

    Informations et programme ici: rhr16.hypotheses.org/1600

    #Renaissance #Provence #Histoire #Litterature #HistoireDeLArt #Histodons #EarlyModern

  27. Venez nous écouter à #Marseille !

    Cette semaine, nous allons parler longuement de la Renaissance en Provence à la bibliothèque de l'Alcazar. Ce colloque, coorganisé par RHR, la Fédération historique de Provence, la Bibliothèque L’Alcazar Marseille, et les universités d’Aix-Marseille, Avignon et Saint-Etienne, se tiendra du jeudi 11 juin au samedi 13 juin, avec des visites patrimoniales le dimanche.
    Nous avons prévu trois conférences grand public samedi 13 juin après-midi, avec Lionel Piettre, Sophie Astier et Jérémie Foa.

    Informations et programme ici: rhr16.hypotheses.org/1600

    #Renaissance #Provence #Histoire #Litterature #HistoireDeLArt #Histodons #EarlyModern

  28. [Actualité de nos adhérents] C'est aujourd'hui! Élise Rajchenbach, secrétaire de votre association, soutient son habilitation à diriger des recherches cet après-midi, à 14h, à la Maison des sciences de l'Homme de Lyon. Intitulée "Actrices et acteurs du livre de poésie française : composer, mettre en lumière, transmettre les Bonnes Lettres et les savoirs à la Renaissance (1530-1560)", cette soutenance s'annonce passionnante! L’inédit est constitué d’une édition scientifique, assortie d’une étude, du Recueil des œuvres de feu Bonaventure des Periers (Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1544).

    Plus d'informations ici: ihrim.ens-lyon.fr/evenement/el

    #Renaissance #Litterature #EarlyModern #LitStudies

  29. [Actualité de nos adhérents] C'est aujourd'hui! Élise Rajchenbach, secrétaire de votre association, soutient son habilitation à diriger des recherches cet après-midi, à 14h, à la Maison des sciences de l'Homme de Lyon. Intitulée "Actrices et acteurs du livre de poésie française : composer, mettre en lumière, transmettre les Bonnes Lettres et les savoirs à la Renaissance (1530-1560)", cette soutenance s'annonce passionnante! L’inédit est constitué d’une édition scientifique, assortie d’une étude, du Recueil des œuvres de feu Bonaventure des Periers (Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1544).

    Plus d'informations ici: ihrim.ens-lyon.fr/evenement/el

    #Renaissance #Litterature #EarlyModern #LitStudies

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

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

    (Edit : avec la vidéo : youtu.be/N-dX2I7mY7k?t=37 )
    csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/even #histsci #histmed #earlymodern