Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social Organised representation for all academic staff, postgraduates, and APM staff level 4 and above at the University of Nottingham. Here in solidarity with workers the world over.
https://uonucu.org/ 
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
Jaime Goodrich @jaimelgoodrich.bsky.social Early modern literary and religious history. All things Catholic, #nuntastic, #monkabulous, #friarific.
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Katherine Tycz @ciaokatet.bsky.social Historian of decorative arts, material culture, #materialtext & devotional practice
https://katherinetycz.com/
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
CEMS Exeter @cemsexeter.bsky.social University of Exeter Centre for Early Modern Studies - a place for interdisciplinary exchange among staff and students and engagement with the wider academic world.
(Posts by Lucy Hurst).
Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social Postgraduate workshop for all studies into the early modern world (c. 1450-1800) at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
MEMS @memsunikent.bsky.social The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@archivocolonial @archivocolonial.bsky.social «Fastos, simulacros y saberes en la América virreinal» (PID2020-113841GB-I00) IP Judith Farré Vidal (CSIC)
Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us The Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA) promotes the study of Iberian art from Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.
Abby Beckett @abbybeckett.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill University
History of Medicine
Working on corpse medicine 1550-1700
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation
All views my own, but none of the poetry.
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social Jesuit
Philosophy
Ireland 🇮🇪 / Paraguay 🇵🇾
Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social MLO is a peer-reviewed platform for the Open Access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience from @livunipress.bsky.social. Find us at: modernlanguagesopen.org.
Luís Gomes @luisgomes.bsky.social Scholar, emblems, grammar, Portuguese. 
Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social 🎬 Filmmakers combining unlimited curiosity & meticulous research
🪜 Visit EXPLORING ART HISTORY: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/
🚘 Website: https://ideasroadshow.com/
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social Cartoonist & author
Prints and comic booklets available here! 👉 http://emilyscartoons.myshopify.com
Frank Ejby Poulsen, PhD @fepoulsen.bsky.social Danish/French 🇪🇺 intellectual historian 🇺🇦
🔗https://frankejbypoulsen.net
🎓PhD History, European University Institute
🎓MSc Politics, University of Copenhagen
🎓LLM, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️ 
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
Ruth Hemus @rhemus.bsky.social Head of Department, Languages, Literatures & Cultures at Royal Holloway. Researcher of the avant-garde. Views my own, not those of my employer. 
CMA: European Painting and Sculpture @cmaeuropeanpaint.bsky.social Sharing public domain works from the European Painting and Sculpture department of Cleveland Museum of Art.
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Stirling Maxwell Centre @uofgsmc.bsky.social Fostering an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on the Stirling Maxwell Collection (University of Glasgow Library).
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/resschol/clust-centr/smc/
The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social The AHGBI is a professional association of academics and researchers working in all areas of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
Biblioteca Nacional de España @bne.es Bienvenidos a la cuenta oficial en Bluesky de la Biblioteca Nacional de España.
🔗 bne.es
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
Dulwich Picture Gallery @dulwichgallery.bsky.social Exhibitions | Collection | Events | Shop | Café | Gardens
The UK's first public gallery founded in 1817.
https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/
Museo Nacional de Escultura @museoescultura.bsky.social Un lugar en el que disfrutar del placer de mirar y aprender.
Nuestro mejor pasado artístico, para un futuro mejor.
https://linktr.ee/mnescultura
A Material World @amaterialworld.bsky.social A series of free #materialculture events at @warburginstitute.bsky.social | Theme for 2024-25: Work v. Play | Posts by convenor @louisamckenzie.bsky.social
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/material-world
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Francis (Buster) Whitfill @fwhitfill.bsky.social Recovering teacher & PhD student in Spanish at the University of Virginia. I work on literary depictions of the devil in #earlymodern Spain.
Travis Knapp @tknapp.bsky.social Erstwhile early modernist. Current instructional designer.
Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social News about the Society of Jesus, the largest Catholic religious order of brothers & priests. From the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the USA. njn@jesuits.org
Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social MEMSA is made up of postgraduate students from all disciplines working on the Medieval or Early Modern period at Durham University. ALL welcome at our events.
Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
www.brepols.net
Mark Allen @markallen23.bsky.social PhD in history from Cambridge University. Examined coexistence & religio-political crises in early Stuart London through a case study of the Catholic queen's & embassy chapels.
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117058
https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.21
Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 @catholicismsem.bsky.social Catholicisms, c.1450-c. 1800 is a book series of @imems.bsky.social Press, an imprint of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Details can be found here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/books/series/catholicisms-c-1450-c-1800/
Emanuela Vai @emanuelavai.bsky.social Renaissance/Early Modern Historian: Musical Instruments, Space, Sound and the Senses | Head @batecollection.bsky.social Head of Research(Hums) Fellow @Worcester College @ox.ac.uk | Digital Humanities & Sensory Heritage @torchoxford.bsky.social (FRHS,FHEA)
Evelyne Verheggen @evelyneverheggen.bsky.social Erfgoeddeskundige en cultuurhistorica voor religieus erfgoed met een passie voor (devotie)prenten, devotionalia, sterke vrouwen, kerken, Leiden (en 🇪🇸 😉).
Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre @evillegasdelatorre.bsky.social Scholar of Women’s Intellectual History | Multilingual Communication | Research Evaluation | Public Engagement
https://www.respublicalitteraria.com
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social
https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social The ACHA is a community of scholars, archivists, and teachers of the history of the Catholic Church. Founded in 1919, it is where Catholic studies began.
https://achahistory.org/
History of Catholicism @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social Updates and events from the History of Catholicism research cluster in the Centre for Catholic Studies at @durham-university.bsky.social
Elizabeth B. Davis @barloventear.bsky.social Academy Prof of Iberian Studies. Specialist in Early Modern Spain. Current research on early modern accounts of the Crossing and the Iberian Atlantic world. *Sorry; I do not send money to persons or organizations who request it on BlueSky.
Jessica Wax-Edwards @waxwards.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow @ University College Cork.
Working on AMLO/Mexico + visual populism in social media, film etc using videographic methods .
HMU to collaborate. 
Borja Franco Llopis @bortxeta82.bsky.social Professor of Art History at UNED. I research early modern art in the Mediterranean, as well as issues of alterity and race. Member of the Young Academy of Spain and the Young Academy of Europe. https://uned.academia.edu/BorjaFranco
Ryan Goodman @goodmanr.bsky.social Professor at Wake Forest University
Ph.D. from Princeton University
Researching Iberian pilgrimage, ecology, and memory.
linktr.ee/goodman.ryant
MEMICC @memicc.bsky.social Medieval and Early-Modern Iberian & Colonial Cultures
Cloe Cavero @cloecavero.bsky.social Historian of early modern Iberian art and visual culture based in Princeton. Works on child martyrs and religious conflict, art and juridical normativities, and the visual culture of purity of blood. Editorial Board, Boletín del Museo del Prado. she/ella
Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social She/her | Historian of colonial Mexico: Sor Juana; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion | Hosts the Challenging Histories podcast
Trans inclusive feminist | Free Palestine 🍉
Called William H Prescott a dirty old man & Cortés a sociopath on the BBC
Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @drgsespinosa.bsky.social ¶ Professor of Spanish literature at QUB, specialising in the Spanish Enlightenment –el Siglo de las Luces–, and book history. ¶ Enjoys jazz and used to like baseball
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Writing a book on memory, Petrarchism, intellectual culture, and empire in early modern Spain.
Carlos Mata Induráin @cmatain.bsky.social Profesor de #literatura en la #UNAV. Trabajo sobre el #SiglodeOro y la #NovelaHistórica. #Libros #Cervantes #DonQuijote
Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social The voice of BSS & BSVS: International academic journals focused on langs, lits, cultures, histories, incl visual, of Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
Mikel López Iturriaga @mikeliturriaga.bsky.social Periodista. No soy El Comidista, soy el jefecillo de @elcomidista.bsky.social. Más marica que cocinero
Rafael Castillo Bejarano @periandro.bsky.social 
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez @juanmaramive.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ColgateUniv | Colonial Latin America and Early Modern Atlantic World | He/him
Julia Domínguez @jdominguezc.bsky.social Professor of Spanish Studies. Director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at the University of Delaware. Early Modern Studies. Cervantes and Memory Palaces.
Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social A journal devoted to the literary culture of Europe & Colonial Latin America (1200-1600), with an emphasis on vernacular translations, Romance letters & the Latin tradition.
https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/tl/
Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social Ailurophile. Food, labor, culinary history. Early Modern Spain and LatAm.
Assistant Professor at UC Davis.
Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social Span, Fr, Eng pre-, hi- & postmodern. Whatever it is, Cervantes saw it coming. Director, Oregon Humanities Center. Deep interest in poetry; deepening interests in vis. art, perf. art. Current pivot: Velázquez, 80s feminisms and the NY art scene.
Lisa Voigt @lisaluso.bsky.social Professor of Spanish & Portuguese @Yale; previously @Ohio State (2008-2023)
Special Issues Editor, Colonial Latin American Review
Chad Leahy @cleahy.bsky.social Early modern Iberia. Spain & Jerusalem. Strategic anachronism and political uses of the past. Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Denver.
Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social The Early Modern History subject group at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | News about conferences, seminars, workshops, publications, and more
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Albert Lloret @albertlloret.bsky.social Associate Professor of Spanish & Catalan, UMass Amherst || https://websites.umass.edu/lloret/
CaliopeSRBHP @caliopesrbhp.bsky.social The Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry promotes scholarship about Hispanic poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries.
srbhp.org