Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Julien Léonard @julienleonard.bsky.social Historien moderniste (@univlorraine.bsky.social, CRULH, Nancy)
Christianismes, clergés, coexistence et controverses au XVIIe siècle (régime de l'édit de Nantes)
Sara Gwyn Beam @saragwynbeam.bsky.social Early modern historian. Criminal justice history, satire on stage, torture, gender and sexuality. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva (2021); Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007).
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Giovanni Bracchi @giobrach.bsky.social Pure mathematics PhD @ UCL (microlocal analysis & spectral theory) – raised a physicist – friendly neighbourhood continuist – stalwart cat enthusiast – ↙↙↙
Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country
Yuqi “Anna” Jiang @annajiang.bsky.social AHRC-Funded PhD Student at the Shakespeare Institute - Supernatural Children and Youths in Early Modern Drama
grace holleman @graceholleman.bsky.social religious studies phd student at northwestern | us c19-20 gender, race, religion, education, reading & writing | i miss the rocky mountains
Jenny Rae Rappaport @jennyrae.bsky.social Writer of SFF stories. Published in Nature, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. Member of Codex. Genealogist, too. All opinions are my own. She/her. www.jennyrae.com
Helen Sonner @helensonner.bsky.social Medical writer by vocation and cultural historian by avocation. More often than not, these are one and the same. Enjoying the blue sky.
Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social Locker no. 50 at the British Library.
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social Research project investigating the construction of sacred spaces in the ancient world. Based at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (@oeai.bsky.social / ÖAW). Led by @rsoneira.bsky.social Funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social
🔗 https://hierotopoi.hcommons.org/
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) is an international institute of advanced studies in the history of medicine and science, based at the Domus Comeliana in Pisa. 
Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social Historian interested in civil society, violence and emotions.
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist. 
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social Historian, early modernist (mostly things Portuguese), book lover, Schnauzer owner
Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social Literary, historical, and material analyses that employ innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. https://linktr.ee/mip_medpub
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.
Rachel Weil @racheljweil.bsky.social Early modern historian @Cornell. Prisons, law, politics, gender in 17th-18th c. England. Terminated NEH fellow, @IAS member 2024-25. Writing "Detention and Punishment in Early Modern English Prisons, 1600-1815" Rescue-🐶 mom, BLM, Democrat, she/her 🏳️🌈💙🏳️⚧️🌻
Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
Beat Kümin @beatkumin.bsky.social Early modernist interested in parish communities, local memory and food / drink history; occasionally successful footie teams and eclectic period pop. Homepage: go.warwick.ac.uk/beatkumin
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social Historian, bibliophile, early modernist.
Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Witch Map Project @witchmapproject.bsky.social Student-led project mapping global witchcraft memorials at Cardiff University. @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social
If you have any suggestions or questions please contact us at: witchmapproject@gmail.com.
Paul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
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.
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Leonardo da Vinci Society @leonardosociety.bsky.social 
Sara Norja @saranorja.bsky.social PhD in English ☆ Speculative fiction & poetry ☆ Tietokirjailija ☆ Historical linguistics ☆ History of alchemy ☆ Manuscript studies ☆ English/suomi ☆ Queer ☆ She/her ☆
Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social
Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide
Posting about scholarly publishing • History and future of the book • Book design, typography, typesetting 📚
Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic 🌒
• Views here my own
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
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.
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
shakespeareseminar@proton.me @shakespeareseminar.bsky.social Inspired by a conversation outside the globe with Andrew Jarvis in 2012, our seminars aim to reclaim the context of Shakespeare's work by getting practitioners and academics working together to make the context accessible, instead of intimidating.
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 ✍️ 
Carlotta Moro @carlottamoro.bsky.social 
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.
Samuel Cohn @samuelcohn.bsky.social Founder and First President of the American Sociological Association Section on Development.
State & Development, Gender & Development, Historical Sociology, Macrosociology, Gender Discrimination
Author of All Societies Die: (Cornell University Press)
Katherine Tycz @ciaokatet.bsky.social Historian of decorative arts, material culture, #materialtext & devotional practice
https://katherinetycz.com/
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
Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social Historian of early modern Sicily focused on cultural and intellectual history/Mediterranean identity/ early modern concepts of race.
Editor of H-Sicily.
Assistant Professor of History.
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)
Nicholas T. Pruitt @ntphistory.bsky.social Historian of 20c U.S. religion, politics, and culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
Christina Brauner @chbrauner.bsky.social Historian, working and teaching at University of Tübingen | early modern & beyond | Europe & Africa | history & theory
https://tinyurl.com/5y764mpd
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at USC. Early modern childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. Next book sometime, somewhere. https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/harry-mccarthy/
Matilda Sidel @matildasidel.bsky.social she/her🫐🐚🪝
History PhD Student, Yale University
sixteenth-century Iberian empires, jurisdictional politics between land and sea
Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social Digging through Mediterranean history. We love it all: the plow, the fishing net, the bandit's knife and the wedding contract. A little music as well.
LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social Early Modernist. From the British Isles to the sunny Mediterranean. EUI Marie Curie Fellow on Gender and Sexuality.
Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
VAP @ Oberlin
https://www.oberlin.edu/amanda-summers
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
Ximena 🧿 @x9m5n12.bsky.social Catlover🩷 Dr History/Universidade de SãoPaulo♦️Self funded researcher♦️Early Modern Spain♦️Moriscos, aljamia, XVI-XVII,rihla,jofores,Yemen♦️Book,food,art history♦️OrientalismStudies♦️History&Cinema♦️XIX historiography♦️vegetarian🌱📍SPaulo🇧🇷🇨🇱🇮🇷🇵🇸
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
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/
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK
Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.
Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Repository of articles, presentations & videos: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social “Crypto-liberal Laudian.”
Episcopal priest, cat feeder, ballroom dancer. Spent 15 years toiling in the fields of academe: teaching religious studies and researching early modern religious history.
Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social Historian and Religious Studies scholar.
Postdoctoral fellow at the @oeai.bsky.social
Atheism, heterodoxy, and religious deviance in ancient times.
#religiones #religion
Pierre Lovato @pierre-lovato.bsky.social Medieval historian. MA student (Rennes 2). Research on Dominican justice and disciplinary practices in Poland (1451–1517). Interested in mendicant orders, manuscripts and digital humanities.
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
SJMEditing @sjmediting.bsky.social Developmental editor for humanities scholars, specialized in historical subjects and working with non-native English speakers. I help secure grants & create impactful publications.
Brown PhD, former Assoc. Prof Art History.
www.SJMoranEditing.com
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social historicus | verhalenliefhebber | handwerkster
doet @historicivertellen.bsky.social
Dr Melita Thomas @melitat.bsky.social I'm an author and historian, and editor of Tudor Times. I love history, books, gardens, walking in the countryside, the sea, and interacting with interesting people on social media. Not forgetting art and cats, of course!
Aaron Larsen @double-a-larsen.bsky.social Medieval and Early Modern Historian at Mount Allison University. DPhil in History, Oxford, 3x UNBC alumnus, educator. Exploring space, place, and landscape in early modern Europe, with a focus on witchcraft, cartography, and the digital humanities.
StModerna @stmoderna.bsky.social Bluesky account of Storia Moderna – www.stmoderna.it
An online hub for scholars, research, publications, and opportunities to explore and deepen your knowledge of the early modern period.
Federico Barbierato @federicobarbierato.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern History at the University of Verona and at USI in Lugano. Topics: Early Modern Religious Dissent, History of Venice, History of Roman Inquisition
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account. #SCSC2024 Conference will meet in Toronto.
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social Historian of early modern France, peacebuilding and religious conflict at Groningen University. Managing editor of Early Modern Low Countries journal.🇳🇱🇫🇷🏳️🌈
Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social Historian working on the project Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 at the University of St Andrews. Interested in mobility, communication, and wayward clergymen.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/cmfg1/
Marika Keblusek @feinzeit.bsky.social feinzeit
early modernist / book & art historian / lover of libraries, archives, gardens & museums / associate prof Leiden University / PI NWO-OC Large project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks, 1550-1700" / she-her
Heiko Droste @heikodroste.bsky.social Historian, gardener, interested in the Arts, movies, nature.
English, Svenska, Deutsch.
"Der Niederrheiner weiß nix, kann aber alles erklären." Hanns Dieter Hüsch
Anonymous accounts without face-pic and a fake name are considered bad style.
@jonasroelens.bsky.social @jonasroelens.bsky.social Historian @Ghent University: medieval & EM gender history.
Art Enthusiast
Recent books:
Citizens & Sodomites https://brill.com/display/title/69308
De onuitspreekbare zonde
Middeleeuwse medemensen https://ertsberg.be/boek/middeleeuwse-medemensen/
David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
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
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own- A Anne Coldiron anniebherenow @anniebherenow.bsky.social Recently retired professor of renaissance/early modern and late-medieval lit; and book history. Exhausted. Relaxing. Reading. Playing piano. Gardening. More to follow.
Anne Gerritsen @annegerritsen.bsky.social historian at the University of Warwick and Chair of Asian Art at the University of Leiden
Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social Historian, early modern Scotland & Britain, borders, things, James VI, Union of the Crowns … & oh yes, Mary Queen of Scots
@bletherobooks 1st November: http://bit.ly/43mW82w
Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
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.
Fred Schurink @fredschurink.bsky.social English Literature at the University of Manchester. Early modern translation, book history, digital humanities. Continental European Books in Early Modern England project. Dutchman with love of hills. Dad and cat companion.
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC