Timothy Twining

@tntwining.bsky.social

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Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. MSCA post-doc at Trinity College Dublin. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MPIL Heidelberg, and KU Leuven.

Title page of Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg's recent book, Johann Buxtorf, Impresario of Hebrew and Jewish Books
Title page for a Seminar: From Damascus to Drogheda, London, Oxford ... and Paris? James Ussher of Armagh and the Samaritan Pentateuch Timothy Twining The Mícheál Ó'Cléirigh Institute University College Dublin 6 March 2026
First page of Felix Schlichter's review of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024).
A poster with details for the book launch of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024). For more information, see: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/early-modern-scholarship-and-religion
A copy of my first book, The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024), in the Hesburgh Library.
List of physical criteria for a job: "Physical Demands Must be able to lift materials of up to 25 lbs. Must be able to remain stationary for long periods of time."
Contents page for the new issue of the JHI.
The judging panel is pleased to announce the shortlist for the Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024. The prize is awarded to the best first monograph in intellectual history published in the previous two years (2022-2023). Out of a wide range of submissions, the shortlist is: –Hegel and the Representative Constitution, by Elias Buchetmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. –Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain, by Freddy Foks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. –The Power of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650, by Lisa Kattenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. –Herder and Enlightenment Politics,by Eva Piirimäe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. –The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty,by Natasha Wheatley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. The judging panel expects to announce the winner in December.
The cover of Kirsten Macfarlane's Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2024)
An image of the first page of the article 'Beyond a Confessional Paradigm? Richard Simon and the Vernacular Bible', published in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History.