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Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Grants in Early Modern Iberian History

The CORPI Project (Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics, and Interaction: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond) is currently recruiting doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows for 2013-14. Th… more →

Brian Sandberg: Historical Perspectives

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Grants in Early Modern Iberian History

briansandberg wrote 7 hours ago: The CORPI Project (Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics, and Interaction: Early Modern Ib … more →

Tags: Religious Violence, european history, Human Rights, Early Modern World, Graduate Work in History, Grants and Fellowships, Study Abroad, Religious History

Mutiny Profiles: Sebastian Cabot

Yale University Press wrote 1 day ago: Sebastian Cabot shows today’s leaders a caveat regarding how it is possible for one with limit … more →

Tags: Business, Economics, european history, Age of Discovery, Book Excerpts, business enterprise, cabot family, Leadership Lessons, May theme

Arcimboldo's Four Seasons in New York

briansandberg wrote 3 days ago: Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons paintings have been transformed  into ma … more →

Tags: Art History, Early Modern World, european history, Food and Cuisine History, History in the Media, Italian History, Renaissance Art and History

Early Modern Historian's Memoir

briansandberg wrote 4 days ago: John H. Elliott, a noted historian of early modern Spain and its empire, has published a memoir of h … more →

Tags: Careers in History, Early Modern World, Empires and Imperialism, european history, European wars of religion, Historiography and Social Theory

At least I'm not...

thehistorygraduate wrote 5 days ago: “At least I’m not translating the King James Bible into Algonquian” my Academic Ad … more →

Tags: Anne, anne boleyn, Early Modern, Early Modern America, East Anglia, Hammer Horror, Henry, Henry VIII, Henry VIII of England

Salafis and Religious Activism in Egypt

briansandberg wrote 5 days ago: Salafis are increasingly active in Egyptian politics and society. The ongoing Egyptian Revolution ha … more →

Tags: Civil Conflict, Comparative Revolutions, Early Modern World, european history, French Revolution and Napoleon, History of Violence, Human Rights, Religious History, Religious Violence

Of Cannibalism and Civil Warfare

briansandberg wrote 1 week ago: A newly released video allegedly shows a Syrian rebel commander mutilating a dead soldier’s bo … more →

Tags: Civil Conflict, Early Modern World, European wars of religion, French Wars of Religion, History of Violence, Religious Violence, Revolts and Revolutions, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World

Renaissance Martyrs Canonized

briansandberg wrote 1 week ago: Pope Francis has canonized the 800 Martyrs of Otranto, who were supposedly executed by Ottoman force … more →

Tags: Religious Violence, european history, Warfare in the Early Modern World, War, Culture, and Society, Empires and Imperialism, Italian History, Early Modern World, Mediterranean World, european union

Ulinka Rublack's Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe

nyxfox wrote 2 weeks ago: Rublack, Ulinka. 2010. Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe. Oxford: Oxford Universi … more →

Tags: History, Material Culture, Fashion History

Peter Burke at the University of St Andrews

nickblackbourn wrote 3 weeks ago: On the 13 March, Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, … more →

Tags: Events, Peter Burke, seminar series, Podcast, soundcloud

Dutch Royal Coronation

briansandberg wrote 3 weeks ago: The Dutch people are getting a new monarch. Willem-Alexander is being crowned King of the Netherland … more →

Tags: european history, Empires and Imperialism, european union, Political Culture, European wars of religion, Noble Culture and History of Elites

Printing in Early Modern Europe

icpetermahidol wrote 4 weeks ago: A. Watch the video: Printing, Knowledge and Ideas [New ed]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwU-v9syA … more →

Tags: history of ideas, History, printing

Early Modern Atlantic World: Slavery, Race, Governance — 1 comment

briansandberg wrote 1 month ago: The Center for African American History at Northwestern University held a conference this weekend on … more →

Tags: european history, War, Culture, and Society, History of Violence, Conferences, Human Rights, Early Modern World, Mediterranean World, Civilians and Refugees in War, Atlantic World

Machiavelli reads the classics

Scott Kistler wrote 1 month ago: Harvey Mansfield’s translation of The Prince includes Machiavelli’s letter to Florence … more →

Tags: Early Modern World, Political Theory, Niccolo Machiavelli, Harvey Mansfield, renaissance, humanism

The Hundred Years' War

Scott Kistler wrote 1 month ago: The Hundred Years’ War 1337–1453 by Anne Curry My rating: 2 of 5 stars Curry does well in sket … more →

Tags: Book Review, Early Modern World, Middle Ages, Anne Curry, hundred years' war

Power for its own sake

Scott Kistler wrote 1 month ago: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’ve read this before in other trans … more →

Tags: Book Review, Early Modern World, Political Theory, Niccolo Machiavelli, Harvey Mansfield, renaisance

The Danger of Pre-emptive Strikes — 1 comment

briansandberg wrote 1 month ago: With tensions already running high on the Korean peninsula, many American policy-makers and advisers … more →

Tags: european history, French Wars of Religion, Warfare in the Early Modern World, War, Culture, and Society, History of Violence, French history, Empires and Imperialism, Human Rights, Political Culture

Mapping the Mediterranean Conference

briansandberg wrote 1 month ago: Call for Papers – “Mapping the Mediterranean: Space, Memory, and the Long Road to Modern … more →

Tags: Conferences, Early Modern World, Mediterranean World, Graduate Work in History, Museums and Historical Memory

Medici Archive Project Archival Studies Seminar

briansandberg wrote 1 month ago: The Medici Archive Project – Seminar on Paleography and Archival Studies 2013 For the third co … more →

Tags: european history, archival research, Humanities Education, Digital Humanities, Italian History, Early Modern World, Graduate Work in History, Grants and Fellowships


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