Category Archives: Digital Humanities

Medici Archive Project Online Paleography Course 2013

Posted on January 28, 2013 by briansandberg

MAP Online Paleography Course 2013 For the fourth consecutive year, the Medici Archive Project will offer a 12-week Online Paleography Course. The course is designed to furnish participants with basic skills for reading historical manuscript materials from the late 15th- … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Paleography and Archival Studies

Posted on January 28, 2013 by briansandberg

Seminar on Paleography and Archival Studies For the third consecutive year, the Medici Archive Project will be offering a two-week intensive seminar on archival research especially intended for advanced graduate students in Renaissance and early modern studies. This seminar will … Continue reading →

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Medici Archive Project Fellowships

Posted on January 19, 2013 by briansandberg

The Medici Granducal Archive (Mediceo del Principato), comprising over four-million letters dating between 1537-1743, provides the most complete record of any princely regime in early modern Italy as well as an extraordinarily rich historical reservoir of European history. This collection … Continue reading →

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Early Modern Jewish Studies Fellowship

Posted on January 14, 2013 by briansandberg

The Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy, is offering a postdoctoral fellowship in early modern Jewish studies. The position description reads: “The letters in the Medici Granducal Archive (Mediceo del Principato) constitute an impressive historical reservoir of Jewish history. The … Continue reading →

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Renaissance Academies as Social Networks

Posted on January 10, 2013 by briansandberg

The academies of Renaissance Italy are being compared with internet social networks, such as Facebook. A major collaborative research project on The Italian Academies 1525-1700:The First Intellectual Networks of Early Modern Europe, is producing new findings on the complex world … Continue reading →

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SMH Group Blog

Posted on October 31, 2012 by briansandberg

The Society for Military History has a new group blog, the SMH Blog, which will offer posts and discussions of all aspects of the history of war and society. I am thrilled to be participating in the SMH blog as … Continue reading →

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Mack Holt Webinar on “Confessional Violence in Early Modern France”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by briansandberg

This week, Mack Holt, Professor of History at George Mason University, will lead a webinar on “Confessional Violence in Early Modern France” for H-France Salon. The webinar is directed at graduate students, especially doctoral students researching the history of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Europe, European History, French History, French Wars of Religion, History of Violence, Reformation History, Religious Violence, Warfare in the Early Modern World | Leave a comment

Mack Holt Webinar on “Confessional Violence in Early Modern France”

Posted on September 20, 2012 by briansandberg

Mack Holt, Professor of History at George Mason University, will lead an upcoming webinar on “Confessional Violence in Early Modern France” for H-France Salon. The webinar is directed at graduate students, especially doctoral students researching the history of the Reformations … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Europe, European History, French History, French Wars of Religion, History of Violence, Reformation History, Religious Violence, Warfare in the Early Modern World | Leave a comment

Digital Mapping of Archival Materials

Posted on May 18, 2012 by briansandberg

One of the biggest challenges of historical and humanities research is locating relevant documentary evidence. For scholars working with archival documents, this often means searching inventories and catalogues of many different archives—sometimes across several countries or even continents. Archival inventories … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia’s Useless Knowledge

Posted on February 17, 2012 by briansandberg

Wikipedia has become the ubiquitous source of information for millions of users worldwide.  High school and university students rely on Wikipedia for basic information and evidence and for their own research and writing. Indeed, many students engage in cut-and-paste plagiarism, … Continue reading →

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