Category Archives: Early Modern Europe

Graduate Fellowships at the Medici Archive Project

Posted on October 29, 2013 by briansandberg

The Medici Archive Project is offering graduate fellowships. See the announcement below: SAMUEL FREEMAN CHARITABLE TRUST Five Short-Term Graduate Fellowships (2014) The Medici Granducal Archive (Mediceo del Principato), comprising over four million letters dating between 1537-1743, provides the most complete … Continue reading →

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Re-enactment of the Battle of Leipzig

Posted on October 29, 2013 by briansandberg

Some 6,000 historical re-enactors took over the battlefield of Leipzig in Germany this past week to commemorate the bicentennial of the 1813 battle in which Prussian, Austrian, Russian, and allied forces defeated the imperial army of Napoleon. The clash became … Continue reading →

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A Botched Hanging and the History of Executions

Posted on October 17, 2013 by briansandberg

A convicted drug smuggler is facing a second execution in Iran, after surviving his first execution. The BBC reports that “the condemned man, named as Alireza M, was found alive in a morgue after being hanged at a jail in … Continue reading →

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Artiste nel chiostro

Posted on September 27, 2013 by briansandberg

A conference on Ariste nel chiostro (Artists in the Cloister), is being held on 4-5 October 2013 in Firenze. In 1938, Giovanna Pierattini published her groundbreaking study on nun artist Suor Plautilla Nelli in the journal Memorie Domenicane. To mark … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History, Conferences, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, Italian History, Mediterranean World, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Religious History, Renaissance Art and History, Women and Gender History | 1 Comment

Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference

Posted on September 13, 2013 by briansandberg

Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2014 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers: http://www.newberry.org/01232014-2014-multidisciplinary-graduate-student-conference Proposal Deadline: October 15, 2013 Conference: January 23 – 25, 2014, at the Newberry Library, Chicago Downloadable PDF flyer—please post and circulate: http://www.newberry.org/sites/default/files/calendar-attachments/2014_CFP.pdf The Center for … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, European Wars of Religion, Graduate Work in History, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History | Leave a comment

Warrior Pursuits on the Radio

Posted on July 20, 2013 by briansandberg

A discussion of Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (2010) has been broadcast on internet radio on the New Books Network (NBN). Jay Lockenour recently interviewed me about Warrior Pursuits on New Books in Military … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Conflict, Current Research, Early Modern Europe, European Wars of Religion, French History, French Wars of Religion, History in the Media, History of Violence, Languedoc and Southern France, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Religious Politics, Religious Violence, Renaissance Art and History, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World | Leave a comment

Judith Slaying Holofernes (in Chicago)

Posted on July 19, 2013 by briansandberg

Artemesia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1620) is coming to Chicago! This famous painting is one of the quintessential images of gender and violence in the early modern period, as well as one of the masterpieces of one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History, Early Modern Europe, European History, European Wars of Religion, Gender and Warfare, History of Violence, Reformation History, Religious Violence, Renaissance Art and History, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World, Women and Gender History | 2 Comments

New Review of Warrior Pursuits in French

Posted on July 16, 2013 by briansandberg

A new book review by Gregory Champeaud critiques my Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Champeaud’s review was recently published in French in the online journal, Francia-Recencio. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Conflict, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, European Wars of Religion, French History, French Wars of Religion, History of Violence, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Reformation History, Religious Violence, Revolts and Revolutions, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World | Leave a comment

Recreating Early Modern Medicinal Gardens

Posted on July 6, 2013 by briansandberg

The New York Botanical Garden has recreated a sixteenth-century medicinal garden as part of its exhibit on Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around the World. The medicinal garden is patterned on the botanical garden that was created in 1545 for the … Continue reading →

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Historians’ Role in DOMA Decision

Posted on July 2, 2013 by briansandberg

Historians played a role in the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Organizations of academic and public historians intervened directly in U.S. v. Windsor as it reached the Supreme Court. Steven Mintz points … Continue reading →

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