Category Archives: Women and Gender History

Shadow Agents of War

Posted on January 6, 2023 by briansandberg

I am happy to report that Shadow Agents of Renaissance War: Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond has been published by Amsterdam University Press. This new collective volume (edited by Stephen Bowd, Sarah Cockram, and John Gagné) … Continue reading →

Posted in Civilians and Refugees in War, Cultural History, Current Research, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, European Wars of Religion, French Wars of Religion, History of Violence, Italian History, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Women and Warfare in the Renaissance and Reformation

Posted on August 1, 2022 by briansandberg

My bibliographic essay on “Women and Warfare” was recently published by Oxford Bibliographies in the Renaissance and Reformation subject area. “Women and warfare is an emerging field in early modern history with a rapidly growing historiography. Art historians and cultural … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural History, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern France, Early Modern World, European History, European Wars of Religion, French Wars of Religion, Gender and Warfare, History of Violence, Italian History, Mediterranean World, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Seminar on Gender and War

Posted on July 12, 2022 by briansandberg

I enjoyed presenting my research on “Un courage viril. Le genre et la violence en France pendant les Guerres de Religion” in a seminar on Genre et Guerre at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium in May. The seminar … Continue reading →

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Forensic Historians and War Crimes

Posted on April 11, 2022 by briansandberg

War crimes are once again headline news these days, as the Russian withdrawal from the Kyiv region has exposed numerous bodies of Ukrainian civilians allegedly executed during the Russian offensive of February – March 2022. Ukrainian President Zelensky, United States … Continue reading →

Posted in Atrocities, Careers in History, Civil Conflict, Civilians and Refugees in War, Graduate Work in History, History in the Media, History of Violence, United States History and Society, War and Society, War, Culture, and Society, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Femmes à la cour de France

Posted on February 14, 2022 by briansandberg

Tracy Adams has published a review of a collective volume on Femmes à la cour de France, edited by Caroline zum Kolk and Kathleen Wilson. I was pleased to write an essay for this collective volume on noblewomen from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Conflict, Court Studies, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern France, Early Modern World, European History, European Wars of Religion, French History, French Wars of Religion, Gender and Warfare, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Paris History, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History, State Development Theory, Warfare in the Early Modern World, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Remembering Florence in the Forgotten Centuries

Posted on February 3, 2022 by briansandberg

Florence is almost always associated with the Renaissance, but until relatively recently the focus of Florentine history was on the quattrocento (1400s) and Republican Florence. Eric Cochrane’s groundbreaking work, Florence in the Forgotten Centuries: A History of Florence and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Court Studies, Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, Globalization, History of Race and Racism, History of the Western World, Intellectual History, Italian History, Lectures and Seminars, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Political Culture, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

CRS Graduate Student Conference

Posted on January 27, 2022 by briansandberg

The Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies is hosting its Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference online via Zoom, beginning today. Graduate students in Renaissance studies and pre-modern History at Northern Illinois University are encouraged to participate. Here is the announcement from … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History, Conferences, Court Studies, Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern France, Early Modern World, European History, European Wars of Religion, Graduate Work in History, History of Medicine, History of Science, History of the Book, History of the Western World, Intellectual History, Italian History, Reformation History, Religious History, Renaissance Art and History, Warfare in the Early Modern World, Women and Gender History, World History | Leave a comment

Historical Action Figures

Posted on January 17, 2022 by briansandberg

This Martin Luther King Day, a new historical action figure is being released. Mattel is launching a Barbie doll portraying Ida B. Wells. The Washington Post reports that “Black American journalist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells will have … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities and Renaissance Letter-Writing

Posted on January 11, 2022 by briansandberg

Renaissance letter-writing is being re-examined using Digital Humanities tools to explore letterlocking techniques of securing correspondence. The New York Times explains: “To safeguard the most important royal correspondence against snoops and spies in the 16th century, writers employed a complicated … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Court Studies, Cultural History, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern France, Early Modern World, European History, European Wars of Religion, French History, French Wars of Religion, Information Management, Manuscript Studies, Material Culture, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Political Culture, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History, Strategy and International Politics, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Refugees File Lawsuit against Facebook over Genocide

Posted on December 7, 2021 by briansandberg

Rohingya refugees recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, alleging that the social media company has assisted in perpetrating genocidal violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar. The Washington Post reports that “Facebook failed to quickly … Continue reading →

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