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Docteur en histoire / PhD in History | FRHistS | Société de l'Histoire de France | historien de la Renaissance (France, Navarre, Béarn; Hongrie, Transylvanie) | UPPA, UR ITEM https://item.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-dharai-fr.html
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This week the Society was very pleased to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2

Many congratulations to our winners: Kiran Mehta & John Latham-Sprinkle (First Book Prize) and Gianamar Giovanetti-Singh & Stephanie Wanga (Article Prize) #Skystorians
Winners of the Society's 2026 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - RHS
The Royal Historical Society is delighted to announce the winners of its prizes for a first book and an early career article in 2026. Two winners were named from each category for work published in 20...
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July 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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Ezequiel Borgognoni y Vincenzo Lagioia (eds.) - ¿Marginalidad principesca?

Mujeres y espacios políticos en la Europa Moderna

Vient de paraître chez Silex
July 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Ooo, this looks very interesting. #earlymodern
July 9, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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I am back from maternity leave and pleased to share that two publications appeared while I was "out"... “Mapping Connected Central Europe: Colour and Cartography in the Margins of Early Modern Atlases” in European History Quarterly and “Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy,” in the Austrian History Yearbook.
Mapping Connected Central Europe: Colour and Cartography in the Margins of Early Modern Atlases - Robyn Dora Radway, 2026
Early modern atlases left the printer's workshop as a series of uncoloured projections surrounded by a textual apparatus. Translucent washes of blue, green...
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July 1, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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Last year, we were delighted to publish Andrew's excellent monograph, 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales' as part of the Society's early career book series bit.ly/3Pzjuyk.

'Waterscapes' is available to read, free Open Access @uolpress.bsky.social
roysociety.bsky.social Ridings of Yorkshire Society @roysociety.bsky.social · May 12
We're delighted to announce two keynote speakers at this year's conference, Professor Kate Giles and Dr Andrew McTominey.

Kate will be speaking on Pickering's Medieval Wall Paintings, while Andrew will discuss Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales.

#ROYS26
May 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa.
Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality.
docuracy.github.io/datini/

#DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory
A dark-themed interactive map of the medieval western Mediterranean showing 14th-century merchant letter routes as curved arcs coloured from cyan (fast, 0–5 days) through yellow to red (30+ days). Short land routes between Tuscan cities glow cyan; longer sea routes to Barcelona and Majorca burn orange and red, revealing the unpredictability of medieval maritime travel. (299 characters) Long (accessible description for screen readers / figure caption): Screenshot of the Datini Letters Geospatial Explorer in Travel Time mode. A dark basemap of the western Mediterranean is overlaid with curved arc lines connecting pairs of cities in the Datini merchant network. Arc colour encodes average letter delivery time on a gradient from cyan (near-instant, 0–5 days) through green and yellow (one to two weeks) to orange and deep red-magenta (more than 30 days). Dense clusters of fast cyan arcs radiate from Florence and Pisa across Tuscany, reflecting the reliable day-or-two land post. Arcs reaching westward to Barcelona, Valencia, and Palma de Majorca shift to orange and red, capturing the slower and far more variable sea routes that could take anywhere from a week to several months. City nodes are shown as circles: pink for the main Datini fondacos (Pisa, Florence, Barcelona, Genoa, Valencia, Majorca) and blue for correspondent cities. A sidebar on the left shows the Travel Time mode is selected, with a cyan-to-red colour legend and a filter slider for minimum letters per route.
May 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Días de guerra en la Corona de Aragón

Huesca (1460-1480)

Vient de paraître aux PUZ
April 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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L'ouvrage collectif "Potestas Elementorum", que j'ai codirigé avec Gaëlle Lafage, vient de paraître aux Éditions du @centrechastel.bsky.social. Le volume est gratuitement consultable et téléchargeable: www.centrechastel.sorbonne-universite.fr/ressources/l...
April 21, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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Conférence – Arnaud Timbert, « Louis Grodecki et Robert Branner, une fabrique épistolaire de l’histoire de l’art médiéval au XXe s. »

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Conférence – Arnaud Timbert, « Louis Grodecki et Robert Branner, une fabrique épistolaire de l’histoire de l’art médiéval au XXe s. »
M. Arnaud Timbert, Professeur des universités en Histoire de l’art à l’Université de Picardie Jules Verne, sera l’invité de la séance des Jeudis d’ITEM du 09 avril 2026. Pro…
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April 7, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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Journée d’étude – Comment quantifier les mobilités de personnes au Moyen Âge ?

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Journée d’étude – Comment quantifier les mobilités de personnes au Moyen Âge ?
À partir de différentes formes de transmission (entre autres des découvertes archéologiques, des sceaux, des authentiques de reliques, des cartulaires et des « livres des bourgeois »), nous discute…
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April 6, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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Colloque – Urban Property Prices in the Middle Ages – Data, Methods, Insights

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Colloque – Urban Property Prices in the Middle Ages – Data, Methods, Insights
March 26-28, 2026, at Freie Universität BerlinConveners: Thomas Ertl (FU Berlin) and Colin Arnaud (U Münster) How much was a house in a good urban location in the Middle Ages? Who could afford whic…
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March 21, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Publication – Angélique Ferrand, « Du zodiaque et des hommes »

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Publication – Angélique Ferrand, « Du zodiaque et des hommes »
Hérités de l’Antiquité, les signes du zodiaque ont perduré au Moyen Âge au sein du lieu ecclésial, dans le décor monumental du portail, à l’intérieur des calendriers ornant les manuscrits ou …
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March 21, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Manuel Rivero Rodríguez - Felipe II

À paraître en avril chez Allianza
February 27, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Parution aujourd'hui de notre nouveau livre:
Loïc Artiaga, Matthieu Letourneux, "La culture de masse en France 2. 1930-1990", Paris, La Découverte, "Repères"
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February 27, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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We are delighted to host Prof Charles West this evening at our annual medieval lecture. Charles is discussing the mobility of queens and queenship in early medieval Europe. #Skystorians
Charles west gives RHS lecture.
February 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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C'est avec un très grand plaisir que je vous annonce la parution aux Éditions A. Pedone du livre collectif "Diplomatie de femmes, Femmes en diplomatie du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle", codirigé avec Lucien Bély et Matthieu Gellard.
January 30, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.
January 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with
@ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII

Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS
In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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J'ai le plaisir de partager le programme d'un webinaire co-organisé avec C. Desenclos, P. Ferrier-Viaud, L. Lehéricy et S. Martin entre février et juin sur les marges de manoeuvre des serviteurs du roi en France à l'époque moderne.
N'hésitez pas à nous rejoindre !
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Agir et pouvoir(s)
Ce webinaire propose six interventions en ligne permettant d’explorer les marges de manœuvre des agents de l’Etat et de leur entourage en France à l’époque moderne. Il s’agira en particulier d’obse...
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January 19, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks @chriscampbell1.bsky.social for pitching it.

Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊

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royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Dec 11
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?

'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.

New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur - A tavola con i signori

Cibo, lusso e potere nelle corti rinascimentali

Vient de paraître chez Il Mulino
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚

The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...

This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
Illustration of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, featuring an intricate architectural drawing of the historic building with detailed facade, numerous windows, and figures dressed in academic robes seated in the foreground. Engraving of the interior of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, featuring detailed architecture with arched ceilings, rows of books, and figures walking between the bookshelves. Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera surrounded by Oxford University's historic buildings, with a cloudy sky above. Aerial view of the historic University of Oxford, showcasing intricate architecture and a person walking across the courtyard.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Thanks to Lizzy McNeill of BBC's 'More or Less' (@timharford.ft.com) and to @janmachielsen.bsky.social of @royalhistsoc.org for this opportunity!
janmachielsen.bsky.social Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Nov 2
Quite excited to see one the #medievalsky articles we published in the Transactions @royalhistsoc.org make it onto BBC Sounds! 🗃️

An excellent Halloween themed More or Less episode counting the stakes used by Vlad the Impaler.

Have a listen!

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More or Less - Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale? - BBC Sounds
Looking at the math's behind the myth
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November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Thanks to Konstantinos Tsavalos (www.iefimerida.gr/stories/o-my...) for his reading of 'Counting the stakes' (doi.org/10.1017/S008... of @royalhistsoc.org) in @iefimerida.bsky.social
Πόσους ανθρώπους σκότωσε στην πραγματικότητα ο Βλαντ ο Ανασκολοπιστής - Ο μύθος του Κόμη Δράκουλα καταρρέει - iefimerida.gr
Πόση αλήθεια υπάρχει πίσω από τη θρυλική αγριότητα του Βλαντ; Ήταν πράγματι ο πιο αιμοσταγής πολεμιστής της Ευρώπης ή ένα θύμα υπερβολών και πολιτικής προπαγάνδας;
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October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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We've two new titles forthcoming in our New Historical Perspectives book series:

> Gareth Roddy's 'Atlantic Isles' is published on 30 October bit.ly/3WFhpRg
> Rachael Harkes's 'Forging Fraternity' is available from 6 November bit.ly/4ogSm2H

Full details from @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
Cover images for the two forthocming titles in the New Historical Perspectives book series: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow, by Rachael Harkes
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM