Georgianna Ziegler
@EMHerstory
Interested in early modern women, books, art. Working on women book owners and calligrapher Esther Inglis.
Book Launch Aug 13 on #EarlyModernWomen - sign up at link on poster - and get a discount on the book! @OUPAcademic @SSEMWomenGender @LaraDodds @MichelleMDowd
Oval box (locket?) containing a woman's portrait and 13 mica transparencies painted with different costumes, c. 1642 - c. 1652 (Rijksmuseum)
New issue (that is open access!) of Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Past Achievements and Future Perspectives, Edited by Lieke van Deinsen, Feike Dietz, and Nina Lamal Follow this link for access to the articles: emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1702
Voices of Thunder is now available to pre-order!! 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of… @reaktionbooks #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen
See my new blogpost "Esther Inglis and 'Little Beasts'" on relationship of her work with that of Flemish nature artists of the time, based on extraordinary new exhibition @ngadc estheringlis.com/2025/05/29/est… @artherstory #ClaraPeeters #JorisHoefnagel #JanvanKessel
#OTD 1590 Anne of Denmark was crowned as queen of Scots at Holyrood, in the first Protestant coronation of a queen in Scotland. 15-year-old Anne had married James VI the previous August after he had travelled to Denmark to collect her in person bit.ly/2fx4hID Gheeraerts
@nemnetwork_ @glasgowemsoc @CemsKcl @EModCam @royalstudies @RenWarwick @IHR_TudorStuart @RoyalStuartSoc @RoyalHistSoc @UofGArtsHums @sgsah @ScottishSfu @ScotHistNetwork @ScottishHistSoc Please share :)
From Storage to Spotlight: How D.C.’s @ngadc Is Redefining Access to Art at @Observer #museums #art observer.com/2025/05/museum…
The relaunch of ESTC: bibsoc.org.uk/relaunch-of-th…
Briefly returning to X to share our CfP for the @livesandletters Built with Books Symposium. Come and geek out with us over #EarlyModern libraries and the books that filled them! Abstracts due May 16th, full details here: ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…
We are very excited about this new post by @tamarajatkin on a book owned by the learned woman writer Bathsua Makin. A wonderful find at the Bodleian, and Tamara's extensive research is fascinating! …dernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/hie… #HerBook #EarlyModern
10 May - SHS Secretary @HuntingRebels & member @DrLindaPorter1 on Scottish Queens: Mary Queen of Scots & Margaret Tudor boswellbookfestival.co.uk/2025/events/43…
On this Sunday of the #MyrrhBearing women, remembering #DavidMurray's dear sister Nicolas called 'Myrrha' for her sweetness. Esther mentions her tragic death (in childbirth) in a 1612 MS for David. She was mourned by friends such as James and #AndrewMelville. #EstherInglis
For #InternationalWomensDay, a 🧵on a C17 copy of St Teresa of Avila's autobiography with not 1 but 2 female ownership inscriptions 1/5 #WomensHistoryMonth #nuntastic #HerBook #StTeresaAvila #JesuitBook #BookHistory
Free Saturday afternoon? Spend it with #EstherInglis, novelist @sarasheridan in conversation with Anna Pike and Jamie Reid Baxter, along with poet @GerdaStevenson8 and music by the White Rose Ensemble. St. Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh. 2-4 pm. Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-afterno...
The magnificent medieval Trinity Church in Edinburgh was swept away to provide sidings for goods trains in the 19thC and then partially rebuilt across the Waverley Valley many years later. You can read more about the rebuilt church on our website here 👇 scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/the-lost-…
16 Apr 1459: Charter of Mary of Gueldres #otd establishing the collegiate church of Holy Trinity #Edinburgh #otd She served as regent of #Scotland from 1460 to 1463
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender seeks nominations for awards for scholarly work in English on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2022 and May 2025.
Registration for the conference is now open 🥳 There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes) We can't wait to see everyone in July!! eventbrite.co.uk/e/understandin…
She was the dedicatee of Georgette de Montenay’s ‘Emblemes’, a major source for #EstherInglis. She was also mother of Catherine de Bourbon to whom Esther gave a MS. #FrenchWomen #Bourbons
🌸 Happy Mother’s Day to the ‘Mother of the Huguenots’ – Jeanne d’Albret! 🌸 Queen of Navarre (1555–1572), Jeanne was a fearless Protestant leader and mother of Henry IV of France. Text continued under image.