T. Twining
@tntwining
Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. Post-doc at KU Leuven. Previously research fellow @CaiusCollege. Social media @_EMoDiR_
And it’s out! My book is now available online: cambridge.org/core/books/lim… From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in post-Reformation Europe.
Now out: the EMoDiR Newsletter for June 2025, compiled by @martinamampy and Francesco Quatrini! Check it out for news on new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, cfps and much much more! Link below
Today!
I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and to register for Zoom see below.
It’s one week to go until the @RSAorg Annual Meeting in Boston! We’ll be there with a panoply of EMoDiR panels, organised by Matteo Al Kalak and @martinamampy. We can’t wait to see you! #RenTwitter #RenSA25 #RSABoston25
Now out: the EMoDiR Newsletter for March 2025, compiled by @martinamampy and Francesco Quatrini! Check it out for news on new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, cfps and much much more! Link below.
The Jesuit Studies Café (@IAJSBC) is back for Spring 2025! Starting next week you can (virtually) attend a series of conversations with prominent scholars and their recent books, starting with Barton T. Geger. See this flyer, or the link below.
New publication! Kirsten Macfarlane’s Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2024) offers an alternative account of early modern popular religion by reconstructing an unstudied community of c17th puritan immigrants to North America.
TRN Book List! Five Must-Reads on the Early Modern Vernacular Bible selected by Timothy Twining buff.ly/40uqOxK
Drawing on a mass of archival sources, Timothy Twining reconstructs the religious, cultural, and institutional contexts in which the text of the Old Testament was considered and contested throughout post-Reformation Europe. tinyurl.com/bdd53j6u
New Special Issue of Church History and Religious Culture: "Religious Practices, Boundaries, and Institutions: Historiographical Debates and New Perspectives in Early Modern Italian History." Ed. by Sabina Pavone and @stefanovil Link below (includes OA). #Twitterstorians
A thread of things I am especially pleased to have written this year, on sages, mountebanks and monarchs (1/)
‘It is strange but necessary to acknowledge that the person often held responsible for the witch-hunt of the Labourd is the main reason why we know of its existence at all.’ Read the introduction of The Basque Witch-Hunt by @DrJanMachielsen bit.ly/40BSyBi
Recent updates, new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, prizes, and much much more... It's December's EMoDiR Newsletter! Compiled by @martinamampy and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here: academia.edu/125940588/EMoD… #Twitterstorians #EarlyModern
My book is now available for pre-order at CUP—where you can also take a look inside: cambridge.org/gb/universityp… This flyer will get you a 20% discount!
My favorite essay and reviews this year—in no particular order. 1. Anton Jäger, “Hyperpolitics in America”: newleftreview.org/issues/ii149/a…