Italian History
Scholars with interest in medieval, early modern, and modern Italy
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@rmidura.bsky.social
@sisambiente.bsky.social
Promoting Environmental History in and about Italy🌱
@dramaltempi.bsky.social
Historian of early modern Sicily focused on cultural and intellectual history/Mediterranean identity/ early modern concepts of race. Editor of H-Sicily. Assistant Professor of History.
@marylaven.bsky.social
Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
@azzab.bsky.social
Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
@sdallaglio.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of EM history at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and team member at @vedph.bsky.social | Posts on Renaissance Florence, Digital & Public History, and beyond |
@stefanovil.bsky.social
Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
@lucowitz.bsky.social
📜 Historian of the Early Modern Mediterranean & Islamic 🌍 | Exploring Thoughts, Things, & Landscapes 🏞️ | Post-Doc @Freie Universität Berlin 🔍 | Antifascist
@dmoore26.bsky.social
Historian of women's history, nationalism, and religion in the 19th century (mostly Italy and Britain). Adjunct Asst Prof at John Jay College, CUNY
@michalyoudoing.bsky.social
History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI Translating 17th century Astronomy texts Author: -The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it -Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
@delphinemontoliu.bsky.social
Docteure en études italiennes (Univ. Toulouse II / SNS Pisa) Chercheure associée Il Laboratorio - Univ. Toulouse II Membre Honoraire de la Società Modicana per la Storia Patria. > Académies et érudits de la Sicile des XVe-XVIIe s. > Lettres Classiques - DH
@martinamampieri.bsky.social
MSCA Global Fellow @ Penn and Modena • Author of "Living under the Evil Pope" (Brill 2020) • Co-Ed H-Judaic & EMoDiR • prev fellow @HebrewU, Oxford, Harvard, Göttingen, IRHT/CNRS #earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory 📍 Philadelphia
@drgillhistory.bsky.social
Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Writing a book on a monastery for repentant prostitutes. Open University. Feminist. Strong words; weak tea. UCU rep. She/her.
@pemorel.bsky.social
Bibliothécaire @labnf.bsky.social • Médiéviste & moderniste • Condottières, Colleoni, Italie(s) & Renaissance(s) 🇮🇹⚔ • Secrétaire @assomnemosyne.bsky.social • Parfois au micro de @cc2s.bsky.social 🎙️ • il/lui 🏳️🌈✨ • 🌻🌿✊
@gsalice.bsky.social
Professore di Storia Moderna | Diaspora e colonizzazioni | Digital and Public History | Direttore del Centro per le Digital Humanities alla Università di Cagliari | consiglio direttivo della Associatione Italiana di Public History (AIPH)
@jillburke.bsky.social
Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, senior fellow Turin Humanities Programme, committee member @srsrensoc.bsky.social
@janalena.bsky.social
Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
@gcalafat.bsky.social
Historian, early modern period, Mediterranean shipwrecks Associate Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHMC) Institut Universitaire de France (Junior Member) Editor of Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (@annales.ehess.fr)
@lauriestras.bsky.social
Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton; director @musicasecreta.bsky.social
@dburgersdijk.bsky.social
Classical Scholar | Late Antiquity | Reception Studies | Valerius Maximus | Hugo Grotius | Classical Education | Romanticism | Suriname @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
@wouterwagemakers.bsky.social
Art and architectural historian of renaissance Italy at Leiden University. Also in possession of a law degree
@sanaramore.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ Notre Dame | Social & Cultural Historian of Early Modern Italy | writing about the Florentine countryside, historical memory, identity, & state-building
@jakedyble.bsky.social
Post-doctoral researcher in Padua 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 Early modern and medieval commercial law, capitalism, slavery
@xruiztru.bsky.social
International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
@parriblue.bsky.social
Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on water & growth in the Po Valley (Italy). All things #rivers #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
@vandawilcox.bsky.social
professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
@dianahenderson.bsky.social
Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
@hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social
H-Sicily is a network focused on the history of the Kingdom of Sicily & premodern Southern Italy (Naples, Sardinia, etc.) from circa 200 to 1800 CE. Find us on H-Net: https://networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
@jessicaminieri.bsky.social
PhD candidate Binghamton University • Incoming Research Resident (25-26), La Capraia (Naples) • Editor H-Sicily • Studying the histories of gender, imprisonment, & empire in the lands of the Crown of Aragon • She/her https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
@blairapgar.bsky.social
Asst. Prof (LT) @ Elon | Mixed bag Medievalist obsessed w/Matilda of Canossa, video games, virtual reality & 3D models. PhD @ UofYork 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (They/Them)
@lauramorreale.bsky.social
Independent Scholar/Medieval Francophonie & Italian Historiographies. http://digitalhumanitiesddp.com, http://tcf.lauramorreale.com, http://dalme.org.
@larsdoepking.bsky.social
Historical Sociologist | State Capacities, Taxation & Capitalism in Western Europe; Sociological Theory; Italy since 1945 | WiMi @dhiroma.bsky.social, more info: http://dhi-roma.it/index.php?id=doepking
@susandalton.bsky.social
Professeure d’histoire, Université de Montréal ; Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830, Routledge, 2023 https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Mediation-and-Popular-Education-in-Venice-17601830/Dalton/p/book/9781032190969
@susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social
Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
@christopheschfir.bsky.social
Historian. Working at Tilburg University. Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
@emeffem.bsky.social
Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars
@evelynwelch.bsky.social
Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
@leo.vansnippenburg.nl
Early modern historian | migrants and identity in early modern Livorno | RMa student @ Utrecht University | 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹
@ebwood.bsky.social
Assistant Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum || ABD in art history || art & architecture of early modern Spain & Italy || she/her || heads up: there will be Red Sox posts
@ninalamal.bsky.social
Historian | Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) | #earlymodern publishing, politics, and diplomacy | The Low Countries, the Italian peninsula & the Holy Roman Empire | Archive dweller, coffee-lover, and pasta-addict
@jamespqr77.bsky.social
Historian of medieval Italy; dad; cook; hockey fan, Michigander https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0656-9110
@toffolosandra.bsky.social
Historian of mobility, space, and the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in the early modern period, particularly Venice. Works at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
@jessemlocker.bsky.social
Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth.
@satyrane.bsky.social
Professor at UEA. Medievalist, Early Modernist, Italianist. Views are very much not those of my employer, by some measure. Inglese italianato.
@barbarasplendor.bsky.social
Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Neapolitan. Researcher at Ministry of Agriculture, Padua. Yale PhD
@stefanbauer.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History at KCL, Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23
@crosehistorian.bsky.social
early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | loud Canadian
@cebenes.bsky.social
Medievalist, typography nerd, data wrangler, and occasional costume designer. Secret superpower = toasting the perfect marshmallow. Sfera Project co-PI. Would rather be in Rome.
@norellehan.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Stanford thinking about gender, sexuality, & labor in #earlymodern Italy. Researcher and writer for "Noble Blood" from iHeartMedia. Incurable gossip, dog park regular, proud union member (x2). they/she linktr.ee/norellehan
@digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in history @UofT | early modern festivals | Coordinator, Digital Soundscapes Project @decimauot.bsky.social | Junior Fellow at Victoria College | She/her
@tomaashby.bsky.social
Historian • Soon JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social nominated @britishacademy.bsky.social • Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social • Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social • PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social • alum @qmul.ac.uk & @kebleoxford.bsky.social • autistic
@cathfletcher.bsky.social
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.
@barrytorch.bsky.social
He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
@adapalmer.bsky.social
Novelist (SF, fantasy), historian (Renaissance Europe, intellectual history, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Viking stuff), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, cool photos of history (#SomethingBeautiful) Blog exurbe.com
@amandamadden.bsky.social
Asst Prof of History/affiliate fac @chnm and GMU. Author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell UP, 2025). Co-PI of Mapping Violence in EM Italy and La Sfera. Rock climber, heavy metal enthusiast, KPop fan
@celestemcnamara.bsky.social
Historian @ Dublin City University. Author of The Bishop’s Burden (Catholic UP). Currently working on the policing of illicit sexuality in 18th century Venice. For more see www.celestemcnamara.com.
@alexbamji.bsky.social
Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
@rmidura.bsky.social
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.