Dr. Sarah Joan Moran

Hear ye, hear ye! My book is in production! routledge.com/Unconventual-W…

#OTD in 1405, Countess Margaret III of Flanders, died. She succeeded her father Louis II in 1384. Her marriage to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy set in motion a process that would lead to the Burgundian State, one of the most powerful entities in 15th c. Europe.

Symposium: Thinking through Tea: Art, Resistance, and Global Entanglements in the Age of American Independence Thurs, May 7, 2026–Friday, May 8, 2026 Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall and *Livestream* britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-pr… Lunder Institute@ Yale Center for British Art

Practical online courses for those interested in / working with medieval and early modern manuscripts

Syracuse University conference "(In)Visible Faces, The Politics of Portraiture and Social Change, 1700-Present" (March 26 & 27) has been opened for online attendance! Program: events.syracuse.edu/event/invisibl… Day 1: syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/95971910776 Day 2 syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/94795854797

Tomorrow, Feb 11! Online seminar "Beguinal Echoes in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve by Dario Capelli (University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’)", Elisa Ramazzina 17:00 CET 🔗Zoom link: tinyurl.com/aumv88jz

Applications for RSA's Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship close on Sunday, March 1, 2026. $2,000 to support research travel for any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700. rsa.org/page/keberfell…

Very excited about this new edited volume from @Brepols! "Sicut in caelo": Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy Eds. Galliano Ciliberti, Thomas Neal brepols.net/products/IS-97…

How are your 2026 New Year's resolutions going? If one of those was to submit an abstract for our 2026 Conference, then you're in luck! The deadline has been extended to 28 Februrary! Do you have a topic connected to "Storytelling at Court"? If so, we want to hear from you! 👇

Fellowships at The Image Centre (IMC), Toronto IMC is Canada’s leading institution dedicated to the exhibition, research and collecting of photography. Fellowships available for emerging and established scholars, as well as artists. theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/ Deadline March 15

CFP: The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society 2026-2027 This Seminar series involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress. Focus on history of women in the USA. Deadline 15 April. masshist.org/seminars/histo…

Deadline Approaching! CFP: Conference, In Two Voices: The Patron Couple in the Late Middle Ages (14th–16th Centuries) University of Lausanne, 19-20 Oct 2026 Partial funding available Deadline 2 Feb unil.ch/news/176579196…

CFP! Special issue of the journal Religions "Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts" mdpi.com/journal/religi…)

CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026 Deadline: 28 February 2026 Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.

Hey #RenSA26 conference peeps! Maria Prendergast & I have 2 sessions on "Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe" *Thursday morning * I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/meeti… rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/meeti… Hope to see you!

Call for Papers – Special Issue of Art Journal Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700 Deadline March 1. Link for submissions: mdpi.com/journal/arts/s…

In 1654-55 a visitation was conducted at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. Dozens of Beguines were interviewed. The biggest complaint: too many (boarding & day school) children at the Beguinage! They made noise & filled up the church so that Beguines couldn't attend services!

Antoinette de Bourbon, Duchess of Guise, died on this day in 1583 thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2013/05/17/ant…

Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmedie…

Check out this Postdoc position below!