Ariane Fichtl

Finally holding it in hands! L’Europe des Lumières no. 69! ✨

@IHRjournal Great article, @vitticomacchi !

[🆕OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE 🔓] Maria Vittoria Comacchi (Universita Ca’ Foscari), “Representation of space(s): cosmography and world history in Guillaume Postel’s De universitate liber (1552)” IHR 36 (1): 133-156. doi.org/10.1080/174969….

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS cam.ac.uk/jobs/universit…

Programme is online and registration is open! More than 20 speakers from all over the world are coming to Copenhagen to discuss religious embodiment and conversion practices on the 23rd and 24th of April! 🌸✨ 👇🏻 saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/histo…

It's out in the wild!

Now on FirstView: Abolition on the eve of revolution? Jennifer Pitts and Michael F. Suarez, S.J., examine Condorcet’s French translation of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s influential antislavery treatise and analyze its reception in France bit.ly/4rkICX0

My heart aches for this innocent soul, left to endure suffering in a place where mercy should have prevailed. No life deserves to be broken by cruelty, neglect, and the absence of human compassion.#StopCruelty @1animaladvocate @animals_cn @AnonyMouse_real @ayfer_levent

❗CfA 📢 "Ricercatore Tenure Track" in Early Modern Histoy 🎓Università degli Studi di Milano ⏰Deadline: 9 February 2026, 12:00 🔗unimi.it/it/ateneo/lavo… #EarlyModernHistory

Hope to commission about a dozen reviews/essays for Modern Intellectual History in 2026–especially interested in new books/essay ideas focusing on Asia, Africa and South America but open to all ideas. Do reach out if you have one: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The call for papers for next term’s Modern History Postgraduate Seminar is now open! The deadline is 15 January 2026. #CfP #ModernHistory

Today! And feel free to come along even if the event says booked out...

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @ERC_Research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link & more info in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Deadline: ‼️ Feb. 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

Friends of God and Slaves of Men by Kevin Bales and Michael Rota The first book-length study of religious responses to slavery across faiths from antiquity to the present day. 📘 cup.org/3Ku8bVE

In bookstores in January, 2026. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/back-t…

A Kind Request From @RickyGervais... "I wonder if you could do me a favour? Whenever you hear that someone is planning to get a Cat or a Dog, try to persuade them to adopt instead of buying from a breeder. There are so many beautiful, unlucky and forever- grateful pets who have been abandoned and deserve a good home. Never buy from a pet shop and always at least check out your local rescue centre. I bet you'll fall in love. Thanks." ~ Ricky. 🐾 Ricky pictured with his rescue cat Picklicious Fatkins the First, or Pickle for short. ❤️ #AdoptDontShop 🙏

How do free people become slaves? In John Samuel Harpham's debut book, we learn that early modern English authors found their justification for slavery in ancient Roman law. In ancient Rome, enslavement was the common fate of war captives who otherwise faced execution. This history informed early modern writers like John Locke and Hugo Grotius as they developed their own theories of common law and natural rights. Over time, English observers saw the enslavement of Africans as a natural, legitimate extension of Roman ideas The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery reveals the power of precedent in the shameful history of human bondage. "Searing, unsettling, and strikingly original." —@jill_lepore "A thrilling intellectual adventure." —@KAnthonyAppiah Keep reading: bit.ly/4pg6078

Leo XIV reminds the world that the birth of a child 2000 years ago in Bethlehem was the first manifestation of the "path of littleness". Why papal diplomacy is not insignificant by @edemontety in @Le_Figaro 👇 ""But let us acknowledge that Leo XIV can only practice the diplomacy of symbol. It is not insignificant, however. He summed it up in a single phrase, in Turkey, by speaking of “the path of littleness.” This expression was perfectly understood in a country where Christians now represent only a tiny share of the population, as in Lebanon, where their number is decreasing. But it stands out in an age when powers—whether China, the United States, or Russia—impose relations based on power through technology, trade, or the military. "A pope does not travel to strike deals (...). In Beirut, where he arrived yesterday for the second part of his trip, the image the world will likely retain is undoubtedly that of the pontiff praying in silence at the port of the Lebanese capital, the site of a devastating explosion in 2020. He will not propose reconstruction solutions or a political plan, but will offer only his silent prayer. "Prayer as a response to the surrounding din. As Christians enter the season of Advent, Leo XIV reminds the world that the birth of a child two thousand years ago, in Bethlehem, was an insignificant event from a human perspective, especially compared with the power of Herod or that of Rome. Yet it irrevocably transformed human history. It was the first manifestation of “the path of littleness.” "

New in paperback! Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions | Reveals new connections between war, revolution and forced migration in an era usually associated with a quest for liberty. | 📘 cup.org/4nQp3Ub #europeanhistory

Three more weeks until the deadline! Join us in Copenhagen to discuss religious embodiment and conversion practices in early modern Europe and beyond on the 23rd and 24th of April 2026!

Now on FirstView: The “Woman’s Seed”? Ariane Viktoria Fichtl @threadofariane analyzes the discourse on “mental metempsychosis” that challenged the concept of the heritability of slavery and was at the heart of immediate abolitionism in Britain bit.ly/3JI5XBC