Hannah Murphy
@hsmurphy
Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race Author
ALSO chaired the launch of Holly Fletcher's wonderful new book this week - so new work and new thinking all round.
And that was preceded by our first article workshop - I cannot wait for everyone else to see the fantastic research - vegetal thinking, angry women, anodyne necklaces and humanist printers.
This was on the heels of Jonathan Sheehan's talk on his @princetonupress.bsky.social "On the Altar", a virtuoso display of the eddies and flows of sacrifice
The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green - an incredible microhistory of Crispina Peres and her travails with the inquisition www.penguin.co.uk/books/453870...
@fayboundalberti.bsky.social's The Face: A Cultural History. Reviews in The Times, The Telegraph, the FT and the New Statesmen all agree it's 'fascinating' and I'm here to confirm. www.penguin.co.uk/books/459227...
Smart: A history of intelligence by David Brydan - a compelling account of the idea of intelligence and sometimes terrifying, sometimes incisive, occasionally quite comic work it does in politics and society footnotepress.com/books/smart/
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
My absolute FAVOURITE thing we have done @kingshistory.bsky.social is our new research seminar. External speakers, but also, *mostly* our own colleagues and their research. So far we've had departing colleagues, new Microhistories, and ECRS - we're squeezed like sardines and it is WONDERFUL🗃️
Can hardly believe it is GO TIME for our Very Big, Truly Exciting, capstone project conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World. Looking forward to day one.... 🗃️ #EarlyModern #Histmed
Fun/intimidating/inspiring to return to my long-running side hustle on early modern calligraphy in the wonderful company of @komldsp.bsky.social, hopefully more soon....
A terrible photo from our project trip to "The Black Atlantic" but still thinking about the way in which the medium of the 'album' changes the way we can think about Wenceslaus Holler's engraved character studies of Black Africans: what does it mean to cut up, collect, and assemble in this way?
A new to me Black Balthasar from a c.1520 anonymous follower of Rogier van der Weldon at the glorious Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, (throwing back to our Visible Skin exhibition renaissanceskin.ac.uk/visibleskin/ ) #Earlymodern