The following is from a few months back, but we had not shared the recording at this venue yet. The EURONEWS project has been working for a while on the news of what is perhaps the most stupefying siege from the early-modern period. The Siege of Ostend was so unusual because it lasted for no less than three years. Therefore, the EURONEWS project has worked for a long time to collect several reports coming from this event. This has led to a digital exhibition for which I have also written several contributions, and which can be visited here.
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Past Workshop: The Making and Unmaking of Identities
The last two days, I have participated in the workshop ‘The Making and Unmaking of Identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean’. A full grasp of the cultural and political dynamics within the Mediterranean are fundamental in order to better understand the manuscript newsletters from here. This region also takes a pivotal place within the news network in general. The workshop has proved to be most useful in this respect and I hope to be able to integrate these new insights into my dissertation.
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