Category: News
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New publication – The Goldilocks Moment: Fire, Material Change, and Critical Time in Medieval Metallic Transmutation
Postdoc Carmen Schmechel has recently published her work on metallic transmutation in Ambix. The article explores how medieval Latin alchemists determined the “Goldilocks moment” in fire management: the exact moment to take the product from the fire. It is available open access here. Schmechel, C., 2025. “The Goldilocks Moment: Fire, Material Change, and Critical Time in Medieval…
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New publication – “Smoke and Sea”. Unveiling Food Preservation in Bronze Age Heiloo.
PhD researcher Tijmen Moesker has recently published an article in Metaaltijden 12. Bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden. His research sheds light on Bronze Age coastal inhabitants’ sophisticated understanding of food preservation techniques, focusing on archaeological evidence from Heiloo. The article is available here. Moesker, T.P., 2025. “Smoke and Sea”. Unveiling Food Preservation in Bronze…
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A Day in the Life at PRESERVARE
In March, we launched #ADayInTheLife, a new series on Bluesky, offering a glimpse behind the scenes of the PRESERVARE project. Check out the posts by:
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Historical Food Preservation: A Seminar Series
Together with the New York Botanical Garden’s Humanities Institute, we are launching an online seminar series. The series will bring together historians of science, art, and capitalism to explore the history of food preservation from a multidisciplinary and transregional perspective. Each session will feature two research presentations, followed by an open discussion, moderated by Marieke…
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Two exciting PhD openings
History PhD We are looking for an interdisciplinary PhD candidate with a background in the history of science or cultural history to join the project on 1 February 2025. This four-year position is aimed at developing a history of knowledge of brining and pickling in the early modern Low Countries through preservation as an analytical…