I'm leading a class "High Finance in the Low Countries", Summer 2026 for @themimbresschool.bsky.social. About major financial operations, transactions & flows in the history of the Low Countries. Course Description now available. Syllabus to follow! Course artwork by @penkeeper.bsky.social

Mimbres School Spring 2026 🌱 The Dollar System w Colin Drumm Theology 101 w Sean Carpenter History of Zionism w Daniela Tolchinsky Ghost in the Machine w Jules Delisle Sign-ups open soon! mimbres.org

𝗟𝗮 𝗥𝗲́𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝘀-𝗕𝗮𝘀,𝟭𝟱𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟲𝟮𝟬 Par Christine Kooi Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/3ISoMS9 #Reformation #Theology #Protestantism #Religion #ReligiousHistory #LowCountries

It's Friday! Let's end the week with a map & some eels! Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread) Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5 🗃️🧪

Join my upcoming reading group with @themimbresschool.bsky.social ,Oct 25 (11AM DMT, Zoom). We’re discussing the new (2025) book “Lordship, Capitalism and the State in Flanders, 1250-1570” by F. Buylaert and M. Adriaens. On the relations betw lords, peasants, agrarian capitalists, towns, state, etc.

There is still time to start reading for my next reading group on July 6!

For my next reading group @themimbresschool.bsky.social we’ll think about the guilds & labour: Bert De Munck’s book Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800 (Routledge, 2017). July 6 at 10 AM MDT (6 PM Brussels). Interested? – pm etc!

It's a good start when the coins are involved on page 1

Excited to start reading De wereld van Clovis by @drdragases.bsky.social. Curious for your take on the fall of Rome, early medieval 'West', etc

This is going to be one of our best

Check out the Mimbres School reading schedule and tell me this isn't dope

In order to avoid confusion between a and b, throughout this book we will be calling a 'c and b 'd'

"Capital Women: The European Marriage Pattern, Female Empowerment and Economic Development in Western Europe 1300-1800" shows deteriorating conditions for women and emerging dependence on volatile non-kin arrangements for support, and ends with "THAT'S WHAT MAKES US THE BEST!"

sigh...

Fuck dire wolves, we need to de-extinct the Passenger Pigeon. We have the means! They only became extinct a century ago. With the right protections and resources, they can flourish again. But biotech wants big flashy megafauna for private trophy hunting ranches.

Megafauna disperse pathogens and ectoparasites. The End Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions led to an 85% reduction of pathogen dispersal, causing surviving species to become immunonaieve. This led to the rise of zoonotic disease and epizootics 🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Sounds about right. Excited to read more

Please allow me to (re)introduce myself: My name is Joy! I'm a practicing veterinarian, a fellow with the Mimbres School, and an interdisciplinary animal scholar. My YouTube Channel is Zoognosis with Joy! I'm teaching a course in Summer 2025 with the Mimbres School about Animal Domestication.

November 25 I'll be leading a reading group @themimbresschool.bsky.social on Bas Van Bavel's 2010 book Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500-1600. (This means there's still time for dedicated readers to sign up!).