Proofs have arrived! I'm both absolutely thrilled and gripped with typo-phobia. In any case, the book is almost real! #NUNTASTIC

Did you know that #EarlyModern #LowCountries women owned property, & their parents never paid dowries? Check out my *free* article, "Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture: Gender, Property Rights, & the Financing of the Flemish Baroque." emlc-journal.org/article/view...

The stairwell of Mousa Broch on the western shore of the Island of Mousa in the Shetland Isles. The broch was constructed in the Iron Age in around 100 BC. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #Mousa #Shetland #Archaeology

The image of St. Begga as protector of the Beguines and beghards, in Van Ryckel's Vita S. Beggae, was modeled after images of St. Teresa of Avila. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

The image of St. Begga as protector of the Beguines and beghards, in Van Ryckel's Vita S. Beggae, was modeled after images of St. Teresa of Avila. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

The earliest known altarpiece from a Beguine Church depicting St. Begga as founder of the Beguines. From the Leuven Grand Beguinage Church, early 17th c. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

St. Begga of Andenne, with the seven Holy Pilgrimage Churches of Rome, by Adriaen Collaert in 1616. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.

Ansegisel and St. Begga, the purported first Duchess of Brabant, in a print of c. 1600 and Rubens' imaginative portrait of 1616. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

Mooie vacature voor een promovendus op het onderwerp protest en gender in de 16de eeuwse Zuidelijke Nederlanden bij mijn collega @maartjevg.bsky.social aan @uvahumanities.bsky.social en Jelle Haemers bij de KULeuven: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr... #twitterstorians #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

Hear ye, hear ye! My book is in production! www.routledge.com/Unconventual...

Grand mistres Philipotte Dysembaert of the Small Court Beguinage of Ghent rebuilt her community's church in the mid-17th century, resulting in the building standing today. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #nuntastic #ArtHistory

On June 4 of 1622, 345 Brussels Beguines, along with the Archducchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, walked in a procession in honor of the miraculous Our Lady of Laken. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August! www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

The Brussels Grand Beguinage, called the Vineyard, in a print of c. 1726 in Sanderus's Chorographia sacra. Look at all the traffic around the gate! Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

📢 NEW PROJECT BLOG POST 📢 Something a bit different from our 'Will of the Month' posts... 📜 Our Principal Investigator, Jane Whittle, explains the different ways we can approach and work with 30,000 will transcriptions 🧵1/3 #EarlyModern @uoearchhist.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany 9 June 6-8pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social welcomes @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social. Her book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness=wealth & thinness=poverty www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

The Grand Beguinage of Mechelen outside the city walls, in Guicciardini's Descrittione, 1567. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

Interior of Bruge's Beguinage Church of St. Elisabeth, with 17th-c altars and 18th-c choir fence and choir stalls. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

Panel in Ghent's St. Peter's church showing Beguine Joosyne van Doorislaere of the city's Beguinage of St. Elisabeth being healed of an illness by the Virgin Mary in 1603. Want to know more about Beguines? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #ArtHistory

Grand mistres Philipotte Dysembaert of the Small Court Beguinage of Ghent rebuilt her community's church in the mid-17th century, resulting in the building standing today. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #nuntastic #ArtHistory

Daily photos from the Niguliste Museum in Tallinn. Workshop of Bernt Notke (from Lübeck), late 15th c., "Dance of Death", details from the remaining fragment (7m of the original 30m). Fragile and deteriorated, but a strong image and a reminder that great art was produced outside Flanders and Italy.

By the 1250s, St. Christopher's Court Beguinage in Liège had around 1000 members! You can still visit their 1254 church. Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August: www.routledge.com/Unconventual... #EarlyModern #nuntastic #ArtHistory

Coming out in July. The first full length academic study of Jane Seymour’s life and queenship. Based on extensive archival research, meet a Jane who was far from meek and mild. #livesofroyalwomen #janeseymour #queenjaneseymour #tudor #tudors

The supper at Emmaus, 1705, engraved after Titian by #SuorIsabellaPiccini (born #ElisabettaPiccini, Italian, 1644–1734). Held by @britishmuseum.bsky.social; source, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i... #womenartists #artherstory #nuntastic

Op 14 mei 1942 werden 21 Joodse vrouwen gevangengezet in de gevangenis in Scheveningen. De reden: zij wilden trouwen met een niet-Joodse man. Ik sprak over mijn onderzoek naar deze vrouwen met journalist Victor Posthuma van Omroep West. www.omroepwest.nl/cultuur/5089...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Spotted this 15thC boss of the last supper in the cloister at Norwich Cathedral when visiting recently. It's making wonderfully varied use of perspective but I was most intrigued about the table spread, which says rather more about late medieval England than Roman Judea. Let's decode it! 1/5

You can see some of Koerten's work at the fantastic "Unforgettable: Women artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750" exhibition at the MSK in Ghent! www.mskgent.be/en/exhibitio...

And a great read it is!

I wonder if a Beguine ever had a pet eel.

The Journal Religions is putting together a special issue: " Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts" Submissions due Sept 1. www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...

This one is wild! We need to de-marginalize Spanish painting in Western art history. So much unique and fascinating stuff to discuss.

I’m thrilled that my article on Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy is currently being featured by the Historical Women Project. You can read it in English or in Dutch here: www.historicalwomenproject.nl/post/vrouwen... #womenwhoruledtheworld

📢 CFA - 3 Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History (35 months) within the project ‘Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy’ at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Deadline: 8 May 2026. jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs... Please circulate widely!

Yes!! And also please order & read Katlijne's latest book - Michaelina Wautier www.lundhumphries.com/products/mic...

Katlijne is an absolute TITAN in this field - not ony is her work incredible in itself, but she's opened up so many doors (and funding possibilities) for new scholarship on Low Countries women artists. Go listen to her on the podcast!

Check out this #nuntastic lady.

Free conference at Bowdoin College! Annual conference of the New England Medieval Consortium, with the theme "Reenvisioning the Medieval World(s) in the 21st Century.” April 10-11 Program: newenglandmedieval.org/upcoming/

CFP! Conference "Growing Up in the Early Modern World: Children, Institutions and Belonging" 26 November 2026 Macquarie University, Sydney Deadline 15 July #earlymodern

consulting my Book of Grievances

Symposium: Thinking through Tea: Art, Resistance, and Global Entanglements in the Age of American Independence Thursday, May 7, 2026–Friday, May 8, 2026 Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall and *Livestream* britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-... Lunder Institute@ Yale Center for British Art

This program is why I’m an art historian! If you have students from the LA area let them know!

McMaster university is hiring an Associate Professor or Professor with Tenur of History and Medicine. They are looking for someone whose work bridges humanities-based historical inquiry and contemporary infectious diseases scholarship. #histmed #histstm

AI is fundamentally a labor issue - and if after reading these testimonials from educators that @bcmerchant.bsky.social has collected you're not convinced it's time for a Luddite praxis in K-12 and higher education, then shit, I'm not sure what else to tell you.

Penitent #MaryMagdalene, c. 1620s, by #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia (Italian, c. 1596-c. 1676). Private collection; source, artherstory.net/portrayals-o... #artherstory #womenartists #SuorOrsolaMaddelenaCaccia #nuntastic

Vandaag is mijn nieuwe boek ‘Karel V’ officieel verschenen. Uiteraard zeer trots dat het resultaat van het harde, maar dankbare, werk eindelijk te zien is. Hopelijk valt de biografie van de keizer in de smaak 🙂

Ah! Kind of wish I was going to Antwerp again this spring to check out this Plants of Plantin exhibition. But I'm not - I'm going to Leiden to fangirl over Clusius where he worked. If anyone's got any tips for celebrating his 500th birthday, let me know! 🍄 museumplantinmoretus.be/nl/de-plante...

Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added. “I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs

Everyone should go pre-order Jonathan Spangler's book on the Bourbons. It's going to be fabulous!

Nominations for the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize are now open, which annually honors outstanding scholarship in the history of Christianity by a first-time author. Nominations close April 15, learn more: www.churchhistory.org/asch-awards/...