Is it just me, or has bluesky just turned into threads and x? I get all the political drama that I'm trying to not invest all my time into.

29th September is the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. Here are the angelic orders of Seraphs, Cherubs, and Thrones. BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.6r

My inbox is getting away from me 😩

Reading up on the mester de clerecia poetry and looking out the window. I've got a lot to catch up on this weekend

I can't say I'm surprised 😢 #reading www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#Skystorians I’d like to workshop some of my research (preferably some time next year) and am looking for fitting conferences or seminars that welcome interdisciplinary work and material culture studies. Does anyone have suggestions? #EarlyModern #HistSci #ArtHistory #HistTech 🗃️

So, Kim Davis, happily in her fourth marriage following some rocky affairs, is the champion of Biblical marriage. If I wrote a book with a character like that, it would be considered far-fetched. God bless America

General question for #booksky, #academicsky, #earlymodern, #medieval, #literature people: what are you reading right now? As for me, just finished Reception (Willis), working my way through Berceo (about to read Santo Domingo de Silos), Historia Apolonii for #latin practice and for my 🧵

In 8 weeks of intensive #Latin, you have to learn the most essential terms, like "interficio," which means "to kill." Or "neco," "to kill." Or "occido," "to kill." Or "caedo," "to cut down" or "to kill." Or "deleo," "to blot out" or "to destroy." This has been such an enriching opportunity

Hentist and harepist BL Stowe 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.92v

While taking intensive latin this summer has been exhausting, there is something special about it. Cur verba antiqua tam magica sunt? ✨

Brace yourselves. It’s the 448th anniversary today of the documented and very real appearance of the Terrifying! Satanic! One-Eyed! ghost dog Black Shuck at two churches in Suffolk, where he wilfully murdered “two persons, as they were kneeling uppon their knees, and occupied in prayer”

Reminder. We'll be accepting submissions for our panel on #satan in #earlymodern Europe until tomorrow. Come join us at #rensa26 #sin #demonicpacts

Greetings #earlymodern friends, the deadline for submissions for this #cfp on #satan, #sin, #demonicpacts has been extended to August 3! Come join us at @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in San Francisco! #rensa26 More details on flyer or at tinyurl.com/76rw4cz7. Please spread the word!

I taught my students to build audio soundscapes today to use as a tool of historical analysis and I am having so much fun listening to their tracks and reading their thoughtful reflections. They used this woodcut by Sebald Beham as their visual inspiration: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Greetings #earlymodern friends, the deadline for submissions for this #cfp on #satan, #sin, #demonicpacts has been extended to August 3! Come join us at @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in San Francisco! #rensa26 More details on flyer or at tinyurl.com/76rw4cz7. Please spread the word!

Why not start your week with blowing the perfect soap bubbles while running naked and jumping over a skull?

Let's talk about the seduction of #satan in #earlymodern Europe. How are people drawn into acts of evil, demonic pacts, or sinful lives? What do these tales teach us about ourselves and society? Looking forward to hearing from you and chatting, both at #rensa2026 and beyond! #cfp #earlymodernsky

Here's another example of how the idea that James was buried in Compostela was part of the Nordic medieval worldview. This is the opening of the Saga of Flores and Blankiflor, which includes a pagan raid on Jakubs landi, which is to say Galicia. [AM 489 4to, vol.II f.27v; courtesy of handrit.is]

Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...

I learned a fun new word today: ultracrepidarian [uhl-truh-krep-i-dair-ee-uhn] "Noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside their area of expertise."

I’m reading a very dutiful, brilliant, thorough monograph by a scholar who built an illustrious career with such books- nothing too flashy, featuring reasoned arguments with other scholars, offering new readings, new information. It is what should bring success in academia and it’s slipping away

Last year I read about academia's hidden curriculum in "A Field Guide to Grad School." (@jessicacalarco.com) It was a good intro to a lot of things I didn't know coming in, but whew, I feel like I'm living the source material for a sequel at times 😅

Just a few days left to apply!!! #RenSA26 #academicsky #earlymodern #religion #monkabulous #nuntastic #reformazing #16thC #17thC #18thC

Deadline extended until August 3!!! #RenSA26 #earlymodern #skystorians #academicsky #16thC #17thC #18thC #nuntastic #reformazing #monkabulous

Worship in Transition: Liturgical Change, Continuity and Adaptation in Sixteenth-Century Europe Lille, France, September 15-17, 2025 Plenary Speakers: Professor Marjorie E. Plummer; Professor Magnus Williamson #Skystorians #Reformazing www.rensoc.org.uk/event/worshi...

Good morning, #earlymodern friends! I'm reposting my #cfp as we come into the final week of submissions. This panel will explore the topics of #satan #demonicpacts and #evil, particularly regarding those who unwittingly chose their fate. Join us at @rsaorg.bsky.social 's 2026 conference! #rensa26

Hildegard is hot!

Thanks to those who have shared! Come talk about #earlymodern #Satan at #rensa26

Hundreds of Charlottesvillians protested abusive Trump-administration interference in UVA, culminating in the ouster of President Jim Ryan. UVA Rotunda, July 4, 2025. Organized by Indivisible Charlottesville.

Beware the terrifying infernal locusts! BL Add 11695; The 'Silos Apocalypse'; 1091-1109; Spain, N; f.133v

Sharing this #CFP "Gendered Power Dynamics & the Arts: Cultural Representations" This panel invites abstracts exploring how global contemporary cultural production represents & critiques gendered & sexed power dynamics found in academic & artistic spaces. #gender #mla mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...

The earliest known depiction of a crop circle is in The Mowing-Devil (1678), a 5-page pamphlet which recounts a labor dispute ending with an unwitting deal with the devil, and a field mown in way “that no Mortal Man was able to do the like”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #cropcircles

Some unintended witchcraft from c17 Wiltshire. #FolkloreThursday www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/involun...

Left image: Sticking your tongue out for a selfie in the 2020s. Right image: Sticking your tongue out like the #earlymodern sea monster you are in 1687 trying to impress sailors and express your deeply rooted contempt for humanity. #skystorians

Interested in chatting about #satan, #evil, and #demonicpacts in #earlymodern Europe? Check out our #cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social 's 2026 conference in San Francisco #rensa26. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

How it feels to be a student at #UVA right now: 'There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle', said Hermione grimly. [...] 'How about: "progress for progress's sake must be discouraged [...] 'It means the Ministry's interfering at Hogwarts.'

I love a good footnote

Not that I always agreed with the #UVApresident, but the government pressuring him to step down kind of flies in the face of all that limited government BS. The historical precedents are nightmare fuel.

Keeping this out there for #earlymodern #religiousstudies #literature #history scholars who study #satan, #evil, #pacts. Come join our conversation on the Seduction of Satan in Early Modern #Europe. #cfp #academicsky #rensa26

Moving day just so happened to be the first day of Intensive Latin. Valeo bene, sed langueo. 😴

My advisor, @fatricky.bsky.social , is organizing a panel for @rsaorg.bsky.social #rensa26 on #maps in the 16th century. Please share this with your #earlymodern friends.

I'll be reposting this for the next few weeks. I hope to meet some of you there! #earlymodern #religiousstudies #cfp #satan #demology #academicsky #rensa26 @rsaorg.bsky.social

Please join us online Tuesday, June 3 for the RSA Annual Member Meeting! Vote for a slate of nominees for positions on the Board of Directors & the Nominating Committee, and there will be a Q&A session as well. Details here ➡️ www.rsa.org/events/Event... #RenTwitter #earlymodern

#earlymodern scholars who work on #satan, I'm organizing a panel for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference. The topic is "Satan the Seductor: Willful and Unwitting Damnation in Early Modern Europe." @fatricky.bsky.social will be the chair. For #cfp info: tinyurl.com/76rw4cz7 See you there? #RenSA26

Delighted to share that The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition, which I edited with my wonderful colleagues @devilprof.bsky.social & @vetur.bsky.social, is finally out in the world. We hope its nearly thirty chapters give the devil his due! 😈 www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Where are the #earlymodern and #medieval scholars? I follow the feeds, but I'd like to find people to follow. Bonus points for those who work on #evil and #Satan. Say hi!

Hope you don't mind the suggestion. This NYT piece by @michaelerard.bsky.social explains our favourite technique for finding the writerly voice you want. (And @aeon.co is one of our favourite places for academic writers to "prime.") archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.