Day 2 and kenote by Louise Nyholm Kallestrup "Margins of Experience: Witch Trials, Conspiracy, and Godly Power" Great day ahead!

Rousing start to second day of Histories of Experience conference at Tampere University with fascinating keynote address by @witchykallestrup.bsky.social on "Margins ot Experience: Witches, Conspiracy and Godly Power."

Pleased to get my hands on this (my original copy was taken by the piskies/befuddled/waylaid) 👏 🗃️ @odavies9.bsky.social @witchykallestrup.bsky.social

Terror on the streets? Contemporary neo-fascism at large ...

Trump’s America? This. Is. Wrong.

Today, people all over Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) took to the streets, to show our contempt for the American bullying of our nations. We will not bow to threats. Greenland belong to its people! #KalaallitNunaatTapersersorparput #MakeAmericaGoAway

Service info to the confused or derailed, this is the true flag 🇬🇱 #greenland

Christ giving the keys to Peter, 1482. Extra scenes in background, w/ people throwing stones at Christ (on right) are A+ use of deep space. Painted in the Sistine Chapel by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.

Such a pleasure talking to @janalena.bsky.social for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !

For all Danes interested in our own witch-hunting history, I can suggest tuning in to DR2 on Monday 📺 (or Sunday for streaming) Here, I - and other lovely people such as @witchykallestrup.bsky.social - feature in DRs new four episode documentary “Heksejagt”. #Skystorians #hextag 🗃️

The CfP is out for next year's HEX Centre for the History of Experience conference: Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures 8th Annual Conference, Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere Uni. events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...

Looking forward to this!

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I'm delighted to announce that I've just been appointed by @cambridgeup.bsky.social to edit a brand new and exciting Elements series, 'Elements in Folklore' (with Dr Tabitha Stanmore), which will aim to publish the latest research in folklore that's 20-30k words long! #folklore 📚

Just finished this today. Brilliant and a great read. Kudos, @witchykallestrup.bsky.social ! #skystorians #earlymodern

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

Wonderful Folklore and Mythology symposium on Magic and Legend last Saturday at @harvard.edu Great talks and homage to Prof. Stephen Mitchell. #witchcraft #folklore folkmyth.fas.harvard.edu/2025-magic-a...

Post Doc! "Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture" Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #Skystorians 🗃

Today this is out on @routledgehistory.bsky.social ! If you wish to read about the Danish link to the North Berwick trials, Christian IV and the divine duty to eradicate witches in Denmark in early 17th century, go get your copy 🏃📖 #earlymodern #history #witchhunts www.routledge.com/The-Construc...

9 Mar 1619: Queen Anne of #Denmark's body begins lying in state at Somerset House - and stays there till 13 May

There's still time to get your abstracts in for the CREMS Magic and Witchcraft conference! Please share widely in this low-algorithm world 💌

Ch 2 'Day of Wrath', demonstrates how an Apocalyptic ideas were disseminated through visual and oral media by Danish Lutheran reformers in the one space where everybody gathered: the parish church. Out 31 March on @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Anne of Denmark - a dog person, of course.

Paul van Somer Anne of Denmark & a Groom Signed and dated 1617 The half-hidden groom wears Oldenburg livery. The new works by Inigo Jones at Oatlands are seen in the background. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

Soon this is out on @routledgehistory.bsky.social .I argue that #witchcraft in DK was constructed through the eschatology and the ideals for good Christian people of the reformers, and the strive for the godly state of the early 17c. A godly ruler had a divine duty to eradicate witches #earlymodern

He didn’t put his hand on the Bible when swearing in. Probably because that would set it on fire.

The 6 vol. Cultural history of magic will be published by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social in Sep.25. I edited vol.4 on enlightenment/decline featuring the dream line-up of Lizanne Henderson @janetanderson.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social, Paul Monod, PG Maxwell-Stuart, Lisa Tallis & Tom Waters

“We know how they treat the Inuit in Alaska,” Lynge hit back. “Make that great before trying to invade us.”

The research assistants are wishing you all a very merry Christmas with their usual condescending look 🎄✨

Extremely proud of this work with the wonderful Stephen Mitchell. Available for pre-order: A Cultural History of Magic, 6 vols. 🔮🧿🧙‍♀️ #bloomsburyacademics #magic #witchcraft www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

genAI is sexist AF. its bibliographies are all you can cite sausage buffet. this may reproduce the bias of training data, but honestly it also looks like it *exaggerates* it. #WomenAlsoKnowHistory

@profrichfg.bsky.social this'll get you going. There's an emotion research one too in my profile. go.bsky.app/EqzZWma

I've been sitting on this picture for a while. I think a new master in the art of punctuation has announced themselves.

23 Nov 1558: New Queen Elizabeth rides to #London accompanied by 1,000 lords, ladies & gents #otd (NPG) crowned 23 Jan 1559

Part 2 of The Long Seventeenth Century is here! I will continue to add to this (& create a Part 3 if necessary). If I missed any scholars or you would like to be added, do let me know. I will link Part 1 below. Do consider sharing to enable scholars to (re)connect on here! go.bsky.app/3Jh4Mdq

In 1618 Mette Mouritsdatter supposedly cast evil on a woman as revenge for disparaging her cake. Just a reminder now Christmas is coming. #earlymodern #witchtrials

How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half. @camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️ www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...

Now we just need the updated cover. Out March 19 2025 #earlymodern #history #witchcraft #routledge www.routledge.com/The-Construc...

The CFP for the Society of Reformation Studies' Annual Conference has been released! The theme is 'Reformation and Violence' but topics outside this are very welcome. Please share! #earlymodern #reformazing #skystorians #history www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-reform...