Ahead of being moved into shared offices, I boxed up my books, or at least those books I think (/hope/pray) may still fit in the new space... Now what are the odds that at least one of these boxes will go missing in this gigantic merry go round? 🤔 🙃🙃🙃

The shop sign exhibition in the Musée Carnavalet really is a marvel of #earlymodern #18c and #19c life. Highly recommend (and it's free!)

"Brexit: The Hangover." The view from France.

It's time.

Prof. Lyndal Roper deserves this honour so much. Nobody is more inspiring, enthusiastic, and encouraging, and she is such a brilliant scholar. I'm honoured and very glad to have had the opportunity to pay tribute to her (even under an alias?!). Congratulations Lyndal!

My two great loves are whodunnits and 🐑, so this film was literally made for me. Turned out to be a really good murder mystery!

Ordered some replacement acrylic panels to restore the ancient green house in our garden and the name of the company really amuses me. 😂

Any early modernists out here who have any recommendations? I am drawing a blank here. #EarlyModern

This is important. As we face these unprecedented times in British Higher Education, with a huge swathe of jobs likely to go, remember to reach out for help before and after the redundancy meetings. There's a huge amount of practical advice and experience out there. 👇

Probably the most amusing email I ever received: A clearly automated email offering to turn my "recent paper Welcome" (the foreword of our latest journal issue 🤪) into a web experience. The supposedly personal PS is pretty legendary. 😂🤣

Team teaching this afternoon with Stefan Visnjevac on this afternoon's final lecture on our History of the Supernatural module. Also a shout out to @janmachielsen.bsky.social who couldn't be with us today but is a huge part of the module and ensuring happy students. Such a fun module to teach.

Last class of the semester: one student told me my #earlymodern #hextag module was her favourite of the year, another said it was a highlight of her time at Cardiff. A lovely reminder that the jobs matters. If only our institutions valued us even half as much as our students do.

Are you interested in #EarlyModern #history? Did you know there are at least 15 active hash tags and 42 starter packs here on BlueSky for you to explore? Check out this thread 🤓

Ugh. This email really beggars belief. Obviously only heterosexual men rent cars and for the sole purpose of impressing their female other half. 🙄

Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

"his prose is self-consciously metatheatrical—by turns, poetic, playful, incisive and laugh-out-loud funny. ... an author who knows how to bring a reader along with him, welcoming the uninitiated ... and offering the right amount of exposition at the right time." Thank you @extispex.bsky.social!

Reposting this with a few hashtags to try and catch more interest! #earlymodern #skystorians #16thc #premodern #bookhistory #materialculture #RenRef #Reformation #medievalsky #medieval

I am available for book reviews! Got shelves to fill :) #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

Fate saw fit to bestow the ultimate academic honour upon me: Introduced myself to someone at a conference, who replied "oh, I've read one of your articles" and then topped it up with "I liked that it was about how rural people weren't stupid" - perfect summary of pretty much my entire research 🎉

New article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. 'Louis XIV’s Attitude to the Chinese Rites Controversy': bit.ly/47NYgmk Dr Sean Heath offers an exploration of ecclesiastical policy in the making under the Sun King. Sean's article is now freely available Open Access #Skystorians 1/2

This is basically the plot of Erasmus's colloquy "A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake." #reformazing

oooooo! This will be such an exciting Masterclass to participate in. Run, don't walk, #earlymodern #SkyStorians in Nordic countries, if you're a PhD student yourself or have PhD students who should apply.

#earlymodern does anyone have access to the mysteriously almost invisible William Halstead’s Shakespeare as Spoken vol 4 . I’m interested in 19 th century cuts to All’s Well but can’t ask interlibrary loans for it unless I have page references

I'm hoping to propose a panel for the SCS on the 1570s, that most pivotal decade in the later Reformation. If you're interested in joining me, send me a DM. #reformazing

The latest rejection email, this time for a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. Depressingly, the last year I'm eligible. 😔 The success rate is so stark and depressing. I'm sure the 30 successful applicants will do amazing work, but collectively we have all lost so much time.

Alas. The sun is setting on my Californian conference visit / writing retreat. But it's been a good one!

In the US, even the follies are massive... (Palace of the Fine Arts, San Francisco)

Everything is bigger in the US, especially the trees.

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

There’s a piece by me on Erasmus and his use of print ‘pile-on’ tactics in this months History Today! If you buy the magazine you'll also get it in glorious technicolour #EarlyModern #BookHistory 🗃️

Richard Kagan introducing our roundtable commemorating Katie Harris and reflecting on a life of scholarship. #RenSA26 @rsaorg.bsky.social

Third paper of our #EMoDiR panel at #RSA2026: Christine Kooi, “The Devil Congratulates Charles IX.” A biting 1572 Protestant Pasquillus imagines Satan praising the king after the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre—searing satire that sharpens confessional polemic in the later Reformation.

Always good to see witches infiltrating the #RenSA26 @rsaorg.bsky.social. It wasn't too long ago that the only demons were Platonic ones. There will be some excellent @emodir.bsky.social panels tomorrow!

Second paper by Mateusz Falkowski on humanism and humanist practices around the Council of Trent, emphasizing the role of citation and record keeping. #RenSA26

And we're off @rsaorg.bsky.social #RenSA26. My first paper is Jennifer Mara DeSilva on enslaved people in Florence and their presence in baptism records. #earlymodern

If you are at #RenSA26 in #SanFrancisco, don't miss @emodir.bsky.social demonic series of panels, organized by Maria Ivanova in collaboration with @janmachielsen.bsky.social and @stefanovil.bsky.social! 😈😈😈 #academicsky #skystorians

Absolutely no prizes for guessing where I am. Really looking forward to #RenSA26, meeting new and old folks, and hopefully encourage some submissions to the Transactions @royalhistsoc.org. For now though, I'm so sleepy I'm tempted to just lie down next to the sea lions. 😴

20 minutes of me. Too much for anyone. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

About to embark on the long journey to #RenSA26 and San Francisco. I'll be there as @rsaorg.bsky.social Religion Discipline Rep and as co-editor of the Transactions of @royalhistsoc.org. If you have ideas for an article or just want to talk about submissions, please send me a DM! #earlymodern

Very pleased to be involved in this. It's promising to be a diabolically good #RenSA26!

On my way to Cambridge now! Very much looking forward to the #earlymodern @emodcam.bsky.social seminar tomorrow, especially as Cambridge has been such a hub for early modern Catholic studies!

Glad to see this out! It's a mighty tome, relevant to archaeologists, folklorists, #hextag peeps and more. And an impressive effort even if the functionalist argument doesn't always hold (I think, anyway).

I passed my viva with minor corrections! A huge thank you to my examiners @janmachielsen.bsky.social and @profelainechalus.bsky.social for such a positive and constructive experience!

Congratulations @janmachielsen.bsky.social on the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Counter Reformation Sanctity! Great to see this come out! #earlymodern #history #skystorians

Looking forward to a trip to Cambridge next month!

Not #earlymodern but this abandoned church served a leprosy colony in the 1940s. And the graffiti of the diabolical bishop is delightful!

Highlight of today's home. View of La Gomera and El Hierro from the south side of Teide. The islands almost seem to float in the air.

My mum, partner and I hiked a wonderful stretch of the Wales Coast Path today, in memory of my dad who wanted to complete it. Hopefully one day we will.

Just my sort of Christmas! 🤪