Jan Machielsen
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
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? ๐ค ๐๐๐
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The shop sign exhibition in the Musรฉe Carnavalet really is a marvel of
#earlymodern
#18c
and
#19c
life. Highly recommend (and it's free!)
4 days ago
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"Brexit: The Hangover." The view from France.
5 days ago
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TheGrimRecapper
19 days ago
It's time.
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Hanna Sinclair
21 days ago
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!
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Meet the 2026 Holberg Prize Laureate, Professor Lyndal Roper.
YouTube video by Holberg Prize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToM3BBw0Gnc
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My two great loves are whodunnits and ๐, so this film was literally made for me. Turned out to be a really good murder mystery!
21 days ago
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Ordered some replacement acrylic panels to restore the ancient green house in our garden and the name of the company really amuses me. ๐
23 days ago
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Celine Camps
25 days ago
Any early modernists out here who have any recommendations? I am drawing a blank here.
#EarlyModern
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Glen O'Hara
29 days ago
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. ๐
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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 ๐คช) into a web experience. The supposedly personal PS is pretty legendary. ๐๐คฃ
29 days ago
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Paul Webster ๐
about 1 month ago
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.
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Last class of the semester: one student told me my
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#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.
about 1 month ago
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Christian Callisen
about 1 month ago
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 ๐ค
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Ugh. This email really beggars belief. Obviously only heterosexual men rent cars and for the sole purpose of impressing their female other half. ๐
about 1 month ago
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Dr Jo Edge ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
about 1 month ago
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
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Dr Joanne Edge
Historian and writer
https://www.joanneedge.co.uk
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"his prose is self-consciously metatheatricalโby 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
!
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about 1 month ago
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Dr. Barry Torch
about 1 month ago
Reposting this with a few hashtags to try and catch more interest!
#earlymodern
#skystorians
#16thc
#premodern
#bookhistory
#materialculture
#RenRef
#Reformation
#medievalsky
#medieval
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Dr Jo Edge ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
about 2 months ago
I am available for book reviews! Got shelves to fill :)
#MedievalSky
#EarlyModern
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Joschka Meier
about 2 months ago
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 ๐
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Royal Historical Society
about 2 months ago
New article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. 'Louis XIVโs 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
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Christine Kooi
about 2 months ago
This is basically the plot of Erasmus's colloquy "A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake."
#reformazing
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Liesbeth Corens
2 months ago
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.
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#earlymodern
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2 months ago
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Paul salzman
2 months ago
#earlymodern
does anyone have access to the mysteriously almost invisible William Halsteadโs Shakespeare as Spoken vol 4 . Iโm interested in 19 th century cuts to Allโs Well but canโt ask interlibrary loans for it unless I have page references
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Christine Kooi
3 months ago
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
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The latest rejection email, this time for a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. Depressingly, the last year I'm eligible. ๐ 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.
3 months ago
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Alas. The sun is setting on my Californian conference visit / writing retreat. But it's been a good one!
3 months ago
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In the US, even the follies are massive... (Palace of the Fine Arts, San Francisco)
3 months ago
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Everything is bigger in the US, especially the trees.
3 months ago
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Sarah Bendall
3 months ago
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!) ๐๏ธ
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
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Tim Wade
3 months ago
Thereโs a piece by me on Erasmus and his use of print โpile-onโ tactics in this months History Today! If you buy the magazine you'll also get it in glorious technicolour
#EarlyModern
#BookHistory
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Richard Kagan introducing our roundtable commemorating Katie Harris and reflecting on a life of scholarship.
#RenSA26
@rsaorg.bsky.social
3 months ago
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EMoDiR
3 months ago
Third paper of our
#EMoDiR
panel at
#RSA2026
: Christine Kooi, โThe Devil Congratulates Charles IX.โ A biting 1572 Protestant Pasquillus imagines Satan praising the king after the St. Bartholomewโs Day Massacreโsearing satire that sharpens confessional polemic in the later Reformation.
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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!
3 months ago
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Second paper by Mateusz Falkowski on humanism and humanist practices around the Council of Trent, emphasizing the role of citation and record keeping.
#RenSA26
3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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Martina Mampieri
3 months ago
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
! ๐๐๐
#academicsky
#skystorians
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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. ๐ด
3 months ago
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Jamie Lewis
3 months ago
20 minutes of me. Too much for anyone.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The search for Bigfoot continues
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/bigfoot/106347648
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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
3 months ago
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Very pleased to be involved in this. It's promising to be a diabolically good
#RenSA26
!
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3 months ago
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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!
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4 months ago
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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).
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4 months ago
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Holly B ๐
4 months ago
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!
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Paul Webster ๐
4 months ago
Congratulations
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
on the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Counter Reformation Sanctity! Great to see this come out!
#earlymodern
#history
#skystorians
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Looking forward to a trip to Cambridge next month!
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4 months ago
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Not
#earlymodern
but this abandoned church served a leprosy colony in the 1940s. And the graffiti of the diabolical bishop is delightful!
5 months ago
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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.
5 months ago
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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.
5 months ago
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Just my sort of Christmas! ๐คช
5 months ago
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