Jan Machielsen
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Just my sort of Christmas! π€ͺ
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Ha. This feels so predictable somehow...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...
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U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/business/economy/trump-uk-trade-deal-tariffs.html
11 days ago
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Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks
@chriscampbell1.bsky.social
for pitching it. Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. π ποΈ
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15 days ago
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If anyone is wondering what the right time is to put up a Christmas tree, the Vatican is still busy putting up theirs.
15 days ago
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Another public transport strike so I just had to walk to work today. π (It's all going to be over by the end of next week so just let me be. π )
17 days ago
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The Milvian bridge just now. No crosses in the sky unfortunately.
18 days ago
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18 days ago
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Boo!
19 days ago
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Jerome translating the Bible by Hendrick van Somer in the Palazzo Barberini. As the sign says, "the challenge of the text becomes hands-on combat". One for
@tntwining.bsky.social
π
#earlymodern
19 days ago
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Saint Luke healing a child, while painting the Virgin and experiencing some sort of ecstasy. Who says that men can't multitask? π€ͺ By Giovanni Lanfranco, in the Palazzo Barberini
19 days ago
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Lorenzo Lotto's Mystica marriage of St Catherine... Love How Jerome is reading through the thing and that he brought his lion!
#earlymodern
19 days ago
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Hell, to paraphrase Sartre, is other tourists.
26 days ago
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I can't help but feel really curious about Christ's genitalia now. π€ͺ A statue by Michelangelo in the Domine, Quo Vadis.
#earlymodern
30 days ago
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Dr Dave Hitchcock
30 days ago
The
@royalhistsoc.org
is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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Went to see the altar of Joseph of Copertino in the Santissimi Apostoli today. If you want hear more about him and his flights, come to my talk at Sapienza tomorrow at 10am. π
#earlymodern
about 1 month ago
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele
about 1 month ago
Job Klaxon: Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
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Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University
https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/assistant-or-associate-professorship-in-public-history-with-a-specialisation-in-modern-history
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As an
#earlymodern
historian of old religious things it is easy to feel at home in Rome. Abominations such as π are reminders that Catholicism is a living faith and that the Renaissance art I adore was new when it was made.
about 1 month ago
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Pierre Purseigle
about 1 month ago
π¨#History
#envhist
Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. ποΈ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... πππ
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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I'm giving a
#monkabulous
talk next week Friday at the Sapienza on the flying friar Joseph of Copertino. And it just occurred to me... What better place to share the details than :: hum :: BlueSky? Everyone is very welcome!
about 1 month ago
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When you don't know who to leave your money to, you can always make the Virgin Mary your heir!
#earlymodern
about 1 month ago
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Henk Looijesteijn
about 2 months ago
Joop is glashelder: 'De PVV kreeg 8,5 procent van de buitenlandstemmen. Die stemmen werden uitgebracht door Nederlanders in het buitenland die vinden dat al die buitenlanders in hun eigen land moeten blijven. Omdat er stemgeheim bestaat, kan deze mensen geen psychische hulp worden geboden.' π
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DΓ©nes Harai
about 2 months ago
Thanks to Lizzy McNeill of BBC's 'More or Less' (
@timharford.ft.com
) and to
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
of
@royalhistsoc.org
for this opportunity!
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Quite excited to see one the
#medievalsky
articles we published in the Transactions
@royalhistsoc.org
make it onto BBC Sounds! ποΈ An excellent Halloween themed More or Less episode counting the stakes used by Vlad the Impaler. Have a listen!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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More or Less - Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale? - BBC Sounds
Looking at the math's behind the myth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6vzr?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
about 2 months ago
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An English (St George?) flag waving Virgin... For all the Reformers on here. π Chiesa della TrinitΓ , Bologna.
about 2 months ago
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Mary (as I keep on saying) is always reading. (But I don't think I've ever seen her this young?? And the angel too for that matter.)
about 2 months ago
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This is a very Goth virgin. Surprised she doesn't have fangs! π€ͺ
about 2 months ago
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"You know I climbed up this hill and then God gave me these tablets telling you all to listen to me. And now I'm here!" (Fragment of a fresco from the church of Mezzarata)
about 2 months ago
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This seems more appropriate for the spooky season... Is it a female devil giving birth? Or any devil just shitting out humans?
about 2 months ago
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Don't get me wrong, I love me some Giotto. But this dragon just looks like it is sucking through a straw rather than being slain... π
about 2 months ago
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Escaping while keeping your halo intact is no mean feat. π€ͺ (If any
#medievalsky
scholar can tell me what St Anthony got up to here, I'd love to hear it! π )
about 2 months ago
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Saint George is really going for it. (Pinacoteca nazionale di Bologna)
about 2 months ago
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Just boosting
@webstermedieval.bsky.social
's
#medievalsky
#earlymodern
post on ππ»πΈοΈ Halloween. If you're interested in witchy
#hextag
stuff, then our article and the blog posts by our
@witchmapproject.bsky.social
interns are an excellent starting point. π
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Great to have a piece in The Conversation about the
@witchmapproject.bsky.social
I was part of with
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
and our brilliant student interns Abi and Gabriel.
#hextag
#earlymodern
#skystorians
theconversation.com/witch-memori...
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Witch memorials are quietly spreading across Europe
As long as we live in a world where people are persecuted for perceived differences, memorialising accused witches will reveal the deadly consequences of βotheringβ.
https://theconversation.com/witch-memorials-are-quietly-spreading-across-europe-265506
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Assisi is even better at night when all the tourists have left.
about 2 months ago
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Always good to be in Assisi, especially when the sun comes out.
about 2 months ago
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"My name is Stefano ... I am about 14 years old. My job is to go to school and do tasks around the house." Possibly my youngest
#monkabulous
canonisation trial witness so far, testifying to a miracle basically involving a beating on the school yard.
2 months ago
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Christine Kooi
2 months ago
#earlymodern
scholars, take note.
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San Lorenzo on the barbecue. The
#earlymodern
altar of San Lorenzo in Panisperna. What is remarkable about Rome is how, despite the mass tourism, you can still find places to be totally alone with amazing art.
2 months ago
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An
#earlymodern
memorial to an 18 year old cardinal (Roberto de' Nobili) who died much too young. (In San Bernardo alle Terme)
2 months ago
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Good to know that the traffic in Rome has always been bad. π
2 months ago
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Behold Clio, the muse of history, happily reading! (From the Museo di Roma)
2 months ago
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One for
@christinekooi.bsky.social
! A statue of Alexander Farnese in the Capitoline museums.
2 months ago
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Such a delightful Virgin with child with possibly the world's smallest patron at the bottom, who almost looks like he could be looking up her skirt! (In the Aracoeli.)
2 months ago
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Catherine Fletcher
2 months ago
on behalf of overworked history lecturers everywhere, thanks to YouGov for an easy intro to the upcoming historiography class
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An
#earlymodern
library which I should have visited much, much earlier: the Biblioteca Casanatense. Quite remarkable. (And they have WiFi and permit photography. π )
2 months ago
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My aspiration: not to write a history of miracles but a miracle among histories (!!!) Domenico Bernini's life of Joseph of Copertino; his father was the famous sculptor. I assume modesty did not run in the family. π
2 months ago
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Justine Pick
2 months ago
#Job
opportunity Lecturer in early modern history Full time - permanent
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Lecturer in Early Modern History at Liverpool Hope University
An academic position as a Lecturer in Early Modern History is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB319/lecturer-in-early-modern-history
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UKRI Funding Opportunities
2 months ago
AHRC-DFG Research Grants: Round Eight (2025 to 2026)
#ahrc
#academicsky
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AHRC-DFG Research Grants: Round Eight (2025 to 2026)
Apply for funding to collaborate on arts and humanities projects with German research partners. You must be: * based at a research organisation eligible to apply to AHRC * working with a German team led by a researcher eligible to apply to DFG * proposing a project within the remit of AHRC AHRC
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ahrc-dfg-research-grants-round-eight-2025-to-2026/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Bbluesky%5D
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones
2 months ago
C'mon Caerffili, byddwch yn dactegol, da chwi
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