Alice, unbothered by the return of fascism, wars nearby, or climate-driven environmental collapse, enjoys having humans who will move her bed into the sun.

Every kind of abomination.

#earlymodern 🗃️

Don't know who may be interested in this, but the ACLU of Delaware is looking for a volunteer archivist. I'd be interested but I'm maxed out on volunteering between work as a literacy tutor and political stuff. It's under "Administration" on this page. www.aclu-de.org/volunteer/

Jan van Eyck zegt Goede Morgen!

Heated Rivalry. My god.

Not interviewing much because the deadline for my book is 3 months away. But today I got to learn about the octant, the predecessor of the sextant. Pretty cool.

Some one recently told me they had dated a person who ate apple cores to build up a resistance to arsenic poisoning. You know, just in case. If this was you, please talk to me. I need some details so I can close the door to this room in the memory palace.

Made rum with the American Women's Club. Was very cool.

It feels like a major victory.

What a great book! Wonderful chat with Saundra Weddle @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat about The #Brothel and Beyond: An #UrbanHistory of the #SexTrade in #EarlyModern #Venice @psupress.bsky.social #Skystorians #HistSex #Venetianist newbooksnetwork.com/the-brothel-...

#Witches? Oh yes! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Alison Rowlands about the new edition of her classic @manchesterup.bsky.social #Witchcraft Narratives in #Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652. #skystorians #EarlyModern #BookSky newbooksnetwork.com/witchcraft-n...

Somehow “I want Greenland because you don’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize for being the best at Peace” makes total sense for such an incredibly childish and petty despot.

Another from the vault: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Sara Petrosillo about Hawking #Women: #Falconry, #Gender, and Control in #Medieval Literary Culture @ohiostatepress.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalist newbooksnetwork.com/hawking-women

Hot @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @elwinhofman.bsky.social about @leuvenup.bsky.social The Business of Pleasure: A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of #Europe. Magaly Rodriguez Garcia and Pieter VanHees, eds. #skystorians #HistSex #Belgium newbooksnetwork.com/the-business...

Sam Fullerton joined me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about the paperback release of @manchesterup.bsky.social Sexual Politics in Revolutionary #England. Learn a lot you did not know about #Stuart discourse. #skystorians #EarlyModern #HistSex newbooksnetwork.com/sexual-polit...

@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/postal-intel...

Interessante column van Europakenner Hendrik Vos: de EU is veel sterker dan het zelf denkt, en Trumps brute optreden is geen teken van kracht maar van zwakte.

Make it viral.

Connections Puzzle #942 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 I know this account isn't about this, but I just need to tell someone when I get the reverse rainbow.

Ted Karamanski joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about his @uofmpress.bsky.social Great Lake: An Unnatural History of #LakeMichigan. She's the best lake and I love her with my whole heart. #skystorians #Michigan #EnvHist newbooksnetwork.com/great-lake

Academic superwoman Ulinka Rublack joined me for an @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview about #Durer 's Coats: #Renaissance #Men and #MaterialCulture of Social Recognition @routledgebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #Medievalists newbooksnetwork.com/d%C3%BCrers-...

This was one was so fun! Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Bradley Borougerdi about @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #Cannabis: A #GlobalHistory #skystorians #anthropology #FoodHistory # newbooksnetwork.com/cannabis

Joseph Harley joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about his and Vicky Holmes' fantastic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social volume Objects of #Poverty: #MaterialCulture in #Britain from 1700. #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙 #anthropology newbooksnetwork.com/objects-of-p...

Reading Liboiron's "Pollution is Colonialism" for my engineering ethics class and what an excellent first footnote.

Another one from the vault! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Taylor McCall about The Art of #Anatomy in #Medieval Europe @reaktionbooks.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-art-of-a.... #skystorians #Medievalist #HistoryofScience #BookSky 📚💙

Enjoy my new @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Patricia Anne Simpson of @unlincoln.bsky.social about her @routledgebooks.bsky.social #EarlyModern Women's Work: #kinship, #community, and #SocialJustice. #skystorians #GenderHistory. newbooksnetwork.com/early-modern...

The pod just rereleased an oldie for your enjoyment! @kweingarten.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social release, #Pregnancy Test. #skystorians #Gender #HistSex Reminder to consult our back catalog! newbooksnetwork.com/pregnancy-test

Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @thomas-morel.bsky.social about @universitypress.cambridge.org Underground Mathematics Craft Culture and Knowledge in #EarlyModern #Europe. #skystorians #HistoryofMining #BookSky 📚💙 #HistoryofMaths #mathsky newbooksnetwork.com/underground-...

Nice @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Charles Watkins of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social about Trees Ancient and Modern: #Woodland Cultures and #Conservation @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #skystorians #EnvironmentalStudies #Forestry #trees #nature #rewilding newbooksnetwork.com/trees-ancien...

Fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @witchykallestrup.bsky.social about The Construction of #Witchcraft in #EarlyModern #Denmark @routledgebooks.bsky.social #skystorians This is how you write a book and take an interview! #BookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/the-construc...

Winner of best mustache and super smartie Ken Appold joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about his new book: #Luther and the Peasants: #Religion, Ritual and the #Revoltof1525 @oxunipress.bsky.social #Reformation #earlymodern #skystorians newbooksnetwork.com/luther-and-t...

My weed dealer is selling Tylenol now. Strange.

Today's marginal #musicians are playing the #lute and singing from partbooks. Detail from Cipriano de Rore's Da pacem Domine, in a lavish #choirbook from 1559. BSB Mus. ms. B(1. #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymodern #16thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript

Almost every sentence I write is better after I take out some words. Previous sentence included. I deleted two.

Natural teacher, the charming @davidmwhitford.bsky.social joined me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about The Making of a #Reformation Man: #MartinLuther and Construction of #Masculinity @routledgehistory.bsky.social #EarlyModern #skystorians #BookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/index

Purse? Handbag? Pocketbook? They all matter. Great @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Kathleen Casey about The Things She Carried: A #CulturalHistory of the #Purse in America @oxfordacademic.bsky.social #skystorians #FashionHistory #USHistory #WomensHistory newbooksnetwork.com/the-things-s...

I know I'm late to this party, but today I learned about the Lutheran Insulter today and it has changed my life. Thanks @davidmwhitford.bsky.social ergofabulous.org/luther/?

I don't know if I get points for this but I've always loathed "Millennial Gray." Writing that surrounded by my orange-brown, gold, and deep blue walls.

I'm reading an essay published by an old-school archaeologist in the 1980s and everything about it is wild. Um, so...my friend managed to start a fire with this mirror on a random date in 1971, so now I know that the Olmecs might have done it that way... Holy mackerel. Different world.

The ludicrous idea that Tylenol causes autism reminds me a lot of the pre-modern idea monstrous births were the result of women having bad thoughts. Sketchy science aside it is just another way to control (and vilify!) women. I'm so tired. #skystorians #earlymodernist #feminism #monsters #Tylenol

Wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Spike Bucklow about his new @reaktionbooks.bsky.social release, The Year: An #Ecology of the #Zodiac. It defies genre, maybe even summation. Loved it. #BookSky📚💙 #anthropology #folklore #astrology #Skystorians newbooksnetwork.com/year

Oh, this was fun! The marvelous Philip Carr-Gomm and I chatted on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his @reaktionbooks.bsky.social 2010 A Brief History of Nakedness. Listen, read, and check out the photos! #BookSky 📚💙 #Religion #Druidry #Nudity #WitchSky newbooksnetwork.com/a-brief-hist...

Check out this quick and fun @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with David de Boer about The #EarlyModern #Dutch Press in the Age of Religious Persecution" @oxunipress.bsky.social #skystorians #Netherlands #Reformation #AcademicSky #Press #BookSky📚💙 #AcademicSky newbooksnetwork.com/the-early-mo...

And now for some good storytelling. Matt Sparks and Olivia Sizemore talk about Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #Folklore #Appalachia #GhostStories #hauntings #Folktales #Kentucky newbooksnetwork.com/haint-country

Smart and delightful book, equally enjoyable @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview. @domford.bsky.social Mytholudics: Games and Myth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics