My university has also joined the Church of What's Happening Now. A BA in AI, forsooth.

Some students really do get it.

@andreaghofmann.bsky.social is in Geneva next week. If you aren't, you may follow her talk on zoom, see www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue... #earlymodern #skystorians #reformazing

De geschiedenis van het lichaam behelst de geschiedenis van ziekte, gender, seksualiteit, 'ras', beperking, dik zijn etc. Een belangrijke vraag is wanneer welke lichamen als (ab)normaal worden gezien. Voor wie meer wil weten over de geschiedenis van het lichaam, zie: www.uu.nl/nieuws/van-r...

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award For more info &/or to nominate a work, see docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: May 25, 2026

At a scholarly conference I recently attended, a commenter compared genAI to Michelangelo's Pieta: both are magnificent works of human artifice and creativity that should not be attacked or destroyed, he argued. Where even to start....

Het blijkt dat het internet toch niet voor altijd is.

* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇 We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate. www.kitlv.nl/cfp/early-mo...

Jacobus Vrel, Sleeping Woman (The Convalescent) 1654 Private collection via WGA

All the interesting things happened in 1572. #1572ayearintheendofchristendom

The geocentric universe and humoral anatomy are science too. Just because the theory eventually gets discarded doesn't mean it wasn't science.

How wonderful! Scott is working on a much-anticipated biography of Theodore Beza. He told me at CSSC that he's written about three-quarters of it. It will no doubt be #reformazing.

#earlymodern 🗃️

Houses form a dense pattern yet this back street in some city fails to feel lively. Because it's by Jacob Vrel, painter of stillness. Today has been his day.

Vermeule is effectively proposing Limpieza de sangre laws. The early modern era is looking less and less early in our current political moment.

The humanities don't give us answers; they teach us to ask to ask questions. That's why power elites want to shutter them.

#reformazing 🗃️

Van der Morsch was ook jarenlang ouderling in diezelfde Leidse kerkenraad die die "sotternieen" verbood. #reformatieindelagelanden

The 17th-century equivalent of the delete button.

My current project is pretty sprawling, so one of my first organizational tasks was to arrange the sources according to the chapter I think they belong in. It's simple but it helps enormously in thinking about the project as a whole. I worry that AI tools deprive students of this process.

"They have told us, repeatedly and with great conviction, that the Islamic Republic is a death cult...the strategic conclusion that follows is the opposite of the one the war’s architects drew...The calculus of Tehran, on the Trump and Netanyahu regimes’ own terms, is infinite escalation."

"if you want heroes, don’t read any history, don’t engage in history, just embrace myth. Because people are not heroes. People are screwed up."

#earlymodern 🗃️

"Een speciale commissie heeft geoordeeld dat de Inname van Den Briel in 1572 onreglementair was, en dat daarom Spanje de overwinning toekomt." #1572ayearintheendofchristendom 😄

Academia has always been patriarchal. Now that two generations of women have made some progress in changing that, the guys doubled down, enabled a rich rapist.

AI hasn't killed my job yet, but it's certainly not making it better.

Waarom lopen er ieder jaar duizenden mensen zwijgend door de Amsterdamse straten? Ook komend weekend weer. De oorsprong daarvan ligt in 1345, toen vond het zogenoemde Mirakel van Amsterdam plaats. Lees dit fascinerende stuk op De Ongelooflijke: open.substack.com/pub/deongelo...

Dutch friends might appreciate this "instructional" cartoon by PragerU, a conservative US group that creates history content for schoolchildren. Apparently environmental regulation (e.g. controlling nitrogen) will lead strait to famine. youtu.be/KAkfCUNidAE?...

When you elect people who think government is bad, then what you will get is bad government.

Always make students aware of their choices, my fellow academics. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p...

#nuntastic story about convents getting creative in the modern era. That said, this historian of #earlymodern Spanish convents is here to tell you that they have *always* been financially savvy and enterprising. Trust me. I've seen the account books. www.globalsistersreport.org/order-mainta...

This was certainly my grad-school experience: lots of performative name-dropping of these kinds of grand theorists. Now older and wiser, I believe that half of real scholarship is communicating your ideas simply and clearly.

The 1579s, man. Do not mess with that decade.

A very fine Ides of March to all the dictators and would-be dictators out there. (The Death of Caesar, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ca. 1860)

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

I'm teaching Louis XIV and Versailles soon, and I will make very clear to students how relevant early modern European court culture is.

Except that everywhere outside the US, today's date is 14.3, so all the pie is for us, suckers! American exceptionalism wins again! 😉

There is a school of thought that argues that Talarico's Christian beliefs are very much in line with the first-century Jesus movement, which suggests that this op-ed headline gets it at least partially right, lol.

Ruin a book or band name with one letter: Madame Ovary

When you elect people who think government is bad, then what you will get is bad government.

When did efficiency become one of the scholarly virtues?

It's in the syllabus.

This will be a good read. #reformazing

This will be good reading.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 By Justin Kroesen Info & Sample Pages: bit.ly/4ufZct8 #MedievalArt #Medieval #Art #ArtHistory #ChurchHistory #MedievalSky #ArtSky #Protestantism

As I frequently tell my students, everything looks simpler on a map.

These guys are actually the inbred Crusaders looting the treasures of Constantinople in 1204.

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. [email protected]