Historians of early modern Christianity, take note. This looks like an interesting project.

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

"Schrijven is een scheppend proces waar originaliteit en verrassing de kern zijn." Juist. Schrijven is denken.

As I spend this semester writing, I take great heart from this essay.

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

An amusing account of Peter Thiel's recent lecture on the Antichrist. During the Reformation, Protestant polemicists gleefully depicted the pope as the Antichrist. I wonder if Thiel got into that during his talk.

I left Academia for Research Gate.

Jan Łaski (Johannes a Lasco) famously debated Menno Simons in Emden in 1544; they agreed upon the doctrines of original sin and sanctification and nothing else. Which shows you how far debate will get you. #reformationinthelowcountries #reformazing

Did you know that there is a heated up debate about an #earlymodern European map going on? #skystorians correctthemap.org

Here in US academia we are in an uncomfortably familiar inflection point, I fear.

Very happy to announce that @plc-journal.bsky.social has published an abbreviated version of our introduction to the OUP Handbook of Dutch Politics. It is a concise analysis of how Dutch politics has (not) changed since the heydays of consociationalism plc-journal.eu/article/view...

Scholars of Jansenism take note. #earlymodern

A thoughtful interview about the limits of the idea of martyrdom, especially in the current US political context.

Feeling this extra-hard this week.

Nicely put.

This is an excellent thread. Classes have rules and parameters; without that structure no learning takes place.

#OTD in 1944 the Germans burnt down my grandparents' home in reprisal for local resistance actions. My 15-year old father watched in horror as the Germans chased down and shot at his father, who managed to escape. Photos: the original house and the post-fire ruins.

Become a Church historian! There are so many theologians for you to study! Flaccius! Karlstadt! Münzer! Spener! Schleiermacher! The list goes on.

Auw, zegt ze op zestigjarige leeftijd.

The promise of the techbroligarchy is that we won't have to do this hard work anymore, and a lot of people are falling for it.

Medio volgend jaar word ik 67. De advertentie voor een nieuwe directeur @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social staat vanaf vandaag online. Zegt het voort! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

Calling #earlymodern and historians of religion! I'm looking for work on food, eating and fasting among religious radicals around 1700. I've found some work on Jansenists and Pietists, but would love to know more about all the other groups out there. Very grateful for any ideas! #foodhistory

In the higher-ed classroom, the best instructors emphasize process, but in the higher-ed boardroom, administrators emphasize outcomes. Guess which of those two groups has the greater power? Small wonder that students lean so heavily on genAI.

The big HBCU here in Baton Rouge, Southern University, went on lockdown today because of threats. They've canceled all their weekend activities as well.

This I am looking forward to. The Wickiana is an amazing primary source for the later sixteenth century.

MINIATURE STABBY PENGUIN.

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

WANT.

This story gets worse: "I commend President Welsh on the action he has taken to terminate a faculty member who failed to follow instructions to align her course description with the actual content of her class," Hegar said." "Align" is the new, Trumpian synonym for "Gleichschaltung."

Under the banner of progress, innovation and, most recently, productivity, the tech industry’s defence distils to ‘we stole because we could, but also because we had to’”

For all the good-will efforts to reimagine learning in the ChatGPT era, the elephant in the room is that moving away from independent research assignments toward in-class, supervised learning effectively turns universities into glorified high schools.

It's a rough word out there, so here, have a hurricane lily.

OK, let me reframe this question: what term would high and late medieval theologians most likely use to denote the idea of (Latin) "Christendom"? #medievalsky #skystorians

#medievalsky #skystorians A query from an early modernist: Would medieval theologians have been more likely to use the phrase "corpus christianum" or "corpus christianorum" to describe Latin Christendom, that is, to denote the part of Europe under the spiritual jurisdiction of the church of Rome?

#reformazing 🗃️

It's....immaculate.

This immigrant and child of immigrants heartily concurs.

#earlymodern 🗃️

Yikes almighty. Spies in the classroom; the student in the video sounds very much like she's been fed her lines. I wonder what will happen the next time I teach my course on women in early modern Europe.

Excellent news. The law firm representing authors in the Anthropic/AI-theft class-action suit now has a website that is accepting non-US authors' contact info (as long as their books had a US publisher): www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Please do circulate!

Not a word about using genAI for scholarly writing in this statement on standards of conduct, despite the fact that genAI is effectively a plagiarism machine. 🗃️

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky