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Hello Bluesky! We are the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, which promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

Glad we're moving away from the fascist forum, but our follower number on this website is still half of what it is on the other one. Can you all increase the number a bit to help make #EarlyModern scholarship visible?

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I have officially withdrawn my paper from the Renaissance Society of America/Shakespeare Association of America joint conference for Boston 2025. #RenSA25 #earlymodern. I cannot in good faith spend money and travel to the United States right now for several reasons: 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Teaching history divorced from the concerns of the present is actually doing a bad job at teaching history.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Moving here after abandoning other online spaces that were burning to the ground. Greeting BlueSky community!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Before, what was threatened was so wild that a good part of the country considered you hysterical for believing it. Now, what's actually happening is so wild I don't even know how to start communicating it to people who are clueless because I will sound hysterical.

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

Anne is amazing. Full stop. #historysky, take note that she’s here!!! #earlymodern

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Time to share my current historical obsession: Clarice Orsini de Medici’s EXTREMELY ILLEGAL HAT! A cool reflection on performing social class, and part of my release countdown to “Inventing the Renaissance” 1/?

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

Why are university presses important? A thread 🧵

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Out next month at long, long last: A Cultural History of Fame, 6 vols. (I have a chapter on scientific celebrity in the Enlightenment volume.) www.bloomsbury.com/ca/cultural-...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

I have a very strange, possibly stupid, question for #historysky: How do you note/work with allusions/citations to other works? Giovanni Bussi clearly references Vergil - he writes, "As the great poet most briefly and truthfully sang:" 1/

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

"We abandon the body and what it learns by being in the world - the physical world - at our peril." I wrote about the basements of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, what I learned there about historical method - and why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage. 🗃 #histsci buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?

submitted 41 days ago • 54 comments

Time to meet one of the coolest Renaissance queens no one has heard of: Beatrice of Naples TWICE Queen of Hungary. 1/? She’s one of the awesome people who didn’t quite get a chapter to herself in “Inventing the Renaissance” but gets lots of tales woven throughout.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Republicans are going to spend the next four years trying to finish transforming MLK into a 'moderate', respectable club to beat Black people with when conservatives think they're stepping out of line. Don't let them.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Looks fake doesn't it? This reconstruction of Medieval Bologna shows how Italian towns used to be a forest of towers, dense as Manhattan skyscrapers! Here's a stable blog-formatted version of my thread from yesterday about the lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars www.exurbe.com/the-lost-tow...

submitted 46 days ago • 32 comments

"Pocock was paradoxically under attack for being too liberal, but also for not being liberal enough.Said differently, Pocock was criticised for being too American and for not being American enough –all the more intriguing for a New Zealander" Read my article on JGA Pocock below! tinyurl.com/xtv3maav

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New Medieval Books: Message in a Bottle: Merchants’ letters, merchants’ marks and conflict management in 1533-34 https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/merchants-letters-marks-conflict-management/ #BookSky

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Including yours truly, with amazing maps! #maphistory #medievalsky

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

everyone talks about killing your darlings in articles and essays and books but no one ever talks about killing your darlings in syllabi

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

"Inventing the Renaissance" comes out in one month in the UK (2 months USA), so I'm going to share daily #HistoryPix from the book, starting with Benvenuto Cellini's stunning Perseus, my pick for a cover illustration (thank you, editors!) For me, this statue personifies the Renaissance because 1/?

submitted 48 days ago • 9 comments

Inside you there is a dark forest, which you find on the midway of your life.

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"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps. says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again." *** Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass"

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

ἀλληλουϊα

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Black musicians, composers, music scholars predated the Renaissance and, not surprisingly, existed outside of the Western world. Let’s stop pretending composition, musicology, and music theory only existed in Europe. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

Upsettlingly, in order to finish writing my book, I have to actually write the rest of my book.

submitted 53 days ago • 134 comments

#Historians: I'm on the program committee for the 2026 #AHA in Chicago! Anyone who might be interested in presenting, please get in touch via email [last-name-no-diacritic at ncf full-stop edu] or DM. I'll also put a few idea in the replies. #medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #academicsky

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

I love finding primary sources. #earlymodern #bookhistorysky #historysky. Especially when they are SO, SO useful and fun to work with! Gotta love letters as sources!

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

As we turn the page on a new year, a quote from writer Caroline Van Hemert, which has stuck with me even though it didn't make it into her final piece: "Change--even in its most destructive forms--isn't a cue to abandon the future but instead to greet it with greater imagination."

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Hey #historysky #earlymodern, is #icanhazpdf still a thing? I'm staring at this book I probably need to find, and I'm wondering if we're still file sharing here, just like the other site.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I'm starting to clean up my own personal #library, and you know, after writing a dissertation on humanists and their books, it is VERY hard to get rid of these #books. So many stories and friends to get rid of! So much is captured by our memories and relationships to books.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment