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davidmwhitford.bsky.social
European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
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A little baby camping tent for those REI moments when you want to backpack and take your rare books with you! What a wonderful contraption. Seriously. That thing is cool.

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The next thing the WSJ is going to do is an article renaming the Trail of Tears into the Happy Moving Trail. WTAH.

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Please join us. The Long Sixteenth Century covers 1450-1750. It is a welcoming and encouraging conference. @16csociety.bsky.social #skstorians #earlymodern #16century #allthecoolhistorians www.sixteenthcentury.org Feel free to email me or DM me if you have questions about the conference.

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I began my career at an HBCU, I know what it is like to be the only person in the room who looks like me. Tomorrow, though, 30 years later, is a new first. I will be the only man in the room. PhD seminar in Reformations. So excited. Let’s rock it!

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

If AI was going to be useful in higher-ed, it would create my Canvas page for me and completely understand Canvas (which remains a mystery in many ways to me). I like to lecture, I like to write and research. I need it to do the stuff I don't like!

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Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Job Opportunity! The teaching load is four (4) courses per semester or equivalents. The successful candidate will be expected to teach classes, both in-person and online, that complement the current offerings in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Or…hear me out on this Ohio. You could, um, win the game. apnews.com/article/ohio...

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Yet another starterpack you might be interested in... #earlymodern #skystorians go.bsky.app/FpG69cP

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

However, his efforts to embrace those new roles exhibit a genuine commitment to live a new life and to be re-formed in life as much as he was in theology. The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Chapter 9.

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So this is an interesting creation--it's not just the donation of Brown's papers, but she's created an endowed archive for OTHER medievalists' papers as well. Perhaps the first archive of its kind?

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Hegseth’s view of the Crusades is what happens when you only listen to theobros and only read Metexas and the like. You think they were successful. (Hint, nope) You think they were noble. (Double Nope) Lots of massacres, lots of losing, tons of mind-numbing misery. Yup, yup, yup.

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2025 is the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants War. I would like to organize some panels for SCS 2025 on the PW, Gender, and Sexual Violence. Please touch base if interested in starting a conversation on this topic. #earlymodern @16csociety.bsky.social #skyhistorians

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Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️

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Nice inscription and doodles in a copy of Luther's "Commentarie ... upon the epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians", printed 1616 in London, at Harris Manchester College; not been able to identify this Bridgyett Smith as yet ... #HerBook #EarlyModern

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Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive Cc @peccadille.bsky.social www.openculture.com/2024/11/expl...

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Jesus wept. www.chron.com/culture/reli...

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Ten year old me would faint.

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Be cool, be cool, be cool

submitted 91 days ago • 599 comments

Dobby in his green sweater says hi!

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This is what happens when you are looking for a cover image for your new book on Luther and Masculinity, and you get bored. So you ask AI to make you an image of Luther as a virile hero! In this case, the abs may be mightier than the pen.

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Great so see a couple of other lovely #EarlyModern ists turning up here! Welcome @laurenkassell.bsky.social @cecilefromont.bsky.social @maartjegelder.bsky.social @suzezij.bsky.social @samsonaws.bsky.social! This early modern gang is growing nicely. go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK

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Please share widely. Let’s get #SixteenthCentury conversations going! #EarlyModern #SixteenthCenturySociety

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