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janmachielsen.bsky.social
Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
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Spotted on campus today. A uni without languages is a uni without a ❤️.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Very excited to see this #earlymodern beauty out in the world, which includes a chapter on fame and religion by yours truly. 😇

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

For the weekend crowd who may have missed the excitement: LOOK! Cool programme! All the #EarlyModern delights to come to Bristol.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I asked ChatGPT to create an image of 9 witchcraft historians to help promote our RSA What's next for witchcraft studies? roundtable next month... Ominously it keeps on creating images with one person too many... :: spooky sound :: 😂

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

The Dr Williams Library is relocating to the John Rylands Library in Manchester! This is absolutely fabulous news! The Rylands already has incredible archival riches, but this is going to consolidate it as a major centre of nonconformist writing 🌟 dwl.ac.uk

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Non-residential seminar fellowship opportunity for grad students and Ph.Ds working on "Global Catholicism in Local Spaces" from the Center for Research on Global Catholicism at Saint Louis University. Open to scholars in all humanities and social sciences disciplines. 🗃️

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Knew this was coming but still exciting: My 2021 interview with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on an #earlymodern teen werewolf has been moved to BBC Sounds! You can hear us ponder children's fantasies, parental fears, and masculine aggression, all without ads. 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Labour's solution to the problems in HE: hoping that half of humanities staff can be persuaded to accept voluntary redundancy. Some telling proof that Labour just isn't working. Or this version of it anyway.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This was an upsetting meeting on so many levels. Spare a thought please for my colleagues and me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

Another #friartastic image of Joseph of Copertino in full flight. The caption says he witnessed angels above the Holy House of Loreto and was lifted more than 10 metres into the air. #earlymodern

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Got quite the birthday surprise last night. A five star review from Ronald Hutton (!!) of my Basque #hextag book. #earlymodern

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments