"his prose is self-consciously metatheatrical—by turns, poetic, playful, incisive and laugh-out-loud funny. ... an author who knows how to bring a reader along with him, welcoming the uninitiated ... and offering the right amount of exposition at the right time."
Thank you @extispex.bsky.social!
Congrats, Surekha! So glad that your thought provoking book is reaching new readers!
Glad I'm not the only one getting these messages. Thought I was caught being a naughty boy. 😅
Reposting this with a few hashtags to try and catch more interest! #earlymodern #skystorians #16thc #premodern #bookhistory #materialculture #RenRef #Reformation #medievalsky #medieval
I travelled completely without socks once... (I bought some new ones obviously. In case you're worried. 😅)
It's good isn't it? I got to see on a flight to the US in February.
Lol. What I wouldn't give for that graph to be true.
Not a recipe I've come across before!
I am available for book reviews! Got shelves to fill :) #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
Fate saw fit to bestow the ultimate academic honour upon me:
Introduced myself to someone at a conference, who replied "oh, I've read one of your articles" and then topped it up with "I liked that it was about how rural people weren't stupid" - perfect summary of pretty much my entire research 🎉
Ah. Shooting pricks doesn't mean what it used to... 🤪
Ontzet? Ik moet aan Leiden denken, maar misschien ook een mooie pun?
Rebeca Sanmartin Bastida may know. Her chapter on female saints in our recent Companion uses many MS Lives.
Front page of Transactions article: 'Louis XIV’s Attitude to the Chinese Rites Controversy', by Sean Heath. Full abstract: 'Although Louis XIV’s sponsorship of a French Jesuit presence in China is well known, his attitude to the major dispute over the Chinese rites which engulfed the mission has been barely explored. This article shows that, as the Chinese Rites Controversy reached its peak in Paris and Rome in the years around 1700, Louis XIV’s response was surprisingly inconsistent, reflecting the fact that the two groups of missionaries whose work in east Asia he had supported – the Missions étrangères de Paris (MEP) and the French Jesuits – were pitted against one another. Furthermore, the king’s somewhat contradictory interventions were due to the opposing directions in which his chief advisers on ecclesiastical matters pushed him: his confessor La Chaise towards support of the Jesuits, and his wife Madame de Maintenon and Archbishop Noailles of Paris towards helping the MEP. In the end, Louis decided not to wield his influence in Rome in favour of one side or the other, but to leave the decision to the Holy See while prohibiting publication on the ‘Chinese affair’ in France. In doing so, the article offers an exploration of ecclesiastical policy in the making under the Sun King.'
New article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.
'Louis XIV’s Attitude to the Chinese Rites Controversy': bit.ly/47NYgmk
Dr Sean Heath offers an exploration of ecclesiastical policy in the making under the Sun King. Sean's article is now freely available Open Access #Skystorians 1/2
Handsome chap!
And too pacifist!
What about Unitarians? 🤪
One of my favourite cities!
That's the idea! 😊
This is basically the plot of Erasmus's colloquy "A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake."
#reformazing
oooooo! This will be such an exciting Masterclass to participate in. Run, don't walk, #earlymodern #SkyStorians in Nordic countries, if you're a PhD student yourself or have PhD students who should apply.
Maybe my colleague Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social might have some leads?
Steve Hindle's On the Parish might be a good start? Haven't looked at it years but remember it being a phenomenal read.
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Niets mis met Breda!
Good luck!
Just imagine the toasts: "Jo was a real carnivore. Meat brought her such joy." 😜
Wales's lack of a proper media ecosystem is a real problem...
#earlymodern does anyone have access to the mysteriously almost invisible William Halstead’s Shakespeare as Spoken vol 4 . I’m interested in 19 th century cuts to All’s Well but can’t ask interlibrary loans for it unless I have page references