The Ohio Republican Party Has Built a Laboratory of Autocracy In the heavily gerrymandered Buckeye State, the GOP-controlled legislature rules without fear of voters, and it’s hard at work dismantling democracy.

The Ohio Republican Party Has Built a Laboratory of Autocracy newrepublic.com/article/2087... via @newrepublic.com

My daughter sent me this pic - apparently part of a training video she had to watch for her job.
Neither my daughter nor my brother have any idea why he was quoted for a management training video. But here we are.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Несбывшиеся мечты о балтийском мире. Русско-французские контакты второй половины XVI века — С. М. Рябов | Литрес Какие внешнеполитические цели преследовал московский двор и как они соотносились с задачами французской дипломатии? Насколько глубоко последние Валуа были вовлечены в борьбу за ливонское наследство? …

I've been immersed in this (with a great deal of help) and am v impressed. What a brilliant work (on Russo-French relations during the Wars of Religion). Kudos to Sergey Ryabov! #skystorians #earlymodern #baltichistory
www.litres.ru/book/s-m-rya...

#earlymodern

New open-access paper on the least well-known of the trio of comets in 1618-1619 that were observed by Kepler, Mästlin, and many others, in this case analyzed by @comethunter.de using additional contemporary data from Jesuit astronomers in India: 👇 #EarlyModern #HistAstro #HistSTM 🔭

I was in a panel with Sabine and Jason Lavery at SCSC in Portland. Had a blast hanging out with her and her family after. She was the only person I've met who understood my compulsion to build an EM execution/torture tableau on my lawn for Halloween. Genuinely decent person, brilliant scholar.

Damn this is a shock.

Legacies of Violence?: Catholic Militancy in Paris After the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre Abstract. This article traces continuities and changes in Parisian Catholic militancy after the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre (Aug. 24, 1572). It evaluates the rites of violence later reactivated by some of the killers, alongside a radicalized faction of their colleagues in the civic militia, who belonged to a younger generation and played a significant role in the later religious wars. Pursuing a forensic examination of the surviving manuscript sources, it provides a new perspective on the killers on Saint Bartholomew's Day by showing how these men were shaped by, and in turn reshaped, the transformation of Parisian society in the sixteenth century.

'Legacies of Violence? Catholic Militancy in Paris After the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre'

Robert Descimon and I have pubished our article with French Historical Studies (@sfhs.bsky.social), with special thanks to colleagues at @crh.ehess.fr @durhamhistory.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1215/0016...

As I told my students this morning, for years I strain for relevance to the contemporary world, and then it falls into my lap.

#earlymodern 🗃️

incidentally I scanned everything from the period 1625-30 - at least I *think* I did - so I might have everything that would cover kejserkrigen

@ollibackstrom.bsky.social this is the Hatzfeldt Kriegsarchiv Findbuch I was telling you about... I think you'll find it as friggin awesome as I do

Oh, not in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression.

Simultaneously 'holy shit' and 'duh, of course he was'

The RSA is participating in a social media campaign with @acls1919.bsky.social this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple & proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research! #earlymodern #RenTwitter #TalkAboutHumanities

Cover of "Barbara Strozzi in Context" by Beth Glixon and Wendy Heller

Pleased to say that this volume on 17th-century composer and singer Barbara Strozzi and her world, “Barbara Strozzi in Context,” is finally out. I have a small essay in it, “Artemisia Gentileschi, Padovanino, and the Venetian Academies”

www.cambridge.org/us/universit... #musichistory #earlymodern

Robert Monro, Expedition, p.196

Here the good colonel reminds his reader that scholarship is important to the soldier, and that there is much to be gleaned from the science of war as practiced by previous generations.

Who Knew?

#MilHist 🗃️🪖 #EarlyModern #Vegetius @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

In my Early Modern Monarchy class today, chatting about Mariana. And monarchomachs. Those familiar with tyrannicide know what I’m talkin’ ‘bout. Thank God for Ohio SB1 hahahaha

Hearth at Adelig Jomfrukloster, Odense

Not early modern but still cool. At Skt Knuds / Domkirken, Odense
#skystorians #danishhistory

Trump slams Pope Leo as ‘weak’ and posts picture of himself as Jesus healing the sick President claims ‘if I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican’ in Truth Social tirade

I'd like to think that most Americans will be bothered by this but... uh... I'm pretty sure they won't.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

alte Karte mit Harz und Wolfenbüttel, Alfeld und Clausthal markiert

Tylli Lager Clausthal, 12. April 1626
General Tylli von Bockelem verrückt, hat selbigen Platz besetzt, und sein Quartier nach Alfeld verändert.
Unterdessen sind wir anhero ins gelobte Land den Harz gekommen!
Hier sich des Herzog Christians Volk meistenteils eingedrungen gehabt, ... 1/2

We’re delighted to announce our keynote speaker for our upcoming conference, Prof. Elaine Murphy (Plymouth) @plymprivateer.bsky.social, who will deliver a paper on how 17c sailors and their wives navigated wartime separation ⚓

Please see our full CfP below, and send your abstracts by 22 May!

Dessau Elbebrücke 1626, von Merian

Leipzig, 10. April 1626
Die Mansfeldischen, die sich zur Dessauer Brücke begeben, haben die Speisen auf dem Tisch gelassen und sind eilends von dannen.
Zu denen führt auch der Dänemarker sein Volk.
Unser Kurfürst befindet sich zu Colditz, lässt das geworbne dänische Kriegsolk hin u. wider passieren.

Brudekiste for Preben Gyldenstierne and Mette Hardenberg, 1615. Adelige Jomfrukloster, Odense. #skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

Above the entrance to Oluf Bagers Gaard, Odense, 1586. #skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

Ulriksholm Slot, Kerteminde, Fyn, Denmark, residence of Christian IV’s (and Vibeke Kruse’s) illegitimate son Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve. #skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

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