Lively @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Bowen and Imhof about @brepols.net The Burgeoning #European #Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints via the Platin-Moretus Press of #Antwerp. #Skystorians #EarlyModern #Belgium #LowCountries
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Tulpen: €2.50 of €6 voor 3 zaakjes. Goedkoop!
In case you forgot, I’m a Michigander and I live in The Netherlands. #tulips #Dutch #NS #lgrw #Detroit #RedWings
Suggestion from a neighborhood street sign. XO from #Amsterdam
Alice, unbothered by the return of fascism, wars nearby, or climate-driven environmental collapse, enjoys having humans who will move her bed into the sun.
Every kind of abomination.
#earlymodern 🗃️
Stop with the helmet shaming and ignorant kibitzing. Making cities safer for cyclists is the whole damned point. Seriously. Learn something.
Don't know who may be interested in this, but the ACLU of Delaware is looking for a volunteer archivist. I'd be interested but I'm maxed out on volunteering between work as a literacy tutor and political stuff. It's under "Administration" on this page.
www.aclu-de.org/volunteer/
Jan van Eyck zegt Goede Morgen!
Right? The Venn diagram of my interests, queers, and hockey is a circle. I am so late to this party. I had to wear TJ down so we could get HBO Max.
Heated Rivalry.
My god.
Not interviewing much because the deadline for my book is 3 months away.
But today I got to learn about the octant, the predecessor of the sextant. Pretty cool.
Some one recently told me they had dated a person who ate apple cores to build up a resistance to arsenic poisoning. You know, just in case.
If this was you, please talk to me. I need some details so I can close the door to this room in the memory palace.
Made rum with the American Women's Club. Was very cool.
It feels like a major victory.
It is a groundbreaking book; what a fresh perspective for study!
What a great book! Wonderful chat with Saundra Weddle @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat about The #Brothel and Beyond: An #UrbanHistory of the #SexTrade in #EarlyModern #Venice @psupress.bsky.social #Skystorians #HistSex #Venetianist
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#Witches? Oh yes! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Alison Rowlands about the new edition of her classic @manchesterup.bsky.social #Witchcraft Narratives in #Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652.
#skystorians #EarlyModern #BookSky
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Somehow “I want Greenland because you don’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize for being the best at Peace” makes total sense for such an incredibly childish and petty despot.
Another from the vault: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Sara Petrosillo about Hawking #Women: #Falconry, #Gender, and Control in #Medieval Literary Culture @ohiostatepress.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalist
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Hot @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @elwinhofman.bsky.social about @leuvenup.bsky.social The Business of Pleasure: A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of #Europe. Magaly Rodriguez Garcia and Pieter VanHees, eds. #skystorians #HistSex #Belgium
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Sam Fullerton joined me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about the paperback release of @manchesterup.bsky.social Sexual Politics in Revolutionary #England. Learn a lot you did not know about #Stuart discourse. #skystorians #EarlyModern #HistSex
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@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙
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Interessante column van Europakenner Hendrik Vos: de EU is veel sterker dan het zelf denkt, en Trumps brute optreden is geen teken van kracht maar van zwakte.