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historian of renaissance & em scenography: the material, manufacturers & manufacturing of spectacle - machines, entries, feasts, gardens. especially burgundy. (2025) msc bweh, edinburgh medical school whitby, n.yorks because: goth

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 14h

I have - let's get all the cards on the table here - absolutely zero qualifications to proffer advice.

Also titles don't matter.

But always go with the interesting one.

I spend my life wracking my brains for oh what was that one book called: it's never the subtitle that sticks (or is googlable)

Holy Feast Holy Fast

The Great Cat Massacre

The Cheese and the Worms

Montaillou The Promised Land of Error

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 2d

Explication: "par Jonathan Jones"

On peut compter sur lui pour émettre les pires prises. Il est une blague nationale.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 2d

I am a flamboyantly ornate solid gold idiot.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 2d

Double-checking, this looks a lot like Schlüsselfelder Ship, at one time attributed to Albrecht Dürer's father (also Albrecht).

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 2d

Astonishingly gorgeous nef (lower left).

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 2d

A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good!
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️

Entrance to the new exhibition "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600" at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Albrecht Dürer's famous woodcut of the Rhinoceros.

Partially disassembled Schlüsselfelder Ship from 1503, to show how the nef can be filled with wine.

The Archangel Raphael and Tobias in limewood made by Veit Stoß, 1516.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 2d

1963: A volcano births the new island of Surtsey, in an event occurring once in 3-5,000 years. Precious, such places unruined - at least at first hand, and at least for now - by people.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Multiple bolts of forked lightning in a troubled sky above the island

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 3d

I outsource all my fact checking to a committee of honest Cretans.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 3d

Moreover: not only I am under no obligation to work to accumulate value for Elon Musk, to do so is in effect to enable - indeed directly to fund - his agenda.

You don't beat these people by being the product they sell.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 3d

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 4d

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ALT: a woman drinking from a red mug in front of a blurry background

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 4d

Looking like Sunday will be a gonner too! This is ace thank you so SO much.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 4d

Rear Windaugavpils perhaps. The Maltese Valmiera. The Big Sliepāja

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 4d

this one - and it's really REALLY good. Also looking forward to Horror in Architecture, which looked worth buying... discipline has totally broken down here today. I had work to do before this!

Bauman city of fears city of hopes.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 4d

That would be really kind and most appreciated thank you. Amazing looking course.

Reading the Bauman as we speak - not an essay I knew (and not easy to track down - so thank you to that one random Greek blog from 2018!) - and it's excellent. Thank you.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 4d

Not only would I hyptothetically sign up, I would - very actually - download the screenshots from this post and carefully track down the readings I had overlooked.

If the rest of the syllabus is online anywhere, I'd more or less kill to see it...

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 4d

Which might just be enough to make one doubt that the assumed most politically salient parts of the population in fact ARE (at least for these purposes)? The pipeline of recruits isn't pulling from politically-central (or necessarily very populous?) areas, it's pumping youth out of the boondocks.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 4d

Would nevertheless be rash to assume that any such perception is a mistake or was not - or at least is not now - in fact a goal. A sense of permanent crisis may be useful?

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 5d

Historians of science: any thoughts on this? I'm intrigued by a "recipe" in a 1505 manuscript, which describes what appears to be the Leidenfrost effect, named after Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, who supposedly was the first to describe the effect in the 18th century 🗃️ #HistSTM #HistSci #EarlyModern 🧪

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 5d

The Leidenfrost effect! But wow is this ever an early description of it.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 5d

He's welcome to go right ahead. I'll just stand over here well out of splash range. With my eyes closed so I don't see anything hard to unsee.

It'd be fun to look into when the effect was first described because this feels very very early,

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 5d

The Leidenfrost effect! But wow is this ever an early description of it.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 6d

Many years ago I went to a lecture on Trans-Neptunian Objects by Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. in his capacity as Keeper of the Papal Meteorite Collection and - no, no, really, hear me out! - should the opportunity ever present, I truly cannot recommend it highly enough. Once-in-a-lifetime experience.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 7d

Strongly agree. Is there an argument that anything not actively fighting this trend colludes?

It's a tangle: impossible to comb it into drivers v effect - but if the net outcome is to ramify the unacceptability of fat bodies or entrench the association of fat with poverty then that's all downside.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 7d

I don't share your confidence that these drugs are separable from their toxic environment nor that they do not risk contributing to it.

Eg: For a couple of decades we've seen more diverse body shapes in advertising. Subjectively, it seems to me that the last couple of years have retrenched this.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely, and addressing those cases is a HUGE positive.

However, fallen creatures that we are, all this comes with complicating downsides.

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 7d

Nobody is disputing this. But the availability of these drugs has negatives too, one of which is a risk of entrenching prejudice. People should be able to be whatever size they want to be - healthy or not without judgement or coercion.