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Jaap Geraerts
@jaapgeraerts.bsky.social
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Historian: practice of religious toleration; early modern Catholicism; Dutch Republic; digital humanities. Based at IEG Mainz. Fan of metal 🤘 and PSV. Out now: https://tinyurl.com/ycd5cpcj
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Het is „meer dan bagger” wat onze recensent bij ‘De Oranjezomer’ zag: propaganda van Geert Wilders laten zien en het dan hebben over de „begrijpelijke angst” voor moslims in Nederland. buff.ly/mzp4SpN
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ZAP: Het is „meer dan bagger” wat onze recensent bij ‘De Oranjezomer’ zag: propaganda van Geert Wilders laten zien en het dan hebben over de „begrijpelijke angst” voor moslims in Nederland.
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July 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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martinevanelk.bsky.social
In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern
July 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
ah, when excellent people's excellence does get recognised, things do look a bit more sensible after all, don't they?

This is SO wonderful, humongous congratulations @judithpollmann.bsky.social -- can't wait to see what you'll do with it!
helmer.bsky.social Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social · Jun 27
This is all over the Dutch media today: early modern historian @judithpollmann.bsky.social wins the Spinoza Prize, the highest prize in Dutch science!

Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.
June 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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maxbergmann.bsky.social
Couldn't agree more with this @adamtooze.bsky.social banger. "The scandal is not that European defence budgets have not already doubled. The scandal is that Europe spends so much and gets so little for it."

The European defense enterprise is a total mess.
www.ft.com/content/f450...
The emperor has no tanks
Europe doesn’t need more spending to transform its moribund armed forces — it needs more co-operation across borders
www.ft.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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emlcjournal.bsky.social
We are planning a festive issue for our tenth anniversary🥳. We are looking for potential contributions! #CfP, please spread this as widely as possible. And get in touch if you have questions, all details below. #LowCountries
April 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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remcobreuker.bsky.social
Ja ja. Veel te hard. En die toon hè? Maar denk 's aan 10% ontslagen (6500 fte!), het kortzichtig politiek egoïsme in de EK & ideologische vernielzucht van dit kabinet. Die bijna 7000 collega's gaan zich een stuk akeliger voelen dan de hoofdpersonen uit deze column.
www.mareonline.nl/opinie/meer-...
Meer dan de helft van onze senaat bestaat uit kleine Trumpjes
De Eerste Kamer stemde woensdag in met de draconische bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. ‘De ChristenUnie en het CDA steunen antidemocratische krachten.’
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April 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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cemskcl.bsky.social
Teaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series!

CEMS will be hosting three online sessions on teaching practices and strategies. We'll have three sessions through the spring: 23rd April, 29th May, and 19th June. Full details below!

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...

@kingsartshums.bsky.social
Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog
A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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remcobreuker.bsky.social
Op 8 april 2025 rond de Kkokke van twee heeft het de Eerste Kamer behaagd de onderwijsbegroting van @eppobruins.bsky.social aan te nemen. De sloop van het hoger onderwijs in de slechtst mogelijke en gevaarlijkste periode voor Nederland vangt aan. De #Eppocalyps is hier. #WOinActie
April 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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resolutereader.bsky.social
Such an exciting moment. I finally have my book "The Time of the Harvest has Come" in my hands. A study of Reformation, Revolution & the German Peasants' War. Thanks to everyone who helped make it possible. @medievalrevolt.bsky.social @oisinmcgann.bsky.social @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social
Cover of "The Time of the Harvest has Come!": Reformation and the German Peasants' War by Martin Empson, held in the author's hand.
March 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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pbhellawell.bsky.social
PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement
1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn
2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz
If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!
Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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March 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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juliagebke.bsky.social
Fantastic news for all #earlymodern #skystorians: Next week, the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2025 will take place in Vienna with Prof. Lorraine Daston, hosted by the CEU. The leitmotiv of the lecture series: Diversity. And the best: you can also attend online.
www.ceu.edu/article/2025...
Domenico Remps, Cabinet of Curiosities, Opificio delle Petre Dure, Florence. A wooden display cabinet stuffed with wonders and curiosities: corals, images, beetles, a skull etc.
March 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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richardcalis.bsky.social
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
www.uu.nl
March 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social
Join us for the Summer School Books and Culture on The Religious Image @Ruusbroec Institute and @Museum Platin-Moretus in Antwerpen (30 June-5 July 2025). More information and apply: buff.ly/3QjN4EY
#uantwerpen #summerschool #bookhistory
Books and Culture: The Religious Image | Books and Culture | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University | University of Antwerp
Book Historic Summer School of the University of Antwerp on Religious Imagery.
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February 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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historyhannahb.bsky.social
So excited to see ‘Faith in the Town’ (co-authored my me, @kategibson Jeremy Gregory and Carys Brown & published in Open Access form (free to read) today by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Want to know how religious faith was woven through urban life in northern English towns 1740-1830? Then read on …
Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern England, 1740–1830
Abstract. Faith in the Town explores the ways in which religious faith affected the lives of men, women, and children in the increasingly urban and industr
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February 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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henryjmiller.bsky.social
#History #SkyStorians New CFP! Workshop on Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1600-present. Now taking place in *London in September 2025*.
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/oat...
Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1600 to the Present – CALL FOR PAPERS | RHS
royalhistsoc.org
February 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social
CFP: Between Baghdad and Barcelona: Jewish Experiences in the Mediterranean. Workshop at University of Vienna, May 27, 2025 (3rd Baron Young Scholars Workshop).
#jewishstudies
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Between Baghdad and Barcelona: Jewish Experiences in the Mediterranean
According to their call, “[t]he Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna invites paper proposals for the 3rd Baron Young Scholars Workshop on May 27, 2025. […] This workshop welcomes p...
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February 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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zannavanloon.bsky.social
🔔#CallforPapers for a #BookHistory conference: 'Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade', in Antwerp between 5-7 November 2025.

Apply now!

More info on museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...; or contact [email protected]!

Deadline: 31 March 2025
A young saleswoman stands on a small staircase in a bookshop. With her left hand, she reaches out to a man below for a book, while with her right hand she grabs another work from the shelf. Two men look on. Rijksmuseum RP-P-2015-26-131: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.593917
November 7, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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onslies.bsky.social
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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genjiyasuhira.bsky.social
On behalf of Dr Sukhwan Kang, we are pleased to announce that our co-authored article ‘Religious Coexistence in the Dutch Republic and France in the Seventeenth Century’ has just appeared in the Journal of #earlymodern Christianity 11:2 (2024) pp. 309–338. doi.org/10.1515/jemc...
Religious Coexistence in the Dutch Republic and France in the Seventeenth Century: Legal Systems, Sacred Spaces, and Minority Resilience in Utrecht and Nîmes
This article examines religious coexistence and survival tactics of the religious minority groups in the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of France, comparing Utrecht’s Catholics and Nîmois Huguenots in...
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December 26, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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designationsix.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
For those who have not paid attention to what has been happening to (higher) education in GOP-controlled states in the last years (pet peeve), this excellent article will blow your mind. 🤯
Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control?
The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally
www.indexoncensorship.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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jorisoddens.bsky.social
Vandaag lanceren we de website Goetgevonden, waarmee je kunt zoeken in alle besluiten van de Staten-Generaal van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden (1576-1796). Goetgevonden is wereldwijd de krachtigste zoekmachine voor historische teksten die ooit is gemaakt. Je vindt ons via goetgevonden.nl!
December 9, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives:

#skystorians

So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
A detail from a broadside from 1617 Germany, showing Martin Luther using a giant quill to post his messages onto a church door is shown. Access the print with the title "Göttlicher Schrifftmessiger/ woldenckwürdiger Traum/ welchen der Hochlöbliche/ Gottselige Churfürst Friedrich zu Sachsen/ ..." here: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000049386?lang=de
December 7, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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feinzeit.bsky.social
spread the word / vertel het rond:

Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
2 PhD - NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
November 15, 2024 at 7:43 AM