This takes me back to halcyon Twitter days.
04.03.2026 17:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This takes me back to halcyon Twitter days.
04.03.2026 17:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm hoping to propose a panel for the SCS on the 1570s, that most pivotal decade in the later Reformation. If you're interested in joining me, send me a DM. #reformazing
03.03.2026 21:06 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2I'm sorry, Venus. Whenever an email like this lands there is an alternate future that just disappears in a puff of smoke.
03.03.2026 19:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm sorry, Liesbeth. That is particularly hard to bear. ❤️
03.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rejection email setting out a 9% success rate
The latest rejection email, this time for a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. Depressingly, the last year I'm eligible. 😔
The success rate is so stark and depressing. I'm sure the 30 successful applicants will do amazing work, but collectively we have all lost so much time.
Alas. The sun is setting on my Californian conference visit / writing retreat. But it's been a good one!
27.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That looks fantastic. Congratulations!
27.02.2026 01:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the US, even the follies are massive... (Palace of the Fine Arts, San Francisco)
27.02.2026 00:55 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Redwoods in Muir Woods
Everything is bigger in the US, especially the trees.
25.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
Universities not buying the books we need. Nothing is ever new!
24.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There’s a piece by me on Erasmus and his use of print ‘pile-on’ tactics in this months History Today! If you buy the magazine you'll also get it in glorious technicolour
#EarlyModern #BookHistory 🗃️
Richard Kagan introducing our roundtable commemorating Katie Harris and reflecting on a life of scholarship. #RenSA26 @rsaorg.bsky.social
20.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Third paper of our #EMoDiR panel at #RSA2026: Christine Kooi, “The Devil Congratulates Charles IX.”
A biting 1572 Protestant Pasquillus imagines Satan praising the king after the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre—searing satire that sharpens confessional polemic in the later Reformation.
I'll be sure to let you know!
20.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ha. That was great. And now I know who you are IRL. 😜
20.02.2026 04:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Always good to see witches infiltrating the #RenSA26 @rsaorg.bsky.social. It wasn't too long ago that the only demons were Platonic ones. There will be some excellent @emodir.bsky.social panels tomorrow!
20.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Second paper by Mateusz Falkowski on humanism and humanist practices around the Council of Trent, emphasizing the role of citation and record keeping. #RenSA26
19.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And we're off @rsaorg.bsky.social #RenSA26. My first paper is Jennifer Mara DeSilva on enslaved people in Florence and their presence in baptism records. #earlymodern
19.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
If you are at #RenSA26 in #SanFrancisco, don't miss @emodir.bsky.social demonic series of panels, organized by Maria Ivanova in collaboration with @janmachielsen.bsky.social and @stefanovil.bsky.social! 😈😈😈
#academicsky #skystorians
Can I also say that I love the cover? (No dig at Luther intended I assume?)
19.02.2026 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congrats, Liam!!
19.02.2026 14:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Absolutely no prizes for guessing where I am. Really looking forward to #RenSA26, meeting new and old folks, and hopefully encourage some submissions to the Transactions @royalhistsoc.org.
For now though, I'm so sleepy I'm tempted to just lie down next to the sea lions. 😴
20 minutes of me. Too much for anyone. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
16.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Yes!!! I have a note on my phone that says "write to Christine" for more than a week now. Just haven't had the time.
16.02.2026 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
About to embark on the long journey to #RenSA26 and San Francisco.
I'll be there as @rsaorg.bsky.social Religion Discipline Rep and as co-editor of the Transactions of @royalhistsoc.org.
If you have ideas for an article or just want to talk about submissions, please send me a DM!
#earlymodern
Very pleased to be involved in this. It's promising to be a diabolically good #RenSA26!
16.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A friend just sent me this.
I'm sorry for your loss.
11.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On my way to Cambridge now! Very much looking forward to the #earlymodern @emodcam.bsky.social seminar tomorrow, especially as Cambridge has been such a hub for early modern Catholic studies!
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