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Indexers: can I ask your advice? I am writing an index that needs to include the notes. Endnotes however start again after the introduction. How do I indicate in the index which section the note falls into? Is there an established convention for this? TIA for any help/advice! 🙏

Fact Check: Mike Johnson's Biggest Lies About Health Care and Undocumented Immigrants GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson pushes the false narrative that Democrats shut down the government to fund health care for undocumented people.

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Reproducing Miracles "Reproducing Miracles" published on 25 Aug 2025 by Brill | Fink.

Focusing on Lviv, Lublin, and Sokal, I examine how these stories intersected with local cults, visual culture, and religious politics, and how they functioned not as “superstitions” but as meaningful tools of social negotiation and cultural resilience.

Enjoy the reading!

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Globalizing the Baltic in the Early Modern Period:

Conference CfP
'The Baltic Sea and Global Currents: 400 Years After the Battle of Oliwa. Maritime Expansion, Domination, and Water Spaces in a Globalizing World'

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#earlymodern #History

In all the hours I’ve spent around Parson Quist’s church at Vejlby, this is the first time I’ve heard the bell. One of the coolest experiences I had on my most recent trip. [Not *the* coolest, tho. That wasn’t even in Denmark ☺️

Lion from King Frederik II’s (now lost) fountain at Skanderborg Castle, Denmark (ca 1573). Friggin adorable. #skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

Back from v productive trip to Denmark and UK. This unremarkable hillock was one of my goals: the tinghøj where Sønder Djurs herredsting condemned Søren Jensen Quist, parson of Vejlby, to death in July 1626. Near the village of Albøge, East Jutland, Denmark. #skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

‘Unprecedented in history’: global academic freedom group warns of dismantling in US Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025

It's mildly disturbing when the US can (and justifiably so) be mentioned in the same breath as Pakistan and Serbia anent academic freedom.
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How my grumpy little girl cat tells me she missed me while I was in Europe for the past couple of weeks: sitting behind a toy and complaining at me. #academiccats #catsofbluesky

Wiping away a tear, gettin’ all sentimental for the time when this (Provianthuset) was Rigsarkivet. Or *this* - Rigsdagsgården 9 - was Rigsarkivet. That was a long time ago.
Done with mss for the day. Time to check out some churches. #skystorians #danishhistory

I’ve been waiting to see this for years. The written exam taken by candidate Søren Jensen Quist, soon-to-be Parson of Vejlby, for Jens Giødesen, bishop-superintendent of Aarhus Stift, sometime in 1597 or ‘98. #skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

'Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow.'

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Danish friends: I’ll be yakking away in Odense on 24 September. Thanks to @witchykallestrup.bsky.social for making this possible!
#skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

A broadsheet printed in Augsburg detailing the Pappenheim trial and execution that took place in Munich in 1600. The image shows a full-page print telling the story from the perspective of the authorities. Four woodcut illustrations show (clockwise from top left) a man dressed in late sixteenth century garb meeting the devil on a rural road, the half-naked delinquents of the trial subjected to public torture in front of viewers in a city environment, the same people on a cart being conveyed to the place of execution in the company of soldiers and clerics, and their burning at the stake. The text describes their supposed crimes including theft and robbery, but mainly doing damage to others by magical means. Source: https://stadtgeschichte-muenchen.de/bilder/d_bilder.php?id=412

Today's post comes with a content warning: How class and culinary practice shade accounts of imaginary #cannibal feasts in a 1600 #witchcraft trial.

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#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #anthropophagy #crime

30 August 1582: As if things weren't bad enough for James VI (kidnapped, held prisoner, cut off from his favourites), he now has to deal with the intervention of his insufferable cousin Elizabeth, who writes to him today. She reminds him at length of the 'small regard' he has had... 1/
#earlymodern

After working with the ill-fated parson of Vejlby for so long, it’s very odd to see his name written in his own hand. Here he signs off - as Søffren Jenssøn - for Vejlby and Homø parishes in Jutland for contributions to the livestock tax in 1625. #earlymodern #skystorians

Opened gradual displaying chants for the choir printed in red and black. The book is opened for digitization and surrounded by technical equipment. Two hands show the actual size of the book.

Bird’s eye perspective of the gradual displaying chants for the choir printed in red and black. The book is opened for digitization and surrounded by technical equipment.

Nothing like a hefty liturgical volume to make your Monday!

Oversaw the digitization of this chunky boy, a folio-format gradual, printed in 1617 and with an #earlymodern binding bearing the date ‘1629’.

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Remember the peace negotiations that ended the Korean war?

Neither do I.

YouTube video by Martin Daske Making of Rosenborg Episode 1

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Very cool. #earlymodern #skystorians

Coin with "Ugonottorum strages 1572" on it, with angels and dead protestants

Flipside of coin with profile portrait of pop Gregory XIII

Pope Gregory XIII has a coin struck to celebrate the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (23-24 August 1572).
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom #earlymodern 🗃️

on the one hand I agree with this piece in principle. on the other hand as soon as people get sentimentally attached to punctuation (see: people who make a big deal about liking the Oxford comma) I feel obligated to find ways around it. This is an immature response which I will never, ever abandon

Apply for a 2026 Research Fellowship! For the 2026 cycle, the RSA will award fellowships of $2,000–$3,750 to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). The deadline for applications is September 16, 2025. Details here: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern #RenTwitter

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :

are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.

*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.

*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.

maybe you're not being negative *enough*

Stained glass representation of the four seasons - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter - supplied by William Morris for the inglenook of the fireplace in the Dining Room at #Cragside House, #Rothbury. Dated 1873.
The National Trust care for the house and grounds.
📸 my own, #Northumberland.
#History

Pete has become my new Office Cat. I think it’s mostly to escape my poodle. Sadly, he’s decided that underneath my bookshelves is the best place to barf. #catsofbluesky #academiccats

Academia.edu is giving me a really creepy vibe today.

citation of course: Landsarkivet for Nørrejylland, Viborg Landsting, Dombog B, 1634, fol. 236, 237, 238

From the account of Jep Skade's confession under torture, which ended mercifully with his beheading: 'Went immediately from the Assembly and thence to his death.'