Prussian-Stepping Goose

My current project - the ordeal of Danish parson Søren Jensen Quist
Therefore it behooves me to point out that Stop & Shop and Tops Supermarkets used to sell a lemon-lime soda called Quist.

I’m never disappointed. Every single f**king day the land of my birth finds a new way to make me feel ashamed of it.

I can’t wait to gtfooh

From my vast cat archive: my big boy Spit, trying to prevent me from completing FIREPOWER, summer 2020. #AcademicCats #catsofbluesky

#maritimehistory #earlymodern

Megyn Kelly redefining "children" could be a clue.

Matt Gaetz must be like, where were are the child redefiners when I was paying homeless underage girls for sexual favors

Aww, shucks, thanks, @ollibackstrom.bsky.social

The cover of the Korean edition is kind of hypnotic

That’s a cool cover

Interesting exhibition on Renaissance enamels. 👇

🔎 Did you know that in French the common expression "se faire limoger" literally means to fire someone and send him/her someone to the town of Limoges?

#language #earlymodern 🗃️ #arthistory #France #skystorians

Trying to find out more about lighting for #earlymodern night/evening entertainments - masques and indoor and outdoor events. Can anyone help?
#earlymodernsky #renaissancesky #masque

Baltimore Harbor - isn’t that the USS Constellation? The USS Constitution is at Charlestown Navy Yard.

'...which read thus: 'the innocent blood will be accounted for', but he did not know who had written it'.
Rigsarkivet København, Kongens Retterting, Herredags Dombog Nr. 37, 24 April 1635, fol. 478b.

'...som liude saaledis. Den wschyldige Blog wj betale, men huem det haffde schriffuen wiste hand icke...'
'The day Hr. Søren was executed, he saw on the eastern side of the western tingstok at the [meeting site for] the assembly of Sønder [Djurs] Herred, that there were written letters in blood' 2/3

Cool Vejlby moment: the parson's son vows revenge immediately after his father's beheading. Affidavit of Niels Sørensen i Østerballe: '...dagh som Hr Søffren bleff retet saa hand paa den østre Side aff den vester tingstock paa sønderherids ting at der sted schreffuen nogen blodige bogstaffuer...'1/2

I know Veterans Day has passed but I found this photo of my dad. That’s him on the right, reading a newspaper with a friend on the bridge of the USS OBERON (Arcturus-class attack cargo ship), somewhere in the Philippines, 1945.

Who Said It: Border Czar Tom Homan or Bill “The Butcher” Cutting? They’re both nativists with bloody visions of American patriotism. Can you tell them apart?

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Current employer has: reduced our faculty senate to a purely advisory role, stripped humanities and science disciplines of support, & appears to be considering imminent faculty layoffs despite a more-than-favorable budget. Appropriate that this should appear in my inbox this morning. #AcademicSky

Review of my talk in April at the Mary Queen of Scots Society in Kirkcudbright

✨ Throwback to April ✨
What an absolute pleasure it was to speak for the Mary Queen of Scots Society about one of my favourite topics: the clothing of Mary Queen of Scots. Her wardrobe tells such a fascinating story of power and identity.

Slander. From Peder Hegelund’s CALUMNIA (1576)
I’m getting ideas for Halloween next year, although I’m not sure where I can get all the eyes and tongues necessary for the costume.
#earlymodern

Brief Veterans Day tribute:
My grandpa, John C. Lockhart, 105th Machine Gun Battalion, 27th Div, AEF, 1917
My dad, Newton F. Lockhart USN, USS Oberon, Luzon, Philippines, 1945

That was in the ‘80s. Probably more temperate now

Grew up in Po’keepsie - cold enough - but Potsdam was a shock. In 4 yrs there I had my beard freeze & break off on three separate occasions in -30 deg F ambient temps.

I did my undergrad years at Potsdam. Everywhere I’ve lived since has felt subtropical by comparison

Happy 483rd to my man Anders Sørensen Vedel, born this day in 1542. I think I've read everything he published; it'd be kinda nice if he'd manifest some species of appreciation for that. Sigh. #skystorians #earlymodern

#earlymodern

Academia dot edu offered to create an "AI generated descriptive analogy" of my book DENMARK, 1513-1660. Not ordinarily my cup of tea but I thought wtf, why not. Here's the result. Ugh. #skystorians

this is objectively hilarious