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European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)

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Do not mess with Germans and their dogs!

09.07.2025 02:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s like a toddler win, a mom win, and a gramma win all wrapped up in one little dress!

14.06.2025 13:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The memorial sessions at SCSC will be out in either ARG or CHRC (I forget which). They were magnificent. Mack Holt and MWH won the day though. I would put a decal on my computer. I’m looking for an Andor one now! She’d have liked Andor.

04.06.2025 10:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I feel like there is a market out there for Team NZD tshirts or stickers for laptops.

04.06.2025 09:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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i am so sorry to say i did it again

(Andor s2 spoilers)

27.05.2025 16:01 — 👍 1954    🔁 299    💬 82    📌 69

A long time ago, the Brit M had a Durer show. They made a giant copy of that as you were about to enter the show. My then 5 yo nearly climbed up my body to get away from it. Absolutely terrified. Needless to say, did not see the exhibit. We went back to ANE wing.

22.05.2025 12:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After F was elected, a B16 guy came and spoke. He gave a discourse on how as a prof he was called to rebuke the pope to come back to orthodoxy. He framed it in terms of Aug's City of God. I said during Q&A, that he may have used CG, but gave an excellent summary of ML's Bab Cap. No friend made. =)

10.05.2025 13:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Should come with a footnote that says, “The candidate did not sufficiently recognize the brilliance of my second book!”

28.04.2025 21:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would absolutely go to that paper!

12.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Having just finished a book on masculinity in the Reformation, pics like this would really have made the book so much easier to write.

08.04.2025 12:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Uncle Baby Billy will have you know he does his own wardrobe!

05.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Natalie Zemon Davis The Return of Martin Guerre

31.03.2025 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

38 of mine.

20.03.2025 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Promotion to full deserves the full Brunello treatment.

13.03.2025 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is how you do it.

06.03.2025 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter One: I, Luther, still live! Luther as Virile Monk and Godly Hero.
I use sixteenth century images of Luther to explore how he managed and finessed his public persona to project a vision of himself as godly and manly.

06.03.2025 16:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity This volume explores how Martin Luther’s life and teachings reshaped and redefined masculinity during the Reformation, offering a more nuanced portrayal of him as a man grappling with the complexities...

I am very happy to announce this book!
www.routledge.com/The-Making-o...

Out in June!

05.03.2025 16:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nero had some competence. Think Caligula or Caracalla.

28.02.2025 02:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Interferon Dependent Immune Memory during HSV-1 Neuronal Latency Results in Increased H3K9me3 and Restriction of Reactivation by ATRX Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) establishes a lifelong latent infection in neurons and reactivation from this latent state is the cause of recurrent oral and ocular infections, herpes simplex keratitis...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

27.02.2025 02:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I do not see anything explicitly scatological there.

25.02.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stercoribus = filth here, but I can explain this more in an email. david_whitford (at) baylor . edu

25.02.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Here is the sentence: Agnoscimus sane magnum beneficium [21] esse, quod linguam ab eis accepimus: sed cavendum est a Rabbinorum [22] stercoribus, qui ex scriptura sancta quasi latrinam quandam fecerunt, in [23] quam suas turpitudines et stultissimas opiniones ingererent.

25.02.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ohhh... you have the exact cites. That makes it much easier. If you send me an email, I can explain some of this more. 43 is the Genesis Lectures. You can find an English edition in the LW, probably V2 or 3. It is Gen25.

25.02.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can you give me the complete cites? I have class tomorrow morning but I might be able to figure it out for you later in the day.

25.02.2025 00:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the last two books I've worked on (one edited, one mono) the publishers both asked for my ORCID. It helps them track citations, I gather.

24.02.2025 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A little baby camping tent for those REI moments when you want to backpack and take your rare books with you! What a wonderful contraption. Seriously. That thing is cool.

21.02.2025 17:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The next thing the WSJ is going to do is an article renaming the Trail of Tears into the Happy Moving Trail. WTAH.

13.02.2025 13:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We head to the RBR next Monday. It is always the week, we will spend the week there, they mention the most at the end of the semester evals. It is, I hope, a week they will still remember in 30 years.

11.02.2025 11:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I believe that is Rafael Cruz. I was told there was no more picking pronouns or new names. You go by what's on your birth certificate and that's it.

28.01.2025 21:18 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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