Christine Kooi

First officially celebrated on this day in 1572 by pope Gregory XIII.
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I'm all for more work on women in the Netherlandish Reformation (including its satellites in England).

And an excellent article it is, too. Well done, John!

Painting of ships at sea in battle formation, with assorted figures and cherubs in the foreground

#OTD in 1571 the battle of Lepanto took place. In 1572 Giorgio Vasari, commissioned by pope Pius V, painted the event for the wall of the Sala Regia in the Vatican. The 3 figures in the left foreground are the victors: Spain, the Papal States and Venice.
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

AI-slop? So much for yelling the "truth."

If you ever suffered from impostor syndrome, now's the time to shed it.

Oof.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Looks very AI-generated.

The judge, notably, is a daughter of immigrants.

@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social

The prosecution of Protestant heresy in the sixteenth-century Habsburg Netherlands was among the fiercest in Europe.
#reformationinthelowcountries

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In two weeks!

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In de Nederlandse Republiek vond het religieuze geweld plaats meer onder de gereformeerden dan tussen verschillende religieuze groepen.
#reformatieindelagelanden

Geesteswetenschappen zijn altjd gevaarlijk voor rechtse regimes. Sterkte!

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#Earlymodern #Reformation

Hallo! Mijn naam is John Exalto en ik zal deze week op dit account berichten. Ik werk als historicus bij de afdeling Pedagogische Wetenschappen aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug-gmw.bsky.social, maar mijn berichten komen deze week uit Praag.

Exceptionnaly a #asiteoftheweek in Dutch. The Folktale Database of the Low Countries at the Meertens Institute contains over 100,000 stories from the past and present. All genres are represented: fairy tales, sagas, legends, riddles, jokes, urban myths and the like.

"Steve is smarter than this." When you have a bad argument, start with the ad hominem attack first.

A book we all need to read, lol.

The US has been through red scares before.
(Of course, in this red-state, blue-state era I have to explain to students that "red" once meant "left.")

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Ondanks al zijn militaire inspanningen had Willem van Oranje nooit veel succes op het slagveld.

The sexual matador is seeing red himself.

The judge said the president's determination is untethered to facts, not the president. Journalism should be precise in its language.

Full program for 2025-6 for the IHR Low Countries Seminar. All meetings both in person and online. To register for any session, go to www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

"Enshrined a tradition"? That law ORDERED that only deceased people can appear on currency. Use more precise verbs, please.

A bit ambiguous. Why not an outright "no"?

Don't forget the misogyny. Women are supposed to be "happy."