@janalena.bsky.social
Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
Nice @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Charles Watkins of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social about Trees Ancient and Modern: #Woodland Cultures and #Conservation @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #skystorians #EnvironmentalStudies #Forestry #trees #nature #rewilding
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Fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @witchykallestrup.bsky.social about The Construction of #Witchcraft in #EarlyModern #Denmark @routledgebooks.bsky.social #skystorians This is how you write a book and take an interview! #BookSky📚💙
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Winner of best mustache and super smartie Ken Appold joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about his new book: #Luther and the Peasants: #Religion, Ritual and the #Revoltof1525 @oxunipress.bsky.social #Reformation #earlymodern #skystorians
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My weed dealer is selling Tylenol now. Strange.
13.10.2025 03:24 — 👍 1885 🔁 219 💬 142 📌 18
Today's marginal #musicians are playing the #lute and singing from partbooks.
Detail from Cipriano de Rore's Da pacem Domine, in a lavish #choirbook from 1559.
BSB Mus. ms. B(1.
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymodern #16thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript
Almost every sentence I write is better after I take out some words. Previous sentence included. I deleted two.
09.10.2025 07:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0same.
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Natural teacher, the charming @davidmwhitford.bsky.social joined me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about The Making of a #Reformation Man: #MartinLuther and Construction of #Masculinity @routledgehistory.bsky.social #EarlyModern #skystorians #BookSky📚💙
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03.10.2025 04:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purse? Handbag? Pocketbook? They all matter. Great @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Kathleen Casey about The Things She Carried: A #CulturalHistory of the #Purse in America @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
#skystorians #FashionHistory #USHistory #WomensHistory
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I know I'm late to this party, but today I learned about the Lutheran Insulter today and it has changed my life. Thanks @davidmwhitford.bsky.social
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I don't know if I get points for this but I've always loathed "Millennial Gray." Writing that surrounded by my orange-brown, gold, and deep blue walls.
30.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm reading an essay published by an old-school archaeologist in the 1980s and everything about it is wild.
Um, so...my friend managed to start a fire with this mirror on a random date in 1971, so now I know that the Olmecs might have done it that way...
Holy mackerel. Different world.
So great. Students love monster babies.
25.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ludicrous idea that Tylenol causes autism reminds me a lot of the pre-modern idea monstrous births were the result of women having bad thoughts. Sketchy science aside it is just another way to control (and vilify!) women. I'm so tired.
#skystorians #earlymodernist #feminism #monsters #Tylenol
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social opens up the entire world.
25.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Spike Bucklow about his new @reaktionbooks.bsky.social release, The Year: An #Ecology of the #Zodiac. It defies genre, maybe even summation. Loved it. #BookSky📚💙 #anthropology #folklore #astrology #Skystorians
newbooksnetwork.com/year
Oh, this was fun! The marvelous Philip Carr-Gomm and I chatted on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his @reaktionbooks.bsky.social 2010 A Brief History of Nakedness. Listen, read, and check out the photos! #BookSky 📚💙 #Religion #Druidry #Nudity #WitchSky
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Check out this quick and fun @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with David de Boer about The #EarlyModern #Dutch Press in the Age of Religious Persecution" @oxunipress.bsky.social
#skystorians #Netherlands #Reformation #AcademicSky #Press #BookSky📚💙 #AcademicSky
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And now for some good storytelling. Matt Sparks and Olivia Sizemore talk about Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #Folklore #Appalachia #GhostStories #hauntings #Folktales #Kentucky
newbooksnetwork.com/haint-country
Smart and delightful book, equally enjoyable @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview. @domford.bsky.social Mytholudics: Games and Myth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
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Spoke to one of my academic heroes for this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview! Samuel Kline Cohn, Popular Protest and Ideals of #Democracy in Late #Renaissance #Italy @oxunipress.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #politicalhistory
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Back from holidays and ready to catch up. Check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social beauty with with Michael Green about @inekehuysman.bsky.social Private Life and Privacy in the #EarlyModern #LowCountries @brepols.net #Netherlands #Skystorians #Renaissance
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Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview about The #Witch Studies Reader edited by @gentlemanjane.bsky.social and Soma Chaudhuri @dukepress.bsky.social
#GenderStudies #FeministStudies #decolonial #WomensHistory #postcolonial #witchcraft
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This makes me miss teaching!
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This one was fun! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with #ArtHistory Andrea Beyer to talk about Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
#ArtHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #Renaissance
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