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@pauldlockhart
History prof. War & religion in EM Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist. Dad and cat dad. Doer of several things.
Finding some real gems in the Danske Fagtekster for Folket collection, DUDS, Københavns Universitet... like this Danish edition of Musculus's treatise on cursing #earlymodern #reformazing #bookhistory #danishhistory
Late for #caturday but it’s an old photo so I guess it’s okay. Here’s Pete / Gollum #catsofbluesky #academiccats
back to Fred, my gr gr grandfather. So this just popped up today. Apparently Fredrick (or, here, Frederik) was confirmed in 1841. In Copenhagen. At Holmens Kirke.
End of summer is nigh, so I'm posting course materials online, and in accordance with Ohio SB1 I'm making sure that I'm not indoctrinating my students with my usual Bolshevik propaganda. Still I think I get to have a little fun, courtesy of Firesign Theatre. #OhioHigherEd #academicsky
Tired of all the “it’s 1659” posts anent today’s match. Obvsly it’s 1503 and we’re looking at El Gran Capitán pummeling the duc de Nemours at Cerignola.
Oooh just discovered this. Now I just need everyone to leave me TF alone for three hours or so. #earlymodern #reformazing #skystorians
... and my personal favourite, Severinus Sckött Grenaaensis - Søren Skøtt of Grenaa - one of a handful of Danes to witness the 1572 massacres in Paris first-hand.
... and Petrus Ramus at Paris, before the St. Bartholomew's Day unpleasantness (obvsly)...
...and Christoffer Knoff, one of Frederik II's favorite chaplains...
with signatures and snippets from: Jakob Andreæ at Tübingen...
A 'why didn't someone tell me this existed or why wasn't I listening when they did' discovery: Norwegian Morten Knudsen's stambog, detailing academic peregrinations 1568-87. Wittenberg, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Paris etc ... #earlymodern #reformazing #skystorians
6 June 1944: on this day, we Americans remember a critical event in the history of the West - the 421st anniversary of Gustav Vasa’s election as king of Sweden, at the Diet at Strängnäs in 1523. #earlymodern #skystorians #swedishhistory
Of course they looked familiar. From that Swedish document I transcribed/translated ystdy, I give you… Ereck Cock, Måns Cock, and Suen Lom. All of Upland, all adults and alive in 1684, all apparently uniquely named.
Enkedronning Sophia and Spit. Peaceable kingdom … for now. #academiccats #catsofbluesky #caturday
Having a blast revisiting Denmark in 1572... I realize that the original text wasn't Danish, but it's interesting to see the apocalyptic concern being taken up in the Oldenburg realms #earlymodern #skystorians #reformazing
I know I probably ask this same question several times a day, but please indulge me here: What the fuck is wrong with us?
Practical too. I keep a chapeau de fer in my campus office just in case
Almost a year old now, but still I'm aghast. A state government is resorting to dies rogationum now? WTF is this, 1625? #earlymodern #reformazing #skystorians
My baby turns 20 today. I asked him if he wanted to try to recreate this scene (from 2009) but he wisely declined.
This is way too long for me to post as text, so I'll post instead a screenshot from my Facebook account. Behold - one of the many delights of public-facing humanities scholarship: giving advice to the German foreign office about choosing a present for Donald Trump.