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Christine Kooi
@christinekooi.bsky.social
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Reformation historian, immigrant, dochter van Nederlanders, birder (not necessarily in that order). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Nov 12
Happy to be in bluer skies. I'm working on a book titled "1572: A Year in the End of Christendom," about the working out of reformation in Europe in the later 16th cen. Any tidbits about 1572 that you come across in your research that you're willing to share are welcome.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 15h
#earlymodern
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Does anyone know what publishers/series are actively acquiring in either early modern (European) urban history or early modern European jewish history? (Looking into this for a friend).

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 16h
Call for nominations for the Menno Hertzberger Prize 2026 in Book Studies of the Low Countries broadly considered (also looking at you specialists of print or cartography). Please nominate a colleague (or yourself!) either for Best Book or for the Encouragement Prize 1/8 #bookhistory #bookstudies
Black and white image of older man (Menno Hertzberger) with white hair wearing a sports jacket and black tie, at a desk filled with papers and books in front of book cases filled with old books.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 16h
Does anyone know what publishers/series are actively acquiring in either early modern (European) urban history or early modern European jewish history? (Looking into this for a friend).

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Arie van Steensel @arievansteensel.bsky.social · 21h
Deze maand verschijnt de 'Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden' in open access: brill.com/display/titl.... De publieke presentatie is op 2 december, zie uitnodiging.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
To say nothing of all those Europeans over the indigenous in the western hemisphere.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
I sometimes imagine future historians might well depict the 16th-21st centuries as an anomalous Era of Literacy, an odd blip in the otherwise long human history of people communicating principally through images and orality.
70sbachchan.bsky.social Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8d
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
Hier in Het Land van de Grote Auto's, valt mijn kleine Toyota wel flink uit de toon.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
A comforting thought as I slouch into my 60s.
davidveevers.bsky.social David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d
Just read a passage in a book that describes elderly people as time machines: able to recall the past whilst being reminders to younger people of the future that awaits them. I think that’s a pretty magical understanding of age.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
I'm at about 6 right now and probably will be for a while.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
Since when are "search and rough drafts" not human tasks?

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d
Just read a passage in a book that describes elderly people as time machines: able to recall the past whilst being reminders to younger people of the future that awaits them. I think that’s a pretty magical understanding of age.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
The late Thomas A. Brady Jr. of UC Berkeley. A fine historian, but also warm and empathetic person who genuinely delighted in encouraging younger scholars.

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · 2d
Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
The Pacification of Ghent gave the Habsburgs what they always wanted, a united Low Countries. Trouble was, they were now united *against* the Habsburgs.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
Ik ook!

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Historiek - Geschiedenis @historiek.bsky.social · 2d
Op 8 november 1576 ondertekenen de zeventien opstandige gewesten de Pacificatie van Gent. Eensgezind bepaalt men dat de Spaanse troepen de Nederlanden moeten verlaten. historiek.net/pacificatie-...
Pacificatie van Gent (1576) verenigde de opstandige gewesten
De Pacificatie van Gent (1576) was een akkoord tussen de opstandige gewesten om de Spaanse troepen uit de Nederlanden te verdrijven.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Yikes almighty.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Auxiliary verbs are such a bear.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Lol, okay.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
The rich don't go to stores. The stores go to them.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Takes me fondly back to my Yale grad school days.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
I disagree. That's not how it works on the religious left, which has a healthy skepticism toward anything authoritarian or supernatural.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
The religious right sucks the oxygen out of the room, but we've always been here.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
As a card-member of the Christian left I say, screw that.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
I wish I could attend this book presentation. It's a great volume with many fine contributions. Say nice things about it, @judithpollmann.bsky.social! 😉
Poster for book presentation of A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Mais bien sûr!

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
I loved Lucky Luke comics as a kid; they first taught me how to read Dutch. This image brings me joy.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Oh, I love this. I devoured Lucky Luke comics as a kid.