David M. Whitford
@davidmwhitford.bsky.social
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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About Last Night: MAGA Reeks of Death
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About Last Night: MAGA Reeks of Death
There are nights in politics when the country leans over, taps you on the shoulder, and says, “I told you I was sick of this.” Last night was one of those nights.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
About Last Night: MAGA Reeks of Death
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I really enjoyed our conversation.
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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October 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I really enjoyed our conversation.
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i am so sorry to say i did it again
(Andor s2 spoilers)
(Andor s2 spoilers)
May 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
i am so sorry to say i did it again
(Andor s2 spoilers)
(Andor s2 spoilers)
Having just finished a book on masculinity in the Reformation, pics like this would really have made the book so much easier to write.
April 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Having just finished a book on masculinity in the Reformation, pics like this would really have made the book so much easier to write.
Uncle Baby Billy will have you know he does his own wardrobe!
April 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Uncle Baby Billy will have you know he does his own wardrobe!
This is how you do it.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is how you do it.
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.
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.
March 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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.
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.
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.
Maddock Fellow John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social kindly striking a pose to show off the reading room's very nifty #ScanTent from @transkribus.bsky.social, which he's using to photograph (slightly mysterious) Spanish & Italian manuscripts
February 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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.
The next thing the WSJ is going to do is an article renaming the Trail of Tears into the Happy Moving Trail. WTAH.
February 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The next thing the WSJ is going to do is an article renaming the Trail of Tears into the Happy Moving Trail. WTAH.
Please join us. The Long Sixteenth Century covers 1450-1750. It is a welcoming and encouraging conference. @16csociety.bsky.social
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Feel free to email me or DM me if you have questions about the conference.
#skstorians
#earlymodern
#16century
#allthecoolhistorians
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Feel free to email me or DM me if you have questions about the conference.
January 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Please join us. The Long Sixteenth Century covers 1450-1750. It is a welcoming and encouraging conference. @16csociety.bsky.social
#skstorians
#earlymodern
#16century
#allthecoolhistorians
www.sixteenthcentury.org
Feel free to email me or DM me if you have questions about the conference.
#skstorians
#earlymodern
#16century
#allthecoolhistorians
www.sixteenthcentury.org
Feel free to email me or DM me if you have questions about the conference.
I began my career at an HBCU, I know what it is like to be the only person in the room who looks like me. Tomorrow, though, 30 years later, is a new first. I will be the only man in the room. PhD seminar in Reformations. So excited. Let’s rock it!
January 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I began my career at an HBCU, I know what it is like to be the only person in the room who looks like me. Tomorrow, though, 30 years later, is a new first. I will be the only man in the room. PhD seminar in Reformations. So excited. Let’s rock it!
If AI was going to be useful in higher-ed, it would create my Canvas page for me and completely understand Canvas (which remains a mystery in many ways to me). I like to lecture, I like to write and research. I need it to do the stuff I don't like!
January 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
If AI was going to be useful in higher-ed, it would create my Canvas page for me and completely understand Canvas (which remains a mystery in many ways to me). I like to lecture, I like to write and research. I need it to do the stuff I don't like!
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Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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The teaching load is four (4) courses per semester or equivalents. The successful candidate will be expected to teach classes, both in-person and online, that complement the current offerings in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.
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December 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Job Opportunity!
The teaching load is four (4) courses per semester or equivalents. The successful candidate will be expected to teach classes, both in-person and online, that complement the current offerings in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.
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The teaching load is four (4) courses per semester or equivalents. The successful candidate will be expected to teach classes, both in-person and online, that complement the current offerings in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.
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December 11, 2024 at 1:25 PM
However, his efforts to embrace those new roles exhibit a genuine
commitment to live a new life and to be re-formed in life as much as he was in theology.
The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Chapter 9.
commitment to live a new life and to be re-formed in life as much as he was in theology.
The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Chapter 9.
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article:
"But these glimpses of food and drink in the records
of London’s stranger communities show the impact of migration on everyday lives, and how ideas about faith, morality, and community found their expression in bread, and in beer."
"But these glimpses of food and drink in the records
of London’s stranger communities show the impact of migration on everyday lives, and how ideas about faith, morality, and community found their expression in bread, and in beer."
December 11, 2024 at 1:08 PM
However, his efforts to embrace those new roles exhibit a genuine
commitment to live a new life and to be re-formed in life as much as he was in theology.
The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Chapter 9.
commitment to live a new life and to be re-formed in life as much as he was in theology.
The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Chapter 9.
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So this is an interesting creation--it's not just the donation of Brown's papers, but she's created an endowed archive for OTHER medievalists' papers as well. Perhaps the first archive of its kind?
penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-li... #skystorians Medieval France is about to have a dazzling new hub at @upenn.bsky.social with Ada Kuskowski and Nick Herman at the helm.
Penn Libraries receives $5M bequest from medieval historian Elizabeth A.R. Brown | Penn Today
The bequest alongside the gift of Brown’s professional papers elevates the Penn Libraries’ position as a leader for research in medieval studies.
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December 6, 2024 at 6:27 PM
So this is an interesting creation--it's not just the donation of Brown's papers, but she's created an endowed archive for OTHER medievalists' papers as well. Perhaps the first archive of its kind?
Hegseth’s view of the Crusades is what happens when you only listen to theobros and only read Metexas and the like. You think they were successful. (Hint, nope) You think they were noble. (Double Nope) Lots of massacres, lots of losing, tons of mind-numbing misery. Yup, yup, yup.
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, has praised the Crusades, the brutal religious military campaigns of the past, and has called for a Christian approach to governing.
Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade
The veteran picked to lead the Defense Department has praised the brutal religious military campaigns of the past and has called for a Christian approach to governing.
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December 6, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Hegseth’s view of the Crusades is what happens when you only listen to theobros and only read Metexas and the like. You think they were successful. (Hint, nope) You think they were noble. (Double Nope) Lots of massacres, lots of losing, tons of mind-numbing misery. Yup, yup, yup.
2025 is the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants War. I would like to organize some panels for SCS 2025 on the PW, Gender, and Sexual Violence. Please touch base if interested in starting a conversation on this topic. #earlymodern
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#skyhistorians
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#skyhistorians
December 4, 2024 at 3:19 PM
2025 is the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants War. I would like to organize some panels for SCS 2025 on the PW, Gender, and Sexual Violence. Please touch base if interested in starting a conversation on this topic. #earlymodern
@16csociety.bsky.social
#skyhistorians
@16csociety.bsky.social
#skyhistorians
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Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️
December 3, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️
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Nice inscription and doodles in a copy of Luther's "Commentarie ... upon the epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians", printed 1616 in London, at Harris Manchester College; not been able to identify this Bridgyett Smith as yet ... #HerBook #EarlyModern
December 3, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Nice inscription and doodles in a copy of Luther's "Commentarie ... upon the epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians", printed 1616 in London, at Harris Manchester College; not been able to identify this Bridgyett Smith as yet ... #HerBook #EarlyModern
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Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive Cc @peccadille.bsky.social
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Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive
We appreciate illuminated manuscripts and historical books here on Open Culture, adhere though we do to a much more restrained aesthetic style in our own texts.
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November 29, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive Cc @peccadille.bsky.social
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