Jana Byars
@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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November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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November 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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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October 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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.
October 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
My weed dealer is selling Tylenol now. Strange.
Reposted by Jana Byars
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
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
October 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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
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.
October 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Almost every sentence I write is better after I take out some words. Previous sentence included. I deleted two.
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 3:54 PM
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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newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/index
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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#skystorians #FashionHistory #USHistory #WomensHistory
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October 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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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#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
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
Lutheran Insulter
Insults by Martin Luther
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October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
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.
September 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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.
I'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.
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.
September 30, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I'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.
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.
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
#skystorians #earlymodernist #feminism #monsters #Tylenol
September 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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
#skystorians #earlymodernist #feminism #monsters #Tylenol
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
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newbooksnetwork.com/year
September 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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
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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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August 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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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#skystorians #Netherlands #Reformation #AcademicSky #Press #BookSky📚💙 #AcademicSky
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August 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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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#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
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August 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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
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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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#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
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August 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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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#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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August 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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August 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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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#GenderStudies #FeministStudies #decolonial #WomensHistory #postcolonial #witchcraft
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July 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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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#GenderStudies #FeministStudies #decolonial #WomensHistory #postcolonial #witchcraft
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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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#ArtHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #Renaissance
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June 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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#ArtHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #Renaissance
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Give a listen to my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Enrique Fernandez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira about Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. #HistoryofDeath #GenderStudies #skystorians #EarlyModern #BookSky 📚💙
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June 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Give a listen to my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Enrique Fernandez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira about Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. #HistoryofDeath #GenderStudies #skystorians #EarlyModern #BookSky 📚💙
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New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with David de Boer and Geert Janssen over @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Refugee Politics in #EarlyModern Europe. #skystorians #BookSky📚💙 #EarlyModernist #Refugee #Migration #Renaissance #WarsofReligion
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June 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with David de Boer and Geert Janssen over @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Refugee Politics in #EarlyModern Europe. #skystorians #BookSky📚💙 #EarlyModernist #Refugee #Migration #Renaissance #WarsofReligion
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New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Kathleen Miller Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World @psupress.bsky.social
#skystorians #EarlyModern #ColonialLatinAmerica #HistoryofDisease #BookSky📚💙
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#skystorians #EarlyModern #ColonialLatinAmerica #HistoryofDisease #BookSky📚💙
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June 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Kathleen Miller Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World @psupress.bsky.social
#skystorians #EarlyModern #ColonialLatinAmerica #HistoryofDisease #BookSky📚💙
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#skystorians #EarlyModern #ColonialLatinAmerica #HistoryofDisease #BookSky📚💙
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