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Jan Machielsen
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 3h
I imagine that this is not something that the good Protestants of England ever did? @materialwills.bsky.social @lsangha.bsky.social

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 3h
When you don't know who to leave your money to, you can always make the Virgin Mary your heir!

#earlymodern

Reposted by Jan Machielsen

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Joop.nl @joop.nl · 7d
ANP: SP houdt laatste restzetel, geen meerderheid voor D66-VVD-CDA-JA21 www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
ANP: SP houdt laatste restzetel, geen meerderheid voor D66-VVD-CDA-JA21 - Joop - BNNVARA
De SP zal de komende periode met drie zetels in de Tweede Kamer zitten.
www.bnnvara.nl

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 8d
Quite excited to see one the #medievalsky articles we published in the Transactions @royalhistsoc.org make it onto BBC Sounds! 🗃️

An excellent Halloween themed More or Less episode counting the stakes used by Vlad the Impaler.

Have a listen!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
More or Less - Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale? - BBC Sounds
Looking at the math's behind the myth
www.bbc.co.uk

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
An English (St George?) flag waving Virgin... For all the Reformers on here. 😝

Chiesa della Trinità, Bologna.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
An interesting coda from the Santa Maria dei Servi... A painting of St Anne teaching the Virgin to read.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
Mary (as I keep on saying) is always reading.

(But I don't think I've ever seen her this young?? And the angel too for that matter.)

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
This is a very Goth virgin. Surprised she doesn't have fangs! 🤪

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
"You know I climbed up this hill and then God gave me these tablets telling you all to listen to me. And now I'm here!"

(Fragment of a fresco from the church of Mezzarata)

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
Here is the full image from ca 1435.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
This seems more appropriate for the spooky season... Is it a female devil giving birth? Or any devil just shitting out humans?

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
This is the sign. I don't recognize the scene either!

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
Ah. Maybe they are trying to push him up rather than him going down. That would be even funnier!

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
Don't get me wrong, I love me some Giotto. But this dragon just looks like it is sucking through a straw rather than being slain... 😝
The archangel Michael with a dragon

Reposted by Isabelle Poutrin

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
Escaping while keeping your halo intact is no mean feat. 🤪

(If any #medievalsky scholar can tell me what St Anthony got up to here, I'd love to hear it! 😅)

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 10d
Saint George is really going for it.

(Pinacoteca nazionale di Bologna)

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11d
Just boosting @webstermedieval.bsky.social 's #medievalsky #earlymodern post on 🎃👻🕸️ Halloween.

If you're interested in witchy #hextag stuff, then our article and the blog posts by our @witchmapproject.bsky.social interns are an excellent starting point. 😊

Reposted by Jan Machielsen

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Paul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social · 11d
Great to have a piece in The Conversation about the @witchmapproject.bsky.social I was part of with @janmachielsen.bsky.social and our brilliant student interns Abi and Gabriel. #hextag #earlymodern #skystorians
theconversation.com/witch-memori...
Witch memorials are quietly spreading across Europe
As long as we live in a world where people are persecuted for perceived differences, memorialising accused witches will reveal the deadly consequences of ‘othering’.
theconversation.com

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 14d
That is not to say that I didn't just have a very nice meal out in this town. 😅

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 14d
No, I have a meeting at the Sacred Convent tomorrow morning to see a room not usually on display.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 14d
Assisi is even better at night when all the tourists have left.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 14d
Always good to be in Assisi, especially when the sun comes out.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 15d
All credit to @onslies.bsky.social for coming up with that on the other place!

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 15d
"My name is Stefano ... I am about 14 years old. My job is to go to school and do tasks around the house."

Possibly my youngest #monkabulous canonisation trial witness so far, testifying to a miracle basically involving a beating on the school yard.
Io mi chiamo Stefano, figliolo di Vittorio Matthei e di donna Lucia da Osimo, la mia età è di quattordici anni incirca, il mio esercitio è di andare alla scuola e fare qualche servitio di casa, et io son povero.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 16d
Yup! And I love Naples. If you have time, escape to one of the islands!

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 16d
Yeah. Duh.

I was referring to a lanai, a *Hawaiian* porch, as anyone with basic reading skills and common sense should have been able to deduce: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai_(...

So please go away.
Lanai (architecture) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 16d
Enjoy! You don't fancy a day trip to Rome do you? 😜

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 16d
We need a British version!

Then I can forget about Hawaiian geese and porches too. 😅

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 16d
I listened to the BBC Walescast podcast (which I really like) and they were commenting account how all the other journalist were queuing to talk to Reform loser after the count, rather than the winner...