My book An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy (Penn State Press, 2021) is now available for just $19.99 hardcover or $15.99 Kindle. Winner of the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social.
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We got a kitten. Meet Luca!

I don't think any wins or titles warranted being vacated. But I do think there are a LOT of Michigan fans that need to examine why they are celebrating the NCAAs decision, and especially why some are actually praising Connor Stalions. That there is some unhinged tribalism.

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Pope Francis will be buried in the Pauline Chapel at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, near a famous icon lavishly installed at the high altar. If you want to learn more about that space, check out my article on
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Any historians of early modern medicine know of any sources that describe the epidermal appearances of corpses and cadavers? Especially the color of the skin in dead bodies? (There's so much on dissection but little on the outside surfaces of bodies.)

Saw Michigan thump Northwestern 50-6 on Saturday and then the Berlin Philharmonic rip off an astounding performance of Bruckner’s 5th on Sunday, all within 24 hours and two miles of each other. Ann Arbor is unique man.

YES THIS!!!! Sometimes we get swallowed up in institutional turmoil and we completely forget--or worse, doubt--that our scholarship has an impact. Always do this.

Congratulations to Adam Jasienski, whose book PRAYING TO PORTRAITS has been awarded the 2024 Roland H. Bainton Prize in Art and Music History from The Sixteenth Century Society!

Does this work? If so, somebody by my book on the Shroud of Turin so I can make sure everything is functioning properly.
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