Francesca Barbera
@francescabk.bsky.social
PhD student at Utrecht University. Researching Early Modern Europe through literary fiction | Language nerd | Opera lover
Made in Chile.
Made in Chile.
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November 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Maid flirts w/ her fellow, cat steals the dinner, housewife escapes boring party upstairs to enjoy disorder of her own household. Great scene from 1657 by Nicolas Maes, whose day is today.
November 24, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Maid flirts w/ her fellow, cat steals the dinner, housewife escapes boring party upstairs to enjoy disorder of her own household. Great scene from 1657 by Nicolas Maes, whose day is today.
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“What are we saving the world for? If the solution involves abandoning our humanities, are we imagining a future for humanity?”
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Doing History at the end of the World (1)
In a recent piece in the Guardian George Monbiot imagines an all-seeing eye scanning the dying earth, and concludes humans are a species ‘that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy …
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November 18, 2024 at 1:45 PM
“What are we saving the world for? If the solution involves abandoning our humanities, are we imagining a future for humanity?”
🗃️
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/d...
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Here is a story about a world map of a European that lived around 1300 AD. The drawn map features south at the top, and shows "africa" in the upper part, “Asia” in the lower part left, and “Europa” in the lower part right.
A 🧵 for #skystorians
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A 🧵 for #skystorians
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November 19, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Here is a story about a world map of a European that lived around 1300 AD. The drawn map features south at the top, and shows "africa" in the upper part, “Asia” in the lower part left, and “Europa” in the lower part right.
A 🧵 for #skystorians
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A 🧵 for #skystorians
1/10
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Oh, brilliant! I'd completely missed this so going in my violence module.
Any other cool #EarlyModern source editions I've missed? I compiled a bunch here: liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/e...
Any other cool #EarlyModern source editions I've missed? I compiled a bunch here: liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/e...
November 14, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Oh, brilliant! I'd completely missed this so going in my violence module.
Any other cool #EarlyModern source editions I've missed? I compiled a bunch here: liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/e...
Any other cool #EarlyModern source editions I've missed? I compiled a bunch here: liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/e...
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Musk's lost the Morris dancers. It's Over.
November 15, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Musk's lost the Morris dancers. It's Over.
Just got here. I love this place.
Early modern ballads go so incredibly hard.
Oh, my rump, my rump, my rump
My rump smells wonderous strong
Oh, my rump, my rump, my rump
My rump smells wonderous strong
November 14, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Just got here. I love this place.