David Winter
@vetur.bsky.social
Distractable historian of medieval & early modern Europe. Current shiny things include: all things Icelandic; the demonic; popular religion; taxonomies. Currently working on a translation & study of Icelandic bishop, Oddur Einarsson's Descriptio Islandiae.
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David Winter
@vetur.bsky.social
· Jun 23
Now out: The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition, edited with my brilliant colleagues, @mikkibrock.bsky.social and @devilprof.bsky.social !
I'm doing a thing in Iceland next summer. I'm helping to run the Svartarkot program in Bárðardalur. The program looks at the daemonic in Icelandic history. It will have lectures, discussions and site visits in the highlands. See Iceland in a way most tourists never do! svartarkot.is/upcoming-cou...
Upcoming Courses in Iceland - Svartárkot Culture-Nature
NEXT COURSE: 16 - 26 AUGUST 2019: Human Ecology and Culture at Lake Mývatn 1700-2000: Dimensions of Environmental and Cultural Change:
svartarkot.is
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm doing a thing in Iceland next summer. I'm helping to run the Svartarkot program in Bárðardalur. The program looks at the daemonic in Icelandic history. It will have lectures, discussions and site visits in the highlands. See Iceland in a way most tourists never do! svartarkot.is/upcoming-cou...
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
As a historian, I can confirm that we've known since the war that Hitler only had one ball. There was speculation at the time as well that Goering had two, but very small. Further study suggested Himmler had something similar, but that Goebbels had no balls at all.
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
As a historian, I can confirm that we've known since the war that Hitler only had one ball. There was speculation at the time as well that Goering had two, but very small. Further study suggested Himmler had something similar, but that Goebbels had no balls at all.
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by David Winter
Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Reposted by David Winter
The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.
I mean it's not a 5 day test series...
idk I saw one baseball game last year and the Jays lost really really badly and I was REALLY bored and that certainly didn't go as long as this one so you all have my sympathy
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I mean it's not a 5 day test series...
Jesus The US is now so militarized, you've got to have a Spotter's Guide like the Brits had for Narzi aircraft.
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Jesus The US is now so militarized, you've got to have a Spotter's Guide like the Brits had for Narzi aircraft.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Iceland Women’s Strike. On October 24, 1975, 90% of the country’s women withdrew their paid and unpaid labour. It led directly to the implementation of gender equality legislation in 1976 and paved the way for Iceland to elect Vigdis Finnbogadottir as president.
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Iceland Women’s Strike. On October 24, 1975, 90% of the country’s women withdrew their paid and unpaid labour. It led directly to the implementation of gender equality legislation in 1976 and paved the way for Iceland to elect Vigdis Finnbogadottir as president.
I mean, it's either going to be California Democrats or Canadian Socialists winning the WS. It's win-win!
October 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I mean, it's either going to be California Democrats or Canadian Socialists winning the WS. It's win-win!
Yeah, he doesn't fancy himself a "king", right, Trumpies?
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Yeah, he doesn't fancy himself a "king", right, Trumpies?
Fascinating thread about baseball in Toronto in the 19th and early 20th centuries!
1. The history of baseball stadiums in Toronto goes back a century before the SkyDome opened.
With the Jays coming home for Game Six, I thought I'd share my old thread about it.
It begins all the way back in the 1800s with a place called the Toronto Baseball Grounds…
With the Jays coming home for Game Six, I thought I'd share my old thread about it.
It begins all the way back in the 1800s with a place called the Toronto Baseball Grounds…
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Fascinating thread about baseball in Toronto in the 19th and early 20th centuries!
Reposted by David Winter
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
The Maple Leafs: is it time to panic?
October 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The Maple Leafs: is it time to panic?
This is a great thread to understand what happened with Montagues/Capulets or Bloods/Crips of the 2025 white nationalist wars.
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is a great thread to understand what happened with Montagues/Capulets or Bloods/Crips of the 2025 white nationalist wars.
British authorities want to disappear this new #Banksy image showing a judge beating a Palestine Action Network protestor with his gavel. Help make sure it doesn't go away. #UKpoli #Britishpolitics #palestine
September 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
British authorities want to disappear this new #Banksy image showing a judge beating a Palestine Action Network protestor with his gavel. Help make sure it doesn't go away. #UKpoli #Britishpolitics #palestine
This editorial in the @brandonsun.bsky.social hits the nail on the head and is a vindication for the faculty, students, and other stakeholders who have been watching the car crash for years. #BrandonMB #Manitoba #cdnpoli www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Botched BU project begs for comprehensive review
In its final report to Brandon University over the failure of the “Renew BU” Enterprise Resource Planning implementation project with Florida-based computer firm Anthology, BDO Canada pointed to sever...
www.brandonsun.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This editorial in the @brandonsun.bsky.social hits the nail on the head and is a vindication for the faculty, students, and other stakeholders who have been watching the car crash for years. #BrandonMB #Manitoba #cdnpoli www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025...
Our discussion with @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social about the Routledge History of the Devil!
new post on mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's newsletter - "The Devil in History"
we talk to the editors of a great new volume on the DEVIL HIMSELF in various cultures and traditions.
#medievalsky #booksky
free to read --> buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
we talk to the editors of a great new volume on the DEVIL HIMSELF in various cultures and traditions.
#medievalsky #booksky
free to read --> buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
The Devil in History
A new collection of essays confronts one of the world's wiliest adversaries
buttondown.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Our discussion with @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social about the Routledge History of the Devil!
Reposted by David Winter
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck these people
Got gossip from a managing editor pal of a journal that a few reviewers used ChatGPT to write their assessments for them, and didn't even conceal it. I'll say it again - it won't be the neoliberal administrators that take down the humanities. It'll be humanities professors who've stopped reading.
July 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck these people
Nice cap space there, #leafsforever. what ya plannin' to do with it?
July 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Nice cap space there, #leafsforever. what ya plannin' to do with it?
I'm now interested in the delay in the #Tavares signing. Was he trying to make sure that #LeafsForever were commited to putting together a winner in the post-Core-Four period?
June 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I'm now interested in the delay in the #Tavares signing. Was he trying to make sure that #LeafsForever were commited to putting together a winner in the post-Core-Four period?
Now out: The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition, edited with my brilliant colleagues, @mikkibrock.bsky.social and @devilprof.bsky.social !
June 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Now out: The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition, edited with my brilliant colleagues, @mikkibrock.bsky.social and @devilprof.bsky.social !