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ctcallisen.bsky.social
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory #15thC #16thC
November 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
jdmccafferty.bsky.social
This monk is being seized by death so it's good to see that he's got his reading material with him, safely ensconced in his book bag (Rijksmuseum, 16thC )
November 1, 2026 at 9:55 AM
mercedesceron.bsky.social
Autumn, by printmaker Raphael Sadeler I after Jacopo Bassano:

www.ashmolean.org/collections-...

www.khm.at/en/artworks/...
Late 16thC engraving with wine-making scene in the foreground and landscape in the background 16thC oil painting with figures making and tasting wine in the foreground and landscape with Moses receiving the Ten Commandments in the background
November 4, 2026 at 10:30 AM
bighappyhead.bsky.social
St. Michael the Archangel (L) holding a small figure or scales representing a soul being weighed or brought to heaven.
St. Margaret of Antioch (R) Recognisable by attire & the long cross-staff or spear she uses to conquer the dragon beneath her feet.
16thc. Ireland (location withheld for security)
November 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
historicaljnl.bsky.social
📘From our latest issue!

Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social on 'Providence, Editorial, and News in Early Modern Ballads'

#News #Religion #God #Print #Everyday #Print #History #Culture 16thc 17thc 📜🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This article overturns the assumption that early modern ballads include too much godly, moralizing content to be considered part of news culture. It uses a wide range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English ballads in print and manuscript to demonstrate that one of the news ballad’s most significant features was the inclusion of providence – the ongoing supernatural workings of God in the material world. Placing these songs in the context of other cheap print genres and drawing on research into the role of religion in everyday life, the article shows that rather than undermining the ballad’s role in news culture, providence defined it. Moreover, the early modern distinction between God’s overall plan and specific examples of his intervention in earthly affairs helps to subdivide the genre into those where providence forms an editorial line and those where providence itself provides the story. This second type has traditionally been seen as godly rather than ‘newsy’. Understanding providence shows that those ballads which have been dismissed as more moralistic than topical in fact shared the most important news people could hear.
November 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
scholarschoice.bsky.social
Hello @16csociety.bsky.social attendees! You'll find our tables in the State Ballroom on the 4th floor of the hotel. Stop by and say "hi" to Tom and pick up/order some excellent books. #scs #16thC
October 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK 16thC Spain’s royal house & #Inquisition saw New World #IndigenousPeople as subhuman for accepting all sexual & #GenderIdentities? It could enslave or execute them for accepting #bestiality #CrossDressing, #QueerSex, & #TwoSpirit. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #TransGender
October 31, 2026 at 1:51 PM
antoniaalksnis.bsky.social
@united.com gives you "free" "travel bank cash" but to actually use it you must survive 3 trials:

1. six hours on phone
2. tolerate agents inexplicably cancelling & rebooking different parts of travel & payment 5 times
3. be flayed alive like a 16thC heretic

#unitedairlines <3 Id rather walk.
November 2, 2026 at 1:59 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK doctors stroked the #clitoris to relieve #hysteria w/#orgasm for 1000s years? #Hippocrates believed it cured a #WanderingWomb. 16thC #AmbroiseParé advocated it. A 19thC doc invented the #vibrator to spare his fingers. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist
October 29, 2026 at 4:26 PM
jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Johanna Trappes 16thC

(Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge)
October 24, 2026 at 2:52 PM
lrussellwolpe.bsky.social
Overnight in 16thC palace in rural town of Deogarth. Everyone except cows and dogs are celebrating last day of Hindu festival of Durga Puja. #IntrepidIndia
October 19, 2026 at 2:46 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK toward the end of 16thC, Seville’s Holy #Inquisition burned 75 men at the stake in an #AutoDaFé? It first tortured them into confessing the “pecado nefando”—#QueerSex, #AnalSex, or #bestiality. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #sodomy #zoophilia
October 20, 2026 at 4:13 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK 16thC French explorers saw #TwoSpirit/#trans people in what is now Florida? In 1564, René Goulaine de Laudonnière & Jacques Le Moyne saw them among the Timucua. Some of them carried the bodies of the dead. Some carried the sick & injured.
October 20, 2026 at 4:17 PM
earlymusicto.bsky.social
Our Lady of Antwerp: A Musical Path to Rubens
#UtopiaEnsemble & #Psallentes
Antwerp’s collegiate church of #OurLady one of the most important musical centres in #LowCountries 15-16thC
lnk.to/OurLadyOfAnt...
PeterPhilips: CantionesSacræ quinis vocibus; No. 37, Assumpta est Maria
youtu.be/-UQKGuiVfqs
October 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
louiserl.bsky.social
Maybe TREGIAN'S GROUND by Anne Cuneo, fr. @andotherstories.bsky.social? It's about people fleeing persecution across the Channel in small boats: 16thC Catholics escaping England for safe haven in France. And pandemics (the Black Death). A wonderful evocation of life, music & culture in Tudor London.
October 16, 2026 at 1:33 PM
wpd3.bsky.social
The "balsam balm" harvest combines the French word "balm" and its Latin root balsamum, which refers to a resinous, fragrant, & soothing substance derived from certain plants. Book of Simple Medicines. Origin: West France. Date: 16thC, around 1520-1530. Manuscript in Latin illuminated on parchment.
October 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
northages.bsky.social
Oct 13: Feast of Comgan (8thC), abbot. Irishman who founded a church at Loch Alsh, near Skye, where his cult still flourished in the early 16thC. Dedications are predominantly in the west of Scotland with important outliers in Easter Ross and Turriff, Aberdeenshire. 📸Eusebius
Clouds reflected in the still waters of Loch Alsh.
October 13, 2026 at 7:37 AM
everyheron.bsky.social
Which Heron was it? The image in post 1 shows a white egret, which the Florentine Codex entry identifies as a snowy egret. Nahuatl names often grouped similar birds, so other herons probably counted too like a Bare Throated Tiger Heron.
Codex Boturini 16thC a Heron? held aloft?
October 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
themedievaldrk.bsky.social
Like, Tradition says that use of York (the other archbishop in England) dies out after 1400, and episcopal uses even earlier. Yet there are books printed for "use of York" and even ruddy "use of Hereford" in the early 16thc so um what? And what texts do those contain?? Ringing silence from the field
October 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
martyrye62.bsky.social
I content myself with the odd mudlarking ramble on the Thames foreshore with my daughter...not found a coin yet but there's always hope.
She likes 16thc pipe bowls
October 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
londonstone.bsky.social
In the 16thC a wide wall was created along the side of the Thames to protect the low-lying marshy area at Wapping from flooding. Wapping High Street developed on top of the wall, eventually lined with tall wharves and warehouses. Many have now been converted into apartments.
October 9, 2026 at 7:48 AM
ahiggitt.bsky.social
Y'all should be so lucky. Henry was accomplished in the martial arts of the 16thC nobility until a jousting accident. He was a noted composer and musician. He patronised the arts, bringing Holbein to England. He commissioned great architecture.

There is no evidence he enjoyed public executions.
October 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
jamescummings.bsky.social
Today I showed my 'Dissertation: Editing Project' students a selection of documents from my personal collection, as preparation for an @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social NCL Special Collections workshop they'll be going to on Thursday. They seemed to enjoy it.
A selection of documents including a 17thC cookbook (The Closet Opened), an early 17thC deed with the remnants of a wax seal, and a 16thC chirographic deed.
October 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
wolfggurl50.bsky.social
I'm not into the physical threats (tho' I may fantasize...) but that this creepoid leftover from the 16thC lost friends...but carried on anyway MURDERING PREGNANT WOMEN, well ain't that just too fuckin' bad.
October 2, 2026 at 11:25 PM
londonstone.bsky.social
In the 16thC London's Hyde Park was part of a network of Henry VIII's hunting grounds. It gradually became a private royal park where the aristocracy and affluent could parade and be seen. Read here about the playground of Tudor and Stuart monarchs www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/hyde-park-pl...
October 2, 2026 at 7:31 AM