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Andy (he/him)

@eprenprof.bsky.social

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Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 19h

And you’re sure that’s not in No Country for Old Men?

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 19h

I drink your milkshake, Friendo.

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 19h

I love this. This is me.

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 3d

Did YOU take a picture? You should post it!

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 5d

I love this painting so much. I saw it (at the Ufizzi?) three decades ago, purchased a print, carried it around Europe, had it framed when I started my first academic job, and have had it on my walls ever since. Stunning is right!

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 5d

By Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1465. Everything about this picture is stunning but I really love the angel smiling at us!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 8d

Cease thou from strivinge to maken "fetch" to happen
#MeanGirlsDay

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 9d

This is a pretty rad early modern landscape

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 9d

Dawn breaks over foothills of Alps. A strange wind blows, & in distance at right, crosses of Golgotha are empty. Gorgeous work by Wolf Huber.

Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 9d

Check this out @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 9d

3 Oct 1609: Peter Paul Rubens (31) m. Isabella Brant (18) at #Antwerp #otd (WGA)

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 9d

O for a Muse of Fire that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold that Congress has not authorized the use of military force!

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 9d

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9d

Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 9d

I started Moll Flanders today …

Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 9d

Any idea who drew this?

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 9d

Portrait of St Carlo Borromeo Ambrogio Giovanni Figino 1563-1608 (British Museum) This quintessential saint of Catholic reform was born #otd 2 Oct 1538.

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 9d

Didn’t realize he was born so early in the century. I used to have a student who impersonated Lee at Renaissance Festivals. He was quite good at it!

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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · Aug 19

For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...

The Shakespeare Media Archive

sites.google.com

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 11d

I really like this Tintoretto painting of St Jerome.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 11d

30 Sept 1598: Edmund Spenser #poet & #planter made the sheriff of #Cork by the Privy Council #otd

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 12d

Today is the feast day of St Jerome. I used to have a copy of this Durer print above my desk. I love the quiet stillness of his study and the light streaming in through the windows.

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 17d

Since I teach Shakespeare inter alia I’m sure that’s where I probably first encountered it (in Lear maybe). I’m just making a joke that it doesn’t look like a real word.

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 17d

I feel as if I learned to pronounce it (that second way) because it rhymes with something in an early modern poem. Can’t remember exactly where though. Or maybe it was a meter/scansion thing with tertian-ague? It does t look like a real word though.

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 18d

Wow! That really is amazing!

Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 18d

This was less than two weeks ago. Are they even going to be wild cards? :(

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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 20d

That song was so absurd. I had an even more nutso one I’d sing along in the car. Whoo! Memories!

Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 20d

I have become a convert to this film. Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 23d

And also: unpacking some boxes that I hadn’t checked last year, I found some files for projects that I thought I’d lost. So this was a great week!

Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 23d

In my other class, students are digging Aphra Behn. So that’s gratifying too!