Jan Machielsen

@janmachielsen.bsky.social

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Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 5d

I try to usually, but not today. Still frantically writing my lecture!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 5d

All the details are on the poster!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 5d

Went to see the altar of Joseph of Copertino in the Santissimi Apostoli today. If you want hear more about him and his flights, come to my talk at Sapienza tomorrow at 10am. 😊

#earlymodern

Reposted by Keith Lilley, Jan Machielsen

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 5d

Job Klaxon:

Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.

Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 7d

On your way to Rome?

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 7d

@christinekooi.bsky.social might have views on this!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11d

We all know everything went down the drain after 1650. 🤪

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, whatever you think of Padre Pio, this really is not great art.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11d

As an #earlymodern historian of old religious things it is easy to feel at home in Rome.

Abominations such as 👇 are reminders that Catholicism is a living faith and that the Renaissance art I adore was new when it was made.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 12d

Just think of shrieking, flying saints that should clear it. 😜

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 13d

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, I used that joke before. Thought I'd go for an Italian one this time. 😊

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 13d

I'm giving a #monkabulous talk next week Friday at the Sapienza on the flying friar Joseph of Copertino.

And it just occurred to me... What better place to share the details than :: hum :: BlueSky?

Everyone is very welcome!

“Volare oh oh”: Giuseppe da Copertino and the Miracle of Flight

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 13d

Thailand scores strangely low? I wonder whether they added in some fictitious places (Narnia?) to see which Brits were taking out of their arse.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 13d

Nightmares now.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 14d

I imagine that this is not something that the good Protestants of England ever did? @materialwills.bsky.social @lsangha.bsky.social

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 14d

When you don't know who to leave your money to, you can always make the Virgin Mary your heir!

#earlymodern

Reposted by Jan Machielsen

Joop.nl @joop.nl · 22d

ANP: SP houdt laatste restzetel, geen meerderheid voor D66-VVD-CDA-JA21 www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

ANP: SP houdt laatste restzetel, geen meerderheid voor D66-VVD-CDA-JA21 - Joop - BNNVARA

De SP zal de komende periode met drie zetels in de Tweede Kamer zitten.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 23d

Quite excited to see one the #medievalsky articles we published in the Transactions @royalhistsoc.org make it onto BBC Sounds! 🗃️

An excellent Halloween themed More or Less episode counting the stakes used by Vlad the Impaler.

Have a listen!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

More or Less - Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale? - BBC Sounds

Looking at the math's behind the myth

www.bbc.co.uk

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

An English (St George?) flag waving Virgin... For all the Reformers on here. 😝

Chiesa della Trinità, Bologna.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

An interesting coda from the Santa Maria dei Servi... A painting of St Anne teaching the Virgin to read.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

Mary (as I keep on saying) is always reading.

(But I don't think I've ever seen her this young?? And the angel too for that matter.)

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

This is a very Goth virgin. Surprised she doesn't have fangs! 🤪

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

"You know I climbed up this hill and then God gave me these tablets telling you all to listen to me. And now I'm here!"

(Fragment of a fresco from the church of Mezzarata)

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

Here is the full image from ca 1435.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

This seems more appropriate for the spooky season... Is it a female devil giving birth? Or any devil just shitting out humans?

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

This is the sign. I don't recognize the scene either!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

Ah. Maybe they are trying to push him up rather than him going down. That would be even funnier!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

Don't get me wrong, I love me some Giotto. But this dragon just looks like it is sucking through a straw rather than being slain... 😝

Reposted by Isabelle Poutrin

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 25d

Escaping while keeping your halo intact is no mean feat. 🤪

(If any #medievalsky scholar can tell me what St Anthony got up to here, I'd love to hear it! 😅)

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