Christine Kooi

@christinekooi.bsky.social

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Reformation historian, immigrant, dochter van Nederlanders, birder (not necessarily in that order). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Nov 12

Happy to be in bluer skies. I'm working on a book titled "1572: A Year in the End of Christendom," about the working out of reformation in Europe in the later 16th cen. Any tidbits about 1572 that you come across in your research that you're willing to share are welcome.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 19h

1970s: Chinatown, The French Connection, Three Days of the Condor, Papillon, All the President's Men, Annie Hall, Network

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 19h

As one of my historian colleagues called it: "All Hitler, All the Time."

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 19h

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 20h

Somewhere Mme. Defarge is having a good cackle.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21h

So, if birthright citizenship were struck down, how precisely would Miller prove his own citizenship?

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21h

It's a Willow Ptarmigan, and it's fabulous.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Juist. Het christendom is wat christenen ervan maken.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Justin Lewis, Christine Kooi , and 3 more Lisa W. Fazio, Justin Lewis, Christine Kooi, Elizabeth Stevenson, David Underdown, Kathleen Kennedy

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

This is overinterpretation. Of course this never happened--it's a cartoon, not real life. The analysis also ignores the punchline, which lampoons the huge # of choices consumerism offers us. His larger point is good, but this cartoon is not the most persuasive vehicle he could have used to make it.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

As a naturalized US citizen, I find this infuriating.

Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 1d

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide

Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

www.wgbh.org

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Some advice from the sixteenth century. theconversation.com/why-one-16th...

Why one 16th-century theologian’s advice for a bitterly divided nation holds true today

Sebastian Castellio penned one of the first arguments for religious freedom – but it went unheeded for centuries.

theconversation.com

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Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide

Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

www.wgbh.org

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Jour 5?

Reposted by Christine Kooi

Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social · 1d

Jour 4 #calavhist "un jour, un Strasbourgeois du XVIe siècle" : Anna Heiligenmeyerin, une vieille institutrice. Vers 1550, Anna, mère de Bastian Heiligenmeyer (je ne sais pas son nom de famille à elle) est acceptée comme institutrice (Lehrfrau) près de l'église Saint-Thomas.

Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social · 3d

Jour 4 #calavhist "un jour, un Strasbourgeois du XVIe siècle". Balthasar Strintz et ses petits problèmes d'argent.
Il y a toute une fratrie de Strintz, qui exercent généralement comme revendeurs, et notamment de vieux vêtements. Balthasar essaye d'utiliser les boutiques dont il a hérité...

Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social · 4d

Jour 3 #calavhist "des Strasbourgeois au XVIe siècle" : Hans Schatz, tailleur et arbitre irascible des concours de tir.
Comme dans bien des villes, il y a des sociétés de tir à l'arbalète ou a l'arquebuse qui utilisent certains terrains à disposition et bénéficient de subventions.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

Gefeliciteerd!

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Christine Kooi, Carmen M. Mangion , and 1 more Lesley A. Hall, Christine Kooi, Carmen M. Mangion, Steve Murdoch

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited for this conference next summer!
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

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