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Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨

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Danish #earlymodern historian. #witchtrials | #digitalhumanities. One of the people behind HEX! Museum in Ribe. PhD fellow at University of Southern Denmark, researching the nobility's role and agency in Danish witch trials (1584-1660). #skystorian

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Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social · Dec 6

This exciting book has just been published! 📘 If you wish to read more on Danish #earlymodern #magic, take a look at my chapter called ‘The Devil’s Sacraments’: Magical Practice During the Time of the Danish Witch Trials (1589–1660).

A great thanks to the editors!

#Skystorians #Hextag 🗃️

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Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social · 4d

For all Danes interested in our own witch-hunting history, I can suggest tuning in to DR2 on Monday 📺 (or Sunday for streaming)

Here, I - and other lovely people such as @witchykallestrup.bsky.social - feature in DRs new four episode documentary “Heksejagt”.

#Skystorians #hextag 🗃️

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Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social · Jan 7

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

The CREMS Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2025! Come join us in York (24th - 25th June) to tackle the gnarly question - what is a witch?

Answers in abstract form, please - due 14th March 😊🧙‍♀️

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Patrick Hart @silcrow.bsky.social · Jan 14

Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Curator (Early Modern Era) - Edinburgh

This is a permanent curatorial role in the Department of Published Collections. The role of the Curator (Early Modern Era) is to curate the Library’s published collections from 1455 -1690, a period th...

nls.current-vacancies.com

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · Dec 5

From medieval volvelles to Ronald Reagan’s astrologer, so exciting to see the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social ‘Oracles, Omens and Answers’ exhibition opening tonight! 📜🔮✨

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Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social · Dec 6

The book is a part of the “Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic” series and can be found here:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North

This book addresses the varied performances of magic in medieval and early modern Scandinavia, drawing on textual and material sources.

link.springer.com

Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social · Dec 6

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Nov 25

It's a source of vexation to me that there's no proper word for the study of fairies - and I suspect the absence of such a term may be one reason why the study of fairies doesn't get taken seriously. So what are the potential options? (thread)

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jonasroelens.bsky.social @jonasroelens.bsky.social · Nov 22

Citizens and Sodomites. Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700) (Leiden: Brill, 2024) brill.com/display/titl...

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Nov 8

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already?

We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b
#skystorians

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Benjamin Asmussen @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social · Nov 18

A new Starter Pack of Danish historians - let me know if you want to be added.

As you might notice, there is a bit of a gender unequality in the Pack, so please help if you can :-)

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Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social · Nov 19

Come and find us - Marion, Tabitha and their seven-headed monster project! #witches #witchtrials #history

Seven County Witch Hunt Project @witches7hunt.bsky.social · Nov 19

The Seven County Witch Hunt Project is now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates and interesting research on the 1640s witch trials in England. 🧹

New blog post the last Thursday of every month. See below for where it all began...

medium.com/@Witches7Hun...
#witchcraft #history #skystorians

Introducing the Seven County Witch-Hunt Project

Between 1645–1647, when England was embroiled in a bloody Civil War, roughly 300 people in the South East were accused of witchcraft…

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Nov 18

Also, now there’s more of us on here: this is why we keep underscoring the value of #Medieval & #EarlyModern studies. #Skystorians

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · May 30

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present.

Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies:

www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

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Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social · Nov 18

Congratulations! Sounds fascinating- I would love to read it someday.

Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social · Nov 17

Wondering what the latest research into the Danish #witchtrials might be? ✨

Then check out our current research project at University of Southern Denmark: “Godly Power and Witchcraft in the Danish Realms (1559-1660)”.

#earlymodern #hextag #witchcraft #reformation

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GODWIT

The research project GODWIT at SDU examines how the witch trials between 1559 and 1660 may have affected the Danish realm.

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