Justine Firnhaber-Baker
@medievalrevolt.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History at the University of Andrews
Author of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France • The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt • Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400
Author of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France • The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt • Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400
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House of Lilies
“A joy to read…one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years” (Dan Jones, Sunday Times), this is the&#...
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Welcome new followers!
I'm a medieval historian at the University of St Andrews and the author most recently of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made #Medieval #France. I'm working on a sequel, so expect lots about the Hundred Years War plus plague, assassinations & uprisings.
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I'm a medieval historian at the University of St Andrews and the author most recently of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made #Medieval #France. I'm working on a sequel, so expect lots about the Hundred Years War plus plague, assassinations & uprisings.
tinyurl.com/3zkj9bnt
This is a good game. I will add:
- a cashmere sweater, whose pilling I removed with excessive vigour
- the approval of several men, whose arguments‘ weaknesses I noted aloud
- my child’s happiness, every time I ask him to unload the dishwasher
- a cashmere sweater, whose pilling I removed with excessive vigour
- the approval of several men, whose arguments‘ weaknesses I noted aloud
- my child’s happiness, every time I ask him to unload the dishwasher
Things I, a woman, have ruined, a partial list:
- the frosting of a cake when I used too many crushed peppermint candies & it came out bright pink instead of classy white & frothy
- many conversations that were nice and comfortable until I spoke up
- a pair of wool socks that I washed in hot water
- the frosting of a cake when I used too many crushed peppermint candies & it came out bright pink instead of classy white & frothy
- many conversations that were nice and comfortable until I spoke up
- a pair of wool socks that I washed in hot water
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is a good game. I will add:
- a cashmere sweater, whose pilling I removed with excessive vigour
- the approval of several men, whose arguments‘ weaknesses I noted aloud
- my child’s happiness, every time I ask him to unload the dishwasher
- a cashmere sweater, whose pilling I removed with excessive vigour
- the approval of several men, whose arguments‘ weaknesses I noted aloud
- my child’s happiness, every time I ask him to unload the dishwasher
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Hello new followers! If you work in the field of french history, do please reply to this below and we will do our best to follow back. The volume of new followers has made this impossible from the notification tab! 🗃️
November 11, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Hello new followers! If you work in the field of french history, do please reply to this below and we will do our best to follow back. The volume of new followers has made this impossible from the notification tab! 🗃️
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
Please to all the gods that ever were or might be, make this happen
Wouldn't a prequel to Slow Horses about Lamb's time in communist East Germany be marvellous?
a man is eating a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and the words slow horses time above him
ALT: a man is eating a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and the words slow horses time above him
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October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Please to all the gods that ever were or might be, make this happen
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[Parution] Agata Poirot (dir.), Établissements ruraux médiévaux. De l’Antiquité tardive au XIIIe siècle, Infolio éditions, 440 p.
#archéologie
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#archéologie
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October 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
[Parution] Agata Poirot (dir.), Établissements ruraux médiévaux. De l’Antiquité tardive au XIIIe siècle, Infolio éditions, 440 p.
#archéologie
www.infolio.ch/livre/etabli...
#archéologie
www.infolio.ch/livre/etabli...
I, the Catholic schoolgirl turned medieval historian, am so HERE for this post.
amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.
October 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I, the Catholic schoolgirl turned medieval historian, am so HERE for this post.
The movie analogy here articulates something I’ve been trying to put my finger on since my oldest left home. Good advice in the thread too.
🧵 I have a few thoughts as a single mom of two YA kids who are the sun and moon in my sky and who now live across state lines.
These go out to other parents whose kids have left (for college or a job somewhere else) and are in the throes of grief and bewilderment.
My main message is TAKE NOTES. 1/
These go out to other parents whose kids have left (for college or a job somewhere else) and are in the throes of grief and bewilderment.
My main message is TAKE NOTES. 1/
September 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The movie analogy here articulates something I’ve been trying to put my finger on since my oldest left home. Good advice in the thread too.
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It's #TradPubThursday have a mean book hangover from your last read this starter pack could be your salvation! If you are an author and want to be included message me or reply to this message. Re-skeets are always appreciated. #BookSky #WritingCommunity go.bsky.app/S5usnjp
September 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It's #TradPubThursday have a mean book hangover from your last read this starter pack could be your salvation! If you are an author and want to be included message me or reply to this message. Re-skeets are always appreciated. #BookSky #WritingCommunity go.bsky.app/S5usnjp
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To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
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First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities
September 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities
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Wir suchen eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in für unser Zentrales Fundarchiv in Rastatt.
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in 70% im Zentralen Fundarchiv Rastatt - Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg
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August 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Wir suchen eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in für unser Zentrales Fundarchiv in Rastatt.
www.alm-konstanz.de/stellenangeb...
www.alm-konstanz.de/stellenangeb...
There should be a law against forcing people into subscribing to things like software and movies that they used to buy and then removing access to them.
I'm looking at you, Claris, and the way you pulled the version of FileMaker Pro that my Uni purchased just 25 months ago.
#ripoff #capitalism
I'm looking at you, Claris, and the way you pulled the version of FileMaker Pro that my Uni purchased just 25 months ago.
#ripoff #capitalism
August 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
There should be a law against forcing people into subscribing to things like software and movies that they used to buy and then removing access to them.
I'm looking at you, Claris, and the way you pulled the version of FileMaker Pro that my Uni purchased just 25 months ago.
#ripoff #capitalism
I'm looking at you, Claris, and the way you pulled the version of FileMaker Pro that my Uni purchased just 25 months ago.
#ripoff #capitalism
An advance copy of Cath Hanley’s new book arrived today. It’s about one of my favourite French kings, and as I say on the back cover, it’s lively and learned and a must read if you love medieval history. #medievalsky #booksky
August 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
An advance copy of Cath Hanley’s new book arrived today. It’s about one of my favourite French kings, and as I say on the back cover, it’s lively and learned and a must read if you love medieval history. #medievalsky #booksky
Glad to see Lisa Demets’s good work highlighted and happy to have another nail pounded into the coffin of ´medieval women weren’t involved in warfare’.
Female Spy Network Uncovered in Medieval Ypres, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2025/06/fema... #Spy
Female Spy Network Uncovered in Medieval Ypres, Study Finds - Medievalists.net
New research uncovers a hidden network of female spies and messengers in medieval Ypres, revealing how women played a crucial role in wartime intelligence during the Flemish revolt against Maximilian…
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August 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Glad to see Lisa Demets’s good work highlighted and happy to have another nail pounded into the coffin of ´medieval women weren’t involved in warfare’.
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Not for the first time in recent days, I thank an informed reviewer for reading/watching something so that I don’t need to. I’m sure that @medievalrevolt.bsky.social is right to suggest that such books find ‘an enthusiastic readership’, though I do wonder whether that really means ‘listenership’.
August 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Not for the first time in recent days, I thank an informed reviewer for reading/watching something so that I don’t need to. I’m sure that @medievalrevolt.bsky.social is right to suggest that such books find ‘an enthusiastic readership’, though I do wonder whether that really means ‘listenership’.
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And Open Access, too! 😁
{New book} This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. www.arc-humanities.org/978164189408...
August 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
And Open Access, too! 😁
I keynoted a conference in Finland and the organisers gave me Moomin mittens as a thank you. Sometimes academia is a-okay.
August 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I keynoted a conference in Finland and the organisers gave me Moomin mittens as a thank you. Sometimes academia is a-okay.
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Job in British history 1500-1900!
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-lect...
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College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History | Christs College Cambridge
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August 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Job in British history 1500-1900!
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-lect...
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-lect...
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Making the Medieval Archive: Celebrating Elizabeth A. R. Brown at Penn In-person & online conference Sept. 12 2025 Penn Libraries www.library.upenn.edu/events/makin...
Making the Medieval Archive: Celebrating Elizabeth A. R. Brown at Penn
This day-long symposium will commemorate Elizabeth (Peggy) A. R. Brown’s extraordinary legacy in the field of Medieval Studies and will mark the official launch of the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval H...
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August 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Making the Medieval Archive: Celebrating Elizabeth A. R. Brown at Penn In-person & online conference Sept. 12 2025 Penn Libraries www.library.upenn.edu/events/makin...
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Graduate outcomes and incomes as well as course satisfaction in History are all actually strong. Suggesting that Humanities degrees are not 'career-related' is simply bizarre. 2/2
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August 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Graduate outcomes and incomes as well as course satisfaction in History are all actually strong. Suggesting that Humanities degrees are not 'career-related' is simply bizarre. 2/2
Funding universities via fees that stay flat for years is the main reason higher education is broke but doing stupid shit like this doesn’t help. I wish I could say it’s an isolated case.
Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.
July 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Funding universities via fees that stay flat for years is the main reason higher education is broke but doing stupid shit like this doesn’t help. I wish I could say it’s an isolated case.
At my own institution, where we had often been awarded 3 PhD scholarships in History, there will now only be 3 scholarships for the entire university.
'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
At my own institution, where we had often been awarded 3 PhD scholarships in History, there will now only be 3 scholarships for the entire university.
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one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation
July 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation
Brilliant, sweeping, magnificent and highly recommended!
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies
Check out our new book review. We have strayed from Tudor territory into medieval France with a review of #HouseofLilies by @medievalrevolt.bsky.social Find out if it was worth the journey. bit.ly/40ITaEe
July 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Brilliant, sweeping, magnificent and highly recommended!
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies