Aaron Larsen
@double-a-larsen.bsky.social
Medieval and Early Modern Historian at Mount Allison University. DPhil in History, Oxford, 3x UNBC alumnus, educator. Exploring space, place, and landscape in early modern Europe, with a focus on witchcraft, cartography, and the digital humanities.
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Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
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How to draw to scale in 1698 Germany? You see a page from a book that teaches, among other "Feldmesserey" stuff, the art of reducing or enlarging an image accurately in size. #bookhistory #maths
Access: digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn274257416
Access: digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn274257416
September 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
How to draw to scale in 1698 Germany? You see a page from a book that teaches, among other "Feldmesserey" stuff, the art of reducing or enlarging an image accurately in size. #bookhistory #maths
Access: digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn274257416
Access: digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn274257416
It's a couple of months late since I always forget I have Bluesky, but I'm incredibly excited to be a part of the History Department at Mount Allison University. Not only is it wonderful to be at Canada's top undergrad university, but it's a gift to be back in Canada after four years in Oxford.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It's a couple of months late since I always forget I have Bluesky, but I'm incredibly excited to be a part of the History Department at Mount Allison University. Not only is it wonderful to be at Canada's top undergrad university, but it's a gift to be back in Canada after four years in Oxford.
Amidst the madness of getting married, moving house, and leaving the UK likely for good, I'm finally PhDone. Well, after revisions I'll be PhDone. Or DonePhil because Oxford always has to be extra.
July 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Amidst the madness of getting married, moving house, and leaving the UK likely for good, I'm finally PhDone. Well, after revisions I'll be PhDone. Or DonePhil because Oxford always has to be extra.
Amidst the busiest, wildest, and most whirlwind four month period, I forgot to share my latest article, co-authored with a wonderful scholar and friend in the Computer Sciences, rethinking how AI LLMs can be used ethically and educationally to explore art history: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
ArtBot: An Exploration into AI’s Potential for Guiding Art Analysis | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
dl.acm.org
July 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Amidst the busiest, wildest, and most whirlwind four month period, I forgot to share my latest article, co-authored with a wonderful scholar and friend in the Computer Sciences, rethinking how AI LLMs can be used ethically and educationally to explore art history: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Winner of the RHS Early Career Article Prize (2025):
Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024).
bit.ly/4ljXySE 1/2 #Skystorians
Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024).
bit.ly/4ljXySE 1/2 #Skystorians
July 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Winner of the RHS Early Career Article Prize (2025):
Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024).
bit.ly/4ljXySE 1/2 #Skystorians
Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024).
bit.ly/4ljXySE 1/2 #Skystorians
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With new followers from history joining, I’d like to promote our blog Network of Early Modern Senses 👉 nemos.hypotheses.org.
It is young, but already features some fascinating articles. Interested in publishing your own work on sensory history (review + DOI!)?
Reach out: [email protected]!
It is young, but already features some fascinating articles. Interested in publishing your own work on sensory history (review + DOI!)?
Reach out: [email protected]!
November 16, 2024 at 2:38 PM
With new followers from history joining, I’d like to promote our blog Network of Early Modern Senses 👉 nemos.hypotheses.org.
It is young, but already features some fascinating articles. Interested in publishing your own work on sensory history (review + DOI!)?
Reach out: [email protected]!
It is young, but already features some fascinating articles. Interested in publishing your own work on sensory history (review + DOI!)?
Reach out: [email protected]!
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History Rec! Senses and landscapes are one of my favorite research interests, and I’m thrilled that @double-a-larsen.bsky.social has written this fantastic article on vision (the sense!) and the witches’ sabbath for nemos, the blog portal on #sensoryhistory I co-edit. Highly recommended reading!
Hi all, I wanted to share my latest publication through the new Network of Early Modern Senses run by my friends and colleagues from Frei-Üniversitat Berlin, on how vision or lack of it affected understandings of landscape in early modern cases of the witches sabbath. nemos.hypotheses.org/2364
“Seeing the Unseen World”
In this article, Aaron Larsen explores different landscapes in the context of narratives of the witches' sabbath. He shows how the understanding of these different spaces was not entirely built upon v...
nemos.hypotheses.org
November 15, 2024 at 8:31 PM
History Rec! Senses and landscapes are one of my favorite research interests, and I’m thrilled that @double-a-larsen.bsky.social has written this fantastic article on vision (the sense!) and the witches’ sabbath for nemos, the blog portal on #sensoryhistory I co-edit. Highly recommended reading!
Hi all, I wanted to share my latest publication through the new Network of Early Modern Senses run by my friends and colleagues from Frei-Üniversitat Berlin, on how vision or lack of it affected understandings of landscape in early modern cases of the witches sabbath. nemos.hypotheses.org/2364
“Seeing the Unseen World”
In this article, Aaron Larsen explores different landscapes in the context of narratives of the witches' sabbath. He shows how the understanding of these different spaces was not entirely built upon v...
nemos.hypotheses.org
November 14, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Hi all, I wanted to share my latest publication through the new Network of Early Modern Senses run by my friends and colleagues from Frei-Üniversitat Berlin, on how vision or lack of it affected understandings of landscape in early modern cases of the witches sabbath. nemos.hypotheses.org/2364
Maybe the sky is bluer on this side? Hi all, I'm a final year DPhil at Oxford History, studying the Landscapes of the Witches' Sabbath in early modern Europe! My work combined spatial, environmental, and landscape history with histories of witchcraft in France, Switzerland, Germany, and beyond. 🧙♀️🗺️
November 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Maybe the sky is bluer on this side? Hi all, I'm a final year DPhil at Oxford History, studying the Landscapes of the Witches' Sabbath in early modern Europe! My work combined spatial, environmental, and landscape history with histories of witchcraft in France, Switzerland, Germany, and beyond. 🧙♀️🗺️