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Justine Firnhaber-Baker

@medievalrevolt.bsky.social

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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

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Sep 20

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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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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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · 6d

I, the Catholic schoolgirl turned medieval historian, am so HERE for this post.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · 11d

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.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 11d

🧵 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/

Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · 11d

Fantastic analogy and advice. Thanks!

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Tom Clews (He/Him) @misanthromantic.bsky.social · 20d

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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24d

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.

To be a person of consequence is to matter. If you matter, you
have rights, and your words serve those rights and give you the
power to bear witness, make agreements, set boundaries. If you
have consequence, your words possess the authority to determine
what does and does not happen to you, the power that underlies the
concept of consent as part of equality and self- determination.
Even legally women’s words have lacked consequence: in only a
few scattered places on earth could women vote before the twenti-
eth century, and not so many decades ago, women rarely became
lawyers and judges; I met a Texas woman whose mother was
among the first women in their region to serve on a jury, and I was
an adult when the first woman was appointed to the U.S. Supreme
Court. Until a few decades ago, wives throughout much of the
world, including the United States, lacked the right to make con-
tracts and financial decisions or even to exercise jurisdiction over
their own bodies that overrode their husbands’ ability to do so; in
some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and
others choose her husband. 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 some-
thing and have it not matter than to be silent.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg @almbawue.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wir suchen eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in für unser Zentrales Fundarchiv in Rastatt.

www.alm-konstanz.de/stellenangeb...

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in 70% im Zentralen Fundarchiv Rastatt - Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg

www.alm-konstanz.de

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

Blue and black book cover with gold lettering : Nemesis: Medieval England’s Greatest Enemy

Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Aug 25

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’.

Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · Aug 23

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’.

Photo of half page of this week’s issue of the TLS - the summer ‘bumper issue’, so well worth the cover price - with Justine Firnhaber-Baker’s review of Helen Carr’s ‘Sceptured Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century’.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · Aug 21

And Open Access, too! 😁

Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 21

{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...

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Aug 15

Just the tag, but they did come from the Moomin museum itself.

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Aug 15

Finland is a very charming place.

Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Aug 15

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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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · Aug 11

Job in British history 1500-1900!
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-lect...

College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History | Christs College Cambridge

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Aug 5

Send some of those vibes my way!

Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m sorry to hear that

Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Jul 23

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.

michael veale @michae.lv · Jul 22

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’.

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Jul 21

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.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 21

'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

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · Jul 11

Brilliant, sweeping, magnificent and highly recommended!
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies

Tudor Times @thetudortimes.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Jul 7

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medieval History- University of Exeter - Department of Archaeology and History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT434/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medieval History at University of Exeter

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medieval History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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