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Liesbeth Corens
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NEXT WEEK! Come and celebrate Halloween with us at the #LowCountries seminar with a paper on the Synod of Dort! (there's a (holy) ghost involved ok 👻) with Dirk van Miert @huygensknaw.bsky.social

FRI 31 OCT 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for link) #EarlyModern #AngloDutch #Skystorians
The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
www.history.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
We’re OFF! With smouldering #LowCountries dudes. Come for the cheekbones, stay for the cool art history.

I can still DM you a link.
Screenshot of a zoom meeting with a Holbein painting
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
I have the powerpoint for Alexander Marr's talk and it looks LUSH! Join us tonight! #EarlyModern #LowCountries #SkyStorians
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28d
PROGRAMME! Excited to be welcoming Alexander Marr, Dirk van Miert, and @ebenbow.bsky.social this term -- and David Hopkin, Jeroen Puttevils, Feike Dietz, Sam Geens, Valika Smeulders, and Gloria Moorman in Spring.

All welcome @ihr.bsky.social or zoom! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30 17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys 31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters 17 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30 17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys 31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters 28 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM Everybody can reply
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onslies.bsky.social
Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
GET READY FOR FRIDAY! Make plans to get to lovely Bloomsbury if you're in the neighbourhood, or sign up for the zoom link by Thursday evening.

(or, if you like to live on the edge, get a picture of a Good Tree ready to bribe me for the clandestine zoom link on Friday)
#LowCountries #ArtHistory
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28d
PROGRAMME! Excited to be welcoming Alexander Marr, Dirk van Miert, and @ebenbow.bsky.social this term -- and David Hopkin, Jeroen Puttevils, Feike Dietz, Sam Geens, Valika Smeulders, and Gloria Moorman in Spring.

All welcome @ihr.bsky.social or zoom! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30 17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys 31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters 17 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30 17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys 31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters 28 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
October 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM Everybody can reply
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brepols.net
Brepols
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𝗟𝗮 𝗥𝗲́𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝘀-𝗕𝗮𝘀,𝟭𝟱𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟲𝟮𝟬
Par Christine Kooi

Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/3ISoMS9

#Reformation #Theology #Protestantism #Religion #ReligiousHistory #LowCountries
October 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM Everybody can reply
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Politics of the Low Countries
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💡 In this new "State of the profession" article, the authors present this masterpiece for all political scientists, and beyond, interested in Dutch politics.

#Dutchpolitics #Pillarisation #Populism #Consociationaldemocracy #LowCountries
#RadboudUniversityPress #openpublishing
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
😍 would you look at that! Great that the #Reformazing #LowCountries will get a francophone readership!
christinekooi.bsky.social Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Aug 20
Amis/amies francophones, mon livre sur la Réforme aux Pays-Bas paraîtra en traduction française en septembre chez Brepols.
#lareformeauxpaysbas
Back and front covers of French translation of La Reforme aux Pays Bas
August 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
🚨#LOWCOUNTRIES CLAXON🚨

#EarlyModern Southern Netherlands even! 🥳
craigclunas.bsky.social Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · Aug 19
There's £1k going to some deserving early career art historian for an unpublished piece of work on things South Netherlandish 1400-1800. Deadline to get it in is 1 September
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
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brepols.net
Brepols
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 – 𝟭𝟭 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰)
𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀

More info: bit.ly/4luzPyd

#LowCountries #Manuscripts #Hagiography #History
#VikingStudies #ScandinavianStudies #Medievalsky #Medievalists #Historysky
August 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM Everybody can reply
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Jana Byars
@janalena.bsky.social
Back from holidays and ready to catch up. Check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social beauty with with Michael Green about @inekehuysman.bsky.social Private Life and Privacy in the #EarlyModern #LowCountries @brepols.net #Netherlands #Skystorians #Renaissance
newbooksnetwork.com/private-life...
August 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM Everybody can reply
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Happiness Is A State Of Activity
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Unsettled and showery weather in the #LowCountries these days... #sky #photography #weather
July 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
Should add: fully #OpenAccess! 🥳

#HoeraHuizinga!

#MedievalSky #SkyStorians #LowCountries #EarlyModern (cool dissection of how he saw Rembrandt and his attention & care for fellow humans)
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Jul 27
I've enjoyed reading this this weekend: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...: a reading of Huizinga's writing from his sense of loss (of wife, eldest child, heritage, certainty) & its impact on the value he ascribed to doing history.

Interview @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/3ICA...
book cover of Thor Rydin's The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga: Writing History in the Age of Collapse. The image is of a marble sculpture of an old woman comforting a young woman who is crying on her lap. The old woman is sitting, the young woman is half lying on the floor, half hidden in the lap of the old woman.
July 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
oh @teszelszky.bsky.social is here! Thanks for the heads-up to this, @teszelszky.bsky.social! #HoeraHuizinga
#MedievalSky #LowCountries

Someone put this Philip the Fair on the cover of a book. Now.
pen drawing of medieval looking figures. At the centre is a Bourgundian duke looking at death's door. He's surrounded by by his court. A priest is holding a crucifix over him. In the back, the only figure not bent over the duke, is a bold guy, with a sly gin, squinting eyes, and his fingers steepled like Mr Burns.
July 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
Hey! #LowCountries article! (Stolen by the French… 😒) (😉)
July 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
EIGHT? No 'permanent' lectureship in the UK has that promise of longevity...

Excellent work on the acronym, very proud of my little triangle of a country.

#BookHistory #EarlyModern #LowCountries
apocalypsisnova.bsky.social Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Jul 18
Fantastic 8y-year postdoc position in Belgium:

HOBBiT – Heritage Old “Belgian” Books in Transition (HOBBiT) : Books and libraries in “Belgian” monasteries of the Windesheim Congregation, 15th – early 16th centuries

Deadline: August 15th
www.kbr.be/wp-content/u...
Emploi vacant 16 juillet 2025 KBR (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique) & l’Université de Namur RECRUTENT un(e) docteur(e) dans le domaine de l’histoire des cultures du livre, Moyen Âge – Renaissance (programme FED-tWIN) Projet : HOBBiT – Heritage Old “Belgian” Books in Transition (HOBBiT) : Books and libraries in “Belgian” monasteries of the Windesheim Congregation, 15th – early 16th centuries Nos descriptions de fonction sont rédigées au masculin uniquement pour des raisons de lisibilité. Toutes les fonctions s’adressent de manière égale aux femmes et aux hommes. Nombre de poste(s) : 1
July 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
Extrrrrremely excited that the new article by Vincent Laarman & Martijn J. Stoutjesdijk about “Baptism Announcements of African and Asian Reformed Christians in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic” is now out with BMGN!

Diamond open access: bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
#EarlyModern #LowCountries
Print depicting the baptism of Maria Zara Johanna Niabi in the Remonstrant Reformed Church in Delft, 24 September 1794. Maker unknown. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
June 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM Everybody can reply
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Nick Millea
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Time for another @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social #Maps blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social who takes us to the early C17 #LowCountries using #allegory in the form of a #lion to celebrate a 12-year period of peace. More about this Leo Belgicus here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM Everybody can reply
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hotgpod.bsky.social
History of the Germans Podcast
@hotgpod.bsky.social
How did the Low Countries, once one of the heartlands of the Holy Roman Empire, gradually slip out of the political entity it had belonged for centuries...
historyofthegermans.com/2025/06/19/1...
#belgium #holland #lowcountries #jacqueline #johnthefearless #HotGPod
June 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
SHORTLY! You don't want to miss this! #LowCountries #EarlyModern #Skystorians
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Jun 3
Looking forward to Danny Noorlander's paper at the #LowCountries seminar @ihr.bsky.social

"The Music & Poetry of the Dutch Garrison on the Gold Coast, 1637-1660"

Friday, 6 June, 17:30 (UK time), ZOOM! Sign up for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dutch... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Painting by Johannes Vingboons of both Fort São Jorge at Elmina and Fort Nassau at Moree. The viewer is looking from the water towards the land. The bottom third of the painting is blue water, then there's a thin green strip of land, and then about two thirds is blue air. There are seven sailing ships with Dutch flags in the foreground, two smaller rowing vessels between the ships and the land, and on the land there are two fortified buildings which are flying Dutch flags
June 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM Everybody can reply
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Brepols
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𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟰𝟲𝟬–𝟭𝟱𝟰𝟬
Edited by Marjan Debaene & Hannah De Moor

More info: bit.ly/3SA1C4f

𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦

#Renaissance #Sculpture #LowCountries #ArtHistory #Art #Patronage #ArtHist #ArtHistorysky
June 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
Looking forward to Danny Noorlander's paper at the #LowCountries seminar @ihr.bsky.social

"The Music & Poetry of the Dutch Garrison on the Gold Coast, 1637-1660"

Friday, 6 June, 17:30 (UK time), ZOOM! Sign up for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dutch... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Painting by Johannes Vingboons of both Fort São Jorge at Elmina and Fort Nassau at Moree. The viewer is looking from the water towards the land. The bottom third of the painting is blue water, then there's a thin green strip of land, and then about two thirds is blue air. There are seven sailing ships with Dutch flags in the foreground, two smaller rowing vessels between the ships and the land, and on the land there are two fortified buildings which are flying Dutch flags
June 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM Everybody can reply
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Liesbeth Corens
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While we're on this, I'd highlight that BMGN has an amazing & thoroughly human editorial office. Any time you have anything that remotely intersects with anything #LowCountries and its empires, from whatever time period: consider working with those excellent humans & their honed skills.
#SkyStorians
May 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM Everybody can reply
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Emile Claus (27 September 1849 – 14 June 1924) was a Belgian painter. #art #painting #drawing #lowcountries #dinnerbytheriver #dusk
May 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM Everybody can reply
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Emile Claus (27 September 1849 – 14 June 1924) was a Belgian painter. #art #painting #drawing #lowcountries #destroyelonmusk
May 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM Everybody can reply
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Emile Claus (27 September 1849 – 14 June 1924) was a Belgian painter. #art #painting #drawing #lowcountries #killmaga
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