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  1. This image is from the 'The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' of the 1470s, dear #skystorians, and may be found over here:

    www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

    album; drawing | British Museu...

  2. 1/2 Heute sind tolle Sachen passiert. Gerade schon geteilt: Unser Band zu ‚Political Medievalism. Gebrauch und Missbrauch des Mittelalters bei der extremen Rechten‘ ist erschienen und Open Access zugänglich:

    www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

    #medievalsky #skystorians #rechtsextremismus

    degruyterbrill.com/de/document/do...

  3. 1/2 Heute sind tolle Sachen passiert. Gerade schon geteilt: Unser Band zu ‚Political Medievalism. Gebrauch und Missbrauch des Mittelalters bei der extremen Rechten‘ ist erschienen und Open Access zugänglich:

    www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

    #medievalsky #skystorians #rechtsextremismus

    degruyterbrill.com/de/document/do...

  4. 1/2 Heute sind tolle Sachen passiert. Gerade schon geteilt: Unser Band zu ‚Political Medievalism. Gebrauch und Missbrauch des Mittelalters bei der extremen Rechten‘ ist erschienen und Open Access zugänglich:

    www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

    #medievalsky #skystorians #rechtsextremismus

    degruyterbrill.com/de/document/do...

  5. 1/2 Heute sind tolle Sachen passiert. Gerade schon geteilt: Unser Band zu ‚Political Medievalism. Gebrauch und Missbrauch des Mittelalters bei der extremen Rechten‘ ist erschienen und Open Access zugänglich:

    www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

    #medievalsky #skystorians #rechtsextremismus

    degruyterbrill.com/de/document/do...

  6. good news is bad news too, depending on your interpretation and position, as this image demonstrates too. that's #newshistory, #skystorians.

  7. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  8. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  9. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  10. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  11. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  12. I love how images attached to Humans: A Monstrous History trip various automated alarms. This image is a detail from Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel!
    #ancient #medieval #skystorians

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpzyqnlzsrfjhoj6rs7mtdvq/post/3mvp7nmnwrs2y

  13. I love how images attached to Humans: A Monstrous History trip various automated alarms. This image is a detail from Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel!
    #ancient #medieval #skystorians

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpzyqnlzsrfjhoj6rs7mtdvq/post/3mvp7nmnwrs2y

  14. I love how images attached to Humans: A Monstrous History trip various automated alarms. This image is a detail from Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel!
    #ancient #medieval #skystorians

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpzyqnlzsrfjhoj6rs7mtdvq/post/3mvp7nmnwrs2y

  15. This would have been a bestselling early modern broadside with a cool image: the Pope and a Massive Green Orb! #skystorians

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:okyh44yy5ngtrhwhegfjyx34/post/3mvr7g6yb7c2o

  16. The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

  17. The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

  18. The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

  19. The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

  20. Hot new episode of the AskHistorians #Podcast is live #Skystorians! @[email protected] talks with Robert E. C. Davis about his book, Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico!
    askhistorians.libsyn.com/askhistorian...

    The AskHistorians Podcast: Ask...

  21. #skystorians knew that lethargy, weakness, or refusing to eat were red flags of the past when dealing with a sick house dragon.

  22. The time has come #Skystorians, for the greatest #AMA of all time. This is your chance to sit down with the entire moderating team of AskHistorians, and ask us anything!
    old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

    We are the moderators of r/Ask...

  23. Suppose I clear my nearest Costco's stock of common spices (cinnamon, pepper etc.) & then time travel back to 14th century medieval England. . . how exactly do I go about selling this stuff? Don't worry #Skystorians, /u/EverythingIsOverrate has some advice to keep the spice flowing!
    buff.ly/BXJkfSy

    Suppose I clear my nearest Cos...

  24. Suppose I clear my nearest Costco's stock of common spices (cinnamon, pepper etc.) & then time travel back to 14th century medieval England. . . how exactly do I go about selling this stuff? Don't worry #Skystorians, /u/EverythingIsOverrate has some advice to keep the spice flowing!
    buff.ly/BXJkfSy

    Suppose I clear my nearest Cos...

  25. We have a special #AMA coming this Saturday, on August 29th. #Skystorians will have a chance to engage with the AskHistorians mod team themselves, and ask all their questions about running one of the largest (and best) history forums on the internet! Do we have a secret volcano lair? Find out...

  26. Humans were writing, monkeys were proof reading. Those were the days... #skystorians

  27. Humans were writing, monkeys were proof reading. Those were the days... #skystorians

  28. Humans were writing, monkeys were proof reading. Those were the days... #skystorians

  29. Humans were writing, monkeys were proof reading. Those were the days... #skystorians

  30. And how did the Reformation, with its diverse dynamics, affect contemporary understandings of participation? ⛪

    Submit your proposal (in German or English) by 15 September 2026.

    For more information: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...

    #reformation #earlymodern #religioushistory #skystorians
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  31. How much faith should one have in older scholarship to be accurate when casually reading them for entertainment? /u/BarbariansProf offers up some thoughts on obsoletion, framing history and useful questions to keep in mind when reading scholarship! #Skystorians
    buff.ly/PkbYMar

    How much faith should one have...

  32. Questions of "canon" are always tricky in any fandom, but the fantastic @[email protected] sets out on a journey to explore the different influential versions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey! #Skystorians
    buff.ly/8IHoMdr

    What actually counts as “canon...

  33. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  34. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  35. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  36. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  37. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  38. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  39. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  40. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  41. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  42. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  43. Don't miss today's awesome #AMA! We're joined by David Benac, author of Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing, and #Skystorians are welcome to come ask all kinds of questions on this fascinating topic!
    www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

    From the AskHistorians communi...

  44. I demand free well structured large historical datasets for all! #skystorians

  45. And one more! What are their holding to protect their eyes? Was it a printed paper sheet, and if so, do we still have them somewhere in an ephemera box in a dark archive? #skystorians