Ruth Atherton
Lecturer in #Earlymodern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C German religion, education and culture. Writing a book on early modern catechisms. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
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Reformation Studies
A list of people working on Reformation Studies broadly conceived.
@erikdeboer.bsky.social
@reforc.bsky.social
The Reformation Research Consortium is a unique and international association focusing on Early Modern Christianity (ca. 1400-ca. 1700).
@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social
Academic books, journals and news from the Religion, Bible, and Theology department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
@kirstypattison.bsky.social
PhD student at UofG. Researcher in Esoteric practice in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland. | Theology of Magic | Esotericism & Mysticism | Scottish History | Magic in Scottish literature. Lover of cats, fine wines and heavy metal.
@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social
Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
@dralexcourtney.bsky.social
#Earlymodern historian Author: James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) Co-editor: James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (Routledge, 2025) Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ lost letters (forthcoming, Routledge) https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
@feinzeit.bsky.social
feinzeit early modernist / book & art historian / lover of libraries, archives, gardens & museums / associate prof Leiden University / PI NWO-OC Large project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks, 1550-1700" / she-her
@heikodroste.bsky.social
Historian, gardener, interested in the Arts, movies, nature. English, Svenska, Deutsch. "Der Niederrheiner weiß nix, kann aber alles erklären." Hanns Dieter Hüsch Anonymous accounts without face-pic and a fake name are considered bad style.
@davidmwhitford.bsky.social
European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
@mcraeandrew.bsky.social
English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
@anniebherenow.bsky.social
Recently retired professor of renaissance/early modern and late-medieval lit; and book history. Exhausted. Relaxing. Reading. Playing piano. Gardening. More to follow.
@annegerritsen.bsky.social
historian at the University of Warwick and Chair of Asian Art at the University of Leiden
@agroundwater.bsky.social
Historian, early modern Scotland & Britain, borders, things, James VI, Union of the Crowns … & oh yes, Mary Queen of Scots
@profjsanders.bsky.social
Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Proud Trustee at Shakespeare’s Globe, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
@fredschurink.bsky.social
English Literature at the University of Manchester. Early modern translation, book history, digital humanities. Continental European Books in Early Modern England project. Dutchman with love of hills. Dad and cat companion.
@bernhardhuss.bsky.social
Prof FU Berlin, Director of Center for Italian Studies. Italian literature, early modern, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Quattro and Cinquecento. Socio straniero dell‘Accademia dell‘Arcadia, Accademico corrispondente estero dell‘Accademia della Crusca
@paulinakewes.bsky.social
Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford. E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies. Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
@wordsmith.bsky.social
Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress. Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
@daraghjgrant.bsky.social
UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
@emilyrowe1.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature & Culture at King’s College London. Love all histories of metal, military worlds, and material culture. Can also be found board-gaming, TTRPG-ing, walking, and pasta-making ~ she/her
@bortxeta82.bsky.social
Catedrático de Historia del Arte en la UNED. Investigo el arte de la edad moderna en el Mediterráneo.También cuestiones de alteridad y raza. Miembro de la Academia Joven de España y de la Young Academy of Europe https://uned.academia.edu/BorjaFranco
@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought. IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture. Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
@historianmairi.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings. Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php
@jeroenputtevils.bsky.social
Historicus, late Middeleeuwen, loterijen, hoe keken mensen in het verleden naar de toekomst? Historian, Late Middle Ages, lotteries, interested in how people in the past perceived the future. University of Antwerp & Centre for Urban History
@jastucaz.bsky.social
Former U.S. Ambassador, proud retired career public servant, aspiring biographer of Mildred Cooke Cecil, childless cat lady. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
@dburgersdijk.bsky.social
Classical Scholar | Late Antiquity | Reception Studies | Valerius Maximus | Hugo Grotius | Classical Education | Romanticism | Suriname @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
@ejpcollins.bsky.social
Historian of science in the Spanish & Portuguese empires at @ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
@alhegland.bsky.social
PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, social media manager, and Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
@lankian.bsky.social
Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre, director of research at Enssib (University of Lyon)
@dianahenderson.bsky.social
Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
@jllaynesmith.bsky.social
Medievalist in Reading researching queenship, Wars of the Roses, royal adultery, and medieval noblewomen (Cecily Duchess of York appears frequently) | Editor of The Ricardian | May also mention Environment, Eco Church, Trade Justice . . .
@gcoatalen.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in early modern lit at CY Cergy Paris Université. Manuscript fanatic. https://www.earlymodernhands.guillaumecoatalen.com/
@elrjournal.bsky.social
Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current
@wolfq4.bsky.social
Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland | Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
@barbarasplendor.bsky.social
Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Neapolitan. Researcher at Ministry of Agriculture, Padua. Yale PhD
@vaclavzheng.bsky.social
History PhD @Johns Hopkins | Early Modern Europe, Cultural and Intellectual History, Czech and Polish Renaissance, Utopianism, Futurology, Emotions, Historical Theory and Historiography, Argumentation | On the Job Market
@lizzywilliamson.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at Exeter's DH Lab, keen on early modern letters and archives, and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture.
@sophiebwaterman.bsky.social
Late medieval and Tudor historian. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Special Collections Photographer at St John's College, Oxford. Book History MA graduate from the Institute of English Studies. Writing a book on Elizabeth Boleyn.
@johannpetitjean.bsky.social
Historian with a severe addiction to the news. Passionately interested in all forms of writing. Media | Communication | Intelligence | Diplomacy | Public Health. Italy and the Mediterranean, but in Poitiers. Proud father, football fan and graffiti lover
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses.
@xinyiwenhps.bsky.social
• PhDing @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust • Award-winning emerging historian • Working on #EarlyModern natural knowledge and its long reception • Writing a history of the doctrine of signatures • FLS www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen 漫画とアニメ、#青空ごはん部
@drchrishiggins.bsky.social
Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, women & travel in sixteenth/seventeenth century Europe & Countess of Arundel ‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
@drcanonic.bsky.social
Music/Historian, listening & thinking & listening some more. Indo-German-Canadian in America. Posting in a personal capacity.
@mors-amor.bsky.social
Exploring art, faith, economy and politics of the 16th-century Low Countries and their global surroundings.
@andplantagenets.bsky.social
Becky Stockton, J.D. Historian & researcher; herbs, history & how they combine. Jacquetta of Luxembourg stan. Cat mom. She/her/hers plantsandplantagenets.com
@joshreid.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Early Modern Studies, ETSU Spenser, Milton, Romance Epic, Translation Studies General Editor, The Manchester Spenser Book Review Editor, The Spenser Review https://etsu.academia.edu/JoshuaReid
@aonghas-macc.bsky.social
Gàidhealtachd, Eachdraidh, cànan. Highlands, Gaelic, History. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/aonghasmaccoinnich/