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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WTAH...just got another picture for the last slide of the silencing Ganymede presentation.

David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Working on masculinity and gendered violence. Organized four sessions on the topic for the Sixteenth Century Society meeting. Presenting a plenary on Ganymede, sexual violence, and Luther's Bible. Would really love it, though, if men in the news would quit making all of this feel so modern.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

St. Maurice by Cranach the Elder for the win! I just used this pic today in class.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I finished the Christian Soldiers chapter on Vanquishing the Infidel. Now on to Forging the Godly Married Man. FYI, Urban 2 was not a good human.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My upper level students are creating a small Book of Hours for my class. It went SO well! They had creative ideas for the person they are making it for. Got excited to make the booklet. Asked about gold leaf!

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Looks like great stuff. She should join us in October at SCS!

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I mean - this is great an all, but the book is ...uh...20 years old. If it has not reached the audience it was intended to reach by now, its kinda never going to. hahaha

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I am being interviewed today about the Curse of Ham because apparently racist warping of the Bible is back in fashion and I wrote a book about the so-called curse and slavery. We really have to stop making racism great again.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

When you are writing a book about Christian martial masculinity and the internet decides to lay a blessing from Divine Providence upon you.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Know what I never had to do when Joe Biden was president? Search around for a gas station with gas. Have had to do that a few times recently. Also, never paid $5 with Joe.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The @16csociety.bsky.social meeting is in Chicago this year. Their CFP and the @socrefresearch.bsky.social's CFP is also out. I have my title! The Eagle of Corinth: Ganymede and the Naming of Sexual Assault in Luther’s Bible Come join the best weekend for early modernists!

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The Society for Reformation Research solicits papers on: The Colonial Reformations for SCS 2026 in Chicago. We conceive of papers discussing not only English, French and Iberian examples of overseas imperial colonialism

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Unter dem Titel "Summa christenlicher Religion Compendium religionis christianae" ist Band 10 der dritten Abteilung der Heinrich Bullinger Werke erschienen: reforc.com/news/neu-ban...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

He's hanging up the freshly printed paper sheets to dry - and rest for a few hours. Ink needed its time to dry, and one needed space to let it dry. #bookhistory Enjoy this view into an #earlymodern print shop, and be reminded of the many (small) steps that made in the end a physical 'book'.

A person working with a stick, trying to put freshly printed paper sheets on a line or wooden object near the ceiling of a print shop. Nearby, the pressmen are doing their work at the printing press. This scene is from the so-called hand-press era of early modern Europe.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Come one, come all! 2026 - 500th Anniversary of Tyndale's NT and the Diet of Speyer. SRR wishes to host panels on both at Sixteenth Century in Chicago. Please DM me. @16csociety.bsky.social @socrefresearch.bsky.social #earlymodern #skystorians #Reformations #tyndale #16century

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

With RSA over for 2026, now time to think about SCS 2026 (Chicago). I am trying to organize panel(s) on gendered violence and crime. Please DM me or email if interested! Tentative title = S*x, Lies, & Violence @16csociety.bsky.social @socrefresearch.bsky.social #genderhistory

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am not a political scientist but I am a historian who thinks a lot about martial masculinity and bow howdy has the last week been a lot about that!

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

People on FB asked me to share this. Too long for a text post.

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Jon Webb @jonawebb.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I've heard rumors that Philadelphia is next for the ICE invasion after Minneapolis. Maybe I'm wrong, but 1) More than 11% of all ICE agents are in Minneapolis, and they've utterly failed to pacify the city. 2) Philly is 5x the size of Minneapolis. 3) "Minnesota nice" is a thing. We don't have that.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Because the world is just awful right now, I bring you something beautiful. A peacock from an 11th century book of hours:

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Patrick Willems @patrickhwillems.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

i am so sorry to say i did it again (Andor s2 spoilers)

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Having just finished a book on masculinity in the Reformation, pics like this would really have made the book so much easier to write.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Uncle Baby Billy will have you know he does his own wardrobe!

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Chapter One: I, Luther, still live! Luther as Virile Monk and Godly Hero. I use sixteenth century images of Luther to explore how he managed and finessed his public persona to project a vision of himself as godly and manly.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A little baby camping tent for those REI moments when you want to backpack and take your rare books with you! What a wonderful contraption. Seriously. That thing is cool.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The next thing the WSJ is going to do is an article renaming the Trail of Tears into the Happy Moving Trail. WTAH.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Please join us. The Long Sixteenth Century covers 1450-1750. It is a welcoming and encouraging conference. @16csociety.bsky.social #skstorians #earlymodern #16century #allthecoolhistorians www.sixteenthcentury.org Feel free to email me or DM me if you have questions about the conference.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I began my career at an HBCU, I know what it is like to be the only person in the room who looks like me. Tomorrow, though, 30 years later, is a new first. I will be the only man in the room. PhD seminar in Reformations. So excited. Let’s rock it!

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If AI was going to be useful in higher-ed, it would create my Canvas page for me and completely understand Canvas (which remains a mystery in many ways to me). I like to lecture, I like to write and research. I need it to do the stuff I don't like!

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Job Opportunity! The teaching load is four (4) courses per semester or equivalents. The successful candidate will be expected to teach classes, both in-person and online, that complement the current offerings in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Institute of Reformation History @ihr-geneva.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yet another starterpack you might be interested in... #earlymodern #skystorians go.bsky.app/FpG69cP

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

However, his efforts to embrace those new roles exhibit a genuine commitment to live a new life and to be re-formed in life as much as he was in theology. The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Chapter 9.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

So this is an interesting creation--it's not just the donation of Brown's papers, but she's created an endowed archive for OTHER medievalists' papers as well. Perhaps the first archive of its kind?

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hegseth’s view of the Crusades is what happens when you only listen to theobros and only read Metexas and the like. You think they were successful. (Hint, nope) You think they were noble. (Double Nope) Lots of massacres, lots of losing, tons of mind-numbing misery. Yup, yup, yup.

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David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

2025 is the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants War. I would like to organize some panels for SCS 2025 on the PW, Gender, and Sexual Violence. Please touch base if interested in starting a conversation on this topic. #earlymodern @16csociety.bsky.social #skyhistorians

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️

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Sophie Floate @librarybodle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Nice inscription and doodles in a copy of Luther's "Commentarie ... upon the epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians", printed 1616 in London, at Harris Manchester College; not been able to identify this Bridgyett Smith as yet ... #HerBook #EarlyModern

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