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Josh Hevert

@joshhevert.bsky.social
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Historian of medieval Latin Church and Papacy. Associate Professor at El Paso Community College.

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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Shower thoughts: What would Pope Innocent IV done if Frederick II of Germany had commissioned a painting of himself as Jesus healing the sick and then circled insults about the pope that would have made Henry IV blush?
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I’m just a historian of of the medieval Papacy asking for an interdict. I just want to see what it looks like in practice!
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What a day to be someone who has written a dissertation on the Avignon Papacy. I thought my day would never come.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is the dream, honestly. My only concern is that the cost of the books might be prohibitive for my students. And I only teach survey classes. Pretty clear I need to totally reinvent how I approach both F2F and online courses, though. Attendance this year has been abysmal.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
No.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
1. Latin Christendom 2. Early Modern Jewish History 3. Early Medieval Europe We had to do 1 geographical, 1 topical, and one temporal. There were subtopics in each, including apocalypticism, memory, heresy/orthodoxy, etc.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Hi! El Pasoan here! Um, WTAF?
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Witches and Witchcraft On Death and Dying History of Christianity to 1500 Independent Study (Latin): Suetonius’ “Life of Caligula” Religion, Politics, and Society
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 06/01/2026
i would like more discussion of the Middle Ages that isn't right-wing crusader fetish
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
There it is, the dumbest thing ever to stain the internet.
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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 25/03/2025
For @today.yougov.com , I asked Americans what they think about the European Middle Ages. The results are mixed, but not particularly positive. Find out more, with lots of charts, in my full article: today.yougov.com/entertainmen...
A bar chart with the title "Many Americans describe the Middle Ages as 'violent,' 'dark,' and 'religious,' but not 'romantic' or 'peaceful'"A stacked bar chart with the title, "Similar shares of Americans say the Middle Ages were a dark age and that they were no better or worse than any other era."
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Cowboy is the GOAT.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
What a loss. To say that Moore’s work had a profound influence on my own scholarship would be a massive understatement. 😢
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Footnoting History @footnotinghistory.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Podcasts can be a great addition to any lesson! If you're considering using our episodes, check out our page for educators, which features a spreadsheet sorting episodes by era, location, and keywords: www.footnotinghistory.com/teach.html
Use Footnoting History to teach. Visit FootnotingHistory.com/Teach. The text is white on a black horizontal bar in front of a collage of images from FH episodes including Lorenzo Dow Turner, Lady Godiva, and Napoleon.
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Footnoting History @footnotinghistory.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
We're back! We're kicking off 2025 with an episode about Hummel and Howe, a pair of infamous criminal attorneys from Gilded Age New York. Listen now: www.footnotinghistory.com/home/hummel-... YouTube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ95...
New. Hummel and Howe – Attorneys at Crime. Side-by-side images of Hummel and Howe. Both are in black and white, and both men are older white men with large mustaches, wearing dark suits.  Hummel's is a photograph while Howe's is an artist's rendering.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
RFK’s elevation is going to be such a disaster for the autism community. Divisive. Fraudulent. Abusive. Ignorant. Dehumanizing. I’d like you, right now, to read this by @juststimming.bsky.social and me. /1
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Dividing Up the Autism Spectrum Will Not End the Way You Think
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello again, BlueSky.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
@kpreeo.bsky.social Glad to see you here, dude. Hope things are good. Been thinking about you.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social Hi, Prof. Belew! Myself and my colleagues at El Paso Community College, UT El Paso, and New Mexico State University would love to have you out for a talk re: white supremacist violence- is the best way to go about this via your agent? We’d love to work something out!
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
I don’t often open the Once Bird App, but I just did and it took two clicks to read a blue check arguing that we should have listened to Joseph McCarthy. I’d like to go back to the Atlantic and walk out into it and never return.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Giving a talk on the Sicilian Vespers later this month. Thought I’d have some fun and make a flyer modeled on a teen magazine spread.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
I’m doing a public lecture next month on the Sicilian Vespers. I decided to call it, “Fred, Chuck, Mike, Pete, and a not-so-innocent Pope: How the Sicilian Vespers Remade the Mediterranean World.” I refuse to have anything other than a good time. 🤣
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
I did a workshop for my college today on how to use some often-unused features of Adobe Acrobat. I never imagined a career in which I would do such a thing. Not going to lie, it’s really gratifying work. After all, it’s teaching - the thing I love to do the most.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Today is my two-year cancerversary. I’m so, so thankful that a single surgery got me to remission. Since the dx, I’ve been living a bit more authentically and for the moment, doing things I always said I’d do but never made the time. Life is good. I hope it stays that way for a while.
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Hoping to build the same sort of community/feed here that once existed over on the Birb App. Twitter was my favorite social media space for a long time; it’s a shame that it’s new proprietor is such a POS. Here’s to greener pastures… errr… bluer skies(?)
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Josh Hevert @joshhevert.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
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