Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Not that minor of a figure; every house had one, likely to do convent business outside of the house—and with other men. They probably had a nun appointed to check their books 111
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I think I prefer the Chicago way of mixing baseball and religion, though. 020
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026No? One would think this was rather common, esp. in the mid-17th century (given the increasing numbers of captives from English ships in the Mediterranean) 011
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026No, it's not controversial. What I'm saying is that we can't project the same dynamics back onto medieval political realities or "sentiments" (since they were surely not the same). 000
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Fair enough, but the gap between such sentiments in the 18th century and what we might think are similar ones in the Middle Ages is quite large. Sorry to be a pedant, it is literally an occupational hazard for a historian! 100
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026You're on a Spanish ship being blown up by the Dutch 020
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Be careful with the term "national identity", it is very vague and often the product of a lot of 19th century imagining. How widely was the notion spread? How far beyond court and church? There are other late medieval examples of this, but the concept tends to be a bit overblown by modern standards 130
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Witches, Demons, and the Occult History of Catholicism (Antiquity to Renaissance) 030
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026No, sometimes it's just stupid. Sometimes it's a willful misreading, though. I guess that's depressing, too. 110
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I wonder if the same beads are these, from another Ghirlandaio at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. In any case, it wasn't just garlands; he mastered beads, too! 020
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Fair point, although the depictions of the Portuguese troops have them fighting at close quarters. I think the depiction is a dig at the English! 010
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026There are some in Évora, also (in some of the most beautiful classrooms you'll ever see)! 110
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026At least in the 17th century; afterwards historical azulejos are hard to come by (until you get to the 19th century, when all sorts of painted fantasies come around again) 110
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Well, the tour guide said that this was a dig at the English who, in the 1660s (!), didn't know how to use muskets and so just used them as clubs. Given how much guff the Portuguese took from the English in the 17th century (and later on), this seems a mild rebuke... 110
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Well, this is from the exact opposite side of the Iberian peninsula! 000
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Before and after, more of less. The fish can’t be beat here! 030
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I think the comparison you seek is here, not with Luther: www.primevideo.com/-/pt/detail/...primevideo.comAssista à temporada 1 de O Palmar de Troya – Prime VideoA fascinante história da Igreja Cristã Palmariana, uma ramificação da doutrina católica que se tornou uma das seitas religiosas mais perigosas e absurdas da história da Espanha. 010
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Reminds me of a massive fons vitae at the Misericórdia Museum in Porto, but since from the early 16th century without heretics! 010
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Part of my quest to visit every #earlymodern church in Portugal. Here in Miranda do Douro. 1260
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Pitões das Júnias monastery in remote northern Portugal is beautiful. Over a thousand years old, it was touched up in the #earlymodern era 150
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Alas, the actual first step is to abolish the corporate governance model that has turned higher-ed admin against the actual missions of teaching and research 4450
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Wonderful battle images from the Portuguese War of Independence, c. 1660, at the Palácio da Fronteira near Lisbon. Note the English not knowing how to fight with muskets and instead using them as clubs! #earlymodern 2191
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 16/05/2026We have a cover! Release date is later this year, right in time for the long winter’s nights! #earlymodern 2598
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Acabei de assinar a petição "Pôr Abril no sítio certo". Assina aqui: actionnetwork.org/forms/por-ab...actionnetwork.orgPôr Abril no sítio certoO Governo e a Câmara Municipal de Lisboa querem tirar o prometido Museu do 25 de Abril do Terreiro do Paço, o local simbólico da revolução que trouxe a democracia a Portugal. Queremos pôr abril no ce... 010
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Obrigado por este homenagem prestado ao nosso professor! 010
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Oh, you think they have a grasp of high medieval history? I would be they do, given all of the tattoos on the "secretary of war." 000
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026To be a Catholic is to hold many (apparently) contradictory notions... 020
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Ripped up the basement carpet and found a shuffleboard court! What adventures await? 040
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Mine courses are: 1. History of the Book 2. Witches, Demons, and the Occult 3. History of Catholicism (medieval) 4. History of Catholicism (early modern) 5. Renaissance/Reformation 6. Early Modern Europe 7. Early European Empires 8. Explorations and Navigations 070
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Is this for people outside of PSU? The link only goes to a university sign in page 000
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Judge you? You are to be commended for adding that dog to the tour! Well done! 110
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I've had an idea for a long while to write something about the attempts to "reform" the Syro-Malabar Christians living adjacent to the Portuguese fortresses in the late 16th-early 17th centuries. But now is not the time for me to go back down that path, alas. 110
Liam Brockey @lbrockey.bsky.social · 16/02/2026OK, so conferences give 15-20 minutes per paper. That's not enough time to give the background, much less the findings. Well timed, sure, but polished in that span? 000
