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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Interrail #Sale ends tomorrow, 30 September. See below for details. It's really worth having a look and buying tickets for the year ahead.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Additional info: there's 50% (!!) off unlimited travel for a month, two months, or three months. For an under-27, this works out as £227 for a month; for adults it's £303. Only limit is that it's one trip out of your country and one trip back in. Otherwise unlimited. Seat reservations are separate.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whenever I've thought that I'd had to give up on something that would never happen again, after a while a similar but even more exciting thing has then come my way. Hope this magic will happen for you, too.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very excited to have the opportunity to think about #TitusAndronicus as a precursor to/trial run/source of #MeasureForMeasure for this event. So many crossovers: in/justice, consent, rape, forced marriage, revenge, mercy, piety, pleading, beheading, substitutions ... and silence.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tickets are valid for a *year* from the moment of purchase. That's all of next summer's conference & holiday season... I'm getting some, knowing that the plans I don't have yet will materialise as the year takes its course. 1 month unlimited for £303. Irresistible!

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Public service announcement: There's an #interrail sale between now and 30 September. 15% off for adults. A 4-day interrail ticket plus seat reservations works out cheaper than a return ticket to Germany. @lizschafer.bsky.social @profjsanders.bsky.social @starcrossed2018.bsky.social

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German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📣 Registration is open! Join us in Weimar on 6–7 November to discuss authority and its abuses, governance, and legitimacy in #Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure! We're very much looking forward to welcoming our distinguished speakers, including @pascaleexeter.bsky.social and @lizschafer.bsky.social.🎭

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026

Ukrainians have proven countless times that their spirit cannot be broken. And this summer, Sasha has shown the whole world the true essence of this ↓

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ICYMI: yesterday I found a jester called Ramsey in the Vintners' Company accounts. Only the second one I've found so far, in 8 years 😊

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Timely this, as I've just been reading Alexander Lee, "The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews" (which was a good book but I always want more pictures) #earlymodern #skyhistory www.panmacmillan.com/authors/alex...

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thanks, Alex, for all your hard work representing us. And thank you for this helpful write-up.

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Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're excited to share the final programme of events for our upcoming conference at the University of Exeter on 1-3 September! See the thread below for details, and register here for three full days of talks discussing early modern violence beyond the battlefield: forms.gle/i2qhzBTpboxK...

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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On Thursday, August 20, the board of officers of the American Philosophical Association issued a letter to the University of Exeter administration in response to proposed cuts to the university’s philosophy program. www.apaonline.org/news/733577/...

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Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This scrap fell out of my new/old Wagner. From the review of Jennie Tourel's performance as Carmen at the City Centre Opera Company, I date it to Feb 1944, which is corroborated by a reference to Operation Hailstorm (17-18 Feb 1944) on the reverse. Can anyone suggest which NY paper this is?

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Absolutely, there's a lot of Seneca in the play, and a mountain of scholarship, too. What I'm tracking are the things the playwrights and theatregoers might have experienced along the way - spectacles, sounds, smells, sermons, tales told on a long winter night ... not all influences are literary.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thanks so much, @mcculloughp.bsky.social, for going down that rabbit hole for/with me 😍

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Brilliant! I had not noticed that on the frontispiece (a lot of distracting details elsewhere that drew my attention...)

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Early modern London clearly *is* the answer to every question, @tracelarkhall.bsky.social 😂! I know people brought up their children differently from today, but I doubt Peele was dragged to see people burned at the stake when he was three - at least I hope he wasn't! but the general point stands🙏

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yes, quite. But Foxe only mentions incense for earlier religious ceremonies, not associated with Marian persecutions. Doesn't mean, though, that it wasn't run-of-the-mill in Catholic services and sermons surrounding executions - just not mentioned *specifically*.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is great, @mcculloughp.bsky.social ! Means unlikely that there would be an association with Protestant everyday practices or anything to do with scaffolds/executions. I suspect that if entrails were burned onstage, there would have been a highly unpleasant affective 'hit' recalling executions

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

(plus a bit of authorship: Peele is not Shakespeare, and this is in the Peele bit, hence universities, not Warwickshire. No way he remembered Marian executions, but audience plausibly did and there must have been accounts of Cranmer's execution still circulating in Oxford in 1570s)

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Smell of burning entrails in 1590s = Elizabethan execution of Catholic "traitors" by hanging, disembowelling, burning entrails, quartering. The above plus incense = Marian executions of Protestants with incense and burning people at the stake???

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Don't go overboard - it'll disappear into a tiny note. But it's a note that's been going round and round in my head, because it's about whether there's a confessional switch and affective hit when we're told that Alarbus' burning entrails 'like incense ... perfume the sky".

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When the first thing you do in the morning is unpick the previous day's work... 😧 But at least, it's raining!

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@mcculloughp.bsky.social, do you happen to know about whether 1. incense was used in London/Oxford/Cambridge churches in the 1590s 2. incense was used in funeral services during Mary's reign? (e.g., was incense part of Cranmer's funeral before his execution?) You seem the right person to ask...

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026

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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

*entrails!!! (v different from entails 🫢)

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are you using early modern broadside ballads in your work? If so, please fill in this survey for a student's project on broadside ballad databases and the impact of the closure of the Bodleian's Broadside Ballads Online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/TQrAhSLXkK Thank you!

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just in case you haven't signed this yet: The crisis in Exeter is not over. It's just in that dangerous phase where people forget about it unless they're affected. We're waiting to find out the results of the 'consultation'. There's still time to change course. Share and sign! c.org/VZDjrbTybJ

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When I manage to concentrate among current madness, editing #TitusAndronicus takes me on the wildest, nerdiest rides. Utterly wonderful to have the scope to really think about a single word, in detail, and unpack what it meant to the audience. Today's favourite: entails, when smelling of incense.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just found this gem from my PhD days, when I used to mark up and colour code my notes...

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Share and sign, share and sign! This thing is still terrifyingly real and there's no pretending that it's softened or has gone away. #DefendExeterUni #DefendSHAPE #English #CreativeWriting #Drama #Languages #Theology #History #Arts&Humanities #SocialSciences #PureMaths #Geography c.org/xJ7bKnq7pL

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yup. Please keep sharing, signing, noise-making !

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Marchie @marchie56.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don’t want to spam you, so I promise I won’t put this up again on your feed, but it would be great to know you had a listen to this. I hope you like it. youtu.be/WfuMJOM4aCs

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I Will Stand in Clacton (parody song for Count Binface)

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Look at the gorgeous cover! So privileged and lucky to have a chapter in this excellent collection edited by such generous and wonderful scholars and forthcoming from Bloomsbury soon. If you're wondering, it's my _Merchant of Venice_ summer 👀🔥 www.bloomsbury.com/ca/shakespea...

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Early modern theatre historians: this is a thing a student of mine made to help with understanding the affordances of the #Jacobean #Whitefriars 💥

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