Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social He/his. Dominican Diaspora classicist. Undocumented (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions (Princeton 2020); Rome, Empire of Plunder (CUP 2017) and Making the Middle Republic (CUP 2023). Father of Boots the Corgi (rip) + Romulus and Remus.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social Peer-reviewed quarterly journal, publishing articles at the cutting edge of early modern performance studies. Posts by Dr. Peter Kirwan and Siena Maxwell.
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social Engage the past, define the future | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | Throughlines | ACMRS Press | RaceB4Race
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
@routledgelit.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social News on Literary Studies and Creative Writing books from Routledge. This account is managed by the editorial team.
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
UC Berkeley English @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
https://linktr.ee/ucbenglish
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
Sadler's Wells @sadlerswells.bsky.social We’re here to make and share dance that inspires us all.
📍 Sadler's Wells, Angel
📍 Peacock Theatre, Holborn
Account monitored Mon-Fri, 10-6
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Dr Jenny Stevens @drjennyst-hann.bsky.social Co-author of three Arden Shakespeare texts; Methuen Series Editor; Co-editor of Routledge volume on Shakespeare & Education. Literature Tutor @citylit.
Gaby Mahlberg @thehistorywoman.bsky.social Historian, journalist, utopian. Based in London & Berlin. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Newcastle University, UK.
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She. Firmly on Team Footnote.
gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social early modern lit prof / fka vogelfrei vocal fry / https://letterboxd.com/gyzyby / scriptural exegesis and queer shit
Ada Migliazza @weirdclassicist.bsky.social •🇮🇹 in 🇦🇹 (left a piece of my heart in 🇳🇱)
• Classicist/Neo-Latinist/Italianist in training
• Predoc/PhD student SRA “Neo-Latin in the Modern World”, Uni Innsbruck
• Bibliophile/thalassophile
• #GiovanniPascoli enthousiast, handle at your own risk
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social Medievalist & philologist. Poetry and manuscripts. Wm Beauchamp fanboy.
Articles on final -e, the Pearl-poet, and monkish burps. Cursed by Artemis. (he/him/his)
bswbarootes.com
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social Antiquity. Cats and kids. Books. Humanities. Education. NY/MA/TX
contact JoelChristensen @ gc.cuny.edu
Check out Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269239/storylife/
avatar by Beverly Beverung
Secret Life of Books Podcast @slobpodcast.bsky.social Every book has two stories.
The one it tells, and the one it hides.
Welcome to a classic books podcast with Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole MBE.
AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
Alessandro Bonvini @eubacchus.bsky.social Amicorum communia omnia. Currently PhD researcher at KU Leuven. Working on Erasmus of Rotterdam, Classical bilingualism in Renaissance Europe, Neo-Latin literature.
Mark Turnbull Author @1642author.bsky.social British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. FRHistS - Royal Historical Society. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham.
📕Biographies: Charles I's Private Life & Prince Rupert of the Rhine
🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words
https://tinyurl.com/yvxvmsjk
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social North America's first organization of medievalists
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •- E Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social Law professor at Northwestern University, historian of early modern law especially English equity courts and the history of commercial practice, fan of the archives, now building an AI platform to tag historical sources.
Andrea W. @handle.invalid Medievalist @Mercer University; Dominican Order & exempla, medieval race, medievalism. Part time copper/silversmith, intown hiker. Owned by two cats & a foster Pyrenees. Likes critical thinking, actual facts, ideas, puns, generalist studies.
Katharina Ost @katharinaost.bsky.social Wiss. Mitarbeiterin Sonderbestände ULB Düsseldorf; Digital Humanities, Neo-Latin studies, manuscripts & incunabula. Privat hier.
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social Historian of early modern France, peacebuilding and religious conflict at Groningen University. Managing editor of Early Modern Low Countries journal.🇳🇱🇫🇷🏳️🌈
Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social Historian working on the project Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 at the University of St Andrews. Interested in mobility, communication, and wayward clergymen.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/cmfg1/
Marika Keblusek @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
Heiko Droste @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.
Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social Reformation historian, immigrant, birder, dochter van Nederlanders, author of REFORMATION IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1500-1620 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.
@jonasroelens.bsky.social @jonasroelens.bsky.social Historian @Ghent University: medieval & EM gender history.
Art Enthusiast
Recent books:
Citizens & Sodomites https://brill.com/display/title/69308
De onuitspreekbare zonde
Middeleeuwse medemensen https://ertsberg.be/boek/middeleeuwse-medemensen/
David M. Whitford @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)
Andrew McRae @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.- A Anne Coldiron anniebherenow @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.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Anne Gerritsen @annegerritsen.bsky.social historian at the University of Warwick and Chair of Asian Art at the University of Leiden
Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social Historian, early modern Scotland & Britain, borders, things, James VI, Union of the Crowns … & oh yes, Mary Queen of Scots
@bletherobooks 1st November: http://bit.ly/43mW82w
Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social - - - never not going the way of myspace - - -
art history / politics / ecologies /
bad, evil-related material /
*what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?* /
same id at insta, mastodon.social
Henk Looijesteijn @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social Historian and essayist. Writes about almshouses, philanthropy, the Dutch 17th century, Tulip Fever, tricksters. Posts in Dutch and English. All views are my own. Most recent book: https://verloren.nl/Webshop/Detail/eid/94136
Dr Bram van Leuveren (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺/𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮) @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social Assistant Professor in early modern art history @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social • Out now with Brill: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 • France and the Netherlands • Diplomacy, ritual, ephemeral arts • https://linktr.ee/bramvanleuveren
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Ineke Huysman @inekehuysman.bsky.social Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. No answers to DM.
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Bernhard Huss @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
Tryntje Helfferich @tryntje.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Ohio State Lima; Early Modern Europe; Thirty Years War; Reformation; Religion & War; Gardening; Travel. Alaskan at heart.
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🚫👑🚫🧊🚫🥭
Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. Part time German teacher of moppets. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Proponent of the weird guy theory of History.
Posts mostly in 🇺🇸, occasionally in 🇩🇪 or 🇲🇽.
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Borja Franco Llopis @bortxeta82.bsky.social Professor of Art History at UNED. I research early modern art in the Mediterranean, as well as issues of alterity and race. Member of the Young Academy of Spain and the Young Academy of Europe. https://uned.academia.edu/BorjaFranco
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @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.
Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA.
Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre.
Early Modernist.
Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project.
Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Neil Tarrant @neiltarrant.bsky.social Historian of early modern science, medicine and magic. Author of Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (UCP, 2022).
Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Mairi Cowan @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 
Ana Saez-Hidalgo @shnuska.bsky.social Universidad de Valladolid ¤ Late medieval & early modern cultural exchanges ¤ Anglo-Spanish ¤ books and libraries ¤ manuscript and print culture ¤ book use and annotation ¤ Early modern English Catholics ¤ Material texts
Jeroen Puttevils @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
David Neufeld @dyneuf.bsky.social Historian of Anabaptists and archives @uofwaterloo.bsky.social
Susan Wabuda @susanwabuda.bsky.social Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social Former U.S. Ambassador, retired career Foreign Service officer, still writing that long-delayed biography of Tudor humanist Mildred Cooke Cecil. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
Edward Collins @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.
Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, and social media manager. Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
Author Amy Licence @amylicence.bsky.social Historian of women’s lives. Prolific author of non-fiction, biographies and novels. Medieval, Tudor and Modern. Word aficionado. Teacher. FRHistS.
Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)
(Dr.) Diana Henderson @dianahenderson.bsky.social Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
J L Laynesmith @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 . . .(all views my own)
Guillaume Coatalen @gcoatalen.bsky.social Senior lecturer in early modern lit at CY Cergy Paris Université. Manuscript fanatic. https://www.earlymodernhands.guillaumecoatalen.com/
Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social Associate Professor of Historical Studies @historicalstudies.bsky.social
at Central European University (Vienna)
Early Modernist | Habsburg and Ottoman, author of Portraits of Empires
Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social Professor at the Institute of Reformation History in Geneva, Switzerland. Intellectual historian, digital humanist. Bridging the gap between the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation era #earlymodern #reformation @ihr-geneva.bsky.social
Lorraine @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/
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @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. Marie Curie Fellow at Bologna and Lausanne. Yale PhD
John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social Thirty Years War. Digital Humanities. Other Stuff.
Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social History PhD + Postdoc @Johns Hopkins | Early Modern East Central Europe, Czech and Polish, Global Renaissances, Utopia, History of the Future, World History, Historical Theory and Historiography| On the Job Market
Johann Petitjean @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
Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social Professor of History; author, Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; co-editor @emwjournal; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart
email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK 
Dr Chris Higgins @drchrishiggins.bsky.social Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, early modern female mobility & Countess of Arundel
‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
Anna Rosensweig @arosensweigbskysoc.bsky.social Prof. of French and Visual Culture. Currently writing a book about early modern Calvinism, contemporary Christian Nationalism, and the soi distant New Right. Views my own.
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social (Music) Historian, listening & thinking & listening some more. Indo-German-Canadian in America. Posting in a personal capacity.