Karl Appuhn

Does that include ideas about who could be in it at the time?

Gonna just have to torch it for the insurance money.

What did she do to deserve this?

I have a non-hoopty 2008 Fit. Am I emperor now?

You already did one Heath Ledger (Knight's Tale) but Casanova would be a good one. Terrible history, but a ton of fun.

Prerdered my copy. Preorder yours.

That's not true, but Napoleon retreated from Moscow rather than sit for an interview with Chotiner.

One of their worst B-Sides, if we're being honest.

I'm 99% sure those are the rules.

I was bitten by a shark in the Straits of Hormuz.

Definitely not making through morning formation with that many uniform violations.

Art History. A war of disciplinary expansion.

Machinist for the department of the Navy. Died of cancer he probably got breaking up the mothballed ships used in the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests

The other one was a Firefighter.

Eh, whatever.

Mad Billionaire Prions gonna get you.

The idea that this guy has any claim to political legitimacy is laughable.

If this isn't evidence that we are living in a simulation, I don't know what is

Teff, but fair

Today would be a good day for it to happen.

I have the misfortune to be your constituent. I'm not seeing "oppose" "stop immediately" "impeach" or anything else that matters in this message. Do you really think they care about your desire to be consulted?

My mother had a miscarriage because she got mumps.

Off the top of my head I can't think of another field where a substantial number of people in the profession will look you in the eye and say "that's not real, that didn't happen." It's perhaps the oddest part about working on Renaissance, Italy.

Not sure I 100% agree, but he has a point. It's much more of a construction than, say, Civil War and Reconstruction in US history. There are lots of people who will tell you it's a complete fiction.

I was discussing this with someone at the RSA last week. His account was that Renaissance has run its course. That 100-120 years ago it wasn't a category at all (in History), then for some contingent reasons it suddenly became one, and now it is no longer a meaningful category again.

That's not a lament, to be clear. And I don't have a perfect account of why it's so. But it nevertheless is so.

There's a different conversation that one could have about whether Italian Renaissance is even a viable field any longer. I've had some great students in the history department who do excellent work and got jobs. Not a single one works on Italy. I don't think that's a coincidence.

To put it differently, this is an Italian Renaissance problem, not an early modern Europe problem.
I'd also say that your view of my field is a product of where you went to grad school. If you'd gone to one of those other departments, you'd likely see us differently.

At any rate, if you were applying to grad school in, say, 1994, you had at least four or five top departments where the Renaissance historian trained people in that style of scholarship. Today there's maybe one. There'd be two if the person at Hopkins hadn't moved into admin. That's a big change.

There were two other Renaissance historians in my Fulbright cohort in 96, both of whom worked on Neolatin texts. One was Jimmy's student. They both got jobs.
The writing was on the wall for those who cared to read it, but it was still a viable way to go.

The staffing of positions always is a trailing indicator of fashion. But in the 80s and 90s there were still many such people in tenured positions, including his own undergraduate advisor at Duke, Ron Witt. Ron, btw, was a lovely man and one of the nicest people in the profession.