Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile. https://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3muxo3ntsws2jForget spiders🕷️, snakes 🐍 and crocodiles 🐊… meet the new Australian killers. 🦆 🦆 🦆07 Sep 2026 23:31 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3muxo3ntsws2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mulm2ywnw22dThe stuff you read in the margins of inquisitorial denunciations: "About the duck that went to the house of the Englishmen."03 Sep 2026 04:23 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulm2ywnw22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mtsngypph22cI will be on research leave next year. I am planning to visit archives and libraries France, Spain and Portugal, finish a couple of articles on the Portuguese Inquisition and work toward the completion of a book project on the Blood Libel and Ritual Murder accusation in medieval and modern Spain.24 Aug 2026 06:11 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsngypph22chttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mswyzf3vn22uThe perils of being an early modern military reenactor:13 Aug 2026 06:23 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswyzf3vn22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mswyzf3vn22uThe perils of being an early modern military reenactor:13 Aug 2026 06:23 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswyzf3vn22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3msk22n6kjc2kA new breakfast-time friend.08 Aug 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3msk22n6kjc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3msk22n6kjc2kA new breakfast-time friend.08 Aug 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3msk22n6kjc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mshxiy6bkk26Lisbon 1575: man has a theological argument during a meal in a tavern. He anxiously returns the next day to explain some dubious statement he made about Christ and also to have another bite to eat. Is told he can "go eat dinner at the Inquisition" (a qual lhe disse que viesse gentar à Inquisição)!07 Aug 2026 06:46 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshxiy6bkk26https://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mshxiy6bkk26Lisbon 1575: man has a theological argument during a meal in a tavern. He anxiously returns the next day to explain some dubious statement he made about Christ and also to have another bite to eat. Is told he can "go eat dinner at the Inquisition" (a qual lhe disse que viesse gentar à Inquisição)!07 Aug 2026 06:46 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshxiy6bkk26https://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3msaevhqpsc2vWinter morning scenes in Australia: early walk, catching the first rays of sun on the gum trees, smelling the wattle and hand feeding the rainbow lorikeet.04 Aug 2026 06:24 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3msaevhqpsc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mrtsq5xcvk2xPeering over the gutter. 🦜30 Jul 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrtsq5xcvk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mrqthz3ais2qA reminder that AI, even the supposedly more advanced and dependable AI systems that your institution/university pushes you and your students to use will make stuff up (aka lie to you). Don't depend on it.29 Jul 2026 02:03 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrqthz3ais2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mrgdkfp4dc2oAustralian winter: frosty mornings and hungry parrots24 Jul 2026 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrgdkfp4dc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mrebjdsfrc2pWhen asked by an inquisitor in sixteenth-century Lisbon why he never married, a Christian from India responded "because he wanted to see the world" (disse que elle numqua casou porque tinha tenção de ver o mundo).24 Jul 2026 02:09 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrebjdsfrc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mrebjdsfrc2pWhen asked by an inquisitor in sixteenth-century Lisbon why he never married, a Christian from India responded "because he wanted to see the world" (disse que elle numqua casou porque tinha tenção de ver o mundo).24 Jul 2026 02:09 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrebjdsfrc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mqlqfby44c24Amid the 2026 World Cup excitement, let's remember Monty Python's Germany vs Greece International Philosophy World Cup Final https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i21OJ8SkBMQ14 Jul 2026 07:59 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqlqfby44c24https://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mpkuejp7mc26Napoleon's secret weapon... 🦖 🦖🦖01 Jul 2026 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpkuejp7mc26https://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mp47gyawjs2uSeptember 1550: the Augustinian Sebastião Toscano is denounced to the Lisbon Inquisition by scandalized churchmen for claiming in a sermon preached in the presence of the king that “after Christ no soul was more perfect in grace and virtue than that of Saint Augustin.”25 Jun 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp47gyawjs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mp47gyawjs2uSeptember 1550: the Augustinian Sebastião Toscano is denounced to the Lisbon Inquisition by scandalized churchmen for claiming in a sermon preached in the presence of the king that “after Christ no soul was more perfect in grace and virtue than that of Saint Augustin.”25 Jun 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp47gyawjs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mozqzd3vf22xJanuary 1537: an enslaved African named Francisco Fernandes came to the Lisbon Inquisition and accused a 15-year-old boy named Braz Caldeira of having said that he did not know whether God was present in the consecrated host. Interestingly, Francisco signed his name in his own hand.24 Jun 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozqzd3vf22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/fsoyer.bsky.social/post/3mop4curzos24Patiently waiting for his sunflower seeds.20 Jun 2026 05:20 +0000at://did:plc:c4x2zppfszbgnrpe6fodle2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mop4curzos24