Cimorene

I totally get the idea of what you guys are doing and I think it's pretty cool BUT it's at like a 300+ level in history of the Renaissance when I'm at the pre-100 level...

... in fact I think I currently know less about Frederick the Great than she says she did since I've never heard of the Russian fanboys.

But also I've never been interested in any early modern monarchs. I have a strong interest in material culture and the history of textiles and clothing - if I could go back to university for fun but without having to commute it'd probably be that - and also art at like a 101 level (my mom was an art teacher and she got her MA and TAed art history when I was a teenager)... but no university studies of history or in fact any of the humanities outside a bit of folklore, which is about half anthropology anyway. So like if there are pages on your community focused more on those areas, those are probably the only ones I could follow without looking up a ton of stuff. Or maybe I just didn't look deep enough in the community - if it's developed as you say there's probably a lot of more introductory material further back...

I did try to follow your link but it is broken - you forgot to paste the address!

But that reminds me, do you have a link to wherever the place is where people currently go to ask for pdfs of papers that are on JSTOR? Like, it's not Twitter anymore, surely? Is it Bluesky?

I was going to boot up my Windows machine and buy the ebook today, but I accidentally fell into hyperfocus on handsewing and lost most of the afternoon. Maybe tomorrow! I did listen to half of an episode of Ada Palmer's podcast. She is a good speaker and she has a good vibe with her co-host! I'll probably listen to some more of it soon.