Richard T. Yoder

PhD in History at PSU. French Jansenism, gender, and convulsions in the early modern Catholic world. 🇫🇷🌍🇻🇦 Gay. Anglican (TEC). Opinions my own.

[Richard T. Yoder @RichardTYoder1]

Normally I don't self-promote like this but I just noticed that our anthology is priced at only $35 for paperback, which is an absolute STEAL for academic books. Please consider pre-ordering if you want to know more about Jansenism!

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[Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 @CatholicismsEM]

Published this month, the 6th volume in the series! Order 'Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age' by @elisewatson_ here and get 35% off using the code BB897: https://t.co/LdvQUsk4sL
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[Richard T. Yoder @RichardTYoder1]

Some very interesting #Jansenist history here

[Nicole Bauer @NBauerHistory]

My new article on conspiracy theories, French prisons, and revolution is now out in French Historical Studies @thesfhs @DukePress! Read for free here:
https://t.co/SL01TsIaQV

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@CanonRobinWard

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@ShaunLBlanchard Congratulations!

[Antonin Cavelier @CavelierAntonin]

À paraître fin août @PComposes

Charles IX. Le roi désobéi - Didier Le Fur

[Richard T. Yoder @RichardTYoder1]

Incredible

[simp 4 satoshi @iamgingertrash]

Every single transformative technology appears as if it has the capability to end the world

Tech Tree unlocks all have
mind viruses attached

Drown out the noise
Focus on progress

[Shaun Blanchard @ShaunLBlanchard]

I was not expecting Pope Leo's first encyclical to get into issues like the church's complicity in slavery and the need for ecclesial repentance (see #176 and accompanying footnotes).

https://t.co/Sjj4M7PP8u

"For this, in the name of the Church, I sincerely ask for pardon."

[Richard T. Yoder @RichardTYoder1]

@nassaujuan Which parish is this?

[Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 @CatholicismsEM]

For the whole of May, get 40% off the fifth volume in the series, Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688 by @CReutcke using the code HISTORY40 here: https://t.co/bl7s7ZxqIh #twitterstorians #CathHist #history #bookhistory #catholicism

[Richard T. Yoder @RichardTYoder1]

It’s official—I am now Dr. Richard T. Yoder. Grateful to everyone who made this happen along the way, not least of all my supervisor, Professor Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (pictured here). #PhDone

[Richard T. Yoder @RichardTYoder1]

Thanks to everyone who's been there along the way, named here or otherwise.

[Richard T. Yoder @RichardTYoder1]

Today in 1727, the Deacon François de Pâris died in Paris, thus inadvertently kicking off what would become the convulsionnaire movement. I suppose that today is a good day to express some gratitude for everyone who helped me as I completed a dissertation on the subject.

[Durham History of Catholicism @histcatholic]

Congratulations to former @histcatholic PhD researcher Scholastica Jacob, who has just published a book based on her @Durham_Theology thesis about the return of Benedictine nuns to England after the French Revolution. #twitterstorians #CathHist #history #nuntastic #catholicism

[Richard T. Yoder @RichardTYoder1]

@philipgporter Ah, but does it have the Psalter?

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@nic_lucc Congratulations!

[Jean-Pascal Gay @histcatholiques]

Pope Leo XIV just turnPope Leo XIV just turned the issue of the hierarchy of sin into a major conservation. He quietly reopened one of Catholicism's most buried questions: how did sexual sin come to sit at the top of this moral hierarchy. And here of course history matters 1/10🧵

["A certain woman named Martha" (S. Luke 10:38) @martyrids]

My son refused to go to preschool until I read him 3 pages of this

[Olivier Varlan @VarlanOlivier]

Nos couvertures PUF préférées :

[Shaun Blanchard @ShaunLBlanchard]

I wrote an reflection on the extraordinary recent events involving Trump and Pope Leo for @americamag:

"...Two weeks ago, I would have thought such a description referred to Pius VII’s showdown with Napoleon in the early 1800s...

@CatholicTwitter

https://t.co/PQ1E3Rcxu6

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Astonished to learn that ‘Silence of the Gods’ sold nearly 3k copies in the second half of 2025. These are numbers I'm not used to seeing 😮