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Feminist Chaucerian and English prof at U. of New Hampshire. Author of "Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in the CT" (Oxford UP, 2019). In progress: "Jackanapes Rising: A Novel of Alice Chaucer" and "1381: Making Race in the Peasants' Revolt."
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Unexpected encounter with a star yesterday: the extraordinary beauty of the Rothschild Pentateuch

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

In Torah portion 'Yitro' (יִתְרוֹ) Moses receives the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai while the people wait at the foot of the mountain. #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 22413; Tripartite Maḥzor; 1300-1329 CE; Germany; f.3r

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"The Belle Da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 will be granted annually to a medievalist of color for research and travel. The award may be used to visit archives, attend conferences, or to facilitate writing and research." DUE 15 FEB More on award & Greene: www.medievalacademy.org/page/GreeneA...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

🚨FUNDING ALERT🚨Hey #MedievalSky! @medievalacademy.bsky.social wants to give you money. Funding for Medievalists of Color, for MedievALLists (i.e. not tenured) and students! Apply by Feb. 15: www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-upc...

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Found this interesting tidbit on a reread of Juliet Barker's "Conquest." I can think of a very good reason why a man with the last name "Convers" would have been eager to settle in Normandy and integrate into a French Christian family. #medievalsky

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Welcome to 2025 and to a brand new 📯Medieval Booklet📯 ! Hilary is stronger than ever with almost 50 (!!) pages of medieval conferences, lectures, seminars, reading groups, events, and opportunities, ready to view at users.ox.ac.uk/~fmml2152/me.... Which means it's time for... a Big Booklet Thread!

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Andrew Seal on the struggle with the overabundance of books (and underabundance of time to read them)... Does It Hold Up? How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read open.substack.com/pub/metahist...

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Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

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Annual obligatory reshare, for the Impending Night, of Matthew Willis’ essay on Nittel Nacht, or Ashkenazi Jewish Christmas Eve, featuring pogroms, Zombie-Wizard Jesus, and the tense yet necessary relationship between tradition and modernity. daily.jstor.org/nittel-nacht...

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Medieval England was never an "essentially homogenous country, with little diversity", and a certain anti-immigrant twitter thread is an example of why we need to expand definitions of "diversity" when thinking about the medieval past before it's coopted to exclude people in present. #medievalsky

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Another Margaret Paston Bonus Window—an interview I gave on Late Night Live on ABC national radio www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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okay how did it take me THREE YEARS at this university to find out there is a courtyard where the now defunct Byzantine Studies department had themselves immortalised in mural form??

submitted 73 days ago • 10 comments

Wow: “Fund will create a repository for the professional papers of medievalists”, managed by “an endowed position in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. The Penn Libraries expects to invite applications for this new position soon.”

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The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis

submitted 85 days ago • 14 comments

I will be talking about my new book on Zoom on December 11. I think it's open to everyone, not just NACBS members.

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Manuscript presentations in Chaucer class today took a fun turn when one of the students posted the full Francis Douce resignation letter on the screen. No one else had seen it before and they all were delighted. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/t...

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