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Fancy a real paleography challenge? Try the deranged hieroglyphs of a para-literate 4yo

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tonight Ru i'll be serving up some of that Greg Anderson realness, sashaying the radical alterity of the ontologies of past life-worlds

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glad we're finally going to cancel culture. long time coming.

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'Edward III liked to dress up as a bird. In 1348, at a tournament in Bury St Edmunds, he revealed himself as a gleaming pheasant with copper-pipe wings and real feathers.' Blisteringly eloquent from @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

got my hatchet out for this one

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

I guess this is what counts as consolation in 2025???? (rachael allen, god complex)

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Any photoshop whizzes out there who can help me with some basic image processing for an article? I want to take the graininess out of some high-contrast monochrome photos of a manuscript Can offer a bit of money for services rendered. DM me if you're interested

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wait, Marcel Mauss was Emile Durkheim's nephew?!

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A desert in the middle of early-modern England: the Brecklands of northwestern Suffolk. In 1677, John Evelyn wrote that "the Travelling Sands...have so damaged the country, rolling from place to place, and like the sands in the Deserts of Libya, quite overwhelmed some gentlemen's whole estates"

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Happy New Year! I for one received a lovely belated Christmas gift in the form of my new article, out now on First View for Continuity and Change. It's even available Open Access for all to read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Final revisions submitted! Coming (not that) soon to P&P, an article that launches the central ideas of my current book project... (happy to share the draft for anyone interested)

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An archivist with a sense of humor: the HMSPO mark stamped on this charter in the space that had been left for an illuminated capital in 1463 and never filled in

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I reviewed a new book about medieval women for @nytimes.com — & make a plea for a more complex & imaginative gender history. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...

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I'll be teaching at the California Rare Book School next summer. If you'd like an intro to medieval manuscripts, please consider applying. And if you know anyone who would be interested, please spread the word. www.calrbs.org/introduction...

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I've finished the first full draft of my book! It's drafty, but it exists. A history of the female body, personal and collective. Here's the (yes, still drafty) table of contents.

submitted 77 days ago • 7 comments

Making a lasagna with the 3yo when I had to go and answer the door. Got back two minutes later to find both 3yo and a block of Parmesan missing. He had taken it into his sofa den like a literal wild animal. This is what I got back:

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my latest for @nybooks.com is a longreads pick: longreads.com/2024/11/15/s...

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Could I get a second pair of paleographical eyes on the Middle English word after "vocatur" here? I have an idea but it is a little out-there and would like a second opinion! It's a will of 1450, Suffolk archdeaconry, Walter Almygame

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

ok it is so much nicer here, I don't know what my problem was

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I wrote about medieval ideas of time (reviewing Gillian Adler's and Paul Strohm's excellent book) in the latest LRB.

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Save the date for the 2024 Gender and Medieval Studies conference: 26-28 June 2024 (note the new summer date). C4P and more info to come soon! medievalgender.co.uk/conferences/ #MedievalSky #AcademicSky 🗃️

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Does anyone have a good go to resource for converting pre-Reformation dates - particularly feast days - and years, ideally for England? At the moment I am piecing them together from several different places and it is a great pain in ye olde butte

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Maternal guilt as a transhistorical phenomenon: The will of William Gardner, of Easton Bavents (Suffolk), from 1491, specifies to his children that "qwat chyld is most kynd to hys mothyr" may have his house.

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Today in creepy toddler: the train on the right is apparently called "No Face Thomas".

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fortune cookie declares war on historians everywhere

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Hi medieval skeeters: I've been slowly rebuilding my collapsed Consistory site–with translations of late medieval church court witness testimony, about marriage, sex, debts, tithes, and other fun subjects. It's now consistory.org. Latin transcription soon also to be posted. 🗃️ @rauchway.bsky.social

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