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Danielle Alesi, PhD

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Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern World History at Nazareth University, Rochester NY Basically a crocodile historian 🐊

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Danielle Alesi, Podcast Episode Β· New Books Network Β· 01/09/2026 Β· 45m

I think I was normal until I started talking about crocodiles at the end…

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13.01.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a delightful nod to the β€œsurprised eel historian” @greenleejw.bsky.social β€˜s visit to our class…eel man!

30.04.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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paper and creative project presentations in the feast and famine class are underway and we had some very fun presentations! pictured here: a video game about eating as a medieval nun and a mukbang youtube video of homemade medieval recipes!

30.04.2025 16:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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the feast and famine class played a table top dice game in class today, using dice rolls to put together a medieval feast! 10/10 the most fun and animated day of class!

24.04.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! When you are settled in Rochester we should grab a coffee! It’s a great city!

23.04.2025 02:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I sing of bees and a bear

BL Harley 3448; Flore de virtu e de costumi (Flowers of Virtue and of Custom); 15th century; Italy, N. (Padua?); f.10v

18.04.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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SASA Live Master Class: "Viking Voyages Part II: The Eastern Road" YouTube video by Shield of Skuld

Public lecture with @saveancientstudies.bsky.social

youtube.com/live/wvODGwv...

#medievalsky #vikingsky

30.03.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI’m more of an ideas man” - overheard in my class during group work

28.03.2025 13:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Reviewers Wanted!

"Filhos Da Terra: Mestizos Identities at the Margins of Portuguese Imperial Expansion" by Antonio Manuel Hespanha

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25.03.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Reviewers Wanted!

"L'Amerique Meridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century" by Junia Ferreira Furtado

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25.03.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking for scholars (especially early career and graduate students) to write book reviews for Terrae Incognitae. We already have some great books available like...

"Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map," Edited by Laura Hostetler

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25.03.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A history of the medieval coastal towns of Mozambique ca. 500-1890 CE. The East African coast is home to the longest contiguous chain of urban settlements on the continent.

β€œThe East African coast is home to the longest contiguous chain of urban settlements on the continent.”

The nearly 2,000 miles of coastline is dotted with several hundred Swahili cities and towns which flourished during the Middle Ages.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-history-...

19.03.2025 11:40 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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These two glass plaques show Ariadne & Bacchus.

One shows Bacchus watching Ariadne, who has been abandoned by Theseus. The other shows Ariadne reclining as a woman pours her wine.

Cameo glass was created by layering & carving glass in contrasting colours.

πŸ“ House of Marcus Fabius Rufus, Pompeii

19.03.2025 08:24 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@jacksonchughes.bsky.social you needed this for that paper you wrote

17.03.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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the ta keeps falling asleep during midterm grading

17.03.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Open book with large detailed illustration of a rhinoceros

Open book with large detailed illustration of a rhinoceros

Spine of Topsell’s book, bound in leather

Spine of Topsell’s book, bound in leather

Open pages describing sea serpents, with an illustration of one devouring a ship

Open pages describing sea serpents, with an illustration of one devouring a ship

Open page to Topsell’s description of unicorns, as well as an illustration

Open page to Topsell’s description of unicorns, as well as an illustration

How would you draw an animal you had never seen before? Edward Topsell’s 1658 β€˜History of four-footed beasts…’ has illustrations of animals we recognise, as well as monsters. Although he writes about manticores, dragons and sea-serpents, even Topsell starts to question unicorns!
[Cole 004Q]

11.03.2025 10:19 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

Please get those applications in to become our journal’s new co-editors!

11.03.2025 20:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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he’s smiling!

09.03.2025 02:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Got to represent Nazareth University tonight as a sponsor for the Rochester Museum and Science Center’s Uncorked and On Tap event! I am so happy to work at Naz and so happy to live in the city of Rochester, with everything it has to offer. Cheers!

09.03.2025 02:19 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Please consider showing some love to Greater Rochester LGBTQ+ Mutual Aid! In just their first month of existence, Emergency Relief Fund has issued $500 in support and Trans Joy Fund has issued over $600 in support, both within our local community. These two funds really need your support right now!

07.03.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You should all take him up on this because the students LOVED it!

06.03.2025 22:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@greenleejw.bsky.social visited the Feast and Famine class today to talk about, you guessed it, EELS!

Not only did the students love it and keep telling me what a cool experience this was, but I got to hear more ab the work of one of my favorite β€œinternet friends”! Thanks so much for visiting!

06.03.2025 21:18 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Book Sale Catalog from the University of Chicago Press The Book Sale Catalog from the University of Chicago Press offers deep discounts on hundreds of books we publish, plus books from the fine publishers we distribute. The Great Chicago Book Sale is our ...

hey book nerds, uchicago press is doing their 90% off sale. i haven't looked through, but they usually have a huge title list, many from smaller partner presses.

also: the website has a different discount code than the mailer. if SAVE25 doesn't work, try GREATCHICAGO25.

21.02.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Every Era Has Its Own Way of Thinking About the Middle Ages. Here’s 2025’s. Tapestries, stone walls, chain mail, crossbows. This era’s medieval mashup has it all.

hey! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote this piece for @slate.bsky.social about what's hot in 2025, because it's the Middle Ages!

we see a retreat to the medieval as a (tacit) act of resistance against techbro authoritarianism. find out why...

please read and share

#medievalsky

21.02.2025 22:42 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 9

Men: Ugh I struggle to even finish a book anymore my attention span is so cooked

Women: It's called A Field of Fury & Roses and it's the prequel to A Palace of Thorns which I enjoyed almost as much as its sequel, A Maze of Mist & Fire. Each book is 800 pages of inter-species elven smut

21.02.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 3936 πŸ” 217 πŸ’¬ 211 πŸ“Œ 34

This special issue was a joy to be included in! Definitely check it out (maybe not while eating though…)

20.02.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Art Institute of Chicago Lands Staggering Haul of Neoclassical Artworks The Art Institute of Chicago has received a massive gift of French art from collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz.

The @artinstitutechi.bsky.social Lands a Staggering Haul of Neoclassical Masterpieces

Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz have gifted the museum more than 2,000 works spanning the 16th to 19th century.

by Adam Schrader for artnet

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13.02.2025 18:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.

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