We all need editors like that 😂 (I sent my full draft of my book to my older sister for the same reason)
Thanks for the word Stilblüten though: I reckon that'll come in very useful!
Very cool! (And kudos for the extremely thorough alt text 🙂)
Two bishops travel to Rome to fulfill Edward the Confessor's promise to go on pilgrimage. There is a large boat with two bishops at the bow watching over the others on the boat. There are two rowers, one on each side, and a helmsman at the back steering the boat. The boat's sail is raised and it has a cross on it. In addition to the two bishops, two rowers and helmsman, there are at least nine other people on the boat. Beside the large boat is a smaller boat with one person rowing it. In front of them all, perched on land, is a bird, who is watching everything. The water is green and the boat is wooden. The people on the boat are wearing cloaks and tunics in a variety of colours, such as blue, green and orange. Reference: Vie de seint Aedward le Rei (c.1230x1240, Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.3.59, f. 14r).
Traveling by sea in the Middle Ages!
Two bishops (under the watchful eye of a bird) sail to Rome to fulfill Edward the Confessor's oath to go on pilgrimage.
Highly original and finely written too! That's a nice accolade from someone who certainly knew his way round a pithy sentence 👏
I never met Prof Abulafia. But having read a fair range of his work, I feel I can imagine his reaction to having his recently disincarnated spirit summoned in this way 😱
This is – well, words fail me so 😬 will have to do.
But I'm curious to read DA's lovely review. Care to post a link for those of us too lazy to search for it?
Fuckers.
Calling #Skystorians #MedievalSky the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School (formerly the Keele summer school) is open for bookings. 27-31 July in Birmingham. 👇
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Why would a publisher with pride trust their audiobook to someone who understands little & cares less about what they're reading?
My current listen is ruined by the reader! Misplaced emphasis; mispronunciations e.g. "ZOOlogy" & "centenARy", & howlers like the Hungarian struggle with "Australia" 🙉
The largest palace in the world: Late Baroque masterpiece inspired by Versailles, La Reggia di Caserta in Naples (with aqueduct) was designed by Luigi Vanvitelli, eminent Italian architect & engineer, died #OTD 1773.
UNESCO World Heritage
An oblong sheet of written parchment, formerly sealed.
The only surviving original Carolingian "littera formata", like a passport for a priest. Issued in Lucca, now in Pavia. archiviodigitale-icar.cultura.gov.it/it/185/ricer...
God's architect: AWN Pugin, led Gothic Revival in Victorian church architecture & designed interior of Houses of Parliament & Westminster ‘Big Ben’ clock tower (renamed Elizabeth Clock Tower); born #OTD 1812.
@UKParliament | National Portrait Gallery
Quite. I shan't name the author, but @hurstpublishers.bsky.social may want to check their audiobook commissioning processes...
Maybe, but that doesn't explain how Austria became Australia, or indeed how "the wake of the rebellion" became "the wake-up", or "the struggles in which they were engaged" -> "in which they were enraged"...
I did wonder! but I looked him up and apparently he's a real person 😓
Why would a publisher with pride trust their audiobook to someone who understands little & cares less about what they're reading?
My current listen is ruined by the reader! Misplaced emphasis; mispronunciations e.g. "ZOOlogy" & "centenARy", & howlers like the Hungarian struggle with "Australia" 🙉
For comparison, Greg Radick @hpsleeds.bsky.social recently posted about how he worked with biology colleagues to incorporate full lectures on the history of genetics, including risks of determinism & eugenics, into the department's main intro courses *before* students studied Mendelism.
To celebrate the BNA reaching 100 million pages, my colleague Claire O'Halloran has written a blog sharing some of our highlights. A huge achievement-well done to everyone involved at @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @findmypast.bsky.social Here’s to the next 100 million! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Next Wednesday 25 February I'm giving a talk at Magdalen College, Oxford, entitled 'Doing Onomancy in the Later Middle Ages'. All welcome, more details below.
#MedievalSky
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/doing-...
Headline from the Guardian app: "Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne", accompanied by photo of sidelit Osborne mid-speech.
Neatly done @theguardian.com
Thanks Mohamed! That's very kind of you. In this case I was acting more in the role of interviewer for a PhD student whose research is a little newer than my work on medieval calendars! But I was pleased to add a bit of context/comparison here and there 🙂
A tiny clip from a really fun conversation with a brilliant PhD student about the synergies between Ramadan and Lent 🌙
... and diagrams that were assembled and bound separately from a written text that they must have accompanied. But did Rossetti publish such an astronomical work? Not sure. (But his fortification book has images that remind me of fractals and the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelb... !)
Thanks, same to you!
Watch the full video, you'll find we do talk a fair bit about that too! (Though mainly I was playing the role of interviewer)
youtu.be/jIvWfCTU10I
A real treat for me to chat to Imad Ahmed about his work making the Moon meaningful for Muslims 🌙
Anyone in London looking for a fun half-term activity, check this out, featuring the brilliant @gregjenner.bsky.social off You're Dead To Me 🤩
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...
See your other comment just now about "we are better than those silly people"... 🙄
