Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...
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I’ll be talking about my recent research on the trade in medieval manuscripts on 25 March @ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social
Https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/market-medieval-manuscripts-age-modernism-1914-45
Steinway piano made from Paduak wood but it looks like a slab of meat ok
if anyone wants to get me the Epic Bacon Piano I am not too proud to accept it
IT IS DECIDED
If only I’d had a medieval manuscript with me to really drive the point home! 📜
Once I was flying into Marseilles and the border police looked at my (US) passport and were talking amongst themselves, assuming I didn’t speak French. One said “Ugh all these Americans with French names.” I was very happy to interject “Elizabeth is much older, actually. It’s a Hebrew name.”
Calling #Skystorians #MedievalSky the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School (formerly the Keele summer school) is open for bookings. 27-31 July in Birmingham. 👇
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Shut up and take my mon--oh, it's open access!
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Very close up orange cat selfie
What the manuscript sees when I’m trying to transcribe that weird ligature
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Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.
Missed this 3 days ago, but we're thrilled this is out.
@ruthahnert.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social & I wrote this after 6 years of collaboration + discussions about
- what "data" and "digitization" mean [in History]
- what we need to do to ensure data is findable & accessible
Yes to this thread. AI “creates a permission structure” designed to concentrate power at the top, dramatically enhance the power of disinformation by destabilizing images and information, and hollow out the power of labor through deskilling while providing cover and impunity.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
Late last century I had the honor of earning a Ph.D from the finest American Studies department in the world at @utaustin.bsky.social.
This week the president of UT bowed to white supremacy and ended the department. I’m sick and angry. This is a dumb way to run a university.
Also my and @patriciaingham.bsky.social ‘s grant for creating an undergraduate minor in book studies. We did use the word “history” in our narrative, though. Sigh.
My favorite point in another good thread on craftivism. I've always loved embedding messages in the clothes I make, and now is the moment for it. #DHmakes
“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”
Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.
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Welcome, welcome! Thank you for following the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. We're in the Kislak Center at Penn Libraries in Philadelphia, and we have manuscripts! We post every other day, mostly little videos. If you, too, think manuscripts are neat, we hope you'll enjoy our offerings
I am very excited to report that a project I have been working on for 3+ years is finally seeing the light of day! Along with @byzcapp.bsky.social and Jesse Torgerson, we debut a new annual section in Digital Philology that proposes the dataset as a new genre of publication. odfms.hcommons.org
Check it out, we're planning a special issue of @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the 700th anniversary of the advent of the Valois dynasty! Details and timeline at the link below, but don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions 😊
The logo and name of La cache qui rit (the laughing cow), showing a cartoon drawing of a bright red cow's head, with an open, rather human-like mouth, white horns and a white nose. It's wearing round earrings like the round packet that the cheese comes in, with its own picture on it, suggesting a mise-en-abime.
La vache qui rit
or, as I like to call it,
A moo's bouche.
(Thank you, 6.35am brain.)
Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….
I'm working on an updated version of this after I put together my CodeMash presentation. Turns out, the ancestor of the computer isn't the Jacquard Loom, it's binary and algebraic weaving. Weaving notation and the loom punched cards made this perceptible to engineers.
#DHmakes This is definitely going in the Textile Dataviz syllabus, a wonderful writeup of textile history, how they work, and how they intersect with coding.
As Google Books starts to sink, it's worth remembering how Google organised a separate class of employees to do the actual labour of the book scanning, and kept them in a separate building on the Google campus with none of the privileges of regular Google staff.
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Affiche du colloque international ÉLITES, VIOLENCES ET IMAGINAIRES MEDIEVAUX. AUTOUR DE L’ŒUVRE DE MARTIN AURELL INSTITUT CATHOLIQUE DE RENNES BRUZ, 5-6 FEVRIER 2026 Organisateurs : Maïté BILLORE (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon III) et Clément de VASSELOT DE REGNE (Institut catholique de Rennes).
JEUDI 5 FEVRIER 2026 INTRODUCTION (9h30) • Clément de VASSELOT DE REGNE (Directeur de la recherche de l’Institut catholique de Rennes) : Mot d’accueil. • Jaume AURELL (Universidad de Navarra), « L’historien des monographies ». Pause (10h15) Session 1 : Pouvoirs, lignages et stratégies sociales (10h30). Président de session : • Stéphane BOISSELIER (Université de Poitiers), « Martin Aurell et les sociétés médiévales ». • Cédric JEANNEAU (Université de Bretagne occidentale), « Lignage et stratégies matrimoniales en Poitou, Xe-XIIIe siècle ». • Gilles LECUPPRE (Université catholique de Louvain), « Les relations père-fils dans les principautés des Pays-Bas (vers 1200-vers 1430) ». • Discussion. Déjeuner (13h) Session 2 : Guerre, croisade et mise en récits (14h30). Président de session : • Michel FAUQUIER (ICES), « Le sort des “combattants furibonds et meurtriers” dans les sources mérovingiennes ». • Thomas DESWARTE (Université d’Angers), « Une société organisée pour la guerre ? La guerre et ses stratégies d’écriture dans la documentation diplomatique léonaise vers l’an mille ». • Discussion. Pause (16h) • Sylvain GOUGUENHEIM (ENS de Lyon), « Une conversion édifiante ? Le comte Bernard II de Lippe, guerrier, abbé, évêque missionnaire, père d’évêque et d’archevêque (ca. 1140-1224) ». • Gregory E. M. LIPIATT (University of Exeter), « Pour critiquer la Canso : La continuation de la Chanson de la croisade albigeoise comme une source historique ». • Discussion. Campus de Ker Lann - www.icrennes.org
VENDREDI 6 FEVRIER 2026 Session 3 : Chevalerie et culture des élites (9h00). Président de session : • Josep MASNOU PRATDESABA (Universitat de Barcelona), « Les chanoines de la cathédrale de Vic (Catalogne) et la chevalerie au XIe siècle ». • Laurent VISSIERE (Université d’Angers), « Guerrières et chevaleresses. Entre réalité et fantasmes ». • Paola CORTI (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez), « Sur les traces du Chevalier au Cygne : la lignée de Clèves comme groupe-mémoire à la fin du Moyen Âge ». • Discussion. Pause (11h) Session 4 : Pratiques élitaires et culture de cour (11h15). Président de session : • Emmanuelle SANTINELLI (Université polytechnique des Hauts-de-France), « Aliénor d’Aquitaine, Louis VII et Henri II Plantagenêt : les pratiques élitaires en matière de conjugalité au XIIe siècle ». • Charles VIAUT (Université Bretagne Sud), « Des salsamenta pictavensium aux sauces poitevines : identité, altérité et acculturation culinaire (XIIe-XIVe siècle) ». • Discussion. Déjeuner (12h45) : Session 5 : La force de l’épée et de l’imaginaire (13h45). Président de session : • Lucie MALBOS (Université de Poitiers), « Dáinsleif, Gram, Mistiltein : le prestige de l’épée dans les mondes nordiques ». • Laurent MACE (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès), « “Seigneur, viens vite à mon secours”. De l’épée sur les sceaux des comtes de Comminges (début du XIIIe siècle) ». • Justine BRETON (Université de Lorraine), « Au-delà d’Excalibur : la force de l’imaginaire de l’épée ». • Discussion. Pause (15h45) Conclusions (16h) : Maïté BILLORE (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon III) et Clément de VASSELOT DE REGNE (Institut catholique de Rennes). Campus de Ker Lann - www.icrennes.org
Jeudi et vendredi (5-6 février), si vous êtes à Rennes, venez assister au colloque hommage à Martin Aurell "Elites, violences et imaginaires médiévaux".
J'interviendrai vendredi après-midi pour parler de l'imaginaire de l'épée dans le #médiévalisme audiovisuel.
Next week’s course on Greek palaeography is sold out, but we still have some places on beginner and intermediate Latin 👇 #medievalsky @ies-sas.bsky.social
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