What?!
10.03.2026 01:45
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What?!
So there’s polio in Europe? What is happening?
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
I strongly hope so.
Of course. I suppose I meant more something along the lines of “why has it fallen to me to see such times”
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Why are things so terrible…
to write in long form is to reckon with yourself
I found it in an article published very recently. It starts with a reference to the Decameron, which I have to admit I haven’t really read because it’s late medieval. But some key evidence is in early medieval formulae! How did I not know this?
I admit to being introduced to a Scottish way of doing things during the semester I spent at St Andrews but didn’t realize how prominent that way is. Thanks for speaking up for Scotland!
The specialization of UK university students what bewilders my students at a US liberal arts college, where breadth is required (and sometimes resented, but of course it would be).
So after the cool part of yesterday (going down a little rabbit hole about bread-and-cheese-flavored justice) I got home and found myself in a weird funk. Not a 100% bad mood, just off. I’m not sure why, but it might have been my return to the horrifying reality of my country.
If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.
Much appreciated! But don’t go to any trouble on my account. I have the reference above, the article I read, and the source texts I need. It’s not a major avenue of research for me, but I did find it really interesting!
After mass and still in the church, each suspect was to be given a half ounce of bread and a half ounce of cheese made into a bite/morsel. The priest was to say a prayer that the throat of the guilty close off to the morsel. Whoever spit out the morsel was thus guilty! (I’ve overused “morsel” here)
The Frankish version includes barley bread and sheep/goat cheese, but not fresh or soft. I don’t remember anything about 9 denarii, but I didn’t make note of that. What I did note was inscribing the bread with the name of what was stolen and the names of the suspects. (continued…)
I saw it in Frankish formulae, which I traced from a recent article by A. Maraschi and F. Tasca. Several different versions of the ordo. So, not the laws per se. I haven’t seen yet whether there’s documentation for it ever being done in real life.
Oh, that’s interesting! I’ll chase down the article today. A very interesting addition to my food research as well as an addition to my knowledge of ordeals.
My friend
the climatologist
tells me
what worries him
is the climate.
My friend
the epidemiologist
tells me
what worries them
are infections.
My friend
the historian
tells me
what worries her
are the people
who aren’t worried.
Yesterday I learned that there was a certain judicial ordeal during the Middle Ages known as the ordeal of bread and cheese. How have I been a medieval historian this long and been unaware of this? Please, #medievalsky, tell me I’m not alone here!
But I’m so tired!
Wait, what?
Jesus.
“Golf like you have the balls for it.”
I’m beginning to think that our nation made a mistake in electing him.
So many Big Macs. You would not even believe.
The only, meager bright side to this is that these folks also don’t know where England, France, Poland, India, and Sweden are, either. So, in my demented optimism, it’s not that they think Iran is close to places that they’re worried about. I realize that this is no comfort.
Once again, a single cartoon tells more truth that the entire US Congress.
Thanks to Rick McKee for making our current situation easy to understand.
Ah, Bernie! (May he rest in peace)
Was it the ghosts?
Jesus