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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 20h

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 1d

Perfection!

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 1d

The kids are all right.

A group survey with the statement 'Abelard was a complete wanker'. 93.75% answered yes, and 6.25% answered no.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic! I'll know where to go next time I'm in town.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 2d

That's delightful! Do you know where in Cinci it's installed?

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 3d

Click through and read through this incredibly good explanation about the power of turning the monstrance away at the gates of the ICE dentition centre in Chicago. Centuries of context matter; the symbolism is powerful to those who understand it.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 6d

OR, GAH!

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 6d

Gah!

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 6d

Wait, I can't like that 😆

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 6d

Outlook is curreny suggesting that all my autofills and auto-responses should be in all caps. It must be my vibe these days.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 6d

I raise you Appletreewick. I am not local to Yorkshire but had strict instructions about this one (at the local pub, naturally)

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 6d

She, Barbara Yorke, and Pauline Stafford are my idea of how to be a scholar and an academic.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 6d

Jinty Nelson was an incredibly kind person. Years ago I sat next to her at a conference dinner in Oregon, where she scolded the keynote speaker for being unkind about a presenter, and took uncommon interest in me even though I wasn't yet in academia. She still remembered me years later when I was.

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 13d

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)

by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)*

Jinty Nelson left a strong mark of her presence in every institution that she was ever a part of, and there is none which does not regard its association w

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Gabriele Passabì @gabpassabi.bsky.social · 13d

"If anything made her a little intimidating in later life, it was her absolute, uncompromising refusal to pretend to be anything she was not, or to like anything that she did not, for the sake of pleasing others. She was entirely unapologetic about being herself and about what mattered to her".

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 13d

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)

by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)*

Jinty Nelson left a strong mark of her presence in every institution that she was ever a part of, and there is none which does not regard its association w

doi.org

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 8d

A poem for this evening

Someday

Some days we are storm-borne on the honest ocean.
Some days we are spat up on the sand.
But someday...
Someday we will meet the far horizon
where the stars are all extinguished in the sea,
and we will find our solace there
within the endless arc of slowly breathing sky.

-- John Wyatt Greenlee

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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 8d

Our NorseMap website is now live! Go check it out: www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 8d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 11d

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Freelance Work

Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

joanneedge.co.uk

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations!!!

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 12d

*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social

Check out the full CfP via link ➡️ bit.ly/CfPMiM

Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners

deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT)

#MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 19d

We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖

bit.ly/londonmedieval

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 12d

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...

www.hsozkult.de

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13d

We’ve opened a call for our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships which enable established scholars to have the time to complete a significant piece of humanities or social sciences piece of research, through a one year period of leave
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

The British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a signi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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