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Chris Fletcher
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Chargé de recherche CNRS in medieval history. Specialist in masculinity and politics. Closet indy snob. Anglais de service.
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A really exciting slate of papers for this year's Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar! If anyone will be in Durham and wants in (or maybe even wants to attend online, I don't know?), drop me a line and I can share details!
The Tenth Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar, Durham, 12-13 December 2025: Tradition and Innovation Friday 12 December 12:45-13:15 – Meet at The Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7 Owengate 13:15-14:15 – Session 1: French Monarchs and their Relatives ‘The Succession Dispute of 1316-17 and the Origins of the Hundred Years War’ – Justine Firnhaber-Baker (St Andrews) ‘A Diplomatic Anomaly in Valois-Luxembourg Relations? The Embassy of Charles V of France to Emperor Charles IV in 1372’ – Lili-May Borucki Yeh (St Andrews) 14:15-14:30 – Break 14:30-16:00 – Session 2: Judicial and Political Practices ‘Having a Stake in the Execution: Innovations in Capital Punishment by the Office of the Inquisition in Toulouse between 1283 and 1347’ – Héléna D. M. Lagréou (Dublin) ‘Defining Lordships for Fun and Profit’ – Erika Graham-Goering (Oslo, online) ‘The Cheese and the Corpses: A Microhistorical Approach to Loyalty and Legitimacy in Lancastrian Normandy, 1417-1437’ – Eleanor Bailey (Sheffield) 16:00-16:15 – Break 16:15-17:15 – Session 3: Images and Objects ‘Reimag(in)ing Tradition: Desire, Image, and the Innovation of Visual Ethics in Jean Wauquelin’s Belle Hélène de Constantinople’ – Rebecca Dixon (Liverpool) ‘Mallets and Other Weapons in the Uprising of the Maillotins’ – Samuel Richter (St Andrews) 17:15-18:15 – Drinks Reception 18:15 – Conference Dinner at Spice Lounge, Durham Market Place Saturday 13 December 9:00-9:30 – Meet at The Department of History, 43 North Bailey 9:30-10:30 – Session 4: Noblewomen and Conflict ‘Gendering Political Allegiance in Late-Medieval Gascony’ – Katy Bennett (York) ‘Debates over Female Authority during the Guerre Folle in France, c.1485-88’ – Andrew D. M. Green (Chichester) 10:30-10:45 – Break 10:45-11:45 – Session 5: Old and New Approaches to Texts (i) Introduction – Graeme Small (Durham) ‘Innovative Middle Ages: Digital Humanities and Medieval Italian Studies (and Franco-Burgundian material)’ – Lorenzo Dell'Oso (Durham) Responses and Roundtable Discussion 11:45-12:00 – Break 12:00-13:00 – Session 6: Old and New Approaches to Texts (ii) ‘Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles : Tradition et Innovation depuis la Cour de Bourgogne jusqu’aux Presses Typographiques’ – Geoffrey Roger (U.L.I. Paris, online) ‘Upside-down Stemmatology: The Peace of Tournai (1385) and the Shape of the Manuscript Tradition of Froissart’s Chroniques’ – Godfried Croenen (Antwerp) & Natasha Romanova (Caen) 13:00-13:30 – Conference End and Discussion of Next Steps (for anyone interested)
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.”
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Who controls the past
The BBC is restricting access to its archives
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November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Tom Hamilton reçoit le prix Natalie Zemon Davis pour son très très grand livre. Un chef d’œuvre d’anthropologie judiciaire qui éclaire la sortie des guerres de religion: palpitant et virtuose. On ne pouvait rêver mieux pour ce beau prix !
durhamhistory.bsky.social Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · Feb 15
Huge congratulations to @tombhamilton.bsky.social on the launch of his brand new book 'A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender & Justice in Renaissance France.' You can order a copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Listen now: Who Owns The Ground Beneath Our Feet?

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October 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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A delightful morning taking @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social students around the National Museum of Scotland, including this, the earliest Scottish tartan (!)
The Falkirk tartan, 3rd century
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Olive Morris's former squat and centre for the Brixton Ad-Hoc Committee against Police Repression.
£1.4m

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"Original features have been reinstated, including floorboards, an ornate ceiling rose, cornicing, and a Victorian fireplace This exceptional four-bedroom house can be found on Talma Road, a residential street lined with Victorian townhouses near Brixton Station. The house, which has a large private garden, has been extensively remodelled and extended; the volume-enhancing design places a strong emphasis on light and the footprint of the house now extends to just over 1,500 sq ft internally The Building During the 1970s, the house was home - for a time - to activist Olive Morris, a prominent community leader in feminist, Black nationalist, and squatter's rights campaigns. Talma Road was one of several Brixton residences she occupied during her activism, and her legacy is now formally recognised with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on the façade, a quiet but powerful marker of the building's place in local and political history. The Tour The honse nrecente a emart farade to the ctreet with ite delirate icing and nitched hav windou The 1.4m
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Turn on the caps? 100% yes, for the benefit of everyone at every level of UK higher education’s system
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🥳🥳🥳 Hâte de voir ce petit "passeport vers un territoire de femmes étrange et nouveau" entre toutes les mains 🫶🫶🫶
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cecille-ulille.bsky.social CECILLE @cecille-ulille.bsky.social · Oct 23
La traduction du recueil de poésie « The Republic of Motherhood » de Liz Berry, sous le titre « La République des mères », par Claire Hélie et Alice Braun sera publiée prochainement par les éditions Les Prouesses.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Après plusieurs années de recherche, elle est enfin là.
Manuscrit de thèse en histoire : Des "Chevaliers de la Lune" au "Gay Tapant" ? : une histoire des homosexualités masculines dans le département du Nord (France, 1891-1987)
October 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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C'est demain. On vous attend (avec des cookie!)
cecille-ulille.bsky.social CECILLE @cecille-ulille.bsky.social · Oct 15
[JE] 17.10.25/ Campus Pont de Bois / Salle B1.607.

"La littérature au contact des mondes vivants"
Journée d'étude née d'une collaboration entre l'axe 1 « Poïétique et politique » et le programme en humanités environnementales du laboratoire.

Programme : cecille.univ-lille.fr/detail-event...
Journée d'études " La littérature au contact des mondes vivants "
Le 17 octobre 2025. Salle Jean Ruer (B1.607)
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October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Conférence – Hélène Noizet, « Les villes et l’eau : renouvellement des récits historiques »

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Conférence – Hélène Noizet, « Les villes et l’eau : renouvellement des récits historiques »
Le 7 novembre prochain, SociAMM aura le plaisir d’accueillir Hélène Noizet, professeure d’histoire médiévale à l’Université Paris 8 et membre du Laboratoire ARSCAN, pour…
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October 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Séminaire – Hommes, femmes, masculin, féminin ? Genre et histoire

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Séminaire – Hommes, femmes, masculin, féminin ? Genre et histoire
Séminaire dirigé par Sylvie JoyeLundi de 9h à 11h, Sorbonne, Salle Perroy, galerie Dumas, escalier R, 2e étage Le genre sert généralement à désigner l’ensemble des assignations socialement construi…
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October 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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1ere conférence d’un cycle de 4 organisé par la Mairie de Lille
Ici Pauline Triplet Doctorante IRHiS sur un contrat CIFRE entre l’ULille/IRHiS et la mairie de Lille
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Publication – « Chutes et revers de fortune. Représentations et interprétations (XIIe-XVe siècles) », éd. Mathieu Caesar, Anne-Lydie Dubois

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Publication – « Chutes et revers de fortune. Représentations et interprétations (XIIe-XVe siècles) », éd. Mathieu Caesar, Anne-Lydie Dubois
M. Caesar – A.-L. Dubois, Introduction X. Hélary, La chute de Pierre de La Broce (1278) au miroir des témoignages contemporainsC. Fletcher, Chutes et revers de fortune sous (et de) Édouard II d’Ang…
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October 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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A packed programme for this year's seminar in English for doctoral students at Lille. It's in hybrid form, so if you're interested in taking part, ask me for a Zoom link. irhis.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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📚 🗣️ Vous souhaitez inviter un·e auteur·ice pour une rencontre, dédicace ou table ronde ?

✅ Voici une checklist (non exhaustive), pour faire ça bien : www.canva.com/design/DAGz4...

🔁 Partagez, imprimez – et n'oubliez pas : auteur·ice, c'est notre métier, pas un hobby.
September 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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" Le trésor caché du Moyen Age "

Dans les secrets des "Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry".
Replay de l'émissions "Science grand format"

Avec Olivier Matteoni @labo-lamop.bsky.social , Justine Defrance et Fanny Cohen Moreau @fannycomo.bsky.social

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Le trésor caché du Moyen Age - Documentaire en replay Science grand format
Le manuscrit des "Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry" est une relique unique. Cette chronique, datée du XVIe siècle et composée de 131 peintures, est la seul...
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September 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Appel à communications pour une journée d'études que je co-organise : Les administrations du travail et les restructurations industrielles des années 1970 aux années 1990

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Appel à communication : Les administrations du travail et les restructurations industrielles des années 1970 aux années 1990
Appel à communications   Les administrations du travail et les restructurations industrielles des années 1970 aux années 1990 CHATEPF   À partir des années 1970, les logiques de modernisation induisan...
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September 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A sadness of ketchup
A collection of Heinz tomato ketchup bottles on a shelf in a restaurant, all nearly empty
September 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Don't forget to tune in for tonight's episode of King and Conqueror, in which Harold and William discover a crashed spaceship while Edith and Matilda team up to fight a giant beetle.
September 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🗣️Part. de membres d' #AHLoMA
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au séminaire 25-26 @labo-lamop.bsky.social
de 👥François Foronda, L'Europe politique. Histoire(s) comparées
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Le prog. du séminaire de Florian Mazel datait de 24-25, nos excuses
September 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Quand on est comme moi un immense fan de Samuel Gontier, et quand on l’a beaucoup lu regarder la télé, ces mots là vont un plaisir particulier.

Tuer au nom de Dieu, c’est ce soir sur France 2 à 21h10 !
August 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM