Lucy Pick
@lucykpick.bsky.social
Medieval historian by day, historical novelist by night. My historical novel #Pilgrimage is now out from Cuidono Press. Jackal. Princess. She/her. Banner is Muhammed Sami.
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The Queen's Companion
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Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages!
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⏳📚 #historicalfiction
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⏳📚 #historicalfiction
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Yea a “win” is not just a win tonight in TN07, if Behn gets within 10pts the wheels are coming off
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Yea a “win” is not just a win tonight in TN07, if Behn gets within 10pts the wheels are coming off
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Just wrote a post on the historical background to THE QUEEN'S COMPANION on my long-neglected blog -- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Crusades, and more:
lucypick.com/2025/12/the-...
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The History Behind The Queen's Companion — LUCY PICK BOOKS
At the end of my novel, I have an “author’s note” which is (deliberately…) less revelatory than some might like, so I thought I’d rectify that with a blog post, intended for the general reader who wan...
lucypick.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Just wrote a post on the historical background to THE QUEEN'S COMPANION on my long-neglected blog -- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Crusades, and more:
lucypick.com/2025/12/the-...
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lucypick.com/2025/12/the-...
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Just wrote a post on the historical background to THE QUEEN'S COMPANION on my long-neglected blog -- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Crusades, and more:
lucypick.com/2025/12/the-...
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lucypick.com/2025/12/the-...
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The History Behind The Queen's Companion — LUCY PICK BOOKS
At the end of my novel, I have an “author’s note” which is (deliberately…) less revelatory than some might like, so I thought I’d rectify that with a blog post, intended for the general reader who wan...
lucypick.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Just wrote a post on the historical background to THE QUEEN'S COMPANION on my long-neglected blog -- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Crusades, and more:
lucypick.com/2025/12/the-...
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lucypick.com/2025/12/the-...
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O Come O Come Emmanuel. I prefer Advent songs. Honorable mention to Come My Way.
Secular: 2000 Miles.
But Christmas (Baby…) slaps too.
Actually, all four are Advent songs.
Secular: 2000 Miles.
But Christmas (Baby…) slaps too.
Actually, all four are Advent songs.
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
O Come O Come Emmanuel. I prefer Advent songs. Honorable mention to Come My Way.
Secular: 2000 Miles.
But Christmas (Baby…) slaps too.
Actually, all four are Advent songs.
Secular: 2000 Miles.
But Christmas (Baby…) slaps too.
Actually, all four are Advent songs.
Hey! I know this guy! Tune in!
(Geez. “Tune in.” I’m old.)
(Geez. “Tune in.” I’m old.)
TODAY: Josh and Ray turn their minds to Michael Kremer from The University of Chicago, author of "The Development of Gilbert Ryle's Conception of #Knowledge" – 11 am on @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at www.kalw.org/show/philoso....
#PhilSky #philosophy #mind
#PhilSky #philosophy #mind
Gilbert Ryle and the Map of the Mind
Could other people know you better than you know yourself?
www.kalw.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hey! I know this guy! Tune in!
(Geez. “Tune in.” I’m old.)
(Geez. “Tune in.” I’m old.)
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Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages!
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
The Queen's Companion
Amazon.com: The Queen's Companion: 9781944453268: Pick, Lucy: Books
www.amazon.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages!
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages!
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
The Queen's Companion
Amazon.com: The Queen's Companion: 9781944453268: Pick, Lucy: Books
www.amazon.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages!
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
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I’m not crying but if Hegseth and the other handwringers want to know what real masculinity looks like, it looks like this comic. If they want to know what makes a man attractiv to women, it’s this.
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I’m not crying but if Hegseth and the other handwringers want to know what real masculinity looks like, it looks like this comic. If they want to know what makes a man attractiv to women, it’s this.
I’m not crying but if Hegseth and the other handwringers want to know what real masculinity looks like, it looks like this comic. If they want to know what makes a man attractiv to women, it’s this.
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I’m not crying but if Hegseth and the other handwringers want to know what real masculinity looks like, it looks like this comic. If they want to know what makes a man attractiv to women, it’s this.
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Okay, I've fleshed out this initial timeline w/ bibliographical citations & a few more pertinent details on how & when our current knowledge about the 12thC medic Trota of Salerno was recovered. You can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/emm... #histmed #MedievalSky
Timeline of the "Recovery" of Trota of Salerno
On November 18, 19, and 20, 2025, what turned out to be a lively thread on the social media platform, Bluesky, raised some questions about when and how the historicity of the 12th-century female medic...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Okay, I've fleshed out this initial timeline w/ bibliographical citations & a few more pertinent details on how & when our current knowledge about the 12thC medic Trota of Salerno was recovered. You can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/emm... #histmed #MedievalSky
Medical expertise of a medieval woman: Trotula Identified!
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Medical expertise of a medieval woman: Trotula Identified!
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Sulzberger. Bingo.
👀 "And they won't be the last. My buddy, Lorin Stein, who runs the Paris Review [...] just went down [...] the playright Israel Horovitz--whacked. Big names on the horizon: Michael Douglas, Larry Gagosian, and still my favorite, Arthur Sulzberger." Michael Wolff to Jeffrey Epstein, 12/11/2017
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Sulzberger. Bingo.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
“Franklin was an equal member in a group of four scientists working on the structure of DNA. She was recognized by her colleagues as such, although that acknowledgement was both belated and understated.”
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Franklin was an equal member in a group of four scientists working on the structure of DNA. She was recognized by her colleagues as such, although that acknowledgement was both belated and understated.”
This changes everything.
Extremely niche news for medievalists: Big Bird’s given name is Abelard?!
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This changes everything.
I love these figures but her work looks completely different. Hard to believe it’s the same artist. www.kleurkeramiek.com/webshop/
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I love these figures but her work looks completely different. Hard to believe it’s the same artist. www.kleurkeramiek.com/webshop/
The only way to stop this is to delete your Academia account. “Opting out” only stops you from seeing ai slop; other people will still be offered the ai slop they make from your work.
What the French-fried fuckity fuck?
I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?
When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?
You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work
I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?
When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?
You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work
November 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The only way to stop this is to delete your Academia account. “Opting out” only stops you from seeing ai slop; other people will still be offered the ai slop they make from your work.
And consent for seizing Venezuelan resources, and distracting Americans from hungry kids, deportations of working parents, and rising costs for everyone.
Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.
Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.
The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
And consent for seizing Venezuelan resources, and distracting Americans from hungry kids, deportations of working parents, and rising costs for everyone.
Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.
Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.
Yeah, I saw this coming weeks ago.
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Yeah, I saw this coming weeks ago.
God don’t like ugly.
You can't drop thst bomb and exit stage left...
L.A. Dodgers Owner’s Ties to Private Prisons and Surveillance Spark Backlash from Latino Fans - The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint share.google/GQh1uVXfxqcD...
L.A. Dodgers Owner’s Ties to Private Prisons and Surveillance Spark Backlash from Latino Fans - The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint share.google/GQh1uVXfxqcD...
L.A. Dodgers Owner’s Ties to Private Prisons and Surveillance Spark Backlash from Latino Fans
As thousands of Latinos and immigrant families pack Dodger Stadium night after night, the team’s billionaire owner has faced growing scrutiny over financial connections to companies profiting from …
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October 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
God don’t like ugly.
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My article is in the new issue of the Jrnl of Medieval Iberian Studies. Its aims are two-fold: 1) show how this text leveraged ethnic and religious IDs to construct a local, city ID, and 2) challenge historians to *show* local ID mattered, not just assume it did. tinyurl.com/5e5arv2e #medievalsky
Local identity in the Lives of the Fathers of Mérida: when ethnicity and religion aren’t the point
While scholarship on early medieval Europe often centers ethnicity or religion over other forms of identity, they were not always the most relevant form of identification for contemporaries. In the...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My article is in the new issue of the Jrnl of Medieval Iberian Studies. Its aims are two-fold: 1) show how this text leveraged ethnic and religious IDs to construct a local, city ID, and 2) challenge historians to *show* local ID mattered, not just assume it did. tinyurl.com/5e5arv2e #medievalsky