Elaine Treharne
@etreharne.bsky.social
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Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever. .. more

Elaine M. Treharne FSA FRHistS FEA FLSW was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is a Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. She was at the University of Leicester for eighteen years as a lecturer, then professor, head of department, and dean, before emigrating to the USA. She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature, and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book. She led Stanford University's online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper. She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association, for whom she was also the first woman chair and President from 2000 to 2005. Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in April 2020. She is the President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2022–2025). .. more

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Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.

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*Vacancy - Chair of Advisory Board (Voluntary)*

UWP is seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Advisory Board, responsible for ensuring the Board functions effectively in supporting our mission, vision and strategic objectives.

For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...

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etreharne.bsky.social
I’m very sorry about your loss. All sympathy to you.

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Benicia, former capital of California

katiephang.bsky.social
“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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davidgura.bsky.social
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a statement announcing its decision to recognize Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025:

keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
richove.bsky.social
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
helengittos.bsky.social
Delighted to be giving a Bede's World / Durham World Heritage Site lecture in @durham.ac.uk on 18 October.
fishkin.bsky.social
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com

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📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Old English Poetry in Facsimile
📲 oepoetryfacsimile.org/index.html
©️Medieval Academy of America
✍️Director and Senior Editor: Martin Foys
✍️Associate Editor: Kyle Smith
💻Digital Mappa: www.digitalmappa.org

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trincolllibcam.bsky.social
Is it coffee time yet? MSS R.9.17
See the whole manuscript here: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R...
#marginaliaMonday
Two drawings of jugs in the bottom margin under manuscript text.

etreharne.bsky.social
Yes, Andalusia was part of the Roman Empire at this point

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Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!

etreharne.bsky.social
Granada quite good; Córoba exceptional.

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Palace of Charles V, Granada
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£77,816 er annum. What an exciting post.
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Vacancy for Head of Research, Archives and Libraries - British Museum. Deadline 29 September 2025. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C... #MuseumJobs

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Look at the ‘T’ though in this first-century inscription for Lucius Vibius Rusticus (Museo de Málaga)