Now, if you are wanting to read some good work on #BayeuxTapestry, here's a thread. By the way, the pun wasn't intentional on Wednesday and isn't now. I'm not that funny. First up: Gale Owen-Crocker, textile historian par excellence www.medats.org.uk/officer/gale... #medievalsky 1/

And while I’m here: if you want more reading recommendations here’s a “syllabus” I put together last year. It’s structured on 7 key terms: bias, extraction, augmentation, operation, the so-called, categorization, and power.

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“‘Al’ is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase …is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their tech is similar to humans”
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!

Carved panel, Bari Cathedral, 1225-1251, now Museo Diocesano
Some things to see: small cross just above each beak; tiny palm leaf on each wing; lion's mask spitting out the foliage at the base; and those legs: which is the front, which is the back? 🤔
#ReliefWednesday #Puglia #MedievalSky #sculpture

Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free?

Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.

Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky

🎉 CFP for the annual NWMS Postgrad Symposium. To be held at Chetham’s Library Tuesday 5th August 2025. Open to any PG or ECR. Papers should speak to the theme of community but any paper with a medieval theme is welcome. Email title, ~200 abstract and short bio to [email protected] by 18th July 🎉

Bonus butterflies emerge from cupcakes when they add something about the work that was illuminating to them in person and not made clear from the slides.

Every time a student sends their art history professor an email saying, "I was in X museum and saw that work we discussed in class!" a puppy smiles, angels sing, and a double rainbow irradiates the horizon.

"Can I call you back? I'm stuck in an O at the moment."

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.

Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com

Visiting Cheb in Bohemia (German Eger) and found that the city museum has this wonderful antependium, made by the Poor Clares of the city by embroidering hundred of tiny beads, coral and pearls. It dates around 1300 and I've never seen anything quite like it.

Being a teacher is just the best. Today a student sent me a photo of a museum object that reminded them of something I taught them ages ago. Emails like that mean a lot.

Habemus DOI: 'Ethiopia' and the World, 300-1500, co-authored with Yonatan Binyam for Cambridge's Elements in the Global Middle Ages Series, coming to you in June 2024!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

In the Middle Ages, Bishops would annually grant email amnesty on the Feast of the Annunciation in which all citizens were allowed to delete their unread email without doing penance. Trust me, I’m a doctor.

Happy Monday! Just a reminder that there are 2 medievalist feeds

1) medievalsky - just use that word & it’ll show up here. An intentional list

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rbgwij3cs2kf4pugtbn2d3x4/feed/aaai2oxd773d2

Me every July.