Chris Riedel
@medievalhistory.bsky.social
Teaching medieval & ancient history at a SLAC in Michigan. Researches nostalgia. Lots of nerdy things. A greyhound named Malibu. Still misses old Twitter. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
The fact that no one knows this hierarchy of send offs does not mean I don't think about which to use carefully with virtually every email I write. Its importance to me is completely out of sync with how trivial and obscure it is to literally everyone else.
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The fact that no one knows this hierarchy of send offs does not mean I don't think about which to use carefully with virtually every email I write. Its importance to me is completely out of sync with how trivial and obscure it is to literally everyone else.
"Yours" means you are my ride-or-die. I consider myself to owe you a life debt. This is not hyperbolic. I use "yours" for less than a dozen people
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"Yours" means you are my ride-or-die. I consider myself to owe you a life debt. This is not hyperbolic. I use "yours" for less than a dozen people
"Best" is my neutral response. Keep on trucking. You are in my good graces. No red flags.
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Best" is my neutral response. Keep on trucking. You are in my good graces. No red flags.
This is what I did, and I think the volume publisher's intent.
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is what I did, and I think the volume publisher's intent.
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The greatest con the Right ever pulled off is convincing America that mainstream media leans left.
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The greatest con the Right ever pulled off is convincing America that mainstream media leans left.
They look excellent to me! I haven't tried bagels yet, but I'm making focaccia for the fourth or fifth time today. Still not entirely comfortable with yeast, not brave enough for bagels yet.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
They look excellent to me! I haven't tried bagels yet, but I'm making focaccia for the fourth or fifth time today. Still not entirely comfortable with yeast, not brave enough for bagels yet.
It is a constant humiliation to be American under Trump. We are a country of many failings, but never quite so gleefully and pettily as now.
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It is a constant humiliation to be American under Trump. We are a country of many failings, but never quite so gleefully and pettily as now.
This is great, thank you so much!
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is great, thank you so much!
Agreed! There's clearly a lot of good work being done, but that makes it a bit daunting to keep up with when I'm also meant to be teaching classes on classical Rome and the Viking age 😝
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Agreed! There's clearly a lot of good work being done, but that makes it a bit daunting to keep up with when I'm also meant to be teaching classes on classical Rome and the Viking age 😝
Reposted by Chris Riedel
and her and my joint article which introduces the concept of the prodrome of the pandemic www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 3/4
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. | Medical History | Cambridge Core
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. - Volume 68 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
and her and my joint article which introduces the concept of the prodrome of the pandemic www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 3/4
Thank you and @monicamedhist.bsky.social for this work and for sharing this open access. It's supremely helpful to have comprehensive but manageable works for those of us teaching outside this field. I look forward to reading this in full & updating my lecture
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Thank you and @monicamedhist.bsky.social for this work and for sharing this open access. It's supremely helpful to have comprehensive but manageable works for those of us teaching outside this field. I look forward to reading this in full & updating my lecture
My condolences 😔. For me it was getting a dog who is absolutely terrified by them.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My condolences 😔. For me it was getting a dog who is absolutely terrified by them.
Honestly I think it just doesn't fit our image of you lot as higher cultured and more proper than us 😆
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Honestly I think it just doesn't fit our image of you lot as higher cultured and more proper than us 😆
I only know that because I've spent most of my life studying England in one way or another! Most Americans only know it at all because of V for Vendetta, and that didn't have much staying power beyond the masks.
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I only know that because I've spent most of my life studying England in one way or another! Most Americans only know it at all because of V for Vendetta, and that didn't have much staying power beyond the masks.
Quite, though it's almost all highway with a 70 speed limit. Usually I also carpool, but my buddy is sick rn.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Quite, though it's almost all highway with a 70 speed limit. Usually I also carpool, but my buddy is sick rn.
I had no idea - Guy Fawkes related festivities are one of those Britishisms we Yanks get almost no exposure to and know little about. It rarely seems to pop up in your prestige television that we import for some reason
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I had no idea - Guy Fawkes related festivities are one of those Britishisms we Yanks get almost no exposure to and know little about. It rarely seems to pop up in your prestige television that we import for some reason
Cremation was however quite normal in prechristian times, and even if the etymology cannot be traced back so far, cremation was firmly associated in the Christian mind with "heathenry" which may provide some possible origin for a later false etymology.
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Cremation was however quite normal in prechristian times, and even if the etymology cannot be traced back so far, cremation was firmly associated in the Christian mind with "heathenry" which may provide some possible origin for a later false etymology.
As someone with the misfortune to live in a country where the general public sets off fireworks every night for weeks during the summer, don't let that mess happen to your country.
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
As someone with the misfortune to live in a country where the general public sets off fireworks every night for weeks during the summer, don't let that mess happen to your country.