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Cynthia Cyrus
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Medievalist monastic historian / musicologist working on nuns’ roles in 15thc soundscapes in Bregenz Austria. Manuscript fragments make me giddy. I also collect sunrises. Blog at [email protected]
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the immense satisfaction of going to the store and remembering which specific flavor and texture the cat is actually eating at the moment
December 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I transcribed and translated the confraternity regulations for Bregenz's shooting Bruderschaft; I provide substantial excerpts and discuss them in today's blog post

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#blog #research #confraternities #music #Bruderschaft #Bregenz #Vorarlberg
Durer's St Sebastian with blog post title: Bregenz Shooting Confraternity of 1498
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Today's post is on a Brno sculpture of a female saint with a book from Moravia, carved around 1500

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The statue has sustained heavy insect damage but is still lovely...

#art #artwork #blog #saint #medieval #histodons #brno #MoravianGallery
Image of a head of a female saint with crown; blog post title: A bookish saint from Brno
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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My blog post today is a set of links for research on manuscripts and incunables from German-speaking lands, particularly from women's convents

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#BookHistory #weblinks #Research #Manuscripts #Incunabula #nuns #Nuntastic #blog #AmWriting #AcWri
Image of several manuscript and incunable pages with a featured set of chain-links in orange at the center. Blog post title: Manuscript and incurable research links
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Today's blog post is about what I call "gratitudes" -- those things that bring me joy and fulfillment. I tried an age-based challenge of listing as many as I was years old. A fun post-turkey pastime!

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#blog #gratitude #thankful #sunrise #cats #coffee
An image of a bouquet of things that bring me joy (via Dall-E), and the prompt: make a list of things that bring you joy -- as many joys as you are years old! Blog post title: Gratitudes
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Today's blog post is about the Everything Notebook and what happens as I transition from last season's to this season's "fresh new start." Also, a recipe for apple crisp.

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#blog #blogpost #research #ResearchPractice #Organizing #ScholarlyChatter #AppleCrisp
Notebook pages with lists, bibliography, scrawls, and labels. Untidy, even chaotic, but functional! Blog Post title: Everything Notebook Transitions
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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A post on an anonymous Nativity carving of 1520, with abundance as its thematic approach! So many arches, so many activities!

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#brno #Art #sculpture #nativity #MoravianGallery #blog #blogpost
A wooden carving of the nativity scene, with ox and ass and Joseph peeking in through one arch and other arches showing Mary with baby and caretakers, a cradle, and a storage area. Blog post title: Carving the Nativity in 1520
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Today's blog post is on the scorched sculpture, a wooden Christ ca 1500 from Brno's Moravian Gallery

I might have mentioned #Fabio and his fabulous hair...

#art #sculpture #15thc #carving #medieval #blog
A scorched sculpture of Christ with carved wooden moustache, beard, and hair; blog post title: Brno's Torso of Christ
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Today's blog post is on a 15th-century Swabian Madonna now housed in Brno -- there are a couple of interesting nuances to the statue, which is anonymous, and rather beetle-bored

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#Sculpture #art #medieval #blog #Madonna
The heads of a Madonna with crown looking at the viewer, and babe looking over our right shoulder. Blog title: The Swabian Madonna of Brno
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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A new blog post this morning, on our visit to Ubon Ratchathani this past summer, with abundant pictures! Such a pretty place!

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#travel #Thailand #blog #blogpost #AsianSojourn #wats #architecture
Image of one of Ubon Ratchathani's many Wats, with its ornate faux-flame roofline and brilliant white paint with gilt highlights; above is found the blog title: Asian Sojourn 8: Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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And, another blog post, this one about end-of-life ceremonies at Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple, with a more extended and slightly scholarly positioning

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#blog #Asia #Nepal #funeral #cremation #AsianSojourn #travel #tourism #DarkTourism
Riverside view of the Nepal Ghats, wtih blog title: Asian Sojourn 7: Life and Its Endings (Nepal's Pashupatinath Temple)
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I completed several blog posts about our travels in Nepal last summer; have a look!

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#travel #AsianSojourn #Nepal #Kathmandu #Pokhara #NepalBusTravel
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Today (Nov 11) is the feast of St Martin of Tours; to celebrate, I talk a bit about Martinmas customs and about the celebration of the Feast at Thalbach in Bregenz in 1595 in today's blog post

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#blog #research #Martinmas #medieval #chant
image of the saint in green with a brown cloak and red leggings; he has the sword with which he will divide his cloak to share with the beggar, who is kneeling and has lost a foot. St Martin looks on. Blog title: Singing to St Martin of Tours.
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Today's blog post is on chant performance, and addresses the way in which our popular listening tastes -- exemplified by Taylor Swift -- have come to influence our chant performance practice and consumption

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Title: The Taylor Swifting of Chant Performance; an image of the Sequentia cover of Hildegard von Bingen's Canticles of Ecstasy with the manuscript illumination of an upright person against a swirled orange and then (outer rings) blue background a bit like a migraine nimbus; and on the right, Taylor Swift in a dance move in front of an architecturally rich and ornate marble backdrop
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Today's blog post asks: what do space alien dreams have to do with checking historical data? More than you might think!

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#blog #Research #AcademicChatter #data #narrative #history #AcademicPractice
A frog foot and a couple of manuscript snail images, one black and white, one colored. Blog title: Of Space Aliens and Their Tentacles (Data and story-telling)
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I wrote a blog post about office hours, the most silent time of the day. Enjoy!

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#AcademicChatter #Faculty #FacultyLife #OfficeHours #Academia #AcademicHumor
a picture of a sealed box and a clock set to 1:30. "The silent office hour: I'm in my box on the clock. Does it help?"
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I wrote a (short) thing! Blog post on the surprising absence of smell from the multisensory details covered in memorial endowments in early modern Bregenz

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#smell #multisensory #liturgy #memorial #blog #research #history #15thc #16thc
A nose and a bell; blog post title: Smells and bells? Just bells!
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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A blog post on that journey "From Draft to Done" in a scholarly context...

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#draft #outline #ScholarlyPractices #blog #AmWriting #Research #AcademicChatter
A messy opening in a handwritten notebook with lists and numbers on the left and other lists and notes and more numbers on the right. Blog title: "From Draft to Done."
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I wrote a thing! This is my first extended assessment of Vorarlberg prayerbooks, focused on prayers "before" the image of Mary

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#prayer #15thc #16thc #nuntastic #Catholic #BVM
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October 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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everything is terrible, but at least it's all really fucking stupid too
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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today's blog post addresses my bad mental habit of thinking of the woods as silent. Plus, some #hiking pictures. And a couple #fungi

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#woods #forest #silence #sound #blog
mossy tree roots gripping a boulder by the stream's edge; blog title: The silence of the woods is full of noise
October 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️
A waffle iron that forms keyboard waffles.
December 8, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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If you like paper structure models, I've got another blog post for you -- part two of yesterday's post

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#pedagogy #AmWriting #TeachingWriting #Blog #PaperWriting #structure
Musicological Paper Structures 102; gives a template for the "problem-driven" outline, and then adds other types -- causative, historical, analytical stories; paradigm shifts; I invented a thing. These are explained in the accompanying blog post.
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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booke
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reade a booke
then anothir booke
aftir that anothir booke
bookes are freakinge awesome
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM