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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
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
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
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
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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October 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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
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
October 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️
December 8, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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
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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then anothir booke
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bookes are freakinge awesome
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM