"things get bad when people are hungry" has been the #1 rule of societies since the literal beginning of civilization as a concept to the point saying hunger causes unrest isn't a prediction so much as it is an observation
The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingenβs Views on the Female Reproductive Body by Minji Lee www.arc-humanities.org/978180270039...
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.socialβs and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! π jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Book cover preview of "Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea" by yours truly. Cover image of a hell mouth from the Utrecht Psalter (ca. 9th c)
π¨THIS BOOK IS ALMOST REAL!!!π¨
@manchesterup.bsky.social out here making dreams come true!
Gorgeous!
unicorn tapestry cardigan complete!!!!!
Itβs publication day! π₯³ π πΎ
Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy published by @wearefootnote and available in all good booksellers.
#womenwhoruledtheworld #reigningqueen #femaleking #mybook #newbook #newhistory
Margaret Pastonβs will at the British Libraryβs Medieval Women Exhibition. Youβre welcome.
Medieval Treasury and Muniments Room in the Vicars Close at Wells. Spectacular!
What a lovely location for the launch of my paperback yesterdayβThe Holloway in Norwich. Support your local independent bookshop.
80% of your favorite historical fun facts started this way.
Here comes William and Harry! But who will win? Cβest un mystΓ¨re
dramaquarterly.com/bbc-confirms...
This is so exciting!
190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it πππ
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Completely exhausted by her own feast day: Mary Magdalene, by Artemisia Gentileschi.
Publishing this month, Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present, edited by Alice R Taylor-Griffiths and Seosamh Mac CΓ‘rthaigh, examines common themes and connections in #Gaelic storytelling from the #MiddleAges to present day. Learn more: buff.ly/o4MbAC8 #medievalsky
If you have the chance to visit the Folklore Centre in Todmorden: go, and do it sooner rather than later. A wonderful, charming community space, run by lovely people. Support it if you can
#OTD 20 July the Church remembers Ealhswith, Mercian wife of Alfred the Great & mother of ΓthelflΓ¦d, Lady of the Mercians.
She features in my novel about her daughter & in my history of Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England
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mybook.to/WomeninPower
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Lots and lots of articles about Anglo-Saxon England on my blog: anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com
π¨ CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS, repeat CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS π¨ exhibit opening at the Walters in August!
thewalters.org/exhibitions/... #medievalsky #baltimore
An ipad showing the front matter of Rev Skeat's translation of Aelfric's lives of Saints nestled next to a bright yellow sunflower on a wooden desk.
46 turns around the sun today. Celebrating with sunflowers and Skeat's translation of Aelfric's lives of Saints.
Quite simply a cat has taken up residence in a Lego colosseum.
Stolen from the internet and we don't care.
nΕn, n.n: the ninth hour of the day, reckoned from sunrise, or about three oβclock in the afternoon. (NOAN / ΛnoΛn)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
Image of St John's College MS 235 Fragment 109 2r. A vellum fragment with dark blue historiated initials depicting small dragons and decorations, backed by gold leaf.
St John's College MS 235 Fragment 109 2v. A vellum fragment with some red text, and the historiated initials on the other side visibly bleeding through the vellum.
Over 60 medieval manuscript fragments from St John's Library's collection have been uploaded to Digital Bodleian π₯³ These medieval fragments were removed from college library books and are now known collectively as MS 235. You can view them here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/partners/st-... (a π§΅)
Very well, thank you! I'll be joining the LUCAS team for the next year doing a spot of thesis supervision and hopefully starting my PhD π
What a gift! I look forward to reading this!
Book (The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England) on a book table at Leeds International Medieval Congress
!! One of my former thesis students is at Leeds IMC and just sent me a picture of my @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book out in the wild #MedievalSky
