My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org.
I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world!
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N., obey these Canons
you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing
Yes, I've done terrible, unforgivable things. But what about all the terrible, unforgivable things I didn't do? I should get credit for those
Howard Thurman: “There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island, and on that island there is an altar.”
[They stab Caesar.]
Well, God-a-mercy.
Livre de bonnes moeurs (Book of good morals), Jacques Le Grant, 1470 BNF Département des manuscrits, Français 17116, fol. 133v.
I'm still committed to #ManuscriptMonday, so here's the Sacramentarium Anglo-Saxonicum, an C11th #manuscript gifted to an abbey by Robert de Jumièges, Bishop of London. A Sacramentarium is a liturgical book used during Mass. #MedievalSky
This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII
For the saint that's in it today, the etymology of the name "Brigit":
Modern Irish Bríd [ˈbʲrʲiːdʲ] < pre-reform Irish Brighid < Old Irish Brigit [ˈbʲrʲiɣʲədʲ] < Primitive Irish *Brigēddī [ˈbriɣɛːdːiː] < Proto-Celtic *Brigantī < Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥g̑ʰn̥tih₂- "high one, elevated one (fem.)".
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Get thee to a nunnery ✝️
BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this
MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere
BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow
A Twitter user writes: I've often wondered what's the point of having two buttons if the lower one is not supposed to be used? Can someone explain this illogical behavior for me?
Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵
The Professor!
#Tolkienbirthdaytoast
Be merry, be merry.
Can I just make my sermon for tomorrow nothing but quotes from Fleming Rutledge about Advent and poetry about the Visitation?
the Exsultet. It is desirable
if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly
Still feeling overwhelmed from our service of Advent Lessons and Carols from last night. A sacred and beautiful moment.
Our King and Savior draweth nigh: O come, let us adore him.
Notre-Dame caught fire the day I gave my dissertation defense. Amazing to see it come back to life.
I continue to remain grateful, upon seeing all the posts of academics stuck in grading jail right now, that I don't have to grade papers/exams anymore.
A richly decorated manuscript page with many applications in gold that are well visible because of the uneven surface of the parchment. Light reflects from these letter.
Sometimes, because parchment undulates, even in digital facsimile we can see medieval illuminations as they would have looked with an indirect light source. Light and shadow made the page come alive every time it was used, for example, in a liturgical context.
BSB Clm 22311, late 9th century
Hilarious church hijinks happening to my kettle in my office