I have several unhelpful joke answers but my most quasi-practical might be: assuming you mean you need to write something specific, write something else instead. like procrastinating, where instead of work I'll indignantly do a bunch of overdue chores. then swing back to the needed project.
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
You may access a digitized copy of the full manuscript over here: resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00005A5A0...
A turquoise book cover with a orange-red design on the front, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550.
Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...
The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing
A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi
Two paperbacks: Proceedings of the Pseudo Society, First Series 1986-93, and Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media
Look what I found when I was re-organizing books! @levostregc.bsky.social
You should really only be listening to whole tone music. It’s got the whole tones in it. A lot of these artists, they use semitones, which is just half of the tone and trust me, it’s not the part that’s good for you. It’s basically junk.
what’s a beautiful thing I don’t know about
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
Penn Holderness singing away about not talking about COVID: blog post title: We Don't Talk About Covid: Cultural Amnesia, Set to Music
We don’t talk about COVID… except when we do.
A blog post on parody, memory, and how a crisis becomes background noise. And a bit of nostalgia for 2022's relative simplicity
silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#COVID #CulturalAmnesia #Parody #Encanto #PandemicMusic
Tale as olde as tyme
Song as olde as rhyme
Wastinge tyme onlyne
> the emperor is at war with the pope
what century is it
I left the back door open to air out the house and the wrens flew in, grabbed some cat fluffies, and flew out again.
Applause: choir and orchestra and soloists and conductor. So many people; so much Mahler
Mahler 2: quite the blow! A great end-of-year concert for Vandy to end on!
main menu of the game Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts, showing a beautiful medieval page with letters and borders.
In exactly one week, this is the screen that will welcome you to our game - Scriptorium
We’ve put our whole hearts into these pages, and we can't wait for you to turn them 💙
Map showing locations of eel-rents in England during the 13th C. The map shows the main part of England (though not the far north (however you want to define that)), and Wales. The sea around England is a lovely shade of water-color Carolina Blue, and the land is tan colored. Or beige, if you want to be less interesting. The coast is outlined in white, suggesting surf, and the map shows major roadways drawn in a slightly darker color than the land itself. Broadly speaking, the land looks tawny, but not scrawny. There's a series of dark blue dots of various sizes scattered across the land, with the heaviest concentration of them being in the East Anglian fens, around Ely. There's a big dot north of the Humber, a handful around Winchester, & a small concentration on the Severn.* There are others scattered about. You are taking my word for it that this is a map of are eels rents. But I could be lying. * The term "small concentration" also describes my ability to read literary theory
Map showing locations of eel-rents in England during the 14th C. This map looks identical to the other one, except that the dots are in purple, and they are more scattered around the country. There are still some in the fens, and around Winchester, but there are also ones on the Ouse, and around London, and other places. As before, you are trusting to me to give you a map of historical eel rents and not, say, a map showing the locations of conspirators linked in a plot to overthrow Steinway & Sons Piano Co. You are in luck, as I am an honest eel historian, and this is a map of all of the eel-rents I know of in England during the 14th Century.
People sometimes ask me: What happened to eel-rents? Why'd they disappear? And...I'm not sure.
But I that think the 1348/9 Black Death was a big factor. The numbers of eels due annually in rent by century is striking:
13th C: 437,426 eels (map 1)
14th C: 33,997 eels (map 2)
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I was going to say that. My conference brick has been to ten other conferences, last time I counted!
Hike your own hike.
I'm setting out with a stretch goal, a practical goal, and a "have fun" goal. At the very least I will accomplish one of these!
I'd come home from grad seminar ex-haus-ted and watched the Challenger launch instead of eating and that was so very much the end of the day. I called my parents to be sad with people instead of just by myself
I know it’s #AprilFoolsDay but I’ve just discovered the micronation of Slowjamastan and I really need it to be real:
www.slowjamastan.org/laws/
They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead.
Me: Can it talk to my printer yet?
They: haha no
NEW Analysis of ash residue from incense burners preserved at #Pompeii reveals the substances burnt as offerings to the gods in Roman households and the long-distance trade undertaken to acquire them.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Hello #MedievalSky and #Antiquity from the #PresentDead!
Here's my #cfp for a hybrid conference on "interacting with the Dead in Antiquity & the Middle Ages", to be held in Graz, Austria on 2-4 Sept., 2026
presentdead.uni-graz.at/en/news/blog...
Please do circulate it to interested parties :)
Title: Poems from a Very Long Prayerbook (Trademark). Image: a tab and some sketchy 16th c script, a bit of a complicated spreadsheet, and "Limerick, Cinquain, Tanka, and Garden" as the take-away.
What happens when you spend too long cataloging lines, rubrics, crosses, and prayer structures in a 16th-century prayerbook? Apparently I default to poetry. Send help.
silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#ManuscriptStudies #Nuntastic #Kalamazoo2026 #scribes #blog #research #BreakTime
It’s infuriating, but also just so depressing. *No one* in charge of any part of our educational infrastructure seems to understand why it’s important for people to…read things that are difficult.
