Image fo a seal - by someone that has not seen one - from Valenciennes, ms 0320, Thomas de Cantimpré, Albert le Grand. Liber de natura rerum, vers 1280, 230 × 156 mm. Folio 116, Image : IRHT https://patrimoine-numerique.ville-valenciennes.fr/ark:/29755/B_596066101_ms_0320 (http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7876).

The original colour of the skin (before it degraded) - but what is it? (image Elodie Leveque)

Mock-up of the original book binding by Elodie Leveque. Note that the fur is too dark in this mockup (image Elodie Leveque).

In 2016, the team in 2016 first confronted the collection at Troyes - but what are the bindings made of? Image of five people, one sitting, discussing a large bound medieval text held by supports in a modern library.

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Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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Fascinating! Do you think they also liked sealskins because they were waterproof (as well as white)?

I managed campus to some extent on a knee scooter but it wasn't easy. I wished Id gotten one with all terrain wheels, as it would have felt safer.

Damn. I am so sorry. I had a cheilectomy on my big toe, but will need it fused eventually. Fusion is a lousy operation but people seem much happier afterwards.

⭐️Texas peeps! Senate Bill 37, which overregulates &micromanages higher ed, will be heard Thursday at 9 AM &for as long as we have people there to testify against it. Please come to the Capitol to defend academic freedom, shared governance &due process. This bill guts all three.

Has anyone ever used a "small space" on Word for Macs, as opposed to a normal-sized space between words? If so, how to you enter it? I'm trying to follow very precise instructions for the edition of a Latin text. #medievalsky

Departing the New York Times I left to stay true to my byline

Read Paul Krugman on what happened to his work at the NYT. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Love this satire, seen on the UT campus.

And I am pleased to have contributed an essay, "Ritual Exclusion and Sacramental Transformation: Women's Work at the Edges of the Mass," celebrating Sharon's work.

Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices celebrates Sharon Farmer's significant contributions to the fields of medieval European social, religious, gender, environmental, labo...

Very pleased to find on my doorstep this afternoon this wonderful volume in honor of Sharon Farmer's remarkable scholarship and influence. #medievalsky
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The Right-Wingification of UT Texas targets liberal enemies within one of the top U.S. schools

It is important to get the facts right if we are going to fight back. UNT is not UTAustin, to start. This is not happening at UT . . yet. But see this excellent article for what is going on. Frogs in a pot. www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...

Very pleased to have an essay "The Necromancer and the Abbot" in Scott Bruce's and Stephen Gordon's edited volume, Vigor Mortis: The Vitality of the Dead in Medieval Cultures, forthcoming from Routledge in Dec. #medievalsky

Anne Lester's wonderful AHA essay on the rebuilding on Notre Dame in Paris, and the importance of what the French call "science" but we know to include knowledge of the humanities for this rebuilding process.